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Principal Double Bass, Ulster Orchestra
Born in London, William Cole was awarded a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Duncan McTier and Graham Mitchell, graduating in 2012 with first-class honours. During his time at the Academy, he was also a Leverhulme scholar in his final year. After graduating, he began to work with some of the top symphony orchestras in the UK.
In 2015, Cole was appointed as Principal Double Bass in the Ulster Orchestra, where he also currently serves as a Player representative on the orchestra's board, and has continued to work as Guest Principal in The Hallé, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He has also coached the double bass section of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and was made an Associate at the Royal Academy of Music in London in 2018.
Aside from playing in symphony orchestras, Cole is a keen enthusiast for both chamber music, with performances in top venues such as Wigmore Hall, and contemporary music, having had numerous works written for him to premiere.
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Piano (Jazz)
Four-times Grammy-winning singer and multi-instrumentalist
It is not often one encounters an imagination with the depth and prolificacy of Jacob Collier's. Born in 1994, the London-based singer and multi-instrumentalist is dubbed by many as one of the most innovative musicians of his generation. In 2012, Collier's self-made YouTube videos achieved legendary status in the music world, attracting the praise of such luminaries as Herbie Hancock, David Crosby, Steve Vai and Quincy Jones, who manages Collier to this day. His debut album, In My Room, crafted entirely in his room at home, went on to win two Grammys. His success has led to musical collaborators and fans including the likes of Coldplay, Ty Dolla $ign, Tori Kelly, Daniel Caesar, H.E.R., Charlie Puth, Kehlani, Jessie Reyez and Finneas, among others.
In January 2018, Collier began designing and creating a recording project on an unprecedented scale: a quadruple album called Djesse comprising 50 songs divided between four volumes, with each operating within a separate musical universe of sound, style and genre. Scattered across the four volumes are 30-plus collaborators from across every facet of the music world. Djesse Volumes 1 and 2 both have earned him a Grammy each, meaning that Collier has never lost a Grammy in a category he's been nominated in.
Daniel Cook
Master of the Choristers and Organist of Durham Cathedral
Daniel Cook is Master of the Choristers and Organist of Durham Cathedral and is recognised internationally as a liturgical and concert organist of the highest order. In addition, he is Artistic Director of Mousai Singers and maintains a busy schedule of recitals, concerts and recordings, as well as being in demand as a conductor and teacher.
Prior to this, Cook was Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey, where he accompanied the Abbey Choir for major services, concerts, tours in Europe and the USA, as well as appearing in their famous series of recordings. Before this, Daniel was Organist and Master of the Choristers of St Davids Cathedral and Artistic Director of the St Davids Cathedral Festival. From 2005 to 2011, Cook was Assistant Director of Music of Salisbury Cathedral, where he was Principal Organist. He has worked widely as a choral conductor and has been Music Director of the Dyfed Choir, The Farrant Singers, St Davids Cathedral Festival Chorus, Durham University Choral Society and the Grange Choral Society and Orchestra.
Cook studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Nicolas Kynaston, James O'Donnell and Patrick Russill. He has twice been a finalist in the St Albans International Organ Competition. As a recitalist, he has played across the UK, Europe and Australia with performances in most of the cathedrals in Britain, plus the Royal Albert Hall and Royal Festival Hall.
In demand as an ensemble performer, recent engagements have included concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Onyx Brass and London Mozart Players. His work as an accompanist has taken him all over the world and he regularly works with many of the distinguished vocal ensembles both as a conductor and organist.
He has made several solo organ recordings for Priory Records and is one of their most recorded organists. Other projects have included a performance of the complete organ works of Oliver Messiaen and CD recordings of the complete organ music of Walter Alcock, Herbert Brewer, George Dyson, Renatus Harris, Charles Villiers Stanford and Herbert Sumsion. A solo DVD, The Grand Organ of Westminster Abbey, was released in 2018.
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Simon Crawford-Phillips
Multi-festival director, renowned pianist, creative programmer and chamber musician
Simon Crawford-Phillips is a multi-festival director, renowned pianist, creative programmer with a passion for championing contemporary repertoire, and a chamber musician who regularly collaborates with artists such as Daniel Hope and Lawrence Power in repertoire from Haydn and Schumann to Adès, Byström, Dean and Reich. His own ensembles include the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, and Stockholm Syndrome Ensemble (resident artists at Stockholm Konzerthus).
His programming is reflected in an extraordinarily varied career as a conductor/director alongside his solo collaborations. In 2017 he was appointed Artistic Adviser and Chief Conductor of Västerås Sinfonietta, now extended until 2023. He has broadened the Sinfonietta's reach and repertoire as well as launching the Sinfonietta's own festival. Of the Sinfonietta's most recent album, Sydsvenskan writes 'an artistic bullseye by an ensemble that promotes contemporary music but also performs classical repertoire with a twist'. Recent conducting engagements have included the Swedish Radio Symphony, Aalborg Symphony, Polish Chamber, Nash Ensemble and English Chamber orchestras as well as assisting Daniel Harding, Alain Altinoglu and Stanislav Kochanovsky annually at the Verbier Festival.
As a pianist The Guardian says Crawford-Phillips has 'profound sensitivity and technical brilliance, achieving an expressive intensity that made for compelling listening'. He performs in premiere festivals and concert halls across Europe including Verbier, Schleswig-Holstein, Edinburgh, and at Wigmore Hall where in the new season he will appear as the regular pianist with Chamber Ensemble in Residence, the acclaimed Nash Ensemble, and in recital with Daniel Hope and Lawrence Power. Notable concerto debuts include the NHK Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Alan Gilbert, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Ilan Volkov and more recently the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra directing from the keyboard.
He is the Artistic Director of the Change Music Festival in Norra Halland, Västerås Music Festival and Co-Artistic Director of the Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival. A renowned teacher, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2010 and currently teaches at the Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama. Recent guest teaching has included the Schymberg masterclasses in Sweden together with Anne Sofie von Otter and chamber music at Indiana University in Bloomington and the University of Colorado.
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Lucy Crowe
Voice (Soprano)
One of the leading lyric sopranos of her generation
Lucy Crowe has established herself as one of the leading lyric sopranos of her generation, performing at The Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lyric Opera of Chicago, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Canadian Opera Company and Oper Frankfurt. In recital, she has appeared at The Royal Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, Salzburg Festival and the BBC Proms.
In concert, she has worked with The Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Emmanuelle Haïm, Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Charles Mackerras and Richard Egarr; Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Mackerras and Nézet-Séguin; Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras under Sir John Eliot Gardiner; and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Sir Antonio Pappano. Her most recent appearances include Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 2 with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Nelsons, and The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle.
Crowe's recordings include Mendelssohn's Lobgesang with the London Symphony Orchestra under Gardiner for LSO Live; Handel's Il pastor fido and a Handel and Vivaldi disc with La Nuova Musica under David Bates for Harmonia Mundi; a Witold Lutoslawski disc with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner for Chandos; Handel's Alceste with Christian Curnyn and Early Opera Company for Chandos; John Eccles's The Judgement of Paris for Chandos; and a solo Handel disc, ll caro Sassone, with Harry Bicket and The English Concert for Harmonia Mundi.
Upcoming plans include a debut at the Dutch National Opera in the title role of Rodelinda and a return to the Royal Opera House for Agrippina. In concert, she joins the Berliner Philharmoniker and Haïm for Apollo e Dafne, Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras and Gardiner for a worldwide tour in celebration of Beethoven's 250th birthday year; Orchestre de Paris and Daniel Harding for Elijah; and The English Concert and Bicket in a worldwide tour of Rodelinda.
Crowe is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
Colin Currie
Percussion (Orchestral) & Timpani
Solo percussionist and Artist in Association, Southbank Centre
Colin Currie is as solo and chamber artist at the peak of his powers. Championing new music at the highest level, he is hailed as being "at the summit of percussion performance today" (Gramophone). Currie is the soloist of choice for many of today's foremost composers and he performs regularly with the world's leading orchestras and conductors.
A dynamic and adventurous soloist, Currie's commitment to commissioning and creating new music was recognised in 2015 by the Royal Philharmonic Society who awarded him the Instrumentalist Award. From his earliest years Currie forged a pioneering path in creating new music for percussion, winning the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award in 2000 and receiving a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2005. Currie has premiered works by composers such as Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, Louis Andriessen, HK Gruber, Mark-Anthony Turnage, James MacMillan, Brett Dean, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Helen Grime, Jennifer Higdon, Kalevi Aho, Rolf Wallin, Kurt Schwertsik, Andrew Norman, Julia Wolfe and Nico Muhly.
Currie's orchestral engagements also include appearances with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, MDR Leipzig, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Swedish Chamber and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria. Currie also collaborates with various chamber partners, including Nicolas Hodges, Antoine Tamestit, the JACK Quartet and his own Colin Currie Quartet, for performances at Vienna Konzerthaus, de Doelen, Wigmore Hall, LSO St Luke's, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, King's Place and the Southbank Centre.
Currie's dynamic ensemble the Colin Currie Group was formed in 2006 to celebrate the music of Steve Reich and made its five-star debut at the BBC Proms. Since then, with Reich's personal endorsement Currie and his ensemble have taken on the role of ambassadors of Drumming, which they have performed at many venues and festivals internationally. The Colin Currie Group return to the Southbank Centre in December 2019 for four sold-out performances of Drumming at the Hayward Gallery, where the work received its world premiere nearly 50 years ago.
Currie is Artist in Association at London's Southbank Centre, where he was the focus of a major percussion festival Metal Wood Skin in 2014 and continues to perform there every season.
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Huw Daniel
Leader, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música, Porto
Huw Daniel studied at Ysgol Gyfun Ystalyfera, South Wales, before becoming an organ scholar at Robinson College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in music in 2001. He then studied baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music for two years with Simon Standage. In 2004, Daniel was a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), the members of which formed Harmony of Nations and went on to play together and record two CDs.
He is a member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and was appointed one of their leaders in 2020. He has been the leader of Orquestra Barroca Casa da Música, Porto since 2004, where he frequently plays concertos and occasionally directs the orchestra. He is also a member of the Dunedin Consort and the Irish Baroque Orchestra. As guest-leader he has played and recorded with EUBO, English Concert, Academy of Ancient Music, King's Consort, The Sixteen and Barokkanerne Oslo. He has recorded two CDs of Purcell trio sonatas with Cecilia Bernardini and The King's Consort and has also recorded the Bach double violin concerto with Cecilia Bernardini and the Dunedin Consort.
Daniel is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists and in 2014 was elected Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. In 2010 he was selected to take part in Jumpstart Jr Foundation's instrument loan programme and now plays a violin by Jacob Stainer, 1665. He is also a keen viola d'amore player.
Jonathan Davies
Principal Bassoon, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jonathan Davies is one of Britain's youngest leading bassoonists. He was appointed Principal Bassoon of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016 under Vladimir Jurowski, with whom he also recorded the Mozart Bassoon Concerto in 2017. Prior to joining the LPO, he held the same position with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from the age of 22 alongside regular appearances as guest principal with the UK's leading orchestras and ensembles.
Since making his London Concerto debut at the Barbican Hall aged 13, further solo highlights have included Haydn's Sinfonia Concertante alongside Maxim Vengerov, Elliot Carter's Retracing for solo bassoon in the Purcell Room and a world premiere by David Fennessey with the London Sinfonietta. In 2017 he recorded Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante as a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Jurowski alongside the Mozart Bassoon Concerto.
Jonathan studied at the Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of John Orford, Amy Harman and David Chatterton, supported generously by the ABRSM and Sir Elton John Scholarships and graduating with the HRH Princess Alice The Duchess of Gloucester's Prize. Born in 1992, Jonathan began his studies in South Wales with Robert Codd. He is currently Visiting Professor of Bassoon and an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Iestyn Davies MBE
Voice (Countertenor)
One of the world's most renowned countertenors
In 2017, Iestyn Davies was awarded an MBE for his services to music. A former Cambridge choral scholar, he went on to study singing at the Royal Academy of Music. An esteemed Handelian, he has astounded audiences globally with his vocal agility in roles such as Orlando, Rinaldo, Giulio Cesare, Ottone in Agrippina and David in Saul. His intelligent and considered interpretations have led to fruitful collaborations with Thomas Adès, George Benjamin and Nico Muhly. Davies recently made his Broadway debut in a revival of his West End theatre project, Farinelli and the King, with Mark Rylance, for which he received an Olivier Award nomination. A celebrated recitalist, with repertoire ranging from John Dowland to Eric Clapton, he has twice been awarded the Gramophone Recital Award and, in 2017, won the Gramophone Baroque Vocal Award.
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Freddie de Tommaso
Voice (Tenor)
Prize-winning operatic tenor
British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso shot to prominence when he won the First Prize, the Placido Domingo Tenor Prize and the Verdi Prize at the 2018 Viñas International Singing Competition in Barcelona.
A member of the studio of Bayerische Staatsoper for the 18/19 season, De Tommaso appeared in productions including Norma, La Fanciulla del West, La bohème and the programme's production of Mavra and Iolanta double bill. Prior to this, he was a member of the Young Singer Academy at the Salzburg Festival for the 2018 season. Following the Viñas competition, De Tommaso was invited to appear in concert at Teatro Real, Madrid and in recital in Vilagarcia, Spain. Other performances included concerts with the Georg Solti Accademia in Tuscany and a gala concert at the Victoria Hall, Geneva. His solo credits also include Mendelssohn Elijah, Puccini Messa di Gloria and Verdi Requiem.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, roles here included Don Jose in La Tragedie de Carmen and Rodolfo in La bohème. De Tommaso was generously supported by the Josephine Baker and Countess of Munster trusts. He is a Joseph Karaviotis scholar, a recipient of a Gregory-Carr scholarship and the Richard Lewis scholarship. He currently studies with Professor Mark Wildman and has worked in masterclasses with Christa Ludwig, Placido Domingo, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Barbara Frittoli, Massimo Giordano, Richard Bonynge and Sir Antonio Pappano.
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Tabea Debus
Virtuoso recorder player
With an equal focus on contemporary and baroque music, Tabea Debus's burgeoning career has taken her across Europe, Asia, Colombia and the USA. Highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall, at the London and York Early Music Festivals, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Baroque at the Edge, Edinburgh International Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Brecon Baroque Festival. Debus has collaborated with The English Concert, La Serenissima, Dunedin Consort, LSO Soundhub, English Chamber Orchestra and WDR Rundfunkchor, among many others, and has appeared live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune and The Early Music Show. In 2019, she released her fourth album, Favourites, a follow-up to the highly acclaimed XXIV Fantasie per il Flauto.
Debus studied at Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Professor Michael Schneider and the Royal Academy of Music with Pamela Thorby. She graduated with the Principal's Prize and continued her association with the Academy as 2016-17 Meaker Fellow. Awards include the 2019 WEMAG Soloists Prize at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and first prize at the 2019 SRP/Moeck International Solo Recorder Competition, 2014 Johann Heinrich Schmelzer Competition and 2011 Hülsta Woodwinds International Competition. A former St John's Smith Square, Handel House and City Music Foundation artist, she was selected by the Young Classical Artists Trust in 2018 and joined the Concert Artist Guild roster for representation in America the following year.
Debus teaches recorder at Wells Cathedral School, has led seminars at the Royal Academy of Music and collaborates with London Music Masters and other organisations for workshops with children around the globe.
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Anne Denholm
Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales from 2015 to 2019
Anne Denholm is one of the leading British harpists of her generation and served as Official Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales from 2015 to 2019. After starting her harp lessons at school in South West Wales, Denholm studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Junior Conservatoire, The Purcell School for Young Musicians, Newnham College Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. She received her Master's degree from the Academy with distinction, studying under Karen Vaughan, and graduating as the first-ever harpist to win the historic RAM Club Prize. In 2020, she was elected an Associate of the Academy.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Denholm enjoys giving regular recitals across the UK and further afield. Highlights include performances for the Wales Harp Festival, Royal Northern College of Music Strings Festival and harp festivals in Bangkok and Colombia. Denholm has also performed across the UK and internationally alongside her flute and harp duo partner, Alena Walentin.
New music is a large part of Denholm's work; she has been recording and premiering new works for solo harp since 2006 and is a founding member of award-winning contemporary experimental quartet The Hermes Experiment. In 2019, they won the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Prize and their debut album of original commissions, Here We Are, will be released by Delphian Records in July 2020. Denholm has also enjoyed working with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and Mahogany Opera.
Denholm makes guest appearances with orchestras and choirs across England, most recently working with the BBC Concert Orchestra, English National Opera and Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. She has recorded CDs with The Choir of St John's College Cambridge, The Temple Church Choir, Ely Cathedral Girls' Choir and The Carice Singers.
A dedicated teacher, Denholm holds positions at Eton College and Dragon School in addition to her private teaching. She also hugely enjoys working as an instrumental tutor for the National Children's Orchestras of Great Britain.
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Helena Dix
Sought-after operatic soprano
Described by critics as 'the most exciting voice since Joan Sutherland', Australian born Helena Dix has secured her name on operatic stages all around the world. In competitions, she notably represented Australia in the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World and made her USA debut as a finalist in the Seattle International Wagner Opera competition to great critical acclaim. She was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2015 for her significant contribution to the music profession.
Dix's operatic appearances include the title role in Feroni's Cristina, regina di Svezia for Wexford Festival Opera, Oldenburg Staatstheater and Chelsea Opera Group, Elettra in Mozart's Idomeneo and Odabella in Verdi's Attila for Staatstheater Nürnberg and Lubeck opera, Flower maiden in Wagner's Parsifal for English National Opera, Elvira (cover) in Verdi's Ernani for The Metropolitan Opera, Isabella in Wagner's Das Liebesverbot for Chelsea Opera, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus and Hanna Glawari in Lehár's The Merry Widow for Scottish Opera. She has also covered the title role in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos for Garsington Opera. In 2019 she made her Metropolitan Opera stage debut as Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff.
Engagements elsewhere in recent seasons have included covering Sondra Radvanovsky in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux at the San Francisco Opera and a return to the Royal Albert Hall to sing Verdi's Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Dix's commercial recording debut of Howells' Missa Sabrenesis with the BBC Concert orchestra and the Bach choir was released on Hyperion records in May 2020.
Kira Doherty
Horn (French)
No. 2 Horn, Philharmonia Orchestra
Kira Doherty moved to London from Quebec in 2004 to complete her studies at the Royal Academy of Music at postgraduate level. After graduating in 2006, she enjoyed a varied freelance career before accepting the post of Second Horn in the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2013. She has appeared as a guest orchestral player with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2014, Doherty joined the board of the Philharmonia and held the post of chairman for two years before stepping down in 2018 to focus on her part-time studies in history. She has recently completed a Master's degree at Oxford University, focusing on the social history of unlawful hunting in the 17th century. Doherty also teaches at the Royal College of Music.
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BBC Jazz Award winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, solo recording artist
Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, solo recording artist for ECM Records. He has toured the world playing piano, church organ and harmonium with his own bands ('ENEMY', 'Troyka', 'Elt' and 'Vyamanikal') as well as artists such as Squarepusher, Thomas Strønen, Aidan O'Rourke and Django Bates. He has written commissions for Cheltenham Music Festival, London Contemporary Orchestra, Stavanger Konserthus, ReWire Festival, Scottish Ensemble, Cologne Philharmonie, BBC Radio 3 and the Wellcome Trust, as well as collaborating with film-makers, video game developers and classical composers.
Eden Stell Guitar Duo
Internationally successful guitar duo
Likened to a 'miraculous single guitarist blessed with an impossibly wonderful technique and an exceptionally delicate touch' by The Observer, the Eden Stell Guitar Duo have performed at venues and music festivals around the world, including Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, Turkey, USA, Canada, Mexico, South and Central America and Australia, as well as numerous radio and TV appearances on ITV, BBC, and European and North American networks.
Mark Eden and Chris Stell have performed concertos with the Prague Chamber Orchestra, International Philharmonic and Philharmonic Baden-Baden. In 2019 they were invited to give a special performance of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto Madrigal in the Stadttheater Aschaffenburg in the presence of Cecilia Rodrigo.
Their international recitals include an appearance at the Guitar Foundation of America Omni Foundation Concert Series in San Francisco and the Alla Grande Festival in Canada. They have also performed at prestigious venues such as the Beethovenhalle in Bonn, Stuttgart Liederhalle, The Sage in Gateshead, Uppsala Kongress Hall in Sweden, 92nd Street Y in New York and, in London's Purcell Rooms, Wigmore Hall and Kings Place.
The duo were the first guitarists since Julian Bream to be Editor's Choice in Gramophone magazine with their 'landmark recording' of works by Stephen Dodgson. They have recorded 7 CDs to date, the most recent was released in 2017 featuring the first complete recording on two guitars of Cançons i Danses by Federico Mompou arranged by Mark Eden.
The duo have always championed new commissions and are dedicatees of new works by internationally acclaimed composers including Adam Gorb, Dusan Bogdanovic, Gary Ryan and Johannes Moller. A Concerto for two guitars was written by Stephen Dodgson in the duo's honour.
They are founder members of the VIDA Guitar Quartet who have rapidly become one of the world's most celebrated classical guitar ensembles with 4 CDs to date and concerts throughout Europe USA and China.
The duo are D'Addario strings endorsed artists.
Timothy End
Prize-winning accompanist
Timothy End graduated with a first-class honours degree in music from King's College, London, before entering the Royal Academy of Music and gaining the DipRAM award for an outstanding recital. He held the Shinn Fellowship at the Academy, studying under Julius Drake and Patsy Toh. He is much sought-after as a chamber musician.
A multiple first-prize winner, End was awarded both the Pianist Prize and Jean Meikle Duo Prize with the baritone Jonathan McGovern at the Wigmore Hall Song Competition. Further prizes include the Accompanists' Prize at the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards, the Parnell Award for an Accompanist at the ROSL Annual Music Competition, the Gerald Moore Award and the MBF Accompanist Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Competition.
End is the accompanist of the Philharmonia Chorus and the City of London Choir.
He has just recorded the world premiere of Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade's Reginald for the Presteigne Festival. This is a work for narrator and chamber ensemble based on the works of Saki.
In the new year he will be recording a CD on Chandos with the Ferio Saxophone Quartet. The arrangements for the ensemble have been devised by Iain Farrington.
End writes of his time at the Academy:
'Studying at the Academy and working with excellent and inspiring professors was a most fulfilling period. I had a good relationship with Head of Brass, Jim Watson, and relished working with all the brass instrumentalists. During this time, I was introduced to Dr Timothy Bowers and performed several of his brass sonatas. Another tremendous influence was my piano professor Julius Drake. This led to a study of lieder and inspiration from Richard Stokes. All these experiences helped me with the choral work I became involved with as a practising musician.'
John Escreet
Critically acclaimed jazz pianist and composer
Over the course of his career, John Escreet has earned a reputation as one of the most active and diverse pianist/composers working in jazz and improvised music. His prolific output is reflected over the course of eight wide-ranging and critically acclaimed albums - the most recent being Learn To Live, named by Downbeat Magazine as one of the best releases of 2018.
Bursting onto the scene with his 2008 debut album Consequences, Escreet quickly earned a reputation as one of the most exciting new pianist/composers to have emerged in recent years, with Downbeat magazine proclaiming 'John Escreet's recent debut Consequences signals the jumpstart of a new voice in jazz'. Similar praise followed for his 2010 sophomore release Don't Fight The Inevitable, the New York Times' Ben Ratliff said '... on an ambitious second album, the pianist John Escreet seems to be thinking about where jazz can go next; it's like a tour of the last 25 years of serious jazz'.
2014 saw the release of Sound, Space and Structures, followed by 2016's live album The Unknown - both of which feature his working trio paired with the master free-jazz saxophonist and British elder statesman Evan Parker.
Over the years Escreet has worked with virtually everybody on the New York jazz scene in a wide variety of settings, as well as being a constant member of Grammy award winner Antonio Sanchez's band Migration.
He has received numerous awards and grants, including the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant in 2009, the Jazz Gallery Residency/ Commission in 2012-2013 and the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation US Artists International grant in 2014. He is also an active educator and has given clinics and masterclasses at institutions across the globe.
Escreet's music is often described as eclectic, and is perhaps best summed up by the New York City Jazz record: 'Escreet is a musical omnivore who embraces aspects of contemporary classical music, Frank Zappa, dance music, electronica and a wide swath of jazz, from bop to avant-garde. What comes out is uniquely personal - some of the most inventive and distinct jazz around today.'
Marcus Farnsworth
Voice (Bass-Baritone)
Award-winning baritone
Marcus Farnsworth was awarded first prize in the 2009 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and the Song Prize at the 2011 Kathleen Ferrier Competition. He was a chorister at Southwell Minster and went on to study at Chetham's School of Music and the University of Manchester. Marcus is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music where he completed his postgraduate studies as a member of Royal Academy Opera.
He has appeared as a principal artist with major opera companies in the UK and abroad. He has performed Guglielmo Cosi fan Tutte, Novice's Friend Billy Budd and Strephon Iolanthe all for ENO; Lance Corporal Lewis in the world premiere of In Parenthesis by Iain Bell for Welsh National Opera, Sid in Britten Albert Herring in concert with the BBC SO and Ned Keene Peter Grimes at Edinburgh International Festival with Edward Gardner. Other notable roles have included Demetrius A Midsummer Night's Dream on tour with the Aix en Provence Festival and Bergen National Opera and Eddy in Turnage Greek for Music Theatre Wales and Boston Lyric Opera.
Farnsworth has given recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, La Monnaie, the Oxford Lieder Festival and Leeds Lieder. He has appeared many times at the Wigmore Hall with pianists including James Baillieu, Julius Drake, Graham Johnson and Joseph Middleton. In concert, he has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in performances of Turnage's The Silver Tassie, the world premiere of Cheryl Hoad's Last Man Standing and Hubbard in Doctor Atomic conducted by John Adams. With the London Symphony Orchestra, he had a great success in Candide conducted by Marin Alsop.
A strong supporter of contemporary composers, he has sung works by John Tavener, Sally Beamish, Thomas Larcher, Peter Maxwell Davies and David Sawer. For the 2017 BBC Proms, Farnsworth performed Maxwell Davies Eight Songs for a Mad King with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Sian Edwards.
Marcus is Head of Vocal and Choral Studies at Chetham's School of Music and is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Southwell Music Festival.
Ning Feng
International solo violinist
Ning Feng is recognised internationally as an artist of great lyricism, innate musicality and stunning virtuosity. The Berlin based, Chinese violinist performs across the globe in recitals and chamber concert with major orchestras and conductors.
Recent engagements have included the Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer; tours with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden to Europe, Asia and Australia; a tour to China with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Lawrence Foster. As well as successful debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Xian Zhang; National Symphony Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Simone Young. In recital and chamber music he performs regularly with Igor Levit at many of the world's major festivals and concert venues.
Feng records for Channel Classics in the Netherlands and his new disc Virtuosismo featuring Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Vieuxtemps' Violin Concerto No. 4 was released in September 2019. His earlier recording of Bach's complete solo works for violin was hailed by Gramophone as "unlike anyone else's… it's the illusion of a freewheeling conversation projected from within that held me captive." Further discs include recordings of the Elgar and Finzi violin concertos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Apasionado with the Orchestra Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias featuring works by Sarasate, Lalo, Ravel and Bizet/Waxman, two releases with the Dragon Quartet featuring string quartets by Schubert, Dvořák, Borodin, Shostakovich and Weinberg and two CDs of violin solo repertoire.
Born in Chengdu, China, Ning Feng studied at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Antje Weithaas and the Royal Academy of Music in London with Hu Kun. The recipient of prizes at the Hanover International, Queen Elisabeth and Yehudi Menuhin International violin competitions, Ning Feng was First Prize winner of the 2005 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand and in 2006 won first prize in the International Paganini Competition.
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One of today's foremost living composers
Brian Ferneyhough is widely recognized as one of today's foremost living composers. Since the mid-1970s, when he first gained widespread international recognition, his music has earned him a reputation as one of the most influential creative personalities and significant musical thinkers on the contemporary scene.
Ferneyhough was born in Coventry, England, in 1943 and received formal musical training at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 1968 he was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies in Amsterdam with Ton de Leeuw, and the following year obtained a scholarship to study with Klaus Huber at the Basel Conservatoire.
Following Ferneyhough's move to mainland Europe, his music began to receive much wider recognition. The Gaudeamus Composers' Competition in the Netherlands awarded Ferneyhough prizes in three successive years (1968–70) for his Sonatas for String Quartet, Epicycle and Missa Brevis respectively. The Italian section of the ISCM at its 1972 competition gave Ferneyhough an honourable mention (second place) for Firecycle Beta and two years later a special prize for Time and Motion Study III which was considered the best work submitted in all categories.
Recent works have included Inconjunctions (2014), Contraccolpi (2016), and a collection of encounters influenced by Christopher Tye, Umbrations (2001-2017), premiered by the Arditti Quartet and Ensemble Modern at Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik.
Associated with the most prestigious teaching institutions and international summer schools for contemporary music, from 1984 to 1996 Ferneyhough was Composition Course Co-ordinator at the biennial Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. In 1984 he was made Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and he has since been named a member of the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Bayrische Akademie der Schönen Künste and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Most recently, he was awarded the 2007 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.
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Classical soul pioneer, composer, producer and pianist
Classical-soul pioneer, composer, producer and pianist Alexis Ffrench is the fastest-growing classical artist in the world. Not only is he the UK's biggest selling pianist of 2020, he has headlined London's iconic Royal Albert Hall, collaborated with top fashion houses Miyake and Hugo Boss, played Latitude Festival, worked with pop superstar Paloma Faith, composed several major film scores and shares the same management team as Little Mix and Niall Horan.
His music has amassed over 200 million streams and both albums Evolution and Dreamland reached no. 1 in the classical music charts. It doesn't matter if you prefer Bach, Beethoven, Kendrick Lamar or Chance the Rapper; there's succour to be found in Ffrench's universe, whether in the purity and innocence of Story Of You, the lush orchestration of Dreamland, the stunning melody of Bluebird or Walk With Us – a track for which 100% of label net proceeds and artist record royalties support the Black Lives Matter movement.
Evangelical about the power to be gained from music and saddened by the demise of music education in schools, Ffrench has created a series of YouTube video tutorials for aspiring musicians of all abilities. Passionate about ensuring music education is accessible and that young people feel empowered to find their unique voices, he delivers educational programmes on writing and producing music to young people, and has partnered with The Prince's Trust, MJ Cole, Marvin Humes and other special guests.
Ffrench won a scholarship for gifted children to study at the Royal Academy of Music aged 10 and he was also a student at The Purcell School and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Even before his formal music education, at the age of seven Ffrench was appointed head organist at his local church in Surrey, becoming the UK's youngest church organist. Growing up in a household full of the music of Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and Ella Fitzgerald, he first honed his craft by playing the kitchen table aged four and writing his first pieces at five, his prodigious gifts convincing his parents to buy a second-hand piano.
A tragic turning point came at 23, when Alexis' best friend, a fellow musician, died in tragic fashion. It led him to reassess his music and he became keenly aware of the importance of good mental health.
Ffrench points to the hip-hop community's success in getting across its own complex musical messages to the mainstream. He cites the challenging music of Kendrick Lamar and Anderson .Paak as examples of superstars doing it their own way. The mix of Kendrick Lamar and Bartok, Shostakovich and Ariana Grande is present throughout Ffrench's weekly Sunday show on Scala Radio, a broad church where he highlights the song craft in pop and revels in classical majesty.
Praised by The Times: 'If a single person epitomises the new push towards making classical music more diverse, eclectic and unstuffy, it's Alexis Ffrench. As a pianist and composer he creates tonal music that beguiles newcomers with its gentleness and beauty, yet also has enough half-concealed nods to Chopin, Debussy, Satie and other historical figures to keep connoisseurs interested.'
Matthew Fletcher
Prize-winning accompanist and répétiteur
Matthew Fletcher has a varied career as an accompanist and répétiteur. His performances have been broadcast live on BBC radio and television, Sky Arts and Classic FM, and have taken him to major UK venues and festivals, including Wigmore Hall, Snape Maltings, Oxford Lieder, Cheltenham Festival and the BBC Proms. He has collaborated with artists such as Danielle De Niese, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Sir Thomas Allen, Brindley Sherratt, Sally Matthews and Allan Clayton. He has performed as a pianist and harpsichordist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and his competition successes include the accompanist prizes at Das Lied 2019 and the 2014 Kathleen Ferrier Awards.
Fletcher has been on the music staff at Glyndebourne since 2012, and in this capacity, he has worked on a huge variety of repertoire, from Handel and Mozart to Strauss, Janáček and several world premieres. He has also worked as an assistant conductor at the Linbury Theatre (Royal Opera House). He is in demand as a repertoire coach, working with established operatic stars such as Jonas Kauffman and John Tomlinson as well as the Jerwood Young Artists at Glyndebourne and the Jette Parker Young Artists at the Royal Opera House. He is on the teaching staff at the Royal Academy of Music working with singers and répétiteurs.
He read music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was organ scholar. He then studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek and Pascal Nemirovsky at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2016 he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
Fletcher writes of his time at the Academy:
'My time at the Royal Academy was eye-opening and inspiring. The variety of music-making I undertook was incredibly enriching, and helped develop the versatility that is needed for a career like mine. Memorable projects include song circle recitals at the Wigmore Hall and King's Place, a complete performance of Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch, opera scenes, contemporary chamber music with the Manson Ensemble and Baroque chamber music on the harpsichord. As well as the superb individual tuition I received, the variety of teaching staff that I encountered playing for singing lessons and other instrumental lessons must also count as one of my highlights of being at the Academy. As a collaborative pianist, the thoughts of an experienced singer or instrumentalist on your playing and the repertoire you are studying are invaluable. The Academy was crucial in terms of establishing my career - many of my first steps into the industry came through recommendations and introductions from Academy staff, or from being heard at one of the many concerts the Academy put on in London's top concert venues. The Academy continues to serve as an artistic inspiration for me, through my students!'
Steven Fox
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Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Clarion Music Society, New York
Conductor Steven Fox has been called 'visionary' by BBC Music Magazine and named 'a conductor to follow' by Seen and Heard International. Of a recent performance with The Clarion Choir, The New York Times praised his 'deft guidance', commenting: 'Mr Fox revealed the drama of the score with vivid dynamic shadings … Intonation and pacing were exemplary throughout the performance.' For his recording Kastalsky: Memory Eternal with The Clarion Choir, he was nominated in the category of Best Choral Performance at the 61st Grammy Awards.
Fox is Artistic Director of New York's renowned The Clarion Orchestra and The Clarion Choir. Over his tenure, the group has expanded its repertoire from Salamone Rossi to Aaron Copland. He has led the group in highly acclaimed performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, White Light Festival at Lincoln Center, Miller Theatre at Columbia University and Carnegie Hall. He continues to lead them in concert appearances throughout the New York metropolitan area and recently conducted a new production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for Opéra de Québec.


Finally weekend! Hope you all had a nice work week.
I know fall didn't start yet but that's why your reading this and I'm writing this.
To give some ideas what to wear when it is fall!
Enjoy it, because it are probably the last warm days!
Blue waves with a fall attitude..


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Maud Lewis, artist (born 7 March 1903 in South Ohio, Nova Scotia; died 30 July 1970 in Digby, Nova Scotia).
The Halifax Explosion of 1917
In Richmond Prison, at the end of Gottingen Street, Halifax, the warden's young son was drawn to a window by a spectacular display of fireworks. Too sick to go to school that day he had gone to work with his dad.
The Halifax Explosion and the CNIB
The 1917 Halifax Explosion is well-known as the biggest human-made explosion in the pre-atomic era, but it was also the largest mass-blinding in Canadian history and played a crucial role in the founding of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB).
Widows and Widowers of the Halifax Explosion
A major feature of the 1917 Halifax Explosion was the high loss of life among not just men but also women and children. The death of male heads of household, or of their wives, proved highly disruptive for family life and created a major challenge for those providing assistance to the survivors.
Scottish Canadians
Though often considered Anglo-Canadians, the Scots have always regarded themselves as a separate people. The Scots have immigrated to Canada in steady and substantial numbers for over 200 years, with the connection between Scotland and Canada stretching farther — to the 17th century. Scots have been involved in every aspect of Canada's development as explorers, educators, businessmen, politicians, writers and artists. The Scots are among the first Europeans to establish themselves in Canada and are the third largest ethnic group in the country. In the 2016 Census of Canada, a total of 4,799,005 Canadians, or 14 per cent of the population, listed themselves as being of Scottish origin (single and multiple responses).
Acadian Expulsion (the Great Upheaval)
Soldiers rounding up terrified civilians, expelling them from their land, burning their homes and crops ‒ it sounds like a 20th century nightmare in one of the world's trouble spots, but it describes a scene from Canada's early history, the Deportation of the Acadians.
Nova Scotia is Canada's second-smallest province (following Prince Edward Island) and is located on the southeastern coast of the country. The province includes Cape Breton, a large island northeast of the mainland. The name Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland," reflecting the origins of some of the early settlers. Given its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, Nova Scotia's economy is largely influenced by the sea, and its harbours have served as military bases during many wars.
History of Acadia
Acadia has its origins in the explorations of Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer serving the king of France. In 1524-25 he explored the Atlantic coast of North America and gave the name "Archadia", or "Arcadia" in Italian, to a region near the present-day American state of Delaware.
Africville was an African-Canadian village located just north of Halifax and founded in the mid-18th century. The City of Halifax demolished the once-prosperous seaside community in the 1960s in what many said was an act of racism. The mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality apologized for the action in 2010. For many people, Africville represents the oppression faced by Black Canadians, and the efforts to right historic wrongs.
Nova Scotia and Confederation
Nova Scotia was one of the four founding provinces of Canada. It joined New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec in Confederation on 1 July 1867. However, this was mainly because Confederation delivered the Intercolonial Railway to the Maritimes, and because of the efforts of Sir Charles Tupper. His government passed approval for Confederation in the colonial legislature despite popular opposition. (See Confederation's Opponents.) Confederation was met with mass protests in the colony. Joseph Howe led a two-year effort to repeal the union. (See Repeal Movement.) But Howe finally decided he could do more to help his province by working inside the federal government. He joined the federal Cabinet in 1869.
Ellen Philpotts-Page, actor, activist, producer (born 21 February 1987 in Halifax, NS). Ellen Page is a serious, soulful and intelligent actor, and one of Canada's biggest movie stars. A seasoned child performer, she started out in Canadian feature films and TV series, winning two Gemini Awards by the time she was 18. Her intense performance in the American indie Hard Candy (2005) led to high-profile roles in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and the indie smash Juno (2007). Juno earned her an Independent Spirit Award and an Oscar nomination and made her a household name virtually overnight. Adept at quirky comedy (Whip It, Super), intimate drama (Marion Bridge, Mouth to Mouth) and big-budget blockbusters (Inception, the X-Men franchise), she is equally well-known for her environmental activism, her advocacy for LGBTQ rights and her grounded, socially-conscious persona.
Editorial: The Arrival of Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia
"Freedom and a Farm." The promise was exciting to the thousands of African Americans, most seeking to escape enslavement, who fought in British regiments during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). Following the war, they joined tens of thousands of Loyalists — American refugees who had sided with the British. Between 80,000 and 100,000 Loyalists eventually fled the United States. About half came to British North America. The main waves arrived in 1783 and 1784. The territory that now includes the Maritime provinces became home to more than 30,000 Loyalists. Most of coastal Nova Scotia received Loyalist settlers, as did Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island (then called St. John's Island).
Loyalists in Canada
Loyalists were American colonists, of different ethnic backgrounds, who supported the British cause during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). Tens of thousands of Loyalists migrated to British North America during and after the war. This boosted the population, led to the creation of Upper Canada, and heavily influenced the politics and culture of what would become Canada.
Charlottetown Conference
The Charlottetown Conference set Confederation in motion. It was held from 1–9 September 1864 in Charlottetown, with additional meetings the following week in Halifax, Saint John and Fredericton. The conference was organized by delegates from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to discuss the union of their three provinces. They were persuaded by a contingent from the Province of Canada, who were not originally on the guest list, to work toward the union of all the British North American colonies. The Charlottetown Conference was followed by the Quebec Conference (10–27 October 1864) and the London Conference (December 1886–March 1867). They culminated in Confederation on 1 July 1867.
Responsible government refers to a government that is responsible to the people. In Canada, responsible government is an executive or Cabinet that depends on the support of an elected assembly, rather than a monarch or their representatives. A responsible government first appeared in Canada in the 1830s. It became an important part of Confederation. It is the method by which Canada achieved independence from Britain without revolution.

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Rose and I have a piece of slate hanging on the wall in our living room that is inscribed with the words "The mountains are calling, and I must answer." My brother Bob and his wife Sherry gave it to us when they came to New Mexico from Michigan for a visit. This rings true in our hearts—and we spent the last couple of days "answering the call" to the Jemez Mountains in central New Mexico.
I remember a time several years ago when I was driving south out of Denver – headed toward Colorado Springs – as Sandi Patty was singing "How Great Thou Art" on the radio. That majestic moment is forever etched in my mind—the visual reality of the greatness of our God as he revealed himself in the Colorado Rockies.
But mountains do not have the same appeal for everyone. My Grandpa Johnson used to say the mountains are made up of the stuff God had left over when he was finished creating the earth. They are akin to the ruble on the sculptor's floor that was chiseled away from the masterpiece hidden away within the block of marble. Grandpa said God never intended for the mountains to be inhabited—or visited—by people.
Even so, we all have things we are drawn to—things with which we feel a deep kind of connection. What we are "called to" is a part of what makes us who we are. And as far as I can tell, nobody decides what they are going to find appealing and what they are going to dislike. These things are built in as standard equipment and are unique to every human being. And our interests change over time—just because they do—not because we decided they should.
Celebrate the uniqueness of who you are today by pursuing the call God has placed in your heart. Pursue your passion in a way that honors your Creator. When Rose and I have an opportunity to come home to the mountains, we are rejuvenated. The unobstructed flow of His Spirit infuses us to continue on with our daily assignments with renewed vitality. That's how we celebrate the passion he has placed in our hearts.
How do you celebrate the call in your life?
It happened on a hike in the mountains of New Mexico, the very first time we met after connecting on loveandseek.com. Rose had invited me to come to Albuquerque for the 2004 International Balloon Fiesta. I lived in Michigan at the time -1613.3 miles away. A "safe" distance, we thought. No chance of anything "happening" other than meeting a new friend.
Rose took me hiking in the mountains, and it was on one of those hikes I encountered the grace of God in the form of woman. As we were descending the mountain, I told her my story of moral failure, and my eventual spiritual healing. I was totally unprepared for the response I got from her as she stopped on the trail, turned and embraced me, and told me she saw a man transformed by the grace of God. She says that's when she first fell in love with me…in the midst of my "mess confession!" Imagine that!
A few weeks after our first encounter I traveled to Kenya to deliver medical supplies to an orphanage. When I arrived back in Detroit, Rose met me at the airport, and we enjoyed our second "date." A few weeks later Rose and I were married in New Mexico—the 3rd time we met. We recently celebrated our 7th anniversary.
There's something about the grace of our Lord that creates a bond that is beyond our ability to explain. For Rose and me, our personal stories are a living illustration of God's amazing grace–and our love story is the Divine punch line!


Mie Goreng is a true Indonesian dish. Mie means "noodles" and "Goreng" means fried.
Cook noodles according to package instructions. Remove from heat and drain. Drizzle a small a small amount of vegetable oil over the noodles along with 3 tablespoons of the sweet soy sauce and stir until noodles are evenly coated.
Heat a small amount of oil in a wok or large skillet over medium high heat. Add the eggs and scramble. Remove eggs when cooked and set aside.
Add a little more vegetable oil to the pan, then fry the garlic and ginger until they become fragrant. Add the carrot, spring onion, and cabbage and continue to stir-fry until the vegetables become tender.
Add the diced chicken, scrambled eggs, and the cooked noodles to the pan. Add the light and dark soy sauce, remaining sweet soy sauce, oyster sauce, and sesame oil. Mix thoroughly and continue to fry until heated through cooked. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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How robot tentacles may capture our floating space trash
December 3, 2020 [email protected]_84 capture, Floating, robot, Space, tentacles, Trash
It could be one small step for space junk, one giant leap for commercial space operations.
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The European Space Agency signed an €86 million contract with a team led by Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA in November, talking to reporters on Tuesday about what could be the first space mission to remove an item of debris from orbit, and one that could potentially push the commercial space trash removal market forward. And folks, the proposed spacecraft has four robotic tentacles.
Space debris has long become a colossal problem, not one you can personally see clogging up your streets and drains outside, but one that could have serious impact on future space endeavours — particularly if you're in the business of launching say, thousands of satellites.
It's been 60 years since the Space Race started, and more than 5,550 rocket launches from Earth have left approximately 23,000 tracked objects remaining in space, not to mention the millions of bits and pieces floating around low Earth orbit known as "space junk." About 9,600 satellites have been placed into Earth's orbit to date, with about 5,500 still in space, and just 2,300 of those are functioning.
This only stands to increase, with today's space industry averaging 100 launches a year. Add to this the rising popularity of satellite "mega-constellations" as a means for worldwide telecommunications coverage, consisting of hundreds, even thousands of objects — Elon Musk wants to send a total of 42,000 satellites into orbit for SpaceX's Starlink project, aiming to provide high speed internet to the globe.
Problems arise when larger objects in orbit collide in space, causing fast-moving, smaller fragments of space debris to break off, creating a space junkyard that can cause all kinds of hazards at speed, especially for active spacecrafts. The 2009 collision between active commercial satellite Iridium 33 and inactive military satellite Kosmos-2251 has become the prime example of this, but even as recently as September last year, the European Space Agency's Aeolus satellite had to fire its thrusters to avoid colliding with one of Musk's Starlink satellites.
It's a problem with exponential growth potential, most notably due to a phenomenon known as "Kessler Syndrome," a term coined in 1978 by astrophysicist Don Kessler, a former senior scientist for orbital debris research at NASA, which describes the idea that one collision could result in several more, like falling dominos.
"The more populated the orbits around us get, the higher probability of collisions," Rolf Densing, ESA director of operations told reporters on Tuesday. "This has happened in the past, and unfortunately, I'm quite sure that this will happen in the future as well."
Space junk clean-up is no easy task — you can't just vacuum it up, sweep it under some space rug, or pluck it out like a piece of lint on a cardigan. People have tried, some more successfully than others. NASA has been studying this since the '70s. But ClearSpace's
Singapore to pilot floating energy storage system, invest $36M in low-carbon research
October 26, 2020 [email protected]_84 36M, energy, Floating, Invest, lowcarbon, pilot, Research, Singapore, Storage, System
The Singapore government is setting aside SG$49 million ($36.05 million) to drive research and development (R&D) efforts in low-carbon energy technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). It also announces an initiative to pilot a lithium-ion battery energy storage on a "floating" lab, utilising seawater to cool the battery cells.
Spanning five years, the SG$49 million R&D investment aimed to push the "technical and economic viability" of technologies that could help reduce the country's carbon emissions. In particular, it hoped to do so in emission-intensive areas such as the power and industrial sectors, according to a joint statement Monday released by give government agencies involved in the funding efforts: the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star); Economic Development Board (EDB); Energy Market Authority (EMA); National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS); and National Research Foundation (NRF).
Research projects could include technologies that enabled the effective capture of carbon dioxide from low-concentration emission sources in the industrial and power industries and covert the gas into useful products, such as building materials, reclamation sand, and synthetic fuels.
"Testbeds for emerging technologies, such as the blending of low-carbon hydrogen with natural gas in combined cycle gas turbines, will reduce carbon emissions from electricity generation. These testbeds could yield insights in applying low carbon technologies in Singapore's context and facilitate future deployment," the agencies said.
Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing added that hydrogen and CCUS were amongst "promising" technologies with the potential to transform Singapore's energy landscape and drive the nation's long-term goals in emissions reduction.
The government last year unveiled a roadmap to lead efforts towards a "cleaner, more reliable and affordable energy future", focusing on four "switches" — natural gas, solar, regional power grids, and emerging low-carbon alternatives. For instance, it is aiming to meet a solar target of at least 2 gigawatt-peak by 2030, and an energy storage deployment target of 200 megawatts beyond 2025.
Energy storage system to cool by seawater
In a separate statement Monday, EMA said it awarded a research grant to test a floating energy storage system (ESS) as part of a SG$10 million ($7.36 million) partnership with Keppel O&M to develop energy solutions in the marine sector.
Awarded to a consortium led by Envision Digital International, the research grant would see the deployment of a 7.5 MW/7.5MWh lithium-ion battery ESS on Keppel O&M's floating living lab. This would have sufficient capacity to power more than 600 four-room HDB apartments a day, the partners said in a joint statement.
Because Singapore's high humidity and hot climate could affect the performance of the energy system, the testbed would tap a liquid-cooling feature that utilised seawater to cool the battery cells. The pilot also would assess the feasibility of a battery stacking system, which might cut the footprint required for deployment by up to 40%.
Findings from the pilot were expected to be applied to ESS on mainland Singapore, where such systems could enhance power grid stability and resilience as well
Physicists made a superconductor that works at room temperature. It could one day give rise to high-speed floating trains.
October 24, 2020 [email protected]_84 Day, Floating, give, highspeed, Physicists, rise, room, superconductor, temperature, trains, works
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When squeezed between two diamonds, a material made of carbon, sulfur, and hydrogen can become a superconductor. J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester
Superconductors are materials that effortlessly conduct electricity.
Until now, they've only worked at temperatures of minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
But researchers recently found a superconductor that works at ambient temperatures when under immense pressure. They're now trying to make it work without that pressure.
Widespread superconductors could give rise to high-speed floating trains, super-powered computers, and very cheap electricity.
Superconductors – materials that transport electricity with no energy lost – have until now only worked at extremely cold temperatures, from about -100 degrees Fahrenheit to the near-absolute zero of space. But this month, that changed.
In a study published October 14, a team of researchers described a superconductor they engineered, which works at 59 degrees Fahrenheit. The material is composed of carbon, sulfur, and hydrogen, so is appropriately called carbonaceous sulfur hydride.
Physicists had previously found that a combination of hydrogen and sulfur worked as a superconductor under intense pressure and at -94 degrees Fahrenheit. With the addition of carbon, the team was able to create a material that worked at a higher temperature.
Ranga Dias, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Rochester, told Business Insider that they did so by "chemically compressing instead of mechanically compressing" the material. In other words, they made a denser material by adding carbon and sulfur atoms into a pre-existing network of hydrogen atoms.
Equipment including a diamond anvil cell (blue box) and laser arrays are seen in the lab of Ranga Dias, a professor at the University of Rochester. J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester
So far, Dias said, his team has only been able to create tiny specks of the superconductor material, about the size of ink-jet particles. The specks are made under almost 40 million pounds per square inch of pressure, almost the pressure in Earth's inner core. They only function as superconductors under that level of pressure, too.
"Somebody can argue that, 'so you went from one extreme to another extreme,'" Dias said.
However, he added, now that it's clear a superconductor can function at room temperature, the researchers can start tinkering with their material to make it work at ordinary pressure levels.
If they succeed, superconductors could become widespread – potentially causing dramatic advances in technology by making electricity faster, cheaper, and more powerful.
What a superconducting society would look like
Video: NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Punched an Asteroid in the Name of Science (Time)
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Punched an Asteroid in the Name of Science
Electrical currents are flows of electrons that move through materials. Electrons move through certain types of materials easily, including most metals. Materials that convey electricity more easily are called conductors. But electrons have a harder time moving through materials like rubber and wood, so
OSIRIS-REx collected too much asteroid material that it's now floating away
October 23, 2020 [email protected]_84 Asteroid, collected, Floating, Material, OSIRISREx
NASA confirmed that the OSIRIS-REx mission picked up enough material from asteroid Bennu during its sample collection attempt on Tuesday. In fact, the spacecraft's collection chamber is now too full to close all the way, leading some of the material to drift off into space. "There's so much in there that the sample is now escaping," Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science, said Friday.
What was supposed to happen: On Tuesday, OSIRIS-REx descended to asteroid Bennu (the object it has studied from orbit for almost two years now, more than 200 million miles from Earth) and scooped up rubble from the surface during a six-second touchdown before flying back into space.
The goal was to safely collect at least 60 grams of material, and the agency expected to run a series of procedures to verify how much mass was collected. Those included observing the sample collection chamber using onboard cameras, as well as a spin maneuver scheduled for Saturday that would approximate the sample's mass through moment-of-inertia measurements.
What actually happened: Over the last few days, the onboard cameras revealed that the collection chamber was losing particles that were floating into space. "A substantial amount of the sample is seen floating away," mission lead Dante Lauretta said Friday. As it turned out, the sample collection attempt picked up too much material—possibly up to two kilograms, the upper limit of what OSIRIS-REx was designed to collect. About 400 grams of material seem visible from the cameras. The collection lid has failed to close properly, and remains wedged open by pieces that are up to three centimeters in size, creating a centimeter-wide gap for material to escape through.
It seems when OSIRIS-REx touched down on Bennu's surface, the collection head went 24 to 48 centimeters deep, which would explain how it recovered so much material.
How bad is it: It's not terrible! It's obviously concerning that some material has been lost, but this loss was mostly due to some movements of the arm on Thursday (the material behaves like a fluid in microgravity, so any movement will cause the sample to swirl around and potentially flow out of the chamber). Lauretta estimates that as many as 10 grams may have been lost so far. Given how much sample was collected, however, this loss is relatively small. The arm has now been moved into a "park" position so that material is moving around more slowly, which should minimize additional loss.
What's next: The mission is forgoing the scheduled weigh procedure, since a spin maneuver would undoubtedly lead to more material loss, and NASA is confident it has way more than the 60 grams the agency initially sought. Instead, the mission is expediting the stowing of the sample, which NASA expects to take place Monday. After the sample is stowed safely, OSIRIS-REx will leave Bennu in March, and bring the sample back to Earth in 2023.
Astronauts Plug Leak On The International Space Station With The Help Of Floating Tea Leaves
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The ISS has been continuously occupied in Earth orbit for nearly 20 years.
A worsening leak on the International Space Station (ISS) has been plugged thanks to an unusual method – using floating tea leaves to work out where it was.
Since September 2019, a small amount of air as been leaking from the ISS at a rate of 0.6 pounds of air per day – not much, but cause for some concern. However, by August 2020 the problem had increased five-fold, with the loss rate rising to 3.1 pounds per day.
Over the next several weeks, the crew began searching for the leak. This included closing hatches to isolate the leak, along with an ultrasonic leak detector. Ultimately the location of the leak was narrowed down to the Zvezda module, the location of Russia's crew quarters on the station.
Finding the actual leak itself – which NASA noted posed "no immediate danger to the crew" – proved more difficult. But last week, the Russian space agency – Rocosmos – said the crew had successfully used floating tea leaves to work out where it was and plugged it, although the cause of the small hole still seems to be unknown.
The crew on the ISS (cosmonaut Ivan Vagner pictured) was not in any danger, said NASA.
"We believe that we have really identified the probable leakage area," said Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, one of the crew of six on the ISS, reported the Russian news agency TASS. "We have distributed a tea bag before closing the transfer chamber."
Ivanishin added: "We have several photos and videos of the direction of the tea bag's flight or where it intended to fly and this precisely shows the direction the air is blowing from the possible air leak."
The crew have now put tape over the crack, which will temporarily prevent a further loss of air. The plan now is to find a more permanent solution to seal the leak.
This could include using equipment brought up by the most recent Soyuz launch on October 14, with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov on board.
Three more astronauts launched to the ISS last week.
Roscosmos Press Office/TASS
"ISS crew sealed the airleak using temporary means available at the station," Roscosmos said in a short statement on Twitter.
"Currently, [the] Chief Operating Control Group together with the [ISS] crew is working out a program of operations to permanently seal the leak location."
This is not the first time a leak has been reported on the ISS. Back in 2018, a small hole was found in one of the Soyuz spacecraft docked with the space station, potentially due to human error on the ground. Russia later said that, while the cause of the leak had been found, it would not reveal what happened.
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Whitworth senior Kristin Wucherer was selected as one of 255 U.S. students from a pool of 3,640 applicants nationwide to participate in the Amgen Scholars Program last summer at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wucherer, a chemistry major, completed a summer research project under the mentorship of Bryan Krantz, assistant professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology at UC Berkeley. In the lab, she helped investigate the mechanism and dynamics of protein translocation, using electrophysiology and statistical analysis.
As part of the summer program, Wucherer attended the annual Amgen Scholars U.S. Symposium July 20-22 at UCLA, where students explored biotechnology and drug discovery and development. The symposium provided an opportunity to meet and connect with other scholars and leading scientists from across the nation, and included a visit to Amgen company headquarters in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
After graduating from Whitworth, Wucherer plans to attend graduate school for chemistry or biochemistry. She is considering pursuing a dual Ph.D. /M.D. degree and is thinking about a future career in academia.
Amgen, founded in 1980, is a multinational biopharmaceutical company and is also the world's largest independent biotechnology firm. The Amgen Scholars Program is a summer research internship program that provides undergraduate students with hands-on lab experience on important university research projects; the program is designed to broaden the perspective of students considering careers in scientific fields. Amgen launched the program in 2006 and continually seeks to facilitate advancements in science education.


Are you crazy about your offspring? I also hear, but not always. Do you have any idea how often I should listen to the stories of Pokémon? In the amount of evolution they are now with names that I break my tongue three times and they still do not speak well. Not because I could not, but simply because it does not interest me. A few years ago it was dinosaurs with complicated Latin names. That was still somewhat interesting, because history and stuff. But what do I have about Pokémon knowledge? Really he-le-times-nothing.
Luckily I finished the phase in which he proudly made a bracelet of rubber bands for me. And then of course with all the colors from the box, because that made the bracelet so nice and cheerful. Then I walked for weeks again to show 'how happy I was with it'. The funny thing was, when I went to check out I saw a lot of mothers walking around with those loom rubber bands, including the pitying looks at each other. "Oh you too? Yes, do not say anything. " Secretly I was actually quite proud of the bracelet he had made for me. Even though he did not look and he did not match any clothing item. I still have it. In a box.
This book talks openly and honestly about parenting, with a delicious sarcastic smile. I love it. In the booklet you do not find a pink cloud, but I'm sure you will find a lot of recognition. You are really not the only one and even though the sarcasm sometimes flies off the pages, between the words you will also find a lot of love. Just like you, you, you and me. I think the book is a refreshing topper! Something like in 'fun-fun-nicest'.


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Summit Stresses Environmental Justice
Bianca Sewake, Author|April 29, 2015
One hundred and twenty years ago Pope Leo XIII released an open letter addressing worker conditions that would forever shift the mission of the Catholic Church. This last Tuesday, Pope Francis shifted the Church once again, this time towards environmental justice.
The Pope has spoke on not only the human impacts on climate change, but also the effects it has on the most marginalized. Climate skeptics have created a massive pushback on what they see as unnecessary environmental concern.
According to Associate Professor of Theology and Director of Catholic Studies Dr. Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos, this pope's commitment to protecting the earth is part of a long catholic tradition. She pointed out how many local churches and theologians have been speaking out on climate change for many years. From northwest writers describing the state of water systems, to a pastoral letter from the Philippines titled "What is Happening to Our Beautiful Land," grassroots movements have been at the forefront of the discussion.
This push for protecting our earth also has a significant history within the Vatican, as Pope Benedict XVI was often called the green pope for his work on the subject. Yet, for Punsalan-Manlimos, what makes this new movement so impactful is how it will combine two important aspects of the Catholic social justice mission.
"Knowing where this pope is heading, bringing together our concern for the environment and the poor explicitly in church teachings, is very exciting," Punsalan-Manlimos said.
Here at Seattle University, this mission is carried out in part by the Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability. They see environmental justice as one of the key aspects of Seattle U's mission.
"The voiceless and the powerless are often the people who are most affected by environmental degradation. More than ever, we need leaders who will work to bring changes to these environmental injustices. Seattle University's mission aligns well with the formation of such leaders," said the center in an email statement to the Spectator.
Those at CEJS work with these aspects of climate awareness every day. Promoting student and faculty research, the CEJS encourages Seattle U's own focus on environmental justice.
They have worked with facilities on campus to implement basic programs to make the university more eco-friendly. Organic landscaping and rain gardens help to not only beautify the campus, but also manage the Seattle rains in a renewable way. They've worked to make composting a major part of the university's waste system, collecting 178,000 pounds of food waste annually. University vehicles are also implemented in this plan, as the newly purchased cars are more efficient and more environmentally friendly.
Yet, those who work in CEJS see their mission as having more than just a local reach. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director for CEJS Phillip Thompson sees environmental justice as something that is both local and global.
"In engineering, we often address [environmental justice] issues through our student projects. For example, in civil and environmental engineering, we currently have a senior design project that is focused on the improvement of migrant housing in the Skagit Valley. In addition, our faculty have done water projects in Thailand, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Zambia and Haiti and energy poverty projects in Kenya and Zambia," Thompson said.
Focusing on connecting students and faculty with those most affected by climate change, CEJS follows through with Pope Francis' mission to create a more sustainable world. Student work is key to this, and Seattle U students travel abroad to continents such as Africa and South America to learn more about how to achieve this goal.
This connection to the Seattle U mission resonates with Punsalan-Manlimos, as she sees it as integral to continuing the work of the university.
"This document is being used as an impetus to help us facilitate even more conversations than we're already having around environmental justice," Punsalan-Manlimos said.
She's excited about what this movement will mean for the coming years for the formation of new conversations as well as the continuation of old ones. Inviting faculty as well as members of the community the Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture will hold a study group this summer to discuss these very issues. On top of this, the institute's theme next year will be Ecology, Spirituality and Justice. There are expected changes to the core curriculum to reflect this renewed focus on environmental justice.
As the effects of the summit just begin to take hold, both members of the Catholic Church as well as faculty here at Seattle U are excited for the renewed efforts for environmental justice.


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