The Festival will in part be a celebration of Robert Simpson’s birth in Leamington a century ago. The Festival will take place between the 23 and 26 September and will include Simpson’s String Quintet No.1, Quartet No.8, Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano, Variations and Finale on a Theme of Haydn. Full details will be […]

During the week commencing Monday 31 May 2021 between 12 noon and 1pm, Robert Simpson will be featured on the BBC’s Composer of the Week programme on Radio 3.

The concert which will be available for two weeks from 2 March 2021 includes a short introduction and concert programme. It will be bookable via Bromsgrove Concerts (www.bromsgove-concerts.org.uk) website from the afternoon on Friday 26 February.

Lyrita have issued in February 2021 a new CD of symphonies 5 and 6 under catalogue number SRCD.389. The CD is from BBC recordings by Andrew Davis with the LSO and Charles Groves with the LPO.

This is a work of about 29 minutes duration which was commissioned and dedicated to Susan Milan. She recently recorded this concerto with the Prague Symphony Orchestra for Divine Arts. For various reasons, the recording was unsatisfactory but is now expected to be re-recorded later this year with the Orchestra of the Swan conducted by […]

Robert Simpson withdrew his violin concerto after initial performances. The work of about 41 minutes duration has now been reworked by Matthew Taylor in order to fulfil the original intentions for this work.

Rosemary Hill, a long-standing member and committee member of the RSS, has died on 26 June 2020, following an assault from behind while walking in Reigate, Surrey. In the music world she was also known as the clarinetist Rosemary Few. She was married to the late horn player Ray Few and played at various times […]

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