If any of our readers still need convincing of the sheer variety of strange and surprising places a degree in ASNC can take you in life, we direct your attention to the achievements of ASNC graduate Edmund Hunt. Edmund started here as an undergraduate in 2002; since leaving he’s been busy establishing himself as a distinguished composer of classical music, and is currently a PhD candidate at the Birmingham Conservatoire. Edmund has been in touch with the department about his most recent piece of work, an orchestral piece entitled, with a nod to the composer’s ASNC past, Argatnél. Argatnél ('silver cloud' in Irish) was one of four pieces recently performed by the London Philarmonic in an evening to celebrate work produced with the support of the Leverhulme Young Composers scheme. The piece was inspired by reflection on the 'Otherworld' as it is depicted in Immram Brain ('The Voyage of Bran'), an Old Irish prose-and-verse narrative which takes mythical Bran mac Febail on a rather intriguing journey. Edmund explains the title in this interview, and also describes how studying medieval literature has enriched and informed his subsequent artistic life.
Argatnél certainly seems to have dazzled one Telegraph critic when it recieved a premier in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Lodnon, on 9th June; you can read the review here.
We'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Edmund and to wish him well with all his future endeavours.
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