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Roksana Nikoopour (front) and Rosie Busiakiewicz |
Students prove well-composed
PREVIEW: ENDYMION'S SOUND CENSUS
Kings Place
FOUR LSU students are to set Kings Place alight next week.
Music composed by the girls at La Sainte Union Catholic School on Highgate Road is to be performed by professional musicians at the new concert hall on York Way, King’s Cross, as part of the Endymion ensemble’s mini-festival to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
The LSU students are Roksana Nikoopour, Safaa Usmani and Sophie Mojseijenka, who are taking music A-levels, and GCSE student Rosie Busiakiewicz.
Their music was composed at workshops attended by Endymion musicians so that the budding composers could hear their initial ideas translated into music.
Although invitations to attend the workshops were extended to secondary schools in Camden and Westminster, only six pupils from other Central London schools were selected.
“It’s been a fantastic opportunity for the girls to mix with professional musicians and composers and now their compositions are going to be played in public even before they’ve left school,” said LSU’s head of English, Livia Harris.
Phil Venables, artistic director of Endymion, says the standard of the LSU pupils was “far beyond A-level”.
“I expect them to do very well if they decide to have a musical career,” he says.
Performance of the LSU works will take place alongside classical, 20th century and new music.
Rarely played chamber music from Mozart and Poulenc will be performed as well as work by established UK composers including Colin Matthews, Simon Holt, Anthony Payne and Peter Maxwell Davies.
An undoubted highlight will be a performance of Crippled Symmetry, one of the more notorious, beautiful pieces by Morton Feldman, the US composer.
The concerts are an essential part of the Sound Census project put together by Endymion and NMC Recordings.
Twenty compositions, including those by LSU pupils, have already been recorded.
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