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Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian is a British composer, singer, and harper. She is considered one of today's leading emerging composers.[1]

Biography

Horrocks-Hopayian was born in Suffolk, England and is of British/Armenian descent. As a child school she attended Junior Guildhall, the Saturday school run by Guildhall School of Music and Drama.[2] She later attended Girton College, Cambridge where she graduated with a first class degree in Music in 2005.[3] At Girton College, she was awarded the Rima Alamuddin Composition Prize in 2004, the Turle Scholarship for Music in 2006, and the Gamble Prize for Research in 2006.[4] She held a scholarship at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London in 2006–07.[4]

Career

Horrocks-Hopayian began working with the London Symphony Orchestra in 2010–11, as a participant in their Panufnik Scheme.[5]She wrote for the London Symphony Orchestra Community Choir[6] in 2017. The London Symphony Orchestra also commissioned her to arrange a traditional Gamelan piece, 'Ngedas Lemah', for première at the Barbican Centre with the London Symphony Orchestra Community Gamelan and London Symphony Orchestra Strings.[7]She is a London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub Associate and has broadcast for their show on Resonance FM.[8]

Residencies

She became Visiting Fellow Commoner at Girton College in 2020.

She was inaugural composer-in-residence for the London Symphony Orchestra[9] at Khadambi Asalache's House, 575 Wandsworth Road from 2015 to 2017.[10]Horrocks-Hopayian's work has a strong visual and tactile element,[11] which she calls "Eye Music", structuring rather than simply decorating her music.[12]

Horrocks-Hopayian was composer-in-residence at Handel House Museum from 2012 to 2014.[13] In February 2016, she launched Handel House Museum's opening of Jimi Hendrix's flat to the public by performing original material in collaboration with Jessica Hynes, bassist Calum Gourlay, guitarist Christopher Montague and artist Maya Ramsay.[14]

Awards

Sound and Music (formerly spnm) awarded her their artistic director (then Kuljit Bhamra) Project: 'Bhangra Latina', in 2007.[15]

An Arts Council England Award enabled her to record her first (experimental pop) album, 'Big Ears', which was inspired by her experience of partial deafness.[16] She won another Arts Council England Award for her oratorio, The Evolution of Eve. (2012)[17]

In 2013 she gained a PRS award for Consortium5's commission L'envoi, commemorating the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison.[18][19]

The Evolution of Eve was developed in 2013 with Sveriges Radio into a broadcast, 'DJ Helga', aimed at young people,.[20] It reached the last five at the international Prix Marulić, hosted by Croatian Radiotelevision in 2015.[21]

In 2015, Horrocks-Hopayian was commissioned to write 'Ser Սեր (Love)' for the London Jazz Festival, performed by herself alongside guitarist Christopher Montague.[22] She developed the piece for SATB choir in 2017, which won a BASCA call for works by BAME composers. It was premièred by the BBC Singers, and recorded for BBC Radio 3.[23]

Trish Clowes commissioned Horrocks-Hopayian to write 'Muted Lines' for her project "My Iris" in 2016. "Muted Lines" won the BASCA British Composer Award in 2017.[24]

In 2018, Melodia Women's Choir of New York City commissioned Red Bird, sharing the story of Zitkala-Sa, for its Women Composers' Commissioning Award, with world premiere performances in New York City.[25]

Nominations

She was finalist for two BASCA British Composer Awards in 2017: "Muted Lines" was nominated for the Jazz Composition category, and "Khadambi's House" was nominated for the Chamber Ensemble category.[26]

She was finalist, with Hugh Jones, as Crewdson, in the BASCA British Composer Awards in 2018 in the Sonic Art category for "Two Machines".[27] This featured a new musical instrument developed by Horrocks-Hopayian and Crewdson, called the 'sonic bonnet', through which she can trigger sounds. Cevanne was featured in the New Music event at the BBC Proms 2019 with the Sonic Bonnet and her harp.[28]

She was nominated, with Hugh Jones, for an Ivor Novello Award at The Ivors Classical Awards 2023. Rites for crossing water, their outdoor installation, augmented reality book and EP built around instructional texts, imagined as folklore for the future was nominated for Best Sound Art.[29]

Selected works

Chamber ensemble

Orchestra

Vocal

Choral

Electronics

Theatre

Dance

Opera

Discography

As writer/producer and performer

Featured

References

  1. ^ Khadambi's House: Composer in Residence, London Symphony Orchestra Discovery, lso.co.uk accessed 20 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Guildhall School alumni, professors and honorands nominated in British Composer Awards 2018". Guildhall School of Music and Drama. 1 November 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  3. ^ "Good news from Girton - Michaelmas Edition". Girton College, Cambridge. 10 November 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian | British Music Collection". britishmusiccollection.org.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  5. ^ 'Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian' category, panufnik.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  6. ^ Cevanne Horrocks Hopayian - Fencesitter accessed 20 December 2020
  7. ^ London Symphony Orchestra living music lso.co.uk accessed 20 December 2020
  8. ^ LSO Soundhub Resonance FM soundcloud.com accessed 20 December 2020
  9. ^ London Symphony Orchestra website, lso.co.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  10. ^ LSO Composer in Residence at 575 Wandsworth Road, National Trust. Retrieved 28 November 2015
  11. ^ Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian: The Open Fund for Music Creators www.prsformusicfoundation.com Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  12. ^ Official website cevanne.org Archived 18 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  13. ^ Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian handelhendrix.org, accessed 20 December 2020
  14. ^ Welcome home, Hendrix handelhendrix.org, accessed 20 December 2020
  15. ^ Pritchard, Alwynne: 'New notes, music uncharted', spnm: New notes, May 2008 p. 4ff
  16. ^ Graeme Mac (2010). "Clever Girl - There's something about Cevanne". BBC Radio Suffolk. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  17. ^ PlaywrightsH/horrocks-hopayian-cevannewww.doollee.com Archived 7 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ L'envoi, BBC. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  19. ^ "C5 at the Wilding Festival | CONSORTIUM5". Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  20. ^ Sveriges Radio accessed 2 May 2015.
  21. ^ "Prix Marulić". Fecebook. Retrieved 17 May 2015.[non-primary source needed][dead link]
  22. ^ "Seriously Talented Celebrates 10 Years". Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
  23. ^ "BBC Singers perform works by BASCA members". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  24. ^ "British Composer Awards 2017 Winners Announced". www.prsformusic.com. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  25. ^ "Composing for Melodia in 2018". Melodia Women's Choir blog. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  26. ^ British Composer Awards 2017 Nominees Announced www.prsformusic.com, accessed 20 December 2020
  27. ^ "The Ivors Academy | Champions of Music Creators". britishcomposerawards.com. Archived from britishcomposerawards.com the original on 10 December 2018.
  28. ^ Proms at … Battersea Arts Centre www.bbc.co.uk, accessed 20 December 2020
  29. ^ Taylor, Mark (18 October 2023). "Nominees announced for The Ivors Classical Awards 2023". The Ivors Academy. Retrieved 18 October 2023.

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