Fiona Frank - Concerts 2022

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Fiona Frank - Concerts 2022
    The 7-movement piano suite 'Mystical Swan in Blue' was premiered by the phenomenal Charles Matthews in a lunchtime concert at Rugby parish church on 8th February 2022, and given a second performance on February 18th in Shipston-on-Stour.

  • Poster for Mystical Swan in Blue for Rugby
  • Charles Matthews & Fiona Frank
  • Charles Matthews & Fiona Frank
  • Poster for Mystical Swan in Blue for Shipston
  • Shipston Music Society page with brown top banner
  • Shipston Music Society page with blue background
    • Click here to read of more developments regarding 'Mystical Swan in Blue'.


    As a duo, Le Musae Ensemble (Laura Bianco and Maggie Lorelli) performed the piece 'Rainy Autumn Day' (version for Violin and Piano) at the Villa Tesoriera, Turin, on 22nd February 2022.

  • Villa Tesoriera, Turin, Listing
  • Villa Tesoriera, Turin, Poster
  • Villa Tesoriera, Turin- La Stampa
  • Villa Tesoriera, Turin- Laura Bianco and Maggie S Lorelli
  • Villa Tesoriera, Turin- Laura Bianco
  • Villa Tesoriera, Turin- Audience
    • On 12th March 2022, "Meeting My Muse" (which was premiered by the 'Ensemble Musae' at their inaugural concert in Bologna two years previously) was performed again by 'Ensemble Musae', at the Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua.

  • Ensemble Musae concert, Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua- Poster
  • Ensemble Musae concert, Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua- Flyer
  • Ensemble Musae Taking a bow, Basilica di Sant'Antonio in Padua

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    In July 2022, I was a prize-winner in the ‘Spirit’ Competition of the Commonwealth Community Music Initiative- it was very exciting to hear my piece performed in the People’s Orchestra's 'Curiosity Concert' during the Birmingham 2022 Festival, in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games. My short piece was specifically structured to allow it to be slotted into a sequence of contributions from different composers in a continuous passacaglia-like series of variations on a 16-bar bass-line, culminating in an arrangement of a famous theme by Holst.

  • CCMI Call for scores
  • CCMI Prizewinner notification e-mail
  • Spirit concert ticket advertisement
  • Spirit concert view from RHS of front row
  • Spirit concert view from LHS of front row

    • On 31st July 2022, Ensemble Trame Sonore played 'In Memoriam' again, this time at the Cattedrale di Salerno, in a concert titled ‘Voci di Donna’.

  • July Concerts- Salerno Classica
  • Just before the Salerno Concert
  • Programme cover for Voci di Donne concert in Duomo di Salerno
  • Ensemble Trame Sonore - picture for Voci di Donne concert in Duomo di Salerno
  • Ensemble Trame Sonore with Juliana Carone - Voci di Donne concert in Duomo di Salerno
  • Review of concert in Salerno by Salerno Classica
    • 'Mystical Swan in Blue' was performed in a lunchtime concert in Henleaze, Bristol on 17th September by Charles Matthews, who had premiered it at Rugby parish church in February. It is available to watch here.

  • Mystical Swan in Blue- Concert 'Music for the Birds' Henleaze Poster


    • On 13th November 2022, Fiona was awarded first prize in the First Patricia Adkins Chiti International Composition Competition -her winning piece, 'La Pizzica' was premiered by EurOrchestra da Camera in Bari. Click here to read about it.


    The finale, 'Presto', movement of Fiona Frank's 'Lucchesi Concerto' was performed in Stroud on 9th December 2022.
    Fiona wrote her concerto for Double Bass and orchestra in 2017, in response to a competitive call for scores for a work to be played as a mandatory set piece for participants in final public rounds of the Solo Double Bass Competition during BASS2018Lucca (Italy). Hence it acquired its title, 'Lucchesi Concerto'.

  • Double Bass Concerto call for scores
  • Double Bass Concerto composition competition rules
    • Fiona has always been drawn to the variety of colour available from a large orchestra, so this challenge suited her nicely, as it specified an extensive line-up of instruments. As an extra twist to the specification, the rules required some reference to be made to Francesco Geminiani who hailed from Lucca, and for this reason Fiona took as her inspiration Geminiani's Sonata Op5 no. 2. With two movements, an Andante and a Presto, in its brief span the work enjoyed both lyrical and more technically demanding passages for the soloist, while the extensive orchestration gave space for a broad palette of colours from the band and soloist. Double bass and big forces required some inventive juxtapositions and balancing in a contemporary interpretation for this call.

  • Fiona With Dave Ayre running through the Finale1
  • Fiona playing Dave Ayre's Double Bass
  • Fiona With Dave Ayre running through the Finale2

    • On meeting Dave Ayre, Fiona added a further movement to the concerto. However, the first performance was to be with his Baroque Band playing the final movement, so the big orchestral colour had to be re-framed for more limited forces with guitar, harpsichord and string quartet. This intimate baroque chamber grouping returned the Geminiani-inspired work closer to its origins and has resulted in a different, but no less musically successful, outcome. For its premiere, the finale, 'Presto', movement was performed in Stroud on 9th December 2022 to a hearty and enthusiastic audience.

  • Programme Front Cover
  • Concert Programme 'All about that Bass' Inside
  • Programme Back Cover

  • Fiona Describing the piece
  • Dave Ayre announcing the piece
  • Fiona with the Dave Ayre Baroque Band

  • Fiona with the Dave Ayre Baroque Band
  • Fiona announcing her piece, with the Dave Ayre Baroque Band
  • Fiona with the Dave Ayre Baroque Band

    • Reactions from the audience included:
    "Your music took me away in a dream and I was up in the clouds..."
    "It was so exuberant, it was bursting at the seams"
    - Premiere of the finale of Fiona Frank's 'Lucchesi Concerto', in Stroud. -



    Finally... on 31 December 2022...


  • Fiona's Solo Cantata for Madison Marie McIntosh, 'The Last Judgement', was premiered by Madison accompanied by Gregory Ritchey

    • Fiona's Solo Cantata for Madison Marie McIntosh, 'The Last Judgement', was premiered by Madison accompanied by Gregory Ritchey on 31 December 2022 at St Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Port St Lucie, Florida.



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