Friends of Cwmdu Music–Happy New Year!
We’d like to wish you a Happy New Year 2025 and look forward to seeing you at our forthcoming concerts.
Tickets: for our Nantwen Ensemble concert on Saturday March 8th 2025, 7:30pm at St. Michael and All Angels are now available.
The Nantwen Ensemble is a group of professional musicians enabling community performance and the creation and performing of Welsh Chamber music. Performers: Lisa Obert & Lily Whitehurst—violins, Patricia Reinoso—viola, Nichola Thomas & Daniel Davies—cello.
View our calendar of events for 2025.
If you’d like some New Year listening–the premise of radio’s Desert Island Disks (first broadcast in 1942) is deceptively simple, but often results in entertaining, revealing and moving profiles of the castaway. This week was no exception, with the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. Choices included JS Bach, Puccini and Stevie Wonder – listen.
Mark was born in June 1960 in the Thames estuary town of Corringham in Essex. His musical talent was nurtured by his parents and he studied composition at the junior department at the Royal College of Music from age fourteen. There he met the composer Oliver Knussen who became his tutor, mentor, and life-long friend.