Black Fuel Incinerator is a newly-formed, York-based free improvisation group featuring Matt Postle (trumpet), Judith Ring (melodica), Alex Harker (elec. guitar) and Garrett Sholdice (elec. bass guitar). Having performed at York improv showcases Rebol IMF and Laboratories Lyons in recent months, they will play their first full-length concert in the loft of Meltons Too on Walmgate in York on Wednesday July 2.

The concert will start at 9pm and tickets are £3 on the door… Expect an evening of freely improvised music to quicken the heart and quiet the mind.

British ensemble Noszferatu will premiere Garrett Sholdice’s ‘Three Dyads’ at the first evening concert of the Late Music Festival on Friday 6 June at 7.30pm in the National Centre for Early Music on Walmgate in York, England. This brand new piece, scored for alto sax, percussion, piano and tape, was especially commissioned for the ensemble by the Late Music Festival. The programme will also include music by Noszferatu’s percussionist, Dave Price, Garrett Sholdice’s former teacher Donnacha Dennehy, Michael Wolters, Jonathan Powell, Ed Bennett, Joe Cutler and Christopher Fox.

For more information about the concert, click here.

At 8pm on Thursday 29 May 2008, in the chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the Irish Young Composers Collective will present “wood, hair and gut”, a concert of six brand new pieces for violin performed by Irish rising star Ioana Petcu-Colan. Petcu-Colan will premiere Garrett Sholdice’s darkly he rose, and then I slept as well as new works by Irish Young Composers Collective members David Coonan, David Flynn, Louise Harte, Scott McLaughlin and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly. Tickets will be available on the door.

Click here for a press release and biographies for all involved in the concert.

Artem Kotov (violin) and Matthew Barlow (’cello) will premiere Garrett Sholdice’s Agosto at the New Music From Ireland Sysmposium taking place on Saturday 10 May in the University of York’s Rymer Auditorium, as part of the University’s Spring Festival of New Music. The symposium will feature two concerts of new solos and duos by composers of the Irish Young Composers Collective, performed by students and former students of the York University Music Department. The symposium will begin with a reception at 10am and the two concerts will begin at 10.30am and 1pm respectively.

For more info, check the concerts page.

Posted 11 April 2008

On Saturday, April 26, 2008, in Dublin’s Liberty Hall Theatre, Ergodos (the Dublin-based music organisation directed by composers Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice) will present ‘But what about the noise of crumpling paper…’ , a one-day festival of percussion music. The festival will feature performances of music by young composers Aengus Ó Maoláin (IRL) and James Else (UK), Irish premieres of pieces by Michael Byron (USA), James Tenney (USA) and John Cage (USA) and a most rare performance of Edgard Varèse’s seminal 1931 work, Ionisation.

Absolutely not to be missed!! More details can be found here.

Posted 9 April 2008

Elizabeth Smalt of Trio Scordatura will perform the viola version of Garrett Sholdice’s Solo for Benedict Schlepper-Connolly as part of a Trio Scordatura performance on Friday 25 April at Kamermuziekfestival Schellingwouderkerk in the small town of Schellingwoude near Amsterdam. The concert will also feature Trio Scordatura performances of music by François-Bernard Mâche, John Fonville and Harry Partch, as well as works by Brahms, Janacek and Ravel performed by Dutch musicians Heleen Hulst, Doris Hochscheid, Gerard Bouwhuis and Frans van Ruth.

For more info, check the concerts page.