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Macclesfield Contemporary Ensemble
Macclesfield Contemporary Ensemble is the newest member of the KEMS family.
Following a workshop exploring ‘In C’ by Terry Riley (led by orchestral director Tony Houghton), the KEMS Minimalists
group was formed. This group, now renamed Macclesfield Contemporary Ensemble,
has branched out into exploring other small-scale contemporary and experimental
music which requires flexible instrumentation and varying numbers of
performers.
Macclesfield Contemporary Ensemble Leader Julia Harding looks back on the
2023-24 season
We’ve continued meet every couple of months at St Peter’s and we have welcomed Andy Chase
as a new member to the ensemble.
We took part in the biennial Festival of Contemporary Music run by Contemporary Music for All
(CoMA) in March; this was a workshop, revisiting Sound Scape which was a collaboration between Lorna Green and me
and a short performance of Mechanik, Sirens, Three-Way Piece and Loose Canon. I’m very pleased that CoMA were able
to send Chris Adams to video our performances.
Membership of the group is open to anyone – we meet on Sunday afternoons (usually) every 6-8
weeks apart -you’ll need to be able to read conventional notation and play an instrument. However,
instrumental parts are often of varying difficulty, so you don’t need to be an expert player.