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This weekend, Colin and The King’s Singers will debut a new collaboration in the opening music event of the Edinburgh International Festival, with a performance at the Queen’s Hall. The concert will feature a brand-new programme for marimba and vocal ensemble, including three commissioned works.
The programme will include Steve Martland’s Street Songs, a work premiered by The King’s Singers in 1997 and revived for this programme, alongside world premiere arrangement’s of Missy Mazzoli’s A Year of Our Burning and Roderick Williams’ Death be not proud, as well as the world premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s A Bunch o’Craws. Colin will also perform Bryce Dessner’s solo marimba work Tromp Miniature.
Listen to Colin discuss what excites him about working with The King’s Singers, the influence of Steve Martland, and the diversity of the programme in an interview with Intermusica: