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William Knight: Walking with Thomas Hardy

Wednesday, 23 July 2025   |   19:30 - 21:30

William Knight: Walking with Thomas Hardy

The World Youth Choir is heading to Catalonia and France this summer!

With a total of eight performances, the ensemble will be conducted by Daniel Reuss and will present a programme featuring composers from across Europe — such as Vaughan Williams, Vasks, Schnittke, and Martin — alongside traditional repertoire and a world première by Catalan composer and World Youth Choir alumna Anna Campmany Duch.

Program:

Arnold SCHÖNBERG: Friede auf Erden
Alfred SCHNITTKE: Three sacred hymns
Frank MARTIN: Full fathom five
R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Full fathom five and the cloud capp’d towers
Peteris VASKS: Actus caritatis
Felix MENDELSSOHN: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
William KNIGHT: Walking with Thomas Hardy
Popular Catalana, B. VIVANCOS: El cant dels ocells
Pau CASALS: O vos omnes
Anna CAMPMANY DUCH: Peace

  • Composer(s) William Knight
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    Walking with Thomas Hardy

  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra World Youth Choir, Daniel Reuss conductor

Date

Jul 23 2025
Expired!

Time

19:30 - 21:30

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Location

Terrassa, Auditori Terrassa, Spain
Terrassa, Auditori Terrassa, Spain
Passeig d'Ernest Lluch, 1, 08222 Terrassa, Spain
Website
https://elisendafabregas.com/concert/auditori-terrassa-spain/

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William Knight started his musical career as a chorister of St Paul’s Cathedral, London. He read Music at the University of York whilst singing as the Tenor Choral Scholar at York Minster. He now works as a composer and professional freelance singer in the Netherlands, and is a core member of the Nederlands Kamerkoor.
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Maxim Shalygin

January 30, 1985

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

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Jan-Peter de Graaff

Netherlands, 1992,
"De Graaff is een alleskunner en een echte en helder opflitsende komeet aan het muzikale firmament die aan niemand ongemerkt voorbij kan gaan." - Maarten Brandt, Opus Klassiek
"De Graaff is een tovenaar met orkestkleuren in een taal die weliswaar van nu is, maar harmonisch ook vaak vertrouwd klinkt." - Paul Herruer, Dagblad van het Noorden
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"Zijn muziek is in essentie atonaal, maar doordat ze niet is doodgesystematiseerd en De Graaff in de contouren en het verloop van zijn melodieën nog steeds romantisch durft te zijn, wordt de luisteraar met zachte, maar dwingende hand meegevoerd in het abstracte verhaal dat hij wil vertellen. Een grote troef is hierbij zijn orkestratiekunst. De muziek is kleurrijk, blijft altijd helder en verrassend." - Erik Voermans, Het Parool
 
"Had iemand mij van te voren voorspeld dat in een programma van Bach, Bartók en Jan-Peter de Graaff het stuk van de laatste mij het meest zou boeien, dan had ik dat niet geloofd. - Dingeman van Wijnen, Friesch Dagblad
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Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.
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