Current Junior Anniversary Fellow Dr Thomas Metcalf presents a free lunchtime concert of his works for piano on Tuesday 21 March from 13:10-14:00 GMT in the Reid Concert Hall in Bristo Square. Featuring pianist David Palmer, this is an opportunity to enjoy Tom's recent compositions, including several premieres.
Thomas is a composer and researcher specialising in comparative arts. His music explores the generation of musical material through non-musical phenomena, with an increasing focus on hybrid notations and gestural rhetoric. He is currently the Junior Anniversary Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), pursuing his project Photography and/as Music.
Pieces will include:
Ennui(t) (2022)
Conditional (2015)
Disintegrated Bones (2022-2023)
Melody for Elodie (2022)
Arrays (2020-2021)
This concert is a celebration and showcase of the collaboration between Thomas Metcalf and David Palmer. Meeting as undergraduates at Worcester College, Oxford in 2016, they quickly developed a strong bond around new music and its study, challenging one another as composers and continuing an ongoing dialogue which led to significant developments in Thomas’s musical approach. All of the works performed in this concert were, or are about to be, premiered by David, with several being written specifically for him.
More information: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/event/lunchtime-concert-thomas-metcalf-works-piano
Kindly presented by the Reid School of Music as part of the Concerts at the University 2022-23 series.