http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Edward Caine News en http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I have a new twitter feed - https://twitter.com/eddjc I also now have a facebook fan page: My Fan Page Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:41:14 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I now have a profile page and blog on the HCMF website for the Nieuw Ensemble programme. Here they are: Blog- Biog Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:35:49 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ My application to take part in the HCMF and Nieuw Ensemble Composers' Professional Development Program was a success and I will be working with them over two weekends and then writing a piece to be workshopped and performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival November 2010. Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:11:13 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ "En un vergier sotz fuella d'albespi" will be performed in Bright Cecilia's "Lost Songs" concert as part of the Late Music Concert Series. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:23:28 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I have been commissioned to write a new piece for Trio Atem, to be performed next June. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:00:04 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ a vocal quartet will be busking round york and performing among other things "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon" and "My Love is Like a Red Red Rose" Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:34:02 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ The Premiere of my piece "Poem in Silence" (started in 2007, recently finished) will be on the 12th March performed by the Chimera Ensemble. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:40:55 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I've written a new piece for solo voice called "Poem in Silence" - began in 2007 and recently revisited and finished. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:41:07 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Charlotte Bishop will be giving a second performance of Madrigale III in a Black Hair Ensemble concert as part of a joint project between the Late Music Concert Series and the Spring Festival of New Music. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:01:39 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon" and "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" will be performed in a social for the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings at the Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York. Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:49:55 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ "Edd Caine's duo, Tous les Matins du Monde, fizzing like a firework, and Charlie Piper's Nightingale, closely linking flute and vibraphone, completed a menu whose every course struck home." Read the full article Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:39:20 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ New live recordings of Tous les matins du monde and [...]simplest of all tongues have been added to the player at the top of the page. Check them out! Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I have been nominated by the University of York's Music department to be one of the composers involved with the Nieuw Ensemble Workshops. More information coming... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:51:00 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ The late music concert series kicked off yesterday with two fantastic concerts by Rika Zayasu and the Ossian Ensemble. Audience was fantastic and programs exciting and interesting - Particular note George Crumbs Vox Balanae and Matt Rogers' duet. Also performed were the world premieres of my own "[. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:42:41 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ The WP of Madrigale III in Durham yesterday was a success and I have added the live recording of this concert to my media player. Click above to listen! Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:54:11 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ My short set of miniatures "[...] simplest of all tongues" will be performed by Rika Zayasu in the Late Music Concert Series on 7th Novemeber. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:44:57 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I will be writing a new piece for Bass Clarinet and Percussion to be performed by the Ossian Ensemble in the Late Music Concert Series on the 7th November Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:43:48 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ the Black Hair Ensemble will be premiering my Madrigale III for solo cello in a lunchtime concert in Durham University on the 15th October. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:42:31 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Bright Cecilia were/are performing my setting of "Ye Banks and Braes" at the graduation ceremony for University of York Students today and tommorrow! Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:35:58 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ For Alto and Bass throat-singing duet.Comissioned by Robin Bier and dedicated to her ensemble Bright Cecilia this piece is a setting of the ancient Occitane poem "en un vergier sotz fuella d'albespi" and will be premiered this friday (12th June) at 2pm in the University of York Music Department Rhy Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:35:15 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Oweing to funding problems the Late Music Concert Series has now been pushed back to November. This means that the premieres of my new pieces Quartet and sop.fl.vcl.atem have moved. No specific date yet - watch this space! Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:33:43 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Charlotte Bishop of the Black Hair Ensemble has kindly recorded the first two pages of Madrigale as they are (in preperation) for use in the Huddersfield Conference this weekend. To have a listen, click play on the media player above. Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:52:56 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ This is to be performed by a young quartet featuring Cerys Jones on Sunday the 6th December 2009. Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:15:06 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ My next piece written for the excellent Trio Atem group will be performed in the Late Music Concert Series this year in a lunchtime concert on the 3rd October 2009. This will be a world premiere Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:13:42 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I've recently sold my first piece of sheet music on scotchsnap.com - an arrangement of "Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon". This has led me to start writing settings of Robert Burns for choir. It's Robert Burns 250th Anniversary and prime time to be setting his words! I've already finished one setti Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:51:24 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Yesterday some of the sketches for my string quartet were workshopped by the Kreutzer Quartet at the University of York. It was very helpful and I hope to work with them again in the future! Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:49:07 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ The full video interview made by the SPNM on december the 8th 2008 has been released and I've added it to this website - use the player at the top of the page to watch it or go to my SPNM profile. Also a number of good photos were taken by a professional photographer - a useful help! Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:53:03 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ You may notice that the SPNM link at the top of the page has been superseded by a "Links" Section - click on it to find more information, composer friends and relevant organisations! Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:11:58 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Enjoy this clip of me throat singing to an amused cameraman! Also includes selections from interviews by fellow SPNM Composers! click here to watch the video Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:21:31 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ A while ago I started work on a series of "transcriptions" of pieces by Lassus and Frescobaldi for piano duet so that I could play them with a friend. I have just recently finished the transcriptions and am publishing them as a book on Scotchsnap. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:22:56 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ As a piece of fun I've written a piece for solo piano called Etude "Progressional". The piece is incredibly difficult and aimed at the Ian Pace school of performers. As a taster, here is the program note: "This piece is insanely difficult. The idea behind it is based on Ligeti's notion of a non-s Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:11:26 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I've re-written some of the material from my Piano and String Quartet piece "[...] simplest of all tongues" as a series of piano miniatures, and it should be available to download from scotchsnap soon. Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:16:16 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Theme and Variations for Solo 'Cello was commissioned by Laura Boardman and is an homage to J.S Bach. I enjoyed very much writing this piece and it will hopefully be performed, if not in late music concert series then by some other cellist! It should be available on scotchsnap soon. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:45:10 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Online music publisher scotchsnap.com have recently offered to publish some of my works! Scotchsnap specialise in composers from Scotland and are based in Munlochy, on the Black Isle. I was brought up in Cromarty, another small village on the Black Isle. Scotchsnap also publish the music of John Bev Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:28:00 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I recently took part in a residency project at the University of York Music Department with the Black Hair Contemporary Music Ensemble. This was a 3-4 week project with a number of postgraduate composers and performers that resulted in a short ad hoc concert of new, mainly improvised works. Amon Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:46:18 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I now have a new "Piano" section to the website. To view this and any links, click the plus sign at the bottom left of the page and if you have javascript turned on a menu will appear. Alternatively Click Here to view the menu. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:26:18 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I will be reading my paper "The use of found material in Sciarrino's Lucie mie traditrici and my own Madrigali in Twelve Parts for Three Trombones" at the "Nothing new? Understanding newness in medieval and contemporary music" that will be happening on the 25-26th April next year. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:11:53 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Please visit my new space on SPNM. From now on the SPNM link at the top of my webpage will also link to this page. http://www.spnm.org.uk/?page=shortlist/composer.html&id=300 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:29:28 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ After a nice interview on Wednesday I was offered the part-time job of assistant at the University of York Music Press (www.uymp.co.uk). I'm really excited about this. It's a great opportunity for experience and to work for some really great composers! Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:57:30 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Ah will my geekery never cease? Now my website is fully RSS compliant - just click on whatever button your browser uses for RSS feeds and you can have your choice of events or news to subscribe to and keep up to date with events. Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:00:14 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Welcome to my new website! Hope you enjoy. Here you can get news of events, new works and other news. You can listen to my works here too - just use the player above! Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:45:00 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ I have been chosen to be on the SPNM Composer shortlist. This is a great opportunity to get more works out there and ultimately write more music. My details aren't up yet, but see http://www.spnm.org.uk/?page=shortlist for more details. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://www.edwardcaine.com/ Trio Atem did a fantastic job of performing my new specially written piece "Fl. Vcl." To listen to a recording of the live concert, use the player above. Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:56:06 GMT