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	MARCH 2010

	Still the Sea first performance 28th March 2010, Baltimore, USA The ChromaDuo (Tracy Anne Smith and Rob MacDonald) will be giving the first performance of Still the Sea for two guitars for the Baltimore Guitar Society on 28th March. The concert was originally scheduled for 7th February, but had to be postponed because of snow. The duo will then tour the work in the US and Canada before recording it later in the year. The piece is a homage to Toru Takemitsu.



	Variations on a Burns Air: Scherzo CD release and first London Performance 21st February 2010 The Primrose Piano Quartet have commissioned a number of composers to write a variation on an air by Robert Burns. The first complete performance took place on 18th October in Tunbridge Wells. The other composers involved include: Sally Beamish, Piers Hellawell, Zoe Martlew, and John Casken. The CD, on the Meridian Label, was released at a concert at King's Place in London on 21st February 2010. The piece was featured and performed live on In Tune on BBC Radio 3 on 18th February.



	The Autumn Song first London performance at the Wigmore Hall 3rd February 2010 Natalie Clein and Xuefei Yang gave the first performance of The Autumn Song (2009) for cello and guitar at the Macau Festival in China on 13th October 2009. Further performances included a tour of the UK and Ireland and the first London performance at the Wigmore Hall on 3rd February 2010. The piece was featured and performed live on In Tune on BBC Radio 3 on 2nd February.



	Welsh Folksongs for two guitars CD release December 2009 The Welsh Argentine Guitar Duo have just released a recording of the Six Welsh Folksongs for two guitars on their new CD Voyage to Patagonia on Pairecords. The settings were made especially for the duo for their 2008 and 2009 tours of Europe and South America.



	Articles and Interviews for free download Various articles and interviews are now available for free download, including Come Heavy Sleep: motive and metaphor in Britten's Nocturnal Op 70 orgiginally published in Guitar Forum 1 in 2001



	New Recording of the Sonata for Guitar Michael Partington has recently released his second recording of the Sonata for Guitar. The piece was written for him in 2006 and recorded in 2007. Fifty performances later, Michael decided to re-record the piece for his latest album, Resonance.



	Performances of The Chinese Garden Xuefei Yang is continuing to tour The Chinese Garden (2007). After October 2009 performances at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and King's Place in London, she toured the piece in the US in November. *'Stephen Goss' superb Chinese Garden is fragrantly evocative'* Gramophone, Editor's Choice, July 2008



	Residency at Arizona State University Stephen Goss was in the US from 19th to 25th November 2009 for a mini-festival of his music at Arizona State University in Phoenix.



	The Albéniz Concerto first performance 24th October 2009 On 24th October, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, with soloist Xuefei Yang, gave the first performance of Stephen Goss's Albéniz Concerto (2009) for guitar and orchestra. The work was commissioned by EMI Classics for a CD featuring Xuefei Yang and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.



	Interludes score featured in International Piano Magazine Sept/Oct 09 The score of The Frozen Lake from Interludes (2008) for piano is featured in the current issue of International Piano. The music is printed alongside the painting by Brian Dunce on which it is based. *'An intriguing, impressively realised idea'* The Independent, 1st May 2009 *'An unusual, fresh and startlingly lovely meeting of creative minds'* Classic FM Magazine, August 2009 *'Goss's style is persuasively individual and sensitive, taking relatively conservative rhythmic patterns and allying them to a harmonic range that is exotically charged'* International Piano, July/August 2009

	SUMMER 2009

	El Llanto de los Sueños CD release and tour Grammy® winner David Russell's recording of El Llanto de los Sueños (2007) was released on his new album For David on the Telarc International label in April. Since then David has performed the piece all over Europe and America. He commissioned the piece in 2007 and gave the premiere in London in October 2008. The CD was Editor's Choice in the July 2009 editon of Gramophone. **'Stephen Goss's finely crafted El Llanto de los Sueños... is especially delicate and evocative' Gramophone, July 2009**



	The Best of the Classical BRITs CD Stephen Goss's arrangement of Sarasate's Navarra for two violins, guitar and orchestra, has recently been released on an album of highlights from the first ten years of the Classical BRIT Awards. The soloists on the recording are David Garrett, Valeriy Sokolov and Xuefei Yang with the London Concert Orchestra conducted by David Charles Abell.