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Iain Farrington has a busy and diverse career as a pianist, organist, composer and arranger. Iain recently composed an orchestral work for the London Soundtrack Festival called Quiz Biz. It is based on TV quiz themes, and was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra. Iain has composed Songs of Summer, a new jazz-inspired cantata for the City of Bristol Choir. It will be performed in June with Iain at the piano, alongside double bass and drum kit. He is composing Street Party, an orchestral work for the final concert of Manchester Classical, to be performed at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester by a combined symphony orchestra. Iain has recently composed Talk of the Town, a new string orchestra work for his local ensemble, the Hitchin Chamber Orchestra. It is to celebrate their 10th anniversary and is based on places and events from the town. He has upcoming concerts with his Art Deco Trio, chamber ensembles, singers and choirs in venues across the UK, including the Wigmore Hall, London. Iain is orchestrating a number of new songs by the singer/songwriter Laufey. He has also recently arranged a number of pieces for the saxophonist Jess Gillam. In 2024 Iain arranged numerous Christmas songs for Lucy Crowe (soprano) and La Nuova Musica for their concert at Wigmore Hall, London. Iain composed a piece for the Last Night of the Proms called Extra Time. It was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Iain composed/arranged a new piece for the BBC Singers centenary concert at the Barbican, London. It is called On with the Show, and is based on classic American songs from musicals. Iain composed a new score to accompany a poem by Keith Jarrett, called E Note. It was performed at the Hackney Empire by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Iain composed, arranged and adapted the full orchestral score of Planet Earth III Live, for the 2024 European tour. He recently composed a new organ piece Raggle Taggle Tunes for Peter Holder to perform at the Thaxted Festival. Iain also composed an organ work Heads Up for the AGO Convention 2024 in San Francisco. He also made new arrangements of several orchestral works for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, various songs by Laufey for her performances with orchestra, a number of Classical songs for the baritone Benjamin Appl, violin pieces for Ray Chen and Esther Yoo, and recorder works for Lucie Horsch. |
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