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CHROMA
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Chroma is a chamber ensemble, which features some of
Britainšs most talented young musicians. Individually, each member has an
impressive array of achievements, which have taken them across the whole of
Europe, the Americas, Russia, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Israel and the
Middle East; as well as all the major venues and principal festivals in the
UK. The ensemble also includes a former BBC Young Musician of the Year
Finalist, a World Piano Competition Semi-Finalist and prizewinners in other
major competitions such as the Royal Over-Seas League and European Music for
Youth. They all now lead exciting freelance careers in addition to their
work with Chroma. The prize-winning artists of Chroma are champions of both
old and new chamber music. Their dedication to exciting and varied
programming has led to the abandonment of the string quartet as the
principal vehicle for chamber music. Instead more versatile combinations of
wind, strings, piano and harp form the core of Chromašs repertoire, the
juxtaposition of time-honoured classics with obscure or contemporary works
is also of paramount importance. To this end, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms
might easily find themselves a bedfellow in the shape of Penderecki, Powers
or Zemlinsky.
Having worked together through their college years the founding members of
Chroma hit on the concept of a flexible chamber ensemble, which could be
scheduled around their busy freelance careers. This finally came to fruition
in 1997, and was marked by a series of concerts in London, which
demonstrated their enthusiasm for all kinds of chamber music. Since then
they have been invited to play at venues throughout Great Britain. In
addition Chromašs commitment to contemporary music has led to the formation
of close links with the Society for the Promotion of New Music and the
British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
The name Chroma is the Greek word for colour, a word which, in ancient
times, also denotes a sense of texture; both intrinsic elements of music. It
is also the title of an inspirational and movingly evocative study of the
spectrum through art, poetry and nature by the artist David Jarman. |
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