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Welcome to the website of composer Edward Top.

 

Here you can find information about new music, concerts, composition, ideas about music, photos, analysis and much more. Feel free to browse around and click on the links. Check out the NEWS page to read about the latest concerts and projects. To start with here is a list of my upcoming projects and concerts.

 

News flash:

Edward Top has won the New Millennium Composition Award 2007 at the Birmingham Conservatoire. The prize consists of a commission for the Thallein Ensemble, which will be performed in March 2009.

First String Quartet released on a recording of Rotterdam string quartets by the Doelen String Quartet by Etcetera Records (KTC 1339) .


Watch the trailer of opera Jimmy

Edward Top First Prize winner in the 2006 "Atahualpa Yupanqui" composition competition for his work Why Elsewhere in Argentina.


Events 2006 - 2007
 

19.00, August 24 2006
Suntory Music Hall, Tokyo - Japan
small hall
Schietgebedjes, for reed quintet
Festival "Music Today 21" organised by Tokyo Concerts
Tokyo Sinfonietta conducted byYasuaki Itakura

2006 2007
Concerto for electric guitar and wind ensemble
Wiek Hijmans- electric guitar, orchestra de Volharding www.volharding.com

Netherlands Chamber Opera Festival, First performance: 15 april 2007, 15.30 uur, Theater Odeon Zwolle, The Netherlands
2 school concerts: 16 april 2007, Odeon, Zwolle
Jimmy chamber opera for four singers and six wind players
With vocal soloists Erik Slik, Marieke Koster, Job Hubatka, Niels van Doesum, and the Ensemble Wervelwind

20:00 Mon May 14, 2007
King's College London, St David's Room (opposite the Chapel), Strand campus

Piano Sonata (World Premiere) performed by Steven Potter, and Sounds from the Abdomen for electronic tape
Other pieces by Paul Clift, Sean Clancy and more

June 13-16, 2007 SoundON festival
19:30
Saturday June 16, with a pre-concert talk at 19:00
Athenaeum Library, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla, California USA
Four, for flute, vibraphone, guitar, and piano
NOISE Festival of New Music, San Diego New Music
Featuring winning works of NOISE's first annual call for scores, by Moiya Callahan, Edward Top, Bill Ryan, and Orlando Jacinto Garcia.

Tuesday July 3, 18.00 (time to be confirmed)
Codarts Main Music Hall (Rotterdam Conservatoire), Kruisplein 26 Rotterdam
Hit
for percussion solo, performed by Jose Espí Causera

Tuesday September 4 12.30
Bimhuis, Amsterdam (Muziekgebouw aan het IJ)
Schietgebedjes
other works by Luca Francesconi, Sander Germanus and Peter Van Onna
Reed Quintet Calefax. As part of the International Gaudeamus Music Week 2007

Friday September 7 19.30
The Warehouse, London UK
Schietgebedjes
other works by Luca Francesconi, Sander Germanus and Peter Van Onna
Reed Quintet Calefax.

Saturday September 22 20:00
Salon de Actos - Faculty of law, Universtity of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Why Elsewhere?
for chamber orchestra, First Prize winner in the 2006 "Atahualpa Yupanqui" composition competition
Orchestra Academica of the University of Lanús conducted by Daniel Bozzani

Yo! Opera Festival 2 November 2007, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht
2 December 2007, Theater Castellum, Alphen aan de Rijn
15 December 2007, Theater De Regentes, The Hague
Jimmy
chamber opera for four singers and six wind players
With vocal soloists Erik Slik, Marieke Koster, Job Hubatka, Niels van Doesum, and the Ensemble Wervelwind

Sunday December 9 2007, Filharmonie Haarlem
Tuesday December 11 2007, Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam
Concerto for Violin and Two Orchestras world premiere (also with Rihm Tutugiri 1 and Schubert Tragic Symphony)
Tjeerd Top, violin - Holland Symfonia

Spring 2008
Dordrecht, to be announced
Hammer Cantate for vocal quartet, mixed choir and string trio, texts by Friedrich Nietzsche
Trinitas strijktrio, vocal quartet Song Circle

September 6 2008 3pm Gaudeamus week
Muziekgebouw aan het IJ Amsterdam
Aliquid stat pro aliquo for vocal quartet
Vocaal LAB Nederland



Copyright © 2003 - 2007 by Edward Top
Photography by Marten Top. No part of this website may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including printing, photocopying, recording or information storage or retrieval) without notification of the authors' name.