Stephen Altoft will be back in the UK in February giving a short tour on the 19-division trumpet and microtonal flugelhorn (19-and 24-divisions of the octave). He will be appearing at the Universities of Huddersfield, Manchester and Cambridge. This is the first tour using the microtonal flugelhorn!

At Huddersfield he will play a concert dedicated to our founder, Donald Bousted, who was a composition tutor there in the ’90s, and will include a first performance of his former student, Geoffrey Cox; now himself a Senior Lecturer in Music at Huddersfield. Geoff’s work, ‘Don’s Vision’ is for 24-division flugelhorn, and is based on quarter-tone material on which he orginally worked on with Donald. The programme also includes Donald’s ‘Time Dreaming’, plus two pieces for which he produced the electronics for- ‘Hidden Jewels’ by Stephen Altoft, and ‘Lud’s Church‘ by Richard Whalley. Stephen will also give the premier performances of ‘Flugelhornpipe’ (for 19-divison flugelhorn, live plus 4 recorded parts) by Ben Lunn, and a new flugelhorn work by Eleri Angharad Pound.

At Churchill College, Cambridge, Stephen will give the first performance of Cambridge Composer, Paul Rhys, ‘Dialogue for trumpet’ (19-div) and a new flugelhorn work by Hilary Robinson (London). Also on the programme, the same works from the Huddersfield concert by Stephen, Donald and Richard Whalley.

In Manchester, Stephen will give a workshop on ‘Improvisation and Intuitive Music’.

Calendar:

Thursday 8th February, 2024, 1pm. ‘Time Dreaming’- Microtonal Trumpet and Flugelhorn. St. Pauls’ Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK.

Dedicated to the memory of former composition tutor, Donald Bousted. Music by Stephen Altoft, Donald Bousted, Geoffrey Cox (WP), Ben Lunn (WP), Eleri Angharad Pound (WP), Richard Whalley.

https://www.hud.ac.uk/performance/february/

Friday 9th February, 11am, ‘Workshop: Improvisation and Intuitive Music’, University of Manchester

Friday 16th February, 2024, 6.15pm. ‘Time Dreaming’- Microtonal Trumpet and Flugelhorn. Churchill College, Cambridge, UK.

Music by Stephen Altoft, Donald Bousted, Paul Rhys (WP), Hilary Robinson (WP) and Richard Whalley.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/churchillcollegemusicsociety/1133835