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A New Work for Old Pipes

Gina Fergione At the end of January this year I was contacted, via Julian Goodacre, by Gina Fergione, a singer and composer. She told me that she was in the process of composing a piece called The Cornish Suite and was scoring it for voice, Cornish Bagpipes and orchestra. The timescale was tight as its premiere was due in May and she was looking for a player to perform it in concert as part of the Stoke Newington Contemporary Music Festival....

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