Lyell Cresswell

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Lyell Cresswell - Press

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more Entering a New Aria
10 Feb 2008 - Sarah Urwin Jones - Scotsman [ news ]

FIFTEEN minutes can be a long time in opera.   
more BBCSO/ Porcelijn: Barbican, London 3/5
3 May 2005 - Tom Service - Guardian [ review ]

New Zealand-born composer Lyell Cresswell's new orchestral piece, Ara Kopikopiko, is a musical labyrinth.   
more Credit to Cresswell
29 Apr 2005 - Billboard - Herald [ comment ]

THE latest work by Edinburgh-based Kiwi composer Lyell Cresswell is premiered tonight at the Barbican, opening a concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under David Porselijn.   
more G2: Going out: Picks of the Week: Classical
25 Apr 2005 - Christopher Lambton - Guardian [ comment ]

Lyell Cresswell was the first recipient of the Elgar Bursary, set up in 2003 to encourage imaturei composers who may have slipped out of the fashionable loop of bright young things.   
more Review: Critics' Choice:
24 Apr 2005 - Malcolm Hayes - Daily Telegraph [ feature ]

David Porcelijn conducts the BBC SO in Rachmaninov's Third Symphony, Grieg's Piano Concerto (with Andreas Haefliger) and the world premiere of New Zealand-born Lyell Cresswell's Ara Kopikopiko .   
more Lyell Cresswell at 60, Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
11 Nov 2004 - CONRAD WILSON - Herald [ review ]

Scotland is lucky to have a resident New Zealander in the maverick and exhilarating form of Lyell Cresswell, whose 60th birthday was celebrated by the BBC SSO last night with a bumper concert presented in conjunction with Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust.   
more Setting a killing pace
3 Nov 2004 - CONRAD WILSON - Herald [ feature ]

Sixty is an interesting age for a composer.