The Wairua Sinfonietta conducted by Elizabeth Lau will perform The Eventide, a revised edition of a work from 2008.
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Delighted to announce that the BRAZILIAN NATIONAL THEATRE CLAUDIO SANTORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA will be premiering a new work while at the Festival. Only two compositions were selected out of the 20 participating composers. Wild Horses don’t Break for full orchestra will have its work premiere in Brasília, Brazil this September 2018! I’m am thrilled to say the least
After submitting works to the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival and an interview process, Keith was chosen among 20 composers from around the world to attend. The participants will write a new work for chamber ensemble to be recorded and broadcast nation wide in Brazil! ‘Besides an incredible performance of your music, you will be surrounded by individuals who are on the cutting edge of contemporary music. You will live in São Paulo and experience an environment that fosters and supports high artistry. You will receive private lessons, individual coachings of your works with professional composers and ensembles, studio recordings of your works, a concert that will be broadcast in 17 different locations around Brazil on the radio and television, as well as cultural excursions to museums, concert halls, and touristic venues. Additionally, you will form lifelong relationships that will have a significant impact on your network as a composer.’
Composition by Keith Moss to be premiered by the OSM CAMERATA 6th of October during the International Clarinet Extravaganza
Soloist Naledi Antonia
Conductor Xavier Clinton Cloete
www.clarinetextravaganza.co.za.
The 24 singers of the Horizons Project Choir, under the leadership of Pieter Bezuidenhout will be performing on the Cool Capital Biennale 2014. If you missed an earlier oppotorunity this year when the choir first performed in Nazareth House Chapel
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24 singers have been drawn together by composer Pieter Bezuidenhout, who also has a love for choral music. He is bring both of these expertise together to form 24 singers under the Paz Consort banner. We are very pleased with the project and as normal, we aim to perform works by young South African composers. A call for scores has been sent out and the flurry of entrants is overwhelming.
Look ahead to the 18th of March, at Nazareth House Chapel
Paz Consort due to perform ‘Horizons’
The sheer magnitude of styles within a timeless idiom was outstanding…
Come hear what Beeld critic Paul Boekkooi was on about…
New music for Marimba, String orchestra and Harp will be showcased in the next Paz Consort performance tomorrow 8 August in Nazareth House Chapel. Come! It’s gooooooooood!!
Look at these lovely folk! 12 gorgeous cellists of the Paz Consort to perform with CH2. Come along
Pendulum, received a great review in the Beeld (Afrikaans newspaper of the Gauteng region, South Africa). Paul Boekkooi had only good things to say and encourages the ensemble to continue as long as possible in South Africa!
Keith Moss will be directing the Paz Consort from Pretoria, South Africa after relocating to the region. He’ll be continuously working on ideas to create new platforms for young composers. In addition Keith has enrolled at the University of Pretoria under Dr Alexander Johnson for study towards a Doctorate of Music
Member of the Paz Consort will perform two new works by Keith Moss and Matthijs van Dijk. Returning to where it all began in Grahamstown original member Hilary Mohr spearheads this performance on oboe. Kingswood College will play host to the concert on 6 September 2012.
Made it to the Underground! London here I come!!
CONCERT DATE HAS BEEN SET FOR 31 MARCH
The Paz Consort will appear alongside the John Edwards Jazz Trio to perform two new works. An overture by composer Matthijs van Dijk, Mercutio based on the Shakespearean character of the same. Followed by the new concerto for Euphonium and orchestra by composer Keith Moss with Moss on the podium. The second half of the concert features original pieces by John Edwards accompanied by the Paz Consort orchestra with his talented trio. Don’t miss it! Details online at Facebook.com
The Paz Consort has set a new date for the premiere of Keith’s new concerto for Euphonium and orchestra. The concert will be conducted by Keith and alongside the podium his good friend and jazz pianist, John Edwards, will join forces with the orchestra in compositions of his own as well as some arrangements.
After a great start in Port Elizabeth in 2010, as well as a repeat performance in Cradock, the Paz Consort will launch 2011 with an all strings concert. Joining the string ensemble will be guitarist and lecturer at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Rudi Bower. Performing the Vivaldi double concerto for guitar and strings guitarist Wayne Simpson will join Mr Bower on stage with conductor Keith Moss at the podium.
After a really good concert in Port Elizabeth the Paz Consort is on the road to Cradock for some musical delights conducted by Keith Moss
After a short stint in Grahamstown and at the National Arts Festival the director, Keith Moss, is setting up shop in his hometown of Port Elizabeth. Aided by musical colleagues in the greater region Moss plans to fill a gap in the scene, creating more performance opportunities for orchestral musicians in the city.
Fringe Festival newcomers, the Paz Consort, is spearheaded by Keith Moss to perform for the first time at the National Arts Festival. Taking place in it’s usual location, Grahamstown, South Africa, the concert is entitled ‘Come Closer, can you hear it?’ ‘Home to more than 40 religious buildings, Grahamtown is also affectionately known as the City of Saints. In isiXhosa, which is the dominant language of the majority of the Eastern Cape, it is iRhini. Two hundred years after its establishment as a military outpost, these days it is sometimes mistaken for a sleepy university town on the East Coast of South Africa. For 354 days of the year that is … For the remaining 11 days it completely transforms and explodes across 90 venues to become Africa’s largest multi-arts festival, attracting more than 200 000 visitors, who are here for more than 2 000 performances on a programme of more than 700 events.’
After completing a Masters degree in composition at Rhodes University, Keith felt it is now ok to call himself a composer. However saying you’re a composer and being one are two different things. Keith put his words into action and formed the Paz Consort in order to write more, play more, do more.
Named after the Nobel Prize winning poet, Octavio Paz, Keith took his inspiration here for a new work for string sextett and cor anglais
Choreographer Nicola Elliot has commissioned Keith Moss to write a new electronic work based on her theme quartet in fast and sparse. The work will be premiered at the National Arts Festival Grahamstown in June
