New Music Concert Listings - United Kingdom


Site Search


Other Resources
News Archive






New Music Concert Listings - United Kingdom

Welcome to the Composition:Today New Music Concert Listings.
Advertise your contemporary classical music concert free of charge.
Add your listing here or if you prefer, send details to (Concert must include new music)
   


Show: All Countries UK only US only Other International
Previous Month | Next Month
10 Jan 
 
11 Jan 
 
12 Jan 
 
13 Jan 
 
14 Jan 
 
15 Jan 
 
16 Jan 
 
17 Jan 
 
18 Jan 
 
19 Jan 
 
20 Jan 
 
21 Jan 
 
22 Jan 
 
23 Jan 
 
24 Jan 
 
25 Jan 
 
26 Jan 
 
27 Jan 
 
28 Jan 
 
29 Jan 
 
30 Jan 
 
31 Jan 
 
1 Feb 
 
2 Feb



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 7.45 
The Wasp Factory
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home

Tickets: £20-40
Royal Opera

Director Ben Frost
Libretto David Pountney
Set designs Mirella Weingarten
Costume designs Boris Bidjan Saberi
Lighting design Lucy Carter

The Wasp Factory recounts the disturbing acts of a troubled teenager on a remote Scottish island. The Sacrifice Poles, Boiling Pool, Ice Chamber and Volt Room are names Frank has given to places in his world – an isolated environment, where he is left to his own devices by his reclusive father. Frank invents his own warrior cult and, using a homemade device called the Wasp Factory, develops a brutal way of predicting the future.

Director and composer Frost creates three-dimensional sonic structures that envelop an audience in extremes of volume and texture. Mirella Weingarten’s set designs evoke a bleak, natural landscape. With lighting by Lucy Carter, The Wasp Factory promises to be as chilling as it is powerful.

Wednesday 2 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
De WildeRichterWallentin
9 Tickets
£20–£40
BUY
Thursday 3 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
De WildeRichterWallentin
27 Tickets
£20–£40
BUY
Friday 4 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
De WildeRichterWallentin
Last few tickets
£20–£40
BUY
Saturday 5 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
De WildeRichterWallentin
9 Tickets
£20–£40
BUY
Monday 7 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
De WildeRichterWallentin
39 Tickets
£20–£40
BUY
Tuesday 8 October 2013, 7.45pm | Linbury Studio Theatre
De WildeRichterWallentin


Ben Frost : The Wasp Factory

3 Feb 
 
4 Feb



United Kingdom
 Friday, October 4, 2013 at 8pm 
In C with Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory, Matthew Herbert & stargaze and Joshua Light Show
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Tickets: £17.50 - 22.50


Acknowledged by many as the father of minimalism and hypnotic repetition, Terry Riley gets a fitting celebration with two of today’s most innovative electronic artists re-interpreting his most influential piece from 1964 – In C.

Matthew Herbert collaborates with the young European music collective stargaze to create his version of In C, sampling their live acoustic patterns, digitally processing them before blending the results back in with the instruments.

Pantha Du Prince revisits his highly successful collaboration with the percussion ensemble The Bell Laboratory to weave chimes, bells and his trademark electronic pulses into Riley's composition.

To make it even a more special event, the performance will be immersed in stunning psychedelic visuals created live by the legendary Joshua Light Show.

Making their UK debut with founder Joshua White, the masters of hallucinogenic lighting who were resident artists at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East during the late 1960s and performed at Woodstock, Newport Jazz Festival and other historic events of that era. They produced the live and colourful projections behind great bands including The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and The Who.

'It felt like a sudden explosion of dancing wasn't far off, but what happened instead was a standing ovation' Resident Advisor on Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory at Queen Elizabeth Hall (February 2013)


Terry Riley : In C

4 Feb



United Kingdom
 Friday, October 4, 2013 at 8pm 
Autumn Chamber Music Series at Benslow
Benslow Music, Peter Morrison Hall
Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG4 9RB
United Kingdom
01462 459446
http://www.benslowmusic.org/index.asp?PageID=13
info@benslowmusic.org

Tickets: £12 (free entry for full time students and young people)
The Coull String Quartet

Box Office: 01462 459446


5 Feb 
 
6 Feb



United Kingdom
 Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 6pm 
Stockhausen: Gruppen
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk

Tickets: £25, £15
Luigi Nono’s uncompromising post-war meditations on form, silence and timbre form a fitting precursor to one of the pinnacles of the Darmstadt School’s output. A landmark in 20th century composition, Gruppen must be seen to be believed. Stockhausen’s testament to serial composition is scored for three independent orchestras, each with its own conductor, bringing over 100 players together on stage to create a momentous tower of sound. As the music ebbs and flows, Stockhausen’s kaleidoscopic colours and shifting textures evoke the rise and fall of the Graubünder Alps which were the work’s inspiration. Rarely performed, few other pieces have such a dramatic impact in live performance.

Martyn Brabbins conductor
Baldur Bronnimann conductor
Geoffrey Paterson conductor
London Sinfonietta
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble


Karlheinz Stockhausen : Gruppen
Luigi Nono : Canti per 13
Luigi Nono : Polifonica – Monodia – Ritmica

6 Feb



United Kingdom
 Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Graphic Scores
Jerwood Hall
London
United Kingdom

Tickets: £10 £15 £22
Joanna MacGregor piano
Elaine Mitchener voice
Tom Arthurs trumpet
Oliver Coates cello
Isambard Khroustaliov electronics



How do you play a picture? Composers and artists from John Cage to Brian Eno have experimented with notation to create extraordinary visual scores that rival the best contemporary art.

This transatlantic programme spans classical, experimental and jazz, in works featuring graphic art, comic strip and abstract art. Innovative pianist Joanna MacGregor is at the heart of a super group of the UK’s most original musicians who perform music by George Crumb, Cathy Berberian, Fred Frith, John Cage, Wadada Leo Smith, Cornelius Cardew, Tom Phillips RA and Jennifer Walshe against the striking visual backdrop of their projected scores.


Contemporary Composers : Various

6 Feb



United Kingdom
 Sunday, October 6, 2013 at 7.30pm 
20th century classics: Ligeti and Schoenberg
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk

Tickets: £1-£14
BCMG

Cond. Oliver Knussen

Ligeti, a composer whose music has infiltrated popular consciousness thanks to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, remained a maverick throughout his career, consistently challenging the received wisdoms and ideologies of the composing avant-garde. His four-movement Chamber Concerto is considered one of his greatest works. Each movement strongly contrasts in character – from the shimmering ‘micro-polyphonic’ texture of the first, to the strongly mechanical, clockwork rhythms of the third.

Arnold Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony Op. 9 was a model for Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto (in instrumentation if not textures or forms). His later masterpiece Five Pieces for Orchestra, here given in its arrangement for ensemble, serves as a superb example that atonal music can be as moving and expressive as tonal music – from terror, anxiety and chaos to wistfulness and beauty.

Completing this exhilarating programme are two pieces by composers with connections to these two greats and a recent work by one of today’s most promising young British composers.

Alexander Goehr, whose father studied under Schoenberg in the 1920s, composed his impeccably crafted Suite for flute and harp with string trio, clarinet and horn at the behest of Benjamin Britten. Castiglioni, like his friend and champion Ligeti, was an ‘outsider’ from the mainstream European avant-garde – Tropi is characterised by the interchange of loud, virtuosic passages with ones of mute sparseness. Helen Grime’s Luna, premiered by the Scottish Red Note Ensemble in 2011, takes its inspiration from the Ted Hughes poem Harvest Moon.


Niccolò Castiglioni : Tropi
Arnold Schoenberg : Five Pieces for Orchestra (ensemble version)
Helen Grime : Luna
Alexander Goehr : Suite Op.11
Gyorgy Ligeti : Chamber Concerto

7 Feb 
 
8 Feb 
 
9 Feb



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Dame Evelyn Glennie & the British Sinfonietta
St David's Hall
St David's Hall, The Hayes, Cardiff CF10 1AH
United Kingdom
029 2087 8444
http://www.stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk/
sdhreception@cardiff.gov.uk

Tickets: £13.50-£27.50
Dame Evelyn Glennie & the British Sinfonietta
Soloist Dame Evelyn Glennie Percussion
Conductor Anthony Gabriele
Soloist Dawn Hardwick Piano

The world's foremost percussion soloist joins forces with one of the UK's leading independent professional orchestras for an evening of outstanding live music.
Dame Evelyn Glennie recently took a lead role in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, performing to a global audience of 900 million people, leading a team of 1000 drummers and accompanying the lighting of the cauldron. She has famously overcome profound deafness to become the first person in musical history to create and sustain a career as a full-time solo percussionist.
The St David's Hall stage will be filled with a selection of instruments from Evelyn's personal collection of over 2000 percussion instruments from around the world, along with a 50-piece professional orchestra; the British Sinfonietta.
The programme will feature pieces for Percussion and Orchestra from Iceland, the Netherlands and New Zealand along with a number of familiar orchestral items. The concert will culminate in a double concerto for Percussion, Piano & Orchestra, with Evelyn joined by the outstanding Welsh pianist Dawn Hardwick.
The British Sinfonietta will also be joined by the combined forces of two Welsh choirs, Cor CF1 and Cor Godre'r Garth, to perform an item in each half of the concert.


Askell Masson : Konzertstuck
Modest Mussorgsky : Night on the Bare Mountain
G Faure : Pavane
Jacob Ter Veldhuis : Barracuda Concerto
Alexander Borodin : Polovtsian Dances
Camille Saint-Saëns : Danse Macabre
John Psathas : View from Olympus

Previous Month | Next Month