Website links
We welcome links and enquiries from organisations interested in the music of Mátyás Seiber

The British Library
www.bl.uk  

For their full catalogue of items held: www.bl.uk/catalogues/manuscripts/DESC0010.ASP?CiRestriction=seiber

Hungarian Cultural Centre, London
www.hungary.org.uk

The Mátyás Seiber Trust

The Mátyás Seiber Trust has now been set up, chaired by Julia Seiber Boyd.

Co-Trustees include former pupils, Hugh Wood (composer); Alan Gibbs (composer); with Robert Hanson (composer) of Morley College and Nigel Bonham-Carter, consultant with Messrs Kerseys, solicitors, of Ipswich.

The Trust has HM Customs & Revenue Registration No. XT4871, granted in January 2007 (If Gift Aid paperwork is required, please contact Julia).

Other Patrons of the Trust include Tony Gilbert (composer), Martin Anderson of Toccata, John Turner, Malcolm Lipkin.

Associate Trustees – who requested membership/ offered help as appropriate: -Geoff Brown (expertise in film music) and Dr. David Wright – who has a large number of recordings of Seiber works on the Isle of Wight.

The 1st Project undertaken is to promote the production of a CD of the 3 string quartets. This is well advanced with the Edinburgh Quartet and will be produced by Delphian – it is hoped in early 2009.

Project No. 2 will be to produce a CD of “Ulysses”, “3 Fragments from the portrait of the artist” and other suitable pieces.

3rd Project – a CD of Seiber film music:- “Chase a Crooked Shadow”, “A Town Like Alice” and possibly “Robbery Under Arms”, “Animal Farm” – and possibly some other Halas & Bachelor shorter films.

Julia has attended and spoke at the family panel event of the JMI conference in London on the Impact of Nazism on 20th Century Music. A review of the conference appeared in the May edition of Neue Musikzeitung.

There is also an article on Seiber in the BMS in September 2008– more on the social than highly technical musical side, written by Julia at the invitation of Rob Barnett.

The BMS journal (vol.30) also has an article on Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Commissioned Music Scores, including “The Invitation”.

There have been Performances of ‘cello & piano works in Cambridge/ Szeged/ Budapest; there were Performances of Yugoslav Folksongs CC21 directed by Howard Williams and also by the Seiber Consort, who also included, Hungarian Folksongs, the Missa Brevis, Madrigals, French Songs in their programme, also of the Missa Brevis in Kings College Chapel (choir@kings.cam.ac.uk) and the Clarinet & Piano Andantino Pastorale (Ona Cardona & Timothy Lissimore) as well as a rare (possibly the only) public performance (by Francis Knights) of “Music for Clavichord”, and “The Petofi Songs” (Ildiko Allen & Bridget Cunningham) – all within the Szeged Week celebrations of Cambridge’s 21 years twinning with Szeged in Hungary., 15-23 November 2008. Programme details & event posters available on the Society website:-www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

News & Enquiries continue to filter in at an encouraging rate about the possibility of:-

a) A CD of Seiber woodwind music – probably 2010 – in Germany – with some possible assistance from Martin Anderson & Toccata.

b) Recordings of further piano (and flute) pieces with Zsuzsa Kollár (by Hungaroton) – production date, late 2008.