British composer wins 20k Hindemith Prize
OrchestrasThe 2023 Hindy prize, worth 20,000 Euros, goes to Alex Paxton. He’ll pick it up next summer at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival.
Paxton, 32, is an improvising trombonist, published by Ricordi.
In the words of the Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik: ‘Paxton is a system-crasher of genre, who merges jamming video game soundtracks, musical overtures, virtuoso chamber music and jazz improv into an unmistakable style…highly complex, sophisticated and extremely entertaining, virtuoso ad absurdum.’
photo: Alex Paxton website
What a pity that the picture is cropped — impossible to see whether his skirt is as short as Yuja’s.
If he has one. 🙂
Anyway, ‘scherzi a parte’, you can listen to some of his work in this link:
https://soundcloud.com/alex-paxton-2
Gilda: ‘I checked the link provided by uncle Pff. I listened to some of the files and his trombone playing sounds very much like my uncle’s belly did in a family meeting last year. He had eaten too much Sauerkraut.’
This is really shocking and hurtful. shame on you.
Ha, ha, ha! LOL!
Wow…why are you bothering about people’s attire? Some insecurity about yourself?
Thank you for your insightful comment – Dr. Freud
I’m sorry you all had to see that picture.
Yes, it’s rather hard to unsee.
They should sue their surgeon.
Missed the T out of surgeon.
Watch your pronouns. “He’ll”? Tut tut!
Its mum called – she wants her dress back from it.
(I respectfully believe ‘it’ is the correct pronoun here)
I don’t care what he wears, but that dress is horrible!
Why did you feel the need to make such a horrible comment? Are you OK?
Yes, my comment is nearly as horrible as its dress.
Hey, just wondering what you gain from bullying someone online? Does it make you feel better about yourself?
Let us know.
Hi Ellie, thanks for your comment. Well, I guess I gained 12 thumbs ups, and its mum got her dress returned to her safely, where she has now stored it into the bin.
Hope that answers your question – thanks!
Congratulations, Alex! Very proud of you.
And you must be a very proud daddy (in more ways than one)!
Congratulations on the prize, well deserved! Haters gonna hate while Alex writes great music.
To thinks that once Ricordi published Verdi and Puccini…..
Well done to Alex Paxton. The music is very cool! I am baffled at the weird comments on here though. An innocuous announcement of a prize awarded eliciting this anti trans vitriol seems peculiar. And some vicious personal attacks. What’s up with this site? Who moderates it? Are we all ok with (completely unwarranted!) hateful comments like this here?
Yes because it’s funny!
The callousness here is shocking.
God help us all.
Yes, God help us survive nasty comments like yours. Get over yourself. You have no comparable talent.
No more showbiz please
His Trapeze is very funny
I happen to know him. He’s not trans. Women are allowed to wear trousers, so I’m not quite sure why men shouldn’t be allowed to wear dresses if they want to.
True. I am not going to say his dress makes him ugly, because it’s actually not caused by the dress.