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Simon Limbrick (left) & Paul Archibald |
With two of the most distinctive sounds in the musical palette the combination
of trumpet and percussion offers an exciting and unusual musical
experience. All the programmes divided for this duo include a wide
range of instruments in a repertoire that is stimulating and often
quite theatrical!
The repertoire offered for Trumpet and
Percussion is musically and visually both stimulating and challenging.
The flexibility of the repertoire allows the performers
to offer programmes that include jazz-based works such as Chet
Baker improvisations and contemporary works specifically written
for these instruments. Andre Jolivet wrote a momentous work, Heptade,
for the French virtuoso Maurice Andre and, more recently, Cecilia
McDowall has written a work for Paul and Simon, Cool It, that is
influenced by Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
| Sample programme |
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| Simon Limbrick |
Rimshot |
for solo snare |
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| Marcel Bitsch |
Cinque Etudes |
trumpet and percussion |
| Chet Baker |
Improvisations: |
Don't Explain
All the things you are
You can't go home again |
interval |
| Edward Shipley |
Old Battlefields |
trumpet and percussion |
| Peter Mc Garr |
Sweet Steel Alone |
for solo tenor pan |
| Cecilia McDowall |
Cool it |
trumpet and percussion |
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The programmes also feature the various groupings of percussion
instruments - tuned, latin American, percussive and timpani and
the repertoire even includes a work for steel-pans!
The nature of these instruments allows a concert atmosphere that
is relaxed and informal and are presented in a manner that is both
accessible and informative.
Simon Limbrick embraces performance, composing and leading workshops.
He contributed as a member of the cult systems orchestra The Lost
Jockey and Man Jumping, recording for EG Editions and creating scores
for leading dance companies, Second Stride and London Contemporary
Dance. In 1990 Simon completed his MA in Electroacoustic Composition
at City University. He has since collaborated on a number of large
scale works with Rosemary Lee and site-specific work in Holland
and Brussels. Simon has produced several film scores and has worked
on several media projects with Dutch composer|sound sculptor Harry
de Wit.
He has created pieces for Mary Wiegold’s Songbook, Ensemble
Bash, Endymion Ensemble and the Brighton Youth Orchestra and was
composer-in-residence at Blackheath Concert Halls in 95|96. Compositions
created for him include works by Javier Alvarez, Brian Elias (Kenneth
MacMillans last ballet The Judas Tree), Vic Hoyland and Andrew Poppy.
He has performed the world-premieres of solo pieces by James Dillon,
Frederic Rzewski and Claude Vivier. He is currently commissioning
a series of chamber works for percussion and chamber ensemble from
composers Hans Werner Henze, John Woolrich, Philip Cashian, Harry
de Wit and Howard Skempton. A solo CD , "Steam", of Simon
performing his own compositions was released in Autumn 1999 and
his latest CD "Debris", was released in November 1999. |
