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11 Nov 
 
12 Nov



United Kingdom
 Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Takács Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Takács Quartet
Associate Artists

Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists pair the first of Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets, a composition written with the chamber music-loving, cello-playing Frederick the Great in mind, with a new work by the Australian composer Carl Vine. The folk-inspired melodies and soaring lyricism of Brahms’s third string quartet occupy the concert’s second half.



Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : String Quartet in D major K575 'Prussian'
Carl Vine : New work
Johannes Brahms : String Quartet No. 3 in B flat major Op. 67

12 Nov



United States
 Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 3:00pm 
Organist Gail Archer ToursNew Album in Eagan
Mount Cavalry Lutheran Church
3930 Rahn Road
United States
651-454-2344
www.MtCavalry.com

Tickets: $10
Gail Archer

Internationally renowned concert organist and recording artist Gail Archer releases her eighth solo album A Russian Journey (TBR 09.25.17 Meyer Media) featuring works by 19th and 20th Century Russian composers including members of the Russian Five and their successors. Featuring hidden Russian gems from the organ canon, A Russian Journey enthralls listeners with Archer’s musicality, sensitivity, and visceral quality. Starting this fall, Archer celebrates the album release with an international concert tour at some of the world’s finest churches.

Cesar Cui : Prelude in G Minor
Sergej Slonimsky : Toccata

13 Nov 
 
14 Nov



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 1pm - 2pm 
Babbitt-Haas-Emmerson - Piano, Soprano & Electronics
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom

Tickets: Free admission
Ben Smith (piano), Patricia Auchterlonie (soprano)

Lauded for her 'natural charm and grace' (Classical Source, 2017), the soprano Patricia Auchterlonie joins the pianist Ben Smith for a recital featuring works for soprano or piano with fixed electronics. The contrasting programme of Babbitt, Haas and Emmerson spans iconic works written between 1964 and 2004.

Milton Babbitt : Philomel (1964)
Georg Friedrich Haas : Ein Schattenspiel (2004)
Simon Emmerson : Time Past IV (1985)

15 Nov 
 
16 Nov 
 
17 Nov



United Kingdom
 Friday, November 17, 2017 at 1pm 
Britten Sinfonia; Nik Bärtsch piano
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Britten Sinfonia
Nik Bärtsch piano

Nik Bärtsch’s music was praised by The New York Times for blending ‘post-modernism with a precision groove honed in the spirit of James Brown’. As curator, Bärtsch has set his latest work alongside works by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Judd Greenstein and the winner of OPUS2017, Britten Sinfonia’s competition for unpublished composers.



Sarah Kirkland Snider : Pale As Centuries
OPUS 2017 Winner : New Work
Judd Greenstein : City Boy
Nik Bärtsch : New Work

17 Nov



United States
 Friday, November 17, 2017 at 7:30pm 
Organist Gail Archer Tours New Album in NC
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
16 N 16th Street
United States
910-762-4578
www.SPEchurch.com

Tickets: Free
Gail Archer (organ)

Internationally renowned concert organist and recording artist Gail Archer releases her eighth solo album A Russian Journey (TBR 09.25.17 Meyer Media) featuring works by 19th and 20th Century Russian composers including members of the Russian Five and their successors. Featuring hidden Russian gems from the organ canon, A Russian Journey enthralls listeners with Archer’s musicality, sensitivity, and visceral quality. Starting this fall, Archer celebrates the album release with an international concert tour at some of the world’s finest churches.

Cesar Cui : Prelude in G Minor
Sergej Slonimsky : Toccata

17 Nov



United Kingdom
 Friday, November 17, 2017 at 7.30pm 
BBC SSO in Birmingham
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 2EA
United Kingdom
0121 200 2000
symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk
http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp

BBCSSO

Feel the energy, as powerhouse conductor Ilan Volkov conducts Beethoven’s 'Eroica' Symphony, and makes some dynamic discoveries.

With the two explosive chords, Beethoven’s Eroica symphony launched a new era for music – and created a world of limitless sonic possibility. So Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra pair it with three dazzlingly inventive new pieces in an evening drawing inspiration from Volkov's renowned Tectonics Festival in Reykjavik and Glasgow.


Cassandra Miller Miller : Round
John Croft : Lost Work
Salvatore Sciarrino : Allegoria della notte

18 Nov



United Kingdom
 Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 10.00am - 1.00pm 
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18 Nov



United States
 Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Melodia Women's Choir of NYC presents Autumn Fire, a 15th Anniversary Concert
Church of the Holy Apostles
296 Ninth Avenue, NYC, New York
United States
+1 800-838-3006
http://www.melodiawomenschoir.org/
info@horsedragon-nyc.com

Tickets: $20 adv ($25 door)
Melodia Women’s Choir led by Cynthia Powell, with Mika Nishimura (piano), Rita Costanzi (harp), Meaghan Burke (cello), and Mary Ann McSweeney (bass).

Melodia Women’s Choir, New York’s premier ensemble for women’s choral music led by artistic director Cynthia Powell, announces its 15th anniversary season with Autumn Fire, a program inspired by the fiery colors of autumn and German Romantic composers.

A lovely set of motets by siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel will be performed, as well as the harp mass Harfenmesse: Missa Advocata Nostra by Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, and Josef Rheinberger’s ethereal Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, both works featuring harp soloist Rita Costanzi, formerly a principal harpist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and a solo harpist of the CBC Radio Orchestra.

PERFORMERS
Melodia Women’s Choir led by Cynthia Powell, with Mika Nishimura (piano), Rita Costanzi (harp), Meaghan Burke (cello), and Mary Ann McSweeney (bass).

ABOUT MELODIA
With 15 years of adventurous, fresh and wide-ranging repertoire that offers rarely heard, stylistically diverse works, Melodia has established a reputation as the premier women’s choir of NYC. Called “riveting” by The New York Times and hailed by composers such as Meredith Monk, Hilary Tann and Ronald Perera, Melodia is also committed to nurturing emerging women composers through commissions and performances. Founded by Executive Director Jenny Clarke and Artistic Director Cynthia Powell in 2003, Melodia collaborates with and supports women composers, musicians and performers across a broad musical spectrum.
www.melodiawomenschoir.org


Felix Mendelssohn : Three Motets, op. 39 - Veni Domine, Laudate Pueri, Surrexit Pastor Bonus
Felix Mendelssohn : Lied mit Chor, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel : Three Songs of Heinrich Heine
Johann Kaspar Aiblinger : Harfenmesse
Josef Rheinberger : Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen

18 Nov



United States
 Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 7:30-9pm 
PhiloSonia presents “Liaisons I: The Schumanns & Brahms”
The Old Stone House
336 Third Street, btw. 4th/5th Avenues, Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
http://www.theoldstonehouse.org
info@theoldstonehouse.org

Tickets: $25/10
Stani Dimitrova, violin; Igor Pikayzen, violin; Chieh-Fan Jay Yiu, viola Michael Katz, cello
​Pascal Archer, clarinet, Miori Sugiyama, piano

In four concerts, PhiloSonia’s second season “Liaisons” explores composers’ friendships and the works they inspired.

About “Liaisons I: The Schumanns & Brahms”:
Passionate and tragic, complex and mysterious, the bond between these three great musical personalities was marked by mutual admiration and ardent support. During a time of fervent conflict between absolute and program music, their friendship formed the center of a stronghold in defense of the aesthetic values of pure music.


Johannes Brahms : Three Intermezzi for Solo Piano, Op. 117
Clara Schumann : Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22,
Robert Schumann : Fantasy Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 73
Johannes Brahms : Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

18 Nov



United Kingdom
 Saturday, November 18, 2017 at  
Nico Muhly: Marnie
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom

ENO

Marnie is a compelling psychological thriller set in England during the late 1950s. A young woman makes her way through life by embezzling from her employers, before she moves on and changes her identity. When her current boss Mark Rutland catches her red-handed, he blackmails her into a loveless marriage. Marnie is left with no choice but to confront the hidden trauma from her past.

Following Two Boys in 2011, this is the composer Nico Muhly’s second world premiere for ENO. With a libretto by Nicholas Wright, Marnie is based on the novel by Winston Graham, by special arrangement with Universal Pictures. It examines the cost of freedom, the limitations of forgiveness and the impossibility of escaping the past, in music that is direct and powerful.

Tony Award-winning director Michael Mayer makes his UK opera debut, collaborating with ENO Music Director Martyn Brabbins. Grammy Award-winning mezzo Sasha Cooke sings the title role, while acclaimed bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch sings Mark Rutland. They are joined by ENO favourite Lesley Garrett.

18 Nov - 03 Dec 2017


Nico Muhly : Marnie

19 Nov



United States
 Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 3.00pm 
Melodia Women's Choir of NYC presents Autumn Fire, a 15th Anniversary Concert
West End Collegiate Church
West End Ave. at 77th St
United States
http://www.westendchurch.org

Tickets: $20 adv ($25 door)
Melodia Women’s Choir led by Cynthia Powell, with Mika Nishimura (piano), Rita Costanzi (harp), Meaghan Burke (cello), and Mary Ann McSweeney (bass).

Melodia Women’s Choir, New York’s premier ensemble for women’s choral music led by artistic director Cynthia Powell, announces its 15th anniversary season with Autumn Fire, a program inspired by the fiery colors of autumn and German Romantic composers.

A lovely set of motets by siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel will be performed, as well as the harp mass Harfenmesse: Missa Advocata Nostra by Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, and Josef Rheinberger’s ethereal Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, both works featuring harp soloist Rita Costanzi, formerly a principal harpist of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and a solo harpist of the CBC Radio Orchestra.

$20 adv ($25 door)
$15 adv (students & seniors)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/producer/5998
Tel: (800) 838-3006
More at melodiawomenschoir.org

ABOUT MELODIA
With 15 years of adventurous, fresh and wide-ranging repertoire that offers rarely heard, stylistically diverse works, Melodia has established a reputation as the premier women’s choir of NYC. Called “riveting” by The New York Times and hailed by composers such as Meredith Monk, Hilary Tann and Ronald Perera, Melodia is also committed to nurturing emerging women composers through commissions and performances. Founded by Executive Director Jenny Clarke and Artistic Director Cynthia Powell in 2003, Melodia collaborates with and supports women composers, musicians and performers across a broad musical spectrum.
www.melodiawomenschoir.org


Felix Mendelssohn : Three Motets, op. 39 - Veni Domine, Laudate Pueri, Surrexit Pastor Bonus
Felix Mendelssohn : Lied mit Chor, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel : Three Songs of Heinrich Heine
Josef Rheinberger : Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, with harp
Johann Kaspar Aiblinger : Harfenmesse (Harp Mass), for harp, organ, cello and bass

20 Nov



United Kingdom
 Monday, November 20, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Stockhausen: Stimmung & Cosmic Pulses
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Singcircle
Robert Henke laser artist
Jacqueline Barron soprano
Zoe Freedman soprano
Heather Cairncross mezzo-soprano
Guy Elliott tenor
Angus Smith tenor
Gregory Rose bass/director
Stephen Montague assistant sound projection
Kathinka Pasveer sound projection

For the tenth anniversary of Stockhausen’s death we present rare performances of two of his defining masterpieces: the meditative, trance-like Stimmung and the earth-shattering Cosmic Pulses.

Ten years ago, Karlheinz Stockhausen ceased composing on a physical plane – but his music always reached beyond the merely visible. Cosmic Pulses and Stimmung create musical spaces of rapturous, visionary beauty and intensity, and these performers are profoundly committed.

Every Stockhausen performance is a major event, of course – not many composers born in the 20th century speak more directly, or with such an original voice. Stimmung and Cosmic Pulses come from opposite ends of his extraordinary career, and here Cosmic Pulses will be accompanied by a laser installation from audio-visual artist Robert Henke. This is music that demands to be heard – and felt – live, and it’s performed today by artists who knew the composer intimately.



Karlheinz Stockhausen : Stimmung
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Cosmic Pulses

21 Nov



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, November 21, 2017 at 1pm - 2pm 
Sensations - Ben Smith, Piano
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom

Tickets: Free admission
Ben Smith (piano)

A solo piano recital by the enterprising young pianist Ben Smith. Based in London and specialising in contemporary music, Smith is interested in – amongst other things – phenomenological and semiotic approaches to musical analysis, and compositional encounters with silence and repetition. This concert is the third in Series 3 of Borough New Music, of which Smith is a Guest Artistic Director.

Julian Anderson : Sensation (2015-16)
Conlon Nancarrow : Three Canons for Ursula (1988)
Robert Reid Allan : The Palace of Light (2016)

22 Nov



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at  
LANDMARKS
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Room CAM1/10, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
United Kingdom
44 (0) 1484 430528
hcmf.co.uk/
info@hcmf.co.uk

Martyn Brabbins conductor
London Sinfonietta

Explore some of the London Sinfonietta’s most iconic commissions as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations. From the architectural principles that guide Xenakis’ Thallein, to the richness of Birtwistle’s Silbury Air, inspired by the mystery of the prehistoric Silbury Hill in Wiltshire, these landmark pieces give a sense of the musical journey the London Sinfonietta has taken.

Wed 22 & Sat 25 Nov
Huddersfield | London


Iannis Xenakis : Thallein for chamber orchestra
Colin Matthews : Contraflow
Wolfgang Rihm : Chiffre ii: Silence to be beaten
Harrison Birtwistle : Silbury Air

23 Nov



United Kingdom
 Thursday, November 23, 2017 at 7.45pm 
Hull Chamber Music Society
Middleton Hall
University of Hull, HU6 7RX
United Kingdom
culturenet.co.uk/book-now?id=112206
culture@hull.ac.uk

Tickets: £5.00 - £14.00
Ellipsis Ensemble: piano, flute, oboe
James Gilchrist: tenor

Life and Love
A programme exploring themes of life and love through vocal and instrumental narrative. The programme will include works by Bach, Handel, Vaughan Williams, and Dubery, and Roxanna Panufnik’s setting of Shakespeare Sonnets: Generation of Love.


David Dubery : Swans in Flight
David Dubery : An August Midnight

24 Nov 
 
25 Nov



United Kingdom
 Saturday, November 25, 2017 at  
Music and Reformation
St Michael and All Angel Church, , Bedford Park
Bath Rd, Chiswick, London W4 1TT
United Kingdom
077296122507
www.westlondonsinfonia.org
publicity@westlondonsinfonia.org

Tickets: Full price £14, Concession £12, Students ticket £5
Guest Conductor: Marc Dooley
Leader : Iwona Boesche



Cecilia McDowall : Floreat Oriana
Richard Wagner : Parsifal: Prelude and Good Friday Music
Felix Mendelssohn : Symphony No.5 (Reformation)
Bach Bach Stokowski : Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott

25 Nov



United Kingdom
 Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Arlene Sierra/Bartók/Dvořák
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Lower Mosley Road
United Kingdom
44 (0) 161 907 9000
http://www.halle.co.uk/publishedSite/aidsdayconcert.asp
box@bridgewater-hall.co.uk

BBC Philharmonic

The music of American-born, London-based composer Arlene Sierra brilliantly evokes the natural world, and this BBC Philharmonic commission will lift us out of town and into spaces far beyond. You’ll also hear sounds of the countryside in Dvorák’s joyous Eighth Symphony, but the urgency of Bartók’s First Piano Concerto is firmly rooted in the city. Two longtime favourites from France cross the Channel to join us: conductor Ludovic Morlot and piano dynamo Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.


Arlene Sierra : Nature Symphony
Béla Bartók : Piano Concerto No 1
Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No 8 in G major

26 Nov 
 
27 Nov 
 
28 Nov



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 1pm - 2pm 
Haikus - Soprano, Cello, Piano, Flute
St George the Martyr
Borough High Street, London
United Kingdom

Tickets: Free admission
Antonia Berg (flute), Patricia Auchterlonie (soprano), Ben Smith (piano), Yoanna Prodanova (cello)

Borough New Music is delighted to feature the composer Eva-Maria Houben in Series 3. Since 2000, Houben's music has been published by Edition Wandelweiser (Haan), and several CDs of her music have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records. In this concert, the performers explore just one part of Houben's vast body of 'Haikus'.

Eva-Maria Houben : Haikus for four (I, V, VIII, IX)

29 Nov 
 
30 Nov



United Kingdom
 Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Tan Dun: The Martial Arts Trilogy
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

London Symphony Orchestra


Bringing together three masterpieces of Chinese cinema, Tan Dun’s trilogy sets the Martial Arts tradition originally found in Chinese opera into a modern context, giving it an international appeal through film. Traditional delicate solos on cello, violin and piano, thundering percussion and the soaring strings of a live orchestra; all these elements of Tan Dun’s score play an essential role in the big screen depiction of clashing armies, flying warriors and forbidden romances.

While Tan Dun first attracted attention with works that mixed Chinese folkloric instruments and techniques with elements of avant-garde Western classical music, it was arguably the scores for his Martial Arts Trilogy that propelled him to international fame.;



Tan Dun : The Martial Arts Trilogy

1 Dec



France
 Friday, December 1, 2017 at 8.30pm 
DEUX ESPRITS
Philharmonie de Paris
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr

Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher
Kerstin Avemo
Ryoko Aoki
Emmanuelle Ophèle
Oriza Hirata

“Breath is the foundation, even of music,” declared Toshio Hosokawa about Atem-Lied (“Song of breath”) for solo bass flute (1997). His new work is inspired by a famous piece of Nô theatre by Zeami, Futari Shizuoka (“The Two Shizukas”), from which Oriza Hirata has made a scenario that embodies the spirit of Shizuka, a legendary dancer whose name means both “silence” and “serenity” at once.

Coproduction Festival d'Automne à Paris, Ensemble intercontemporain, Philharmonie de Paris


Toshio Hosokawa : Atem-Lied, pour flûte basse
Toru Takemitsu : Archipelago S., pour vingt-et-un musiciens
Toru Takemitsu : And then I knew 'twas Wind, p fl, al & hpe
Toshio Hosokawa : Futari Shizuka, the Maiden from the Sea, pour soprano, comédienne de Nô et ensemble

1 Dec



United States
 Friday, December 1, 2017 at 8:00pm 
Odyssey Opera & BMOP Premiere The Trial at Rouen in Boston
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu

Tickets: $20 and Up
Odyssey Opera
Heather Buck (soprano)
Boston Modern Orchestra Project

At the vanguard of Boston’s classical music scene, Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) present the world premiere of the live performance of The Trial at Rouen by Norman Dello Joio. A semi-staged, English-language production led by conductor Gil Rose, The Trial at Rouen unites Odyssey Opera (one of the nation’s most innovative opera companies), BMOP (the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music), and internationally renowned singers Heather Buck (Joan of Arc) and Stephen Powell (Pierre Cauchon). This marks the third and most condensed opera of Odyssey Opera’s Trial by Fire: Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, a season-long exploration of operatic works inspired by martyr, saint, and military leader Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Preceding the opera will be a concert performance of its inspiration, Dello Joio’s symphony The Triumph of Saint Joan.

Norman Dello Joio : The Trial at Rouen

2 Dec



Netherlands
 Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 2.15pm 
WIGGLESWORTH CONDUCTS WIGGLESWORTH, KNUSSEN, BIRTWISTLE AND JANÁČEK
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest
Ryan Wigglesworth - conductor
Barnabás Kelemen - violin




Oliver Knussen : Flourish with Fireworks, op. 22
Ryan Wigglesworth : Locke's Theatre
Harrison Birtwistle : Night's Black Bird
Ryan Wigglesworth : Vioolconcert
Leos Janacek : Sinfonietta

2 Dec



United Kingdom
 Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 7.30pm 
City of London Sinfonia presents Modern Mystics: The Protecting Veil
St John's, Smith Square
London, SW1P 3HA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7222 1061
http://sjss.org.uk
info@sjss.org.uk

City of London Sinfonia
Alexandra Wood director
Matthew Barley cello, presenter


Journey to the centre of Sir John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil through living programme notes, in a performance by the City of London Sinfonia and Matthew Barley.

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Part of Southbank Centre’s year-long festival, Belief and Beyond Belief, The Protecting Veil blurs the lines between humanity and divinity – a glimpse into otherworldliness through the rituals and seasons celebrated around Mary, the Mother of God.

Move even closer to the powerful music in this performance with City of London Sinfonia and Matthew Barley, as they invite audiences to explore the music’s meaning through Living Programme Notes.

In this performance directed from the cello by Matthew Barley, the venue is transformed through lighting and intimate seating, so as to immerse the audience in Tavener’s ecstatic vision.



John Tavener : The Protecting Veil for cello & strings

3 Dec



United Kingdom
 Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 4pm 
TRE VOCI PRESENTS ORBITS @ ICA
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall London, England SW1Y 5AH
United Kingdom
www.ica.art

Tre Voci

Meditative cello improvisations by London-based trio Tre Voci meet thrilling Iranian drumming in this fascinating musical collaboration accompanied by live visuals.

Immerse yourself in the plethora of sounds slowly orbiting the audience in the first half, before hearing "the best hand-drummer worldwide" (ORF) Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, and his mesmerisingly fast drumming, bringing the programme to an ecstatic close.

Tre Voci (Torun Stavseng, Gregor Riddell and Colin Alexander) will perform their own improvisations and new compositions, including the world premiere of a new work by David Stephen Grant, in which they collaborate with Mohammad Reza Mortazavi and Norwegian soprano Silje Aker Johnsen.



David Stephen Grant : New Work

3 Dec



United Kingdom
 Sunday, December 3, 2017 at Doors open at 7:00 pm, recital begins at 7:30pm 
Ealing Guitar Society
St Matthew's Church Hall
St Matthew's Church Hall (behind the church), North Common Road, London, W5 2QA
United Kingdom
http://guitarsociety.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/

Tickets: £13 (£10 concessions)
JON GJYLACI



Full Programme:

Mauro Giuliani – Grande Ouverture Op.61

Isaac Albeniz – Asturias (Leyenda), from ‘Suite Espanola’ Op.47, No.5

Rumores de la Caleta, from ‘Recuerdos de Viaje, Op.71, No.6

Mark Houghton – Sonatine, for solo guitar

Django Reinhardt – Nuages (arr. Roland Dyens)

Gary Ryan – Hot Club Français

INTERVAL

Helen Walker – Five Divertissements

Roland Dyens - Libra Sonatine:
· India
· Largo
· Fuoco

Antonio Jobim/Vinicious de Moraes – Felicidade (arr Roland Dyens)

Gary Ryan – Benga Beat


Helen Walker : 'Five Divertissements for Guitar'

4 Dec 
 
5 Dec 
 
6 Dec



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 7.30pm 
STOCKHAUSEN: TRANS
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk

Pascal Rophé conductor
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble side by side with
London Sinfonietta

Trans came to Stockhausen in a dream, and this extraordinary orchestral masterpiece is every bit as dream-like in performance. The conductor is invisible, half the orchestra is hidden behind a vividly lit gauze, and those left in view are instructed to move like puppets. As listeners we are held in a trance, caught somewhere between the real and the imaginary, the present and the future. Pascal Rophé conducts this all-Stockhausen programme, as we celebrate a composer who has played a key part in the London Sinfonietta’s history.



Karlheinz Stockhausen : Zodiac for orchestra
Karlheinz Stockhausen : Trans

7 Dec



United Kingdom
 Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 19:00 
London Contemporary Music Festival
Ambika P3
35 Marylebone Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 5LS, UK
United Kingdom
www.lcmf.co.uk/

An Assembly

'The capital's most adventurous and ambitious festival of new music' (The Guardian) is back for its sixth edition. Returning to the epic, subterranean surroundings of Ambika P3, LCMF 2017 offers a week of multi-disciplinary events and new commissions.

Andy Ingamells and Maya Verlaak : Tape Piece

8 Dec



United States
 Friday, December 8, 2017 at 7:00pm 
The Dessoff Choirs Performs a Trio of Holiday Concerts 12/8-10
St. Peter's Church
619 Lexington Avenue
United States

Tickets: $20-40
The Dessoff Choirs

Hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness (The New York Times),” The Dessoff Choirs celebrates the holiday season with a trio of festive concerts. Now in its 93rd year, The Dessoff Choirs continues to wow audiences with its seasonal repertoire and contemporary arrangement of carols performed in some of New York City’s most beautiful churches. This season’s offerings include a sing-in of Handel’s Messiah (the quintessential classical music highpoint of the Christmas season), Bernstein’s Simchu na celebrating the start of Hanukkah, and works by New York City-based composers: Ola Gjeilo, Nancy Wertsch, Gregg Smith, and James Bassi—to name a few.

Gregg Smith : Alleluia
Johannes Brahms : Drei geistliche Chore
Leonard Bernstein : Simchu na

8 Dec



United Kingdom
 Friday, December 8, 2017 at 7.30pm 
BBC Concert Orchestra - Double Indemnity & Music from Film Noir
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk

BBC Concert Orchestra
Robert Ziegler conductor, curator
Hannah Waddingham singer
Mark Kermode presenter

A dramatic, dark and moody evening of music from the film noir greats presented by one of the UK’s best known film critics Mark Kermode.

Curated by conductor Robert Ziegler and featuring singer Hannah Waddingham, this is film music from the wrong side of the tracks including hits from Rebel Without a Cause and Double Indemnity.

Join the BBC Concert Orchestra at its brooding best when cult classics from Laura, Gilda, Sunset Boulevard and Dark Passage meet a ‘new noir’ genre with Badalamenti’s Fire Walk with Me from Twin Peaks and the world premiere of Jonny Greenwood’s Concert Suite from Inherent Vice.

Franz Waxman: Sunset Boulevard
David Raksin: Laura
Allan Roberts: Amado Mio from Gilda; Put the blame on Mame from Gilda
Richard Whiting: Too marvellous for words from Dark Passage
Angelo Badalamenti: Fire walk with me from Twin Peaks
George Antheil: In a Lonely Place
Miklos Rozsa: The Lost Weekend
Interval
Elmer Bernstein: A walk on the wild side
Leonard Rosenman: Rebel Without a Cause
Jonny Greenwood: Concert Suite from Inherent Vice(World premiere)
Jean Wiener: Touchez pas au grisbi
Herrmann: Taxi Driver: A night-piece for orchestra
Miklos Rozsa: Double Indemnity


Contemporary Composers : Various

9 Dec



United States
 Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 4:00pm 
The Dessoff Choirs Hosts Messiah Sing-In
Union Theological Seminary
3140 Broadway
United States

Tickets: $15
The Dessoff Choirs

Dessoff’s Messiah Sing invites all singers and non-singers alike to join with the choir on the work’s many choruses. According to NewYorkArts.net, “you’ll tingle down to your toes. If you enjoy choral music or simply want to see an up-and-coming conductor/performer with a great future, check out the Dessoff Choirs. And, if singing is even sort of your thing, consider joining the Dessoff’s 2017’s Messiah Sing. Hallelujah!”

G F Handel : MESSIAH

10 Dec



United States
 Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 4:00pm 
The Dessoff Choirs Presents A Holiday Concert
St. John's Episcopal Church
139 St. John's Place,Brooklyn, NY
United States

Tickets: $20-40
The Dessoff Choirs

Hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness (The New York Times),” The Dessoff Choirs celebrates the holiday season with a trio of festive concerts. Now in its 93rd year, The Dessoff Choirs continues to wow audiences with its seasonal repertoire and contemporary arrangement of carols performed in some of New York City’s most beautiful churches. This season’s offerings include a sing-in of Handel’s Messiah (the quintessential classical music highpoint of the Christmas season), Bernstein’s Simchu na celebrating the start of Hanukkah, and works by New York City-based composers: Ola Gjeilo, Nancy Wertsch, Gregg Smith, and James Bassi—to name a few.

Gregg Smith : Alleluia
Johannes Brahms : Drei geistliche Chore
Felix Mendelssohn : Hark the Herald Angels Sing

10 Dec



United States
 Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 6.00pm - 8.00pm 
Composers Concordance presents 'All About India'
Goddard Riverside - Bernie Wohl Center, NYC
647 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY
United States
www.goddard.org/grcc/programs/communityarts/
info@composersconcordance.com

Tickets: advance $12 - $15 / door $15 - $20
Raga Massive Duo: Ehren Hanson and Max ZT, Grammy winner Neela Vaswani, MegMan, Daniel Schnyder, Edmundo Ramirez, Gene Pritsker, Payton MacDonald, Ken Butler, and Milica Paranosic.

Composers Concordance presents, in association with Goddard Riverside Community Arts, the program 'All About India.' Traditional Indian instruments such as tablas, sitar, and santoor (hammered dulcimer) will be heard alongside classical winds and strings, as well as electric guitar, bass, electronics, and hybrid instruments designed by Ken Butler. Music, dancing, and food (extra cost).

Gene Pritsker : Revealed Knowledge

10 Dec



France
 Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 4.30pm 
HOMMAGE À STEVEN SPIELBERG
Philharmonie de Paris
221, avenue Jean-Jaurès 75019 Paris, France
France
+33 (0)1 44 84 44 84
http://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr

London Symphony Orchestra
Frank Strobel, direction

E.T., Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report… We’ve stopped counting the successes logged by the duo of Steven Spielberg and John Williams.

John Williams
Jurassic Park
Les Dents de la mer
Indiana Jones
E.T.
Les Aventures de Tintin
Le Bon Gros Géant
Jerry Goldsmith
Poltergeist
Les Gremlins
Thomas Newman
Le Pont des Espions
Alan Silvestri
Retour vers le Futur
Michael Giacchino
Super 8
Don Davis
Jurassic Park III


John Williams : Various

10 Dec



United Kingdom
 Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 11.30am 
Heath Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Heath Quartet

The Heath Quartet’s seasonlong survey of Jörg Widmann’s five string quartets continues, placing the German composer’s ‘Jagdquartett’ in company with two works marked by their intense concentration and foreboding.

Widmann’s work echoes the opening rhythms of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony before pursuing its ideas with obsessive energy and wanton violence.



Joseph Haydn : String Quartet in D minor Op. 76 No. 2 'Fifths'
Jörg Widmann : String Quartet No. 3 'Jagdquartett'
Felix Mendelssohn : String Quartet No. 6 in F minor Op. 80

11 Dec 
 

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