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The orchestra Welcomes leader Jake
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The orchestra is pleased to announce the appointment of Jake Phillips to succeed
Melissa Court as leader.
Jake is in his final year at RNCM where he is studying with Benedict Holland. At the
RNCM Jake has played under many eminent conductors including Gianandrea Noseda,
Pablo Heras-Cassado, Mark Shanahan and Garry Walker, and has participated in
two tours of Italy playing at the Cantiere
Internazionale d'Arte directed by Roland Boer.
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Christopher Swithinbank is our ‘adopted composer’
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KEMS beat off stiff competition from other music societies to be assigned a
composer under the Adopt a Composer scheme, jointly sponsored by Making Music,
Sound
& Music, the Performing Rights Society for Music, and BBC Radio3.
Our composer is Christopher Swithinbank (below right), a young composer based in Manchester. He worked closely with the orchestra,
culminating in the premiere of a specially commissioned new composition which
was performed in a concert in St Michael
’s Church on Saturday, 18th June 2011. The occasion was be part of the Barnaby
Festival to mark the 750th Anniversary of Macclesfield
’s Royal Charter.
Chris Swithinbank was born in Voorburg, The Netherlands, in 1988, to British
parents and spent most of his childhood living in Luxembourg. Studying first
cello, he began to experiment with composition at the age of 12, receiving his
first public performance aged 16 at the Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de
Neum
ünster as part of events to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second
World War.
Chris moved to Britain to study music at the University of Manchester,
graduating in July 2009 with a First-Class Honours Degree. He is continuing his
studies towards a MusM Masters in Composition course supported by a Harry
Clough Bursary, and graduated in September 2010.
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