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SEGUN AKINOLA
Kensington Palace: Untold Lives
Release Date: Oct 25th
ORC100348
SEGUN AKINOLA
Kensington Palace: Untold Lives
Segun Akinola (1993-)
1. Our Story
2. Our Origins
3. Our Expertise
4. Our Status
5. Our Care
6. Our Legacy
Segun Akinola, composer
Huw Watkins, piano
Thomas Gould, violin
Ann Beilby, viola
Richard Harwood, cello
Catherine Fleming, bass recorder
Segun Akinola’s latest project, his first chamber music release, stands at the stylistic intersection between his media work and a new contemporary classical idiom. The new work is crafted to capture a snapshot into the life of working in the royal palaces over 300 years ago, in conjunction with the Kensington Palace exhibition, Untold Lives: A Palace At Work, running until October 27th.
Says Akinola, “I wanted to capture the essence of what those who worked in royal palaces 300 years ago may have felt, the pride, the pain, the joy and much more. This is a piece that is, as much as possible, about them: a celebration of all they gave. I recorded it at Abbey Road with some of my favourite musicians in London and my favourite engineers and they’ve absolutely brought it to life.”
2017 BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Segun Akinola is a British-Nigerian composer working across film, television and classical music. He is most known for his music in the three series of Doctor Who starring the first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker.
Segun’s work in classical music includes his solo trumpet piece Muted Fanfare which was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 as part of their ‘Postcards from Composers’ series exploring responses to the world-wide health crises during the covid-19 pandemic. He was again commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to compose Mordros, a new orchestral work recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra for Radio 3’s ‘Music and Meditation’ podcast. His latest work, Kensington Palace: Untold Lives, was commissioned by the independent charity Historic Royal Palaces for their Kensington Palace exhibition ‘Untold Lives: A Palace at Work’, and is a piece in six movements for piano quintet exploring the contribution of servants and courtiers at royal palaces over 300 years ago.
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