RAM Lunchtime Concerts: Magnard Ensemble

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 18 February 2015

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Reviewed at The Lantern, Bristol on 17 February 2015

Nielsen, Wind Quintet, Op.43

Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik (Little Chamber Music), for wind quintet, Op.24, no. 2

Patterson, Westerly Winds, Op.84

Magnard Ensemble

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.