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bassist and composer
Ashley John Long
bassist and composer
Ashley John Long
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08/06/2022
The Chromatophonic Trio has just recorded Ash's Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge in the Polish Radio Studio for CD release in the Autumn. In the meantime, the premiere performance of the piece is now available on YouTube: In performance related news, Yetii, featuring the talents of Alex Veitch and Alex Goodyear have been releasing weekly videos through its YouTube channel. The first of these, 'Afar' (also available on Spotify), is below. Subscribe to the channel for weekly updates!
09/11/2021
Ash's acousmatic piece Edau Bywyd was released a few days ago by Ty Cerdd on the album 'Cynefin: Music from the Grange'. You can listen to the album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7mDYXEHPh6NqeDfB61Loh1 Interviews and further information about the project and all of the composers involved can be found here: https://www.tycerdd.org/cynefin-music-from-the-grange 01/04/2021 Ash's new work Shadow Play is being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Saturday 3rd April performed by Uproar. See here for further details: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tt7f?fbclid=IwAR0p7vU7dpqVTnAorR7jbHLbpXk1_UaiM6Zx9wTuMjy4pIpZQY9BOm76mhE 24/03/2021 Ash's orchestral piece The Dreaming has been awarded honourable equivalent distinction at the 4th International Penderecki competition. festiwal.zkp.krakow.pl/en/konkurs/ 28/10/2020 Ash will be playing a short improvised solo set for Deep Tones For Peace on 30th October at 15.00 EDT (19.00 GMT). Click here to watch. 09/07/2020 Ash's new work for piano trio Beyond the Haze of Winter's Edge will premiere tonight as part of Festiwal muzyczny Trzy-Czte-Ry Konteksty Kontrasty Konfrontacje. The performance can viewed here from 6pm GMT: https://youtu.be/Z8GGK54w6oQ 04/06/2020 The video of Ash's new work for solo flute my way is in the sand flowing is available online; beautifully performed by Matthew Featherstone. 01/02/2020
Tickets are on sale for the CoDI Sound concert featuring UPROAR at Bangor Music Festival on February 14th . This concert will include the premier of Ash's new work for chamber ensemble and electronics: Etiäinen www.bangormusicfestival.org.uk/2020-programme/ 01/10/2019 Ash is composing a work for Uproar as part of Ty Cerdd's CoDI Sound. Please see here for further information: https://www.tycerdd.org/post/codi-2019-20-composer-list-announced 23/08/2019 Ash's work as an improviser/composer has been shortlisted to represent Wales at the next ISCM World Music Days 2020 in New Zealand. Please see here for more information: www.tycerdd.org/iscm-2020-newzealand 18/07/2019 The video of the premiere performance of Lunea given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir James MacMillan is now available to watch online: 20/04/2019
Ash's work has been featured in a British Music Collection spotlight article. The full text can be read here: britishmusiccollection.org.uk/article/ashley-john-long-contemporary-double-bassist |
