|
Iain Farrington has a busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. Iain's recent highlights include orchestrating all of the songs and composing incidental music for the Horrible Science Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on 25th July, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He orchestrated several works for the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Three Choirs Festival. Iain performed the solo piano part in Britten's Young Apollo with Britten Sinfonia in Snape Maltings at the Aldeburgh Festival. The BBC Singers and Jess Gillam (saxophone) performed his recent piece Like as the waves as part of the BBC Proms at The Glasshouse, Gateshead on 25th July. With the Contemporary Consort he performed a concert of works by Mark-Anthony Turnage as part of the Kings Lynn Festival, attended by the composer. Iain arranged most of the music for David Attenborough's 100th birthday celebration concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 8th May. It featured numerous reworkings of film scores from Hans Zimmer's studio, as well as Nature Boy, sung by Sienna Spiro, with Iain at the piano. Iain arranged many of the orchestral pieces for the Philharmonia Orchestra and heavy metal band, in a concert at the Royal Festival Hall in April. Iain recently recorded his Songs of Summer with Homerton Choir, Cambridge. His new orchestration of Charles Ives Variations on America was performed by the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell on their USA tour, including at Carnegie Hall, New York. He made a new orchestration of Debussy's Cello Sonata for Abel Selaocoe and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota, and a new arrangement of Lili Boulanger's Renouveau for members of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Singers. Iain recently performed his solo piano arrangement of Mahler's 5th Symphony at the 1901 Arts Club, London for the Mahler Society. Upcoming highlights include composing a new festive anthem for the RSCM centenary and a new anthem for All Saint's Dulwich. His new chamber 'Fantasy on Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade' will be performed at La Jolla SummerFest in San Diego. He will be performing numerous recitals with the tenor Ed Lyon, including at the Wigmore Hall on 28th December. It includes an entire half of songs by Ivor Novello and Noel Coward, all arranged by Iain. 2025 highlights include composing a Christmas carol Nowell sing we now for the choir of the Chapels Royal, Tower of London. He arranged various pieces for choir, orchestra and organ for Anna Lapwood's Christmas concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Iain performed a Christmas concert in Paris with Maitrise de Radio France, that included a number of his Christmas pieces and arrangements. He also recorded an album of his own choral works with the BBC Singers. Iain arranged a carol for the Christmas concert at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, for brass and organ. Iain composed Street Party, a new orchestral work for the final concert of Manchester Classical. It was performed at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester by a combined symphony orchestra of players from the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Collective, RNCM as well as the ENO Chorus and Hallé Choir. Iain's new string orchestra work Talk of the Town was composed for his local ensemble, the Hitchin Chamber Orchestra. |
|
|
|
|