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Composer Gavin Higgins continues to make a major impression on the musical
world.

On Friday 17th June, the National Orchestra of Wales under the baton of Martyn
Brabbins will perform his new cantata, 'The Faerie Bride' featuring singers Marta
Fontanals-Simmons and Roderick Williams at the high profile Aldeburgh

Festival.

Lady of the Lake

The 40 minute work is a Britten Pears Arts commission which dramatises the
Welsh myth 'Lady of the Lake' in which the faerie who emerges from the water

to become a local man's bride is rejected by the local community but takes
matters into her own hands.

It forms part of a concert that will also feature Grace Williams' 1944 work, 'Sea
Sketches' and Benjamin Britten's 'A Suite of English Folk Tunes: A Time There
Was'.

Proms

The Forest of Dean composer's CV includes a trio of Proms commission,
including his latest which will see Tredegar Band team up with the National
Orchestra of Wales for a Proms performance on August 8th.

His 2015 ballet score to 'Dark Arteries' with Rambert Ballet, and 2019 Covent
Garden opera 'The Monstrous Child' gained widespread critical acclaim, whilst
his Trombone Concerto, 'The Book of Miracles' claimed a prestigious Ivor
Novello Award.

Recently 'As Spoke Albion' made a huge impression at the European Brass Band
Championships in Birmingham.