Oh the stories I have!

Beautiful! 🎶🤎🎵

🚨We look forward to another series of concerts at Wigmore Hall on Saturday, 20 July!
11.30am African Art Music for Woodwind
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3.00pm Music from North Africa
wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240…
7.30pm An Evening of African Choral Songs
wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20240…

An excellent photo to head up this lovely reel:
Resonus Classics Errollyn Wallen Rebeca Omordia

Here's a lovely showreel featuring some of the very best moments from the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Awards. Check out not one but two Tom Services 😆 #BBCMMAwards
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I've always loved Eleanor Alberga's music and it was a joy to interview her at long last. Catch her new piano concerto in Liverpool tomorrow if you can.
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Bravissimo❗️

Huge congrats Rebeca Omordia and Errollyn Wallen! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Our recording with Resonus Classics of Works for Piano and Orchestra by Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy and Errollyn Wallen has won the BBC Music Magazine 2024 Premiere Award!
Congratulations to all the composers, conductor 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘀, and pianists Martin Jones and…

The exhibition on the #legacies of #eugenics is now on display at Museum of Oxford. Thank you to the wonderful team Think Human! Looking forward to tomorrow's discussion of #anti -Roma #racism .

'Best Premiere, 2024.' So absolutely delighted to have received this recognition for a wonderful team of musicians! Thank you BBC Music Magazine for a wonderful evening and celebration of our industry.

Congratulations Rebeca Omordia! And thanks to all Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for their support in commissioning Errollyn Wallen's wonderful new Piano Concerto!

Congratulations.

And the winner of the 2024 BBC Music Magazine Premier Award is Resonus Classics’s recording of works for piano and orchestra by Lutyens, Maconchy and Errollyn Wallen, featuring pianists Martin Jones and Rebeca Omordia with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by John Andrews!

Conductor John Andrews, composer Errollyn Wallen and pianists Rebeca Omordia and Martin Jones are all here to accept the Premier Award. John gives the speech!

We won!! 🎉🥳 “Premiere Award” at the BBC BBC Music Magazine 2024 for Errollyn Wallen’s Piano Concerto with BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘀!
Thank you BBC Music Magazine Resonus Classics BBC Concert Orchestra Julian Lloyd Webber, the jury and everyone who voted for us! 🙏

EYYYYYYY congratulations to Errollyn Wallen, 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘀, Rebeca Omordia, Martin Jones & BBC Concert Orchestra on Resonus Classics for winning the BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award! So richly deserved, what incredible music and a wonderful recording ❤️

We are thrilled to have won the BBC BBC Music Magazine Premiere Award with our recording of works for piano and orchestra by Errollyn Wallen, Elizabeth Maconchy & Elisabeth Lutyens with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Rebeca Omordia, #MartinJones & 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘀.
Thank you for voting for us! 🥳🤩

Have you heard of an African Nocturne?
Nabil Benabdeljalil reinvents the Nocturne while using traditional Moroccan melodies in his Nocturne no. 6 « La Montagne d’Imsfrane »
Video courtesy of the Phillips Collection #AfricanPianism
Full performance here youtu.be/j193Ltk-D_Y?si…

Athens, Greece 1989 vs 2024
So special to return to Athens to perform my #AfricanPianism programme - the place my parents and I sought refuge during Ceaușescu’s communist regime.
I had a chance to share my story w/ Michael Church for the BBC Music Magazine pressreader.com/uk/bbc-music-m…

Rebeca Omordia, pianist and founder of London's African Concert Series, chooses a selection of great African piano works

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