New CD - The Crown of Ariadne

Exciting news! My CD 'The Crown of Ariadne' has now been released and I'm absolutely thrilled with it. Beautifully mastered by Alexander Van Ingen for Six Music Productions and released on Champs Hill Records, the CD was recorded in Champs Hill Music Room in November last year and represents a culmination of my favourite music, my toughest challenges and a really wonderful couple of years of study with tutors including Erika Waardenburg, Ernestine Stoop, Hugh Webb and Helen Sharp. Not to mention a masterclass with Raymond Murray Schafer himself, and the harpist Judy Loman, at the Eleventh World Harp Congress in Vancouver, Canada, last summer.

The tracks on the CD are:
The Crown of Ariadne by Raymond Murray Schafer (in seven movements)
Rokudan by Toshiro Mayuzumi
Reminiscences of Tranquillity by Yinam Leef
Tratti per Arpa by Ig Henneman
Sweet Blues by Bernard Andres

The CD is available to buy from Champs Hill Records where you can also download the individual tracks or the whole CD:
http://www.champshillrecords.co.uk/cddetail.php?cat_number=CHRCD041

HMV for only £9!:
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=860610

Presto Classical:
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Champs%2BHill%2BRecords/CHRCD041

Amazon and other online stores, or direct from my shop:
http://artsinfusion.myshopify.com/products/the-crown-of-ariadne-cd

Thanks for your support and I hope you enjoy the disc!

Ellie

poster by Alice Lynch for ELUSIVE SYMMETRY

Poster by Alice Lynch for the new show :) I am thrilled to report that Alice is also providing beautiful animations for the show!

Elusive Symmetry

The title of this post should possibly be 'elusive inspiration' or even 'elusive bookings' as I'm currently writing the music for my new show, starring hiphop dancer extraordinaire, Lizzie Gough. One of the venues I thought I had booked for the show has fallen through - probably due to me not pinning it down with enough verve and bullet-proof sign-on-the-dotted-line stuff. My only explanation for this happening to me is that I got married just before Christmas and for a few weeks I did have some planning of another kind to do, so if this is the only thing to have slipped through the net during those weeks, perhaps I should be thankful.

So, there are now only TWO opportunities to catch the show - on Friday 10th February at Stamford Corn Exchange theatre - Stamford's newly refurbished, comfortable 400 seat theatre - and on Friday 24th February at Leicester's Y Theatre. Tickets are £10 or 8 for concessions at both venues and child tickets are just £4. It's suitable for all ages and the music will be classical-electronic-hiphop and more besides. It's exciting stuff and I hope that people will be brave enough to invest their hard-earned in coming to see a totally new show.

My talented friend Alice Lynch is doing some posters this week with original art work, inspired by Escher's graphic designs, so I look forward to posting them up on here soon :)