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Iain Farrington has a busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. Iain composed an orchestral work A Party with Auntie for the Last Night of the Proms. It was written to celebrate the centenary of the BBC and quotes numerous BBC TV and radio theme tunes. Iain recently composed/arranged Earth Symphony, a 40 minute orchestral work based on the soundtracks to recent BBC Natural Histories programmes. The score accompanies a new film, and uses musical material by Hans Zimmer and his team. These soundtracks have been developed, extended, elaborated and transformed into a five-movement orchestral symphony. It was performed at the Earth Prom by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ben Palmer. The concert is available to watch on BBC iPlayer here. Iain's new Jazz Cantata Then sing we all was premiered this summer by Twickenham Choral and performed again at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London in September. Iain composed Paganini Patterns for saxophone and piano, based on Paganini's 24th Caprice. It was recently recorded by Huw Wiggin and Noriko Ogawa for Orchid Classics. He composed a new carol Nova, nova for the Advent Carol service at St John's College, Cambridge University. A new recording of Iain's Lamenting Lullaby has been released on Stone Records. Iain has recently composed and arranged numerous songs and instrumental works for Aurora Orchestra Learning. Also in 2022, he has arranged works for English Touring Opera, La Nuova Musica, Opera North, Bath Philharmonia, 12 Ensemble, Roman River Festival, the Eusebius Quartet, Soumik Datta with the BBC Singers, and the singer-songwriter Laufey. Iain recently arranged six Classical and traditional Ukrainian songs for an orchestral benefit concert in support of Ukraine. He is currently composing a family show for the Royal Northern Sinfonia and a piano duet based on Christmas carols, and arranging music for the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. He is arranging and composing the score for a new show based on songs by Ivor Novello, to be performed at Buxton Festival next year. Iain's group, the Art Deco Trio, have received excellent reviews for their Gershwinicity CD, as well as broadcasts on BBC Radio Three and Scala Radio. It features Iain's arrangements of Gershwin songs for clarinet, saxophone and piano, on the SOMM Recordings label. The Trio have recently recorded a new album of jazz-inspired arrangements of Classical favourites, to be released on the same label. |
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