Compositions
Fira are advocates for promoting new music. They regularly work with up and coming composers. Several of their composers have written music which has been heard on BBC Radio 3 and have worked with orchestras, ensembles and choirs.
Dominic Veall
Georgia Cooke
James Layton
Alto Flute and Violin
Fira is currently working with Dr Paul Wingfield. Paul Wingfield attended Chetham’s School of Music, where he studied the piano with Charles Hopkins. He is now a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, at which he combines teaching and research into Czech music in particular with the role of Secretary to the College Council. Alongside his academic career, Paul is an active performer, giving regular recitals as part of a duo with Leora Cohen, and has begun composing for their performances and collaborations.
In 2023, Paul composed a piece entitled ‘Elegy’, it is dedicated to the victims of the 7/10 massacre in Israel and available to watch on YouTube via the following link: https://youtu.be/hoC1y1k6P4M?si=X3bCIi0TJM8vdfCz
This spring, Paul’s innovative musical drama, ‘Einstein’s Violin’ will be premiered in Cambridge. His most recent composition, 'The Moon and the Stars’, is dedicated to the Fira Duo. It is a piece based on Alfons Mucha’s series of four paintings with the same title and is written for flute, violin and piano. In light of Paul’s specialism in early twentieth-century music, the piece presents a modern take on the Neoclassical style, highlighting Mucha’s integral influence on the contemporary art and culture in Paris between the wars; particularly Art Nouveau and his relationship with composers of the time, such as Stravinsky and Martinu.
