Prokofiev, Nesbitt, Hicks, Respighi

His new piece has been specially commissioned by FSO, supported by the Nigel Blake Celebration Fund, and is dedicated to the memory of Stephen Hicks, fellow composer and the orchestra’s former principal trumpet. Stephen Hicks’s “Your boundaries are the sky” explores a vast musical space, from whispered heights to subterranean depths, balancing weight and lightness as musical fragments emerge, collide and drift away. Written for the legendary ...