Author name: AndrewMelvinComposer

Sakura Variations for Choir

AndrewMelvinComposer / July 2, 2024

Sakura Variations for Choir July 2nd 2024 (première), March 16th 2025 (Bucks première) In 2021 my former music teacher Nicholas Bannan returned to the UK after having spent 15 years as a lecturer at the University of Perth. After a quick catch-up, he commissioned a piece from me for The Castle Choir, an amateur choir

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Arrangements, Comedy, Performance

Fringe Activities

AndrewMelvinComposer / May 26, 2024

Fringe Activities 2024 was the year of the first Chesham Fringe Festival, and I became part of the brand new group ‘Ensemble Inspire’ to put on a Fringe show, ‘Strictly Classical’. The show, performed at the Little Theatre in Chesham, had musical items, MC announcements and pronouncements, live interviews with the players, audience participation (scoring

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