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Finty won third prize with composition ‘The Golden Days’, in the Off the Page category for Guildhall Young Artists competition 'RELEASE'.
Finty, from Guildhall Young Artists Norwich says: “I created The Golden Days with the aim to create a piece reminiscent of the tone created by the rise of jazz saxophone in 1920, and the sound created in that era. I wanted to utilise this sound and create a piece that contained new modernistic ideas. I create the majority of my work completely unplanned and improvised and with this piece I used only first takes to capture all imperfections. I feel this is what makes an utterly original and free piece that is inimitable."
The category judge for Off the Page was Scott Stroman, Jazz Professor at Guildhall School.
Find out more about Guildhall Young Artists: gsmd.ac.uk/guildhall-young-artists
Finty won third prize with composition ‘The Golden Days’, in the Off the Page category for Guildhall Young Artists competition 'RELEASE'.
Finty, from Guildhall Young Artists Norwich says: “I created The Golden Days with the aim to create a piece reminiscent of the tone created by the rise of jazz saxophone in 1920, and the sound created in that era. I wanted to utilise this sound and create a piece that contained new modernistic ideas. I create the majority of my work completely unplanned and improvised and with this piece I used only first takes to capture all imperfections. I feel this is what makes an utterly original and free piece that is inimitable."
The category judge for Off the Page was Scott Stroman, Jazz Professor at Guildhall School.
Find out more about Guildhall Young Artists: gsmd.ac.uk/guildhall-young-artists
