Jane Antonia Cornish: Continuum DeCoda

• 1 Nocturne I 08:07
• 2 Nocturne II 05:36
• 3 Nocturne III 05:28
• 4 I 07:25
• 5 II 06:19
• 6 Portrait 08:06
• 7 Tides 11:44
• Total Runtime 52:45

Info for Jane Antonia Cornish: Continuum

Award-winning composer Jane Antonia Cornish has already made her mark in film scoring with the music for the drama Fireflies in the Garden, starring Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds and Willem Dafoe, and the orchestration for “Once Upon a Dream” for Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning, as well as the title song for Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christopher Waltz. Her new innova album, Continuum, shows her in concert mood, albeit still lush and atmospheric.

Performed by Decoda -- the first ever Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall -- these four world premiere recordings of chamber works explore terrain as disparate as the cyclic nature of the ocean’s tides, our relationship to space and memory, and deep connections to place. The release follows Cornish’s Duende, which the American Record Guide described as “a program of bold, thoughtful, mesmerizing chamber music” -- a description that could apply equally well to Continuum.

Cornish grew up in England and now lives in New York City. She was Composer in Residence at the inaugural Chelsea Music Festival and has received a Special Distinction from the ASCAP Foundation’s Rudolf Nissim Prize jury for her orchestral tone poem, Symphony, a Danish Academy Award nomination and a Movie Music UK award for her score to Island of Lost Souls. The International Film Music Critics Association nominated Cornish for Breakthrough Composer of the Year and in 2005 the UK Film Council honored her with a Breakthrough Brit in Hollywood award.

'It is a pleasure to hear Ms. Cornish’s chamber music. The music provides delight.” (Grego Applegate Edwards, Classical-Modern Music Review)

DeCoda Ensemble:
Hamilton Berry, cello
Caitlin Sullivan, cello
Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
Claire Bryant, cello
Owen Dalby, violin
Yves Dharamraj, cello
Kris Saebo, double bass
Anna Elashvili, violin

Jane Antonia Cornish
is a British Academy Award winning composer who grew up in England and lives in New York City. Her debut chamber music album, Duende was described by American Record Guide as “a program of bold, thoughtful, mesmerizing chamber music”, while Classical-Modern Mu- sic Review called the album “captivating”. Fanfare Magazine wrote: “[Cornish] creates an emotionally moving and powerful sound world where a few mu- sical gestures coalesce into striking and powerful statements.”

Jane has written music for both the concert hall and films. She recently scored the drama Fireflies in the Garden, which stars Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds and Willem Dafoe. She has orchestrated the films Kung Fu Panda, Horton Hears A Who and Hancock, Once Upon A Dream for the Disney movie, Ma- leficent and the title song for the Tim Burton film, Big Eyes. She has received a Special Distinction from the ASCAP Foundation’s Rudolf Nissim Prize jury for her orchestral tone poem, Symphony, a Danish Acad- emy Award nomination and a Movie Music UK award for her score to Island of Lost Souls. Jane has been nominated for Breakthrough Composer of the Year by the International Film Music Critics Association, and in 2005 she was honored by the UK Film Council with a Breakthrough Brit in Hollywood award.

Jane Antonia Cornish studied composition at The Royal Northern College of Music with Anthony Gilbert, where she was made a Major Scholar. She received the Royal Northern College of Music Composition Prize and was a recipient of the Associated Board’s Most Outstanding Scholar of the Year award. She went on to complete her postgraduate degree at the Royal Col- lege of Music, London.

DeCoda
is a New York City-based chamber ensemble comprised of virtuoso musicians, entrepreneurs, and passionate advocates of the arts. Decoda’s innovative performances and projects with partners around the world, are designed to engage with society, educate the next generation, and inspire a new entrepreneurial model for today’s artists.

The artists of Decoda first collaborated with one another in the renowned Ensemble ACJW fellowship program, created by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, and they now extend that relationship as an Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall. Since its inception in 2011, Decoda’s projects have reached audiences in schools, hospitals and prisons as well as in prominent concert halls across the globe.

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