Birmingham City University : Performance Platform

Heather Roach Flute
Philip Handy Cello
Joanne Sealey Piano

Amirov   Six Pieces for flute and piano  
Schubert  Introduction and Variations on ‘Trockne Blumen’, D 802 (Op.posth.160)
Cecilia McDowall Not Just a Place, for flute, cello and piano 

Heather Roach is one of the select band of young musicians admitted to the Conservatoire’s flagship Advanced Postgraduate Diploma course this year. Schubert’s set of seven virtuoso variations on his own song ‘Trockne Blumen’ (from ‘Die Schöne Müllerin’) is flanked by Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov’s folk-influenced Six Pieces (1976), and one of several versions of Ceclia McDowall’s 1999 ‘Not Just a Place’, intriguingly subtitled ‘Dark memories from an old tango hall’.