Chris Swithinbank

This Sat­ur­day sees the first per­for­mance of June Un­fold­ing by the or­ches­tra of King Ed­ward Mu­si­cal So­ci­ety in Mac­cles­field as part of the Barn­aby Fes­ti­val mark­ing the 750th an­niver­sary of the Royal Char­ter of Mac­cles­field. It seems like only yes­ter­day that I first met the or­ches­tra, but months down the line, here we are and re­hearsals have been going very well. Along­side my piece the pro­gramme in­cludes Shostakovich’s Fes­tive Over­ture, Beethoven Vi­o­lin Con­certo (per­formed by the or­ches­tra’s leader, Melissa Court), the Apoth­e­o­sis/Tri­umphal March from Berlioz’s Grand sym­phonie funèbre et tri­om­phale, and A New Song’s Mea­sure for choir and con­cert band by Irish com­poser Fer­gal Car­roll.

You can find out more about June Un­fold­ing on the Adopt a Com­poser blog. Many thanks go to the or­gan­i­sa­tions that sup­ported this com­mis­sion — Sound and Music, PRS for Music Foun­da­tion and Mak­ing Music — but also to all the mem­bers of the or­ches­tra, con­duc­tor Tony Houghton and KEMS chair­man Tim Ward.

List­ings: Barn­aby Fes­ti­val / Face­book / Song­kick