Anthea Haddow / Theatre Cryptic: Apocalypse
Genre: Classical
Catalogue Number: CRYPTICCD001
Label: Cryptic
Released: 2005
Theatre Cryptic is an award-winning Scottish performing arts company established in 1994. It is committed to creating multi-disciplinary projects to ‘ravish the senses’, through international co-productions and commissions. The company has most notably collaborated with the Latvian Radio Choir and Supermusique in Montreal. Since 1995 the company has been invited to perform at festivals in Canada, Colombia, Croatia, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico and Venezuela. Highlights include the Iberoamericano Festival in Bogota, BITE at the Barbican Centre and FIRSTS at the Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House 2, London.
Apocalypse, with Mark O’Keeffe (trumpet) was commissioned by Cork European City of Culture 2005 and is released on the Cryptic label. Music is by Anthea Haddow.
Anthea studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama,
graduating in 1992 with a BA (MusPerf) and CPGS in Orchestral studies.
Whilst there she was awarded the Violoncello Prize and the Governors Recital Prize for Chamber Music.
Since 1992 Anthea has performed and written for a diverse range of music ensembles and theatre companies. She joined Theatre Cryptic in 1994 and has composed scores for Celle-La, Prologue, Black over Red, Each and Every Inch, Tunnel Visions and Apocalypse. Work with other companies includes Tron Theatre Company, TAG, Benchtours, Lung Ha’s, Theatre Babel, The Dunedin Consort and Dundee Rep Theatre.
Her work has been widely performed in Central and Eastern Europe, North and South America.
Awards include a Year of the Artist award for This Orphaned Stone a sound and visual project based on the island of St Kilda. Anthea and Kenny Macleod were nominated for best music in Scottish Theatre for the Dundee Rep production of Scenes from an Execution.
Tracklist
- The Seventh Seal
- Seven Angels
- Fire and Blood
- Falling Star
- The Warning
- Longing to Die
- War
- Heaven
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