ere you will find the Latest News on Nessa Glen's career.

Nessa has continued to edit many works for Sarastro Music.

Nessa has completed the editing of several new Harmoniemusik commissions including a part either for serpent or basshorn. These are published by Sarastro Music but also for part of the Berlioz Historical Brass edition.

Nessa continues to work as an extra, including a commercial with David Hasselhoff.

Nessa has also been active as an extra and featured extra in films and television. Appearances include the films Kinky Boots and The Queen and Rick Mayall's television series All About George.

Nessa has continued to edit many works for Sarastro Music.

Nessa has edited several Harmoniemusik works with a part for serpent - commissioned by Berlioz Historical Brass. There works are published through Sarastro Music.

Nessa's main work in 2004 has been 8 months spent researching and editing 8 volumes of unpublished works by Edward Elgar. These were published on 1 January 2005 and comprise his entire early output for wind quintet (with a second flute replacing the more usual horn; the clarinet throughtout is in C rather than B flat), mixed quintet (Elgar shifted from bassoon to cello in 1879) and mixed sextet (adding a violin). This extensive research was partly funded by a grant from the major risk consultancy TTAC Ltd. It is hoped that these pieces will be recorded in 2005.

Nessa has contined to edit many works for Sarastro Music.

~ The Finnish film Sampsa Ja Niki which uses Nessa's Wearing the Wind as Rings has now also been shown in Sweden and Denmark.

~ Wearing the Wind as Rings, Nessa's composition for 20 sets of wind chimes, has been used in the Finnish film Sampsa Ja Niki.

~ The Berlioz Historical Brass Society has commissioned Nessa to go to Paris to copy out and edit a large set of pieces of Harmoniemusik (music for windband) by Karl Goepfert, a pupil of Mozart. The pieces are dedicated to Napoleon as First Cousul (1800-02) and are scored for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet and serpent. The Sarastro Music publication will be the first from the manuscript parts.

~ Nessa has been commissioned to compose the music for the Eastern Kentucky University production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The play will be produced 1-4 October at the Gifford Theatre, Richmond, Kentucky. Nessa met the director, Jeffrey Boord-Dill in an Internet chat room and they have become close friends. Her meticulous research into the time and place in which the play is set has resulted in historically accurate accompaniment. She has even researched the Jewish music of that period to compose music related to Shylock," the Jewish moneylender in Venice and one of Shakespeare's most memorable characters.

~ Nessa has been commissioned to compose and play all the music for the Tyger's Heart Theatre Company production of William Congreve's restoration comedy The Way of the World. This modern interpretation relates the play to the present celebrity cult of magazines like Heat, Hello! and OK. The music is generally modern dance tracks with baroque overlays. The production is at the Gatehouse Theatre, Highgate, London, from 27 May to 21 June.

~ Nessa will be one of the Guests of Honour at this year's World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Conference in Jöpköning, Sweden, from 30 June to 2 July. This will include the premiere of her arrangement for wind octet and contrabassoon of Offenbach's Ouverture to Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) with its famous Can Can dance and performance of a number of her Scott Joplin arrangements by the Winds of the Guildhall School of Music, London. She will also give an hour paper on her Harmoniemusik research, her collection and Sarastro Music.

~ Nessa has arranged 13 movements from Franz von Suppé's operetta, Boccaccio, for wind octet and contrabassoon. This is the first new opera arrangement for Harmoniemusik since the 1850s.

~ Nessa has spent much of the year researching and editing classical music pieces (1785 - 1890) for publication by Sarastro Music.

~ Nessa has also spent quite a bit of time composing and arranging the music for her first solo progressive rock CD, tentatively titled Crossings, Tempests and Other Love Songs.

Nessa has been commissioned to arrange Fucik's Regimentskinder Märsch", Rosas' Over the Waves and Joplin's A Real Slow Drag from his opera Treemonisha for wind octet. This is intended to fill on of the temporal gaps in the Harmoniemusic repertoire.

~ Nessa will be appearing with her wind chimes at the London Holistic Festival at The Camden Centre on 26 and 27 August (August Bank Holiday Weekend). Click the Brainwave button for further information.

~ Nessa will be appearing with her wind chimes at the London Holistic Festival at The Camden Centre on 15 and 16 April (Easter Weekend). Click the Brainwave button for further information.

~ Nessa will be composing all the music (including the incidental music) for the Logos Theatre Company's production of Twelfth Night at the Wimbledon Studio Theatre, 10-28 April. The production is directed by Melissa Holston.

~ Following her successful collaboration on TheTempest with the Logos Theatre Company, Nessa will be doing the music for their production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest at the Wimbledon Studio Theatre in November. Nessa will also be preparing the incidental music for the evening. The prodction is again directed by Melissa Holston.

~ Nessa will be appearing with her wind chimes at the London Holistic Festival at The Camden Centre over the August Bank Holiday. Click the Brainwave button for further information.

~ Nessa has been commissioned by Kenneth McClellan's much acclaimed Logos Theatre Company to compose and record the music for The Tempest, Shakespeare's most magical play. Nessa's imaginative score ranges from unaccompanied songs to complicated sound palettes featuring her 'signature' windchimes. The Logos production, directed by Melissa Holston, runs at the Wimbledon Studio Theatre at the Wimbledon Theatre (London SW19) from 25th April through 13th May. (Box Office tel: 020 8540 0362).

~ Nessa will be appearing with her wind chimes at the London Holistic Festival at The Camden Centre over the Easter bank holiday. Click the Brainwave button for further information.

~ Nessa has now entered into a collaboration with the newly re-formed progressive rock band, Gnidrolog. Tracks featuring her orchestrations and keyboards, and some of her mixes, will be included on their first new CD since 1972. She took over the complete keyboard duties with the band but left in March. The CD, Gnosis will be released at the beginning of May.
To visit Gnidrolog's official site, click on the Links Button opposite.

~ Nessa will be appearing at The Festival of Holistic Living, at The Camden Centre (Bidborough St, London WC1), August Bank Holiday weekend.
She will be presenting music from her CD Wearing the Wind as Rings
for 20 sets of Wind Chimes at 4.30 on Saturday, 28th & Monday, 30th August. On Sunday, 29th August, she will be leading a 2-hour Workshop/Concert,
The Mystery and Magick of Wind Chimes.
For further information, contact the organisers, Brainwave,
on 0181 677 8000, or click on their button opposite.