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Rhodri Williams-Wandoch,
composer, curator and writer-translator, brings people together across the art-forms to make magic and meaning.
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Piano, violin and viola lessons; ensemble coaching;
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Parafantasy Nr.2, 'Valentinies'
-- an improvised rhapsody on love, longing, crisis and healing
'Valentinies' is a tender and elegiac musical journey, improvising its way round texts by
Kris Haines-Sharp, Becky May, Julia Ruth-Smith, Liv Norman, Katie Coleman, Henry Bladon, A.L. MacDonald, Phil Madden, Geja Hadderingh, Anna Sui, Patricia Hunter, and Zoe Bunce.
Six writers were asked to record their 75-word paragraphs which I chose from Richard Hearn's writers' website Paragraph Planet.
The readings inspired this piece, my first parafantasy, an intricate and profound improvised invention on a chromatic theme, woven around the readings. The music forms a complex sonata or fantasy, an intense inner exploration. I feel that it responds to and augments the paragraphs, which all speak about how we interpret our experience and attribute meaning to it. I hope you will think so too.
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Recorded by the writers and used with their kind permission: Andrea Damic, Ailish Sinclair, Cheryl Snell, Karen Southall Watts, Lucy Welch and Sherri Eckworth. Thanks to Richard Hearn of paragraphplanet.com. Click on the title above to hear.
Five songs on poems by Mariah Whelan
PREMIERED by mezzo-soprano Isobel Stearn and the composer,
at Homerton College, Cambridge, 16th June 2024.
A magical and very moving occasion - thank you so much to those who facilitated this premiere.
Three Snazzy, Jazzy dinosaur pieces!
Recording available to hear online for free
Flexible ensemble versions (tried and tested! - great fun) for school use available
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I am so excited to introduce you to this amazing video suite, composed in 2020 lockdowns for remote production by students of my former Cambridge college. You can watch their fun and completely captivating production HERE.
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It was filmed in 2021 and put together in 2022. The acting, playing and cinematography are by students and fellows of the college, including poet-in-residence Dr Mariah Whelan and director of music Dr Daniel Trocmé-Latter, with cameo role by honorary fellow Dame Evelyn Glennie.
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A Homerton Parade is a musical setting of college archive documents from 1894 up to the 1918 pandemic, which is eerily similar to our recent experience. Along with the extraordinary strictness and camaraderie of the then all-female teaching college, we find hilarious musical jokes and student diaries. Find out plenty more here (and see the video).
-September 2021
It's the little things
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What are the little things that make the sun shine inside you? In times of of darkness, Rhodri is delighted to share this heartwarming track, just completed for your enjoyment, where the voices of different people answering this question are combined with music and sounds.
Free to hear on Soundcloud and also featured by multi-arts sharing resource In the Time of Pandemic.
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-May 2021
Three 'Conservation Pieces'
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This intimate and captivating online piano recital is now available to watch for free! Swanland I, Swanland II and Extinct from Conservation Pieces were expertly interpreted by Natalia Williams-Wandoch (@NataliaWWPiano) in a very unique recital titled The Swan's Way given for the unique nexTus Festival, 9th-22nd May 2021. The music is choreographed with stunning photography by Paula Cooper (@iceniphoto) and a poem by scientist-poet Lynne Wycherley. The programme also included very sincere and spirited performances of Boulanger, Brahms and Bach. It was featured again within September's Groeneveld Festival in the Netherlands. Rhodri is still feeling delighted to have been able to collaborate with these artists in this beautiful way.
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Full video (short recital) and trailer video, plus Natalia's most recent filmed piano recital
-September 2020
'Art has to be Contagious' variations
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My contribution to Adrian Oswalt's* 'contagious' theme (!)
used in the eponymous exhibition in Tübingen, Germany.
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-Here is my viola & vibraphone final variation.
-The wide-randing gallery of contributions can be heard here.
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*"The melody [...] will travel round the globe with an invitation for musicians to pick it up in their own musical culture. (...) At the end of this project, a chain will have been forged which hopefully will symbolise the connections people have with each other."
2019 & early 2020
Rosalyn Hart &
Krassimira Jeliazkova-Jones violins
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Four Polish Carols
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Recital for two violins, St Peter's Church, March, Sat. 7.12.19, 11am.
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Sarah Garford and Allegro Strings
Concertino for clarinet and strings
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St Peter's Church, March, 9.11.19
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Natalia Williams-Wandoch
piano
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Swanland I & II
from Five Zoological Pieces;
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Fen Scene
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piano recital at St Peter's Church, March, 19.10.19
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and Yatton Music Society, 29.02.20
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& in 2018:
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Rose Newbury, Andrew Tait, Carol McEvoy &
Rhodri Williams-Wandoch
Clarinet, piano, cello, viola
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Interrupted Introduction
Malachi
On Strings (ensemble & improvised dance)
Inconclusive Music
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in collaboration with
20 photographic artists, dir. Mark Woods-Nunn,
and
Jodie Scully, dance
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St Peter's Church, March, 10.11.18
In support of FND Action, for epilepsy/seizure awareness
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Allegro Strings
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Fugue on 'The Holly and the Ivy'
Wisbech Grammar School, December 2018
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© 2020, 2025 Rhodri Williams-Wandoch