Philip Venables

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  • Naomo Pinnetuo released by Royal Academy of Music

    Naomo Pinnetuo released by Royal Academy of Music

    In celebration of their 200th Anniversary, the Royal Academy of Music asked 200 composers for birthday-gift compositions for solo instruments. To celebrate our friendship, which began at the Academy in 2002, Naomi Pinnock and I both chose to write for solo violin, taking snippets of musical material from each other’s student works for strings. This resulted in my piece, Noamo Pinnetuo, performed by Academy student Ezo Sarici, and Naomi’s piece, The Shadow of the Thing, performed by Academy student Daniel Stroud.

    Today the Academy has recorded and released all 200 recordings on a special website. The recordings are available for streaming here:

    Venables — Naomo Pinnetuo, performed Ezo Sarici

    Pinnock — The Shadow of the Thing, performed by Daniel Stroud.

    Photo of Ezo Sarici © Will Thomas

  • Naomo Pinnetuo

    Naomo Pinnetuo

    This is the catalogue page for Naomo Pinnetuo

    Naomo Pinnetuo was written for the Royal Academy of Music. as a gift on their 200th Birthday. It is dedicated to Naomi Pinnock and the Royal Academy of Music.

    The first performance will be given by Ezo Sarici, a violin student at the Royal Academy, on 25th November 2022 in the Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music.

    Duration

    1’50”

    Instrumentation

    Solo Violin

    Programme Note

    Naomi Pinnock and I met on our first day of study at the Royal Academy of Music in 2002, both us composition students on the Masters course.  We became close friends, and this dear friendship continues 20 years later.  When my former teacher at the Academy, Philip Cashian, asked Naomi and I to write short solo pieces  to celebrate the 200th Birthday of the Academy, we both thought it would be lovely to pay a tribute to each other.  I have taken the opening figure of Naomi’s string trio, Janus, which she wrote while she was at the Academy, and I have turned it into a little moto perpetuo encore piece for solo violin.  Naomi in turn has taken the opening of my String Quartet, also written while I was a student at the Academy, and also made a solo violin piece out of it.  With this little piece, i want to say thank you to Naomi for many years of love, support and friendship, and a dear thanks to Philip Cashian and the Royal Academy of Music for nurturing us.  They were wonderful years.

    Buy the sheet music — available soon

    Naomi Pinnock, photo: Rui Camilo