Composer
Date of composition
2018
Duration
11 Minutes
Instrumentation
String quartet
Commissioned by the Cheltenham Music Festival as part of the 2017 RPS Composition Prize, supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers’ Fund.
Ghost Tongues
Events for this work
New Voices: Quartet Premieres
Le Dian
(2018)
Mento Mood
(2018)
A performance including four world premieres, with works by Cheltenham Composer Academy Director Michael Zev Gordon, 2017 Academy alumni Sarah Rimkus and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson (commissioned by Cheltenham Music Festival), and one by 2017 RPS Composition Prize winner Bethan Morgan Williams (supported by the Susan Bradshaw Composers’ Fund). The programme is completed by a new work by young composer Christian Mason, commissioned by the Ligeti Quartet (supported by the Britten Pears Foundation and the City Music Foundation).
Supported by The Steel Charitable Trust