Tinoco, Luís (b.1969)

Tinoco, Luís (b.1969). Autograph manuscript of "Autumn Wind", for wind quintet, signed ("Luís Tinoco", in ink), notated in pencil on three five-stave systems per page, for alto flute (changing to flute and piccolo), oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, comprising two movements, opening "Moderato" and "Vivo", headed with quotations from two poems by Philip Larkin ("And I her son, though summer-born ¦ And summer-loving, none the less ¦ Am easier when The leaves are gone' [from 'Mother, Summer, I'] and "But come each eavening [sic] back to a high room ¦ Above deep gardenfuls of air, on wich [sic] ¦ Already has been laid an Autumn bloom" [from 'At thirty-one']),  11 pages, plus autograph title (in red and green crayon), oblong folio (c.29.5 x 42cms), 18-stave paper, London, 9 March 1998, slight smudging to first page,



Illustrated (left) with the kind permission of the composer



Paredes, Hilda (b.1957) Autograph manuscript of Permutaciones "(en memoria de Julio Cortázar)", for solo violin, notated on up to nine staves per page, in pencil, with alternative passages indicated by arrows and designated "A" or "Aa", the autograph title stencilled, [London, 1985], 9 pages, folio (c.42 x 30cms), 18-stave paper, with the blank staves concealed with white tape



Illustrated (centre) with the kind permission of the composer



Simaku, Thomas (b.1958) Autograph manuscript and drafts for Solilioquy II, for solo cello, signed ("Thomas Simaku"), written in pencil on six staves per page; the score for solo cello clearly notated with extensive instructions for the cellist, using many specialist techniques of contemporary string notation, some explained in the composer's footnotes, 15 pages, folio, some fixing of additional material with adhesive tape, signed and dated at the end, York, 11 November 2000; the pencil drafts and shorter sketches partly paginated by the composer, 17 pages, folio, [2000]



Illustrated (right) with the kind permission of the composer

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These are all award-winning composers, born abroad with but their careers centred in Britain:  Simaku was a British Composers Award winner last year; Hilda Paredes, born in Mexico, has lived in London since 1979.  Paredes's score is divided into "obbligato'" and "alterrnative" sections, where the violinist has the chance to choose either passages marked "A" or "Aa"; "C" or"Cc" (this section quite extended); and "F" or "Ff".