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	JUNE 2010

	The Albéniz Concerto EMI Recording in Barcelona, July 12th to 15th Stephen Goss's Albéniz Concerto (2009) was commissioned by EMI Classics for a CD featuring Xuefei Yang and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.The CD will be recorded in July and released in October 2010. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra gave the first performance in October 2009. Xuefei is performing the reduction for guitar and piano in various recitals in the coming months with pianist Di Xiao. The next performance with orchestra is in Dublin with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra.



	Cadenza Music launch their new website Cadenza Music (Stephen Goss's main publisher) have just launched a brand new and much improved website. There are many new features, including the facility to browse sheet music on line, listen to audio extracts and download scores, parts and CDs.



	The Autumn Song new version for cello and piano 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 include a tour of the UK and Ireland and the first London performance at the Wigmore Hall. The piece was featured and performed live on In Tune on BBC Radio 3. The piece has recently been reworked for cello and piano for Lionel Handy and Nigel Clayton who are currently touring the piece. *'The Autumn Song is a beautifully evocative composition and was elequently performed by both artists, with Clein'swinning lyrical style proving ideally suited to it.'* The Strad, May 2010



	Uneasy Dreams New DVD recording, June 2010 Uneasy Dreams, for saxophone quartet, is the title track for a new DVD produced by the Delta Sax Quartet and Kingston University for FMR Records. The DVD comprises new films made to complement music by Stephen Goss, Gerald Barry, Michael Finnissy and others. It also contains extended interviews with the composers.



	American Pastoral first performance, Duo46, Italy, July 2010 Arizona-based Duo46 will be giving the first performance of American Pastoral for violin and guitar at the soundSCAPE festival in Maccagno, Italy. The piece, which borrows its title from Philip Roth's novel, evokes various contrasting American landscapes.



	Northern Lights first performance and recording September 2010 In September Batignano will be recording a whole CD of music by Stephen Goss. The CD will include a new commission, Northern Lights, as well as reworkings of a number of his other pieces. The first performance of Northern Lights takes place on 5th September at St Mary's, Throwleigh, Devon.



	Still the Sea first performance 28th March 2010, Baltimore, USA The ChromaDuo (Tracy Anne Smith and Rob MacDonald) gave the first performance of Still the Sea for two guitars for the Baltimore Guitar Society on 28th March. The duo are currently touring the new work alongside The Raw and the Cooked in the US and Canada before recording both pieces later in the year.



	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) and Jonathan Leathwood's article Developing a Medium: The collaborative process in Stephen Goss's Oxen of the Sun



	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.



	Welsh Folksongs new recordings for two guitars and violin & guitar In March, violinist Michael Bochmann and guitarist Adam Khan released a new version of Stephen Goss's Welshfolk settings. Earlier in the year, the Welsh Argentine Guitar Duo released a recording of the folksongs 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.



	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 2009. 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. Giulio Tampalini will be touring the piece in 2010/11. **'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.