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| Zygmund de Somogyi |
Composer, interdisciplinary artist and writer Zygmund de Somogyi (Zyggy) is one of eight composers on the 2025 Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Composers programme. Each composer on the programme gets a paid commission and premiere with a noted ensemble, venue or festival, along with dedicated mentoring, and professional support.
Zyggy’s time at on the programme culminates in a concert co-created with the trio, Temporal Harmonies Inc (Lydia Walquist, flute, Xiaowen Shang, piano, Mikolaj Piszczorowicz, cello) at Wigmore Hall on 19 April 2025. Music for the Quarter-Life Crisis feature’s the premiere of Zyggy’s music for the quarter-life crisis (synth étude), and IN THE EVENT THAT YOU STAY: Trio for flute, cello, and piano, no. 1 (RPS commission), along with music by Caroline Shaw, Kaija Saariaho, Lowell Liebermann, and London Sinfonietta ‘Writing the Future’ composer Ashkan Layegh.
They describe the programme thus, “We’re aiming to capture a musical distillation of 21st-Century repertoire reflective of today’s cultural zeitgeist as experienced by many of our peers: a playful-sincere exploration of satire and resistance, and attempt to find groundedness in the precarious feeling that maybe, just maybe, there’s hope at the end of it all.”
Full details from the Wigmore Hall website.
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