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Live performance recording of London debut 

White Egret I & II

Natalia Dopwell & Dominika Glapiak

In our ongoing mission to enrich our cultural landscape and showcase Trinidadian talent internationally, the Classical Music Development Foundation of Trinidad & Tobago has undertaken the commissioning of ‘Twelve Songs of the Islands’ by Dominique LeGendre for piano and voice.

 

We feel that the time is right to create a new catalogue of songs with lyrics from Caribbean sources set to music by the first Trinidadian operatic composer whose musical language reflects the rich multi-culture of her Caribbean upbringing.

The first two songs in this series (White Egrets I & II) feature poems by Derek Walcott and were debuted in May 2015 at the Bocas Lit Festival Port of Spain by Tahirah Osbourne and the faculty musicians of the University of the West Indies; and then by Natalia Dopwell at the ReFermata Festival in Gdansk, Poland with the Orchestra Kameralna Progress; and in Central London at a recital with Polish pianist Dominika Glapiak. A recording of the London debut of is available at our website www.CMDFTT.org.

 

Trinidad-born composer Dominique Le Gendre has written music extensively for theatre, dance, film, television and radio drama for BBC Radio 3 and 4 and composed and produced music for all 38 Shakespeare plays recorded for audio, “The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare”.  In 2004 she was invited to become an Associate Artist of the famed Covent Garden, who commissioned her full-length opera “Bird of Night," (based on the Soucouyant) which premiered at the Royal Opera House in 2006 and last year her music theatre work ‘Jab Molassie’ for the Calabash Foundation was premiered at the Little Carib theatre to critical acclaim.

 

Our goal for ‘Twelve Songs of the Islands’ is that the sheet music for the entire series be made available for sale online through our website, so that internationally based Caribbean Diaspora singers can access them easily. The entire ‘Twelve Songs of the Islands’ will be recorded onto a CD featuring Trinidadian singers and formally debuted at the CMDFTT Opera Festival at Queens Hall in June 2016, followed by regional and international performances. 

 

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