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United Kingdom
 Monday, July 11, 2016 at 3.30pm 
Nigel Osborne Premiere
Buxton Festival
3 The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire SK17 6AZ
United Kingdom
01298 70395
http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/
lee@buxtonfestival.co.uk

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Ensemble 10/10

The contemporary ensemble of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Ensemble 10/10 present a new work by Nigel Osborne written to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Srebrenica, a collection of songs composed by people of all faiths and backgrounds from the town. He arranges songs by rock ‘n’ rollers sent unwillingly to war, by women who were raped and abused, by families of victims, by people missing the solidarity of former Yugoslavia, by Roma passing by, and by children looking for beauty and hope.


Benjamin Britten : Sinfonietta, Op 1
Nigel Osborne : Bosnian Voices

12 Nov



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 9.30pm 
A NIGHT FOR CREATION
Festival d'Aix en Provence

United Kingdom
http://www.festival-aix.com/en



Benjamin de la Fuente sets the tone for this one-off evening with a work in an unusual format. Playing on different perceptions of sound, from electronic music to chamber music, this versatile artist is particularly alive to the subtle notions of “gesture” and musical invention. Echoing this world premiere, creations by today’s composers complete the program, highlighting the richness and diversity of the contemporary repertoire. Ever eager to support and promote contemporary creation, the Académie is teaming up with SACEM to commission new works from young composers. In a world premiere, they are interpreted by former Académie artists.


Benjamin de la Fuente : Piece for two string quartets, drums and recorded voice

12 Nov



Germany
 Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 7pm 
David Philip Hefti Premiere
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Germany
0431-23 70 70
http://www.shmf.de/en/Home

Baiba Skride, Violin
Lauma Skride, Piano

Since 1990, the Paul Hindemith Prize has been awarded every year as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. The prize is awarded to and intended to promote exceptional young composers of contemporary music. At the same time, the prize honors the music educator, Paul Hindemith, who was commissioned in 1932 to compose the "Plöner Musiktag" work for the State Education Board in Plön. Past prize winners include Lera Auerbach (2005), Michel van der Aa (2006), Dai Fujikura (2007), Márton Illés (2008), Johannes Maria Staud (2009), Sascha Lino Lemke (2010), Markus Lehmann-Horn (2011), Li Bo (2012), Maximilian Schnaus (2013) and Bernd Richard Deutsch (2014). In 2015 the Swiss composer David Philip Hefti was awared. At the same time he obtained the commission to compose a new work for the SHMF, which will be premiered by the renowned Latvian sisters Baiba and Lauma Skride . In addition, works composed by Paul Hindemith and the new prizewinner will also be played.

David Philip Hefti : Poème noctambule for violine and piano

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United Kingdom
 Friday, July 15, 2016 at 7.30pm 
Fidelio Trio
Cheltenham Festival

United Kingdom

Fidelio Trio
Sinéad Morrissey poet/reader

Alongside a premiere from 2015 RPS Composition Prize-winner Hunter Coblentz comes a new Beyond Borders-funded collaboration between Belfast residents Sinéad Morrissey and Piers Hellawell. The poetic sequence of 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize-winner Morrissey muses on the theme of migration, borders and sanctuary, and develops the poetic transfiguration in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht.



Piers Hellawell : Up By The Roots
Hunter Coblentz : Trio
Michael Zev Gordon : In the Middle of Things
Arnold Schoenberg : Verklärte Nacht

16 Nov



United Kingdom
 Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 8pm 
Sally Beamish Showcase
Cheltenham Festival

United Kingdom

Red Note Ensemble
Crawford Logan actor

Hailing from Scotland, like Sally Beamish herself, the outstanding Red Note Ensemble comes to Cheltenham with a 60th birthday tribute to this ever-distinctive composer. The Sins is a semi-theatrical work for actor and ensemble, taking as its starting point a new translation by Phil Hind of the ‘seven deadly sins’ section from Langland’s 14th century narrative poem Piers Plowman. Modern and medieval allegories merge powerfully with Beamish’s own emotionally vivid language.



Sally Beamish : Commedia
Sally Beamish : Piobaireachd for piano
Sally Beamish : The Sins

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United Kingdom
 Sunday, July 24, 2016 at 3.30pm 
Howells and Lancaster
Three Choirs Festival
Three Choirs Festival Association 7c College Green Gloucester GL1 2LX
United Kingdom
01452 768928
http://www.3choirs.org

Anna Gillingham soprano

Juliet Curnow contralto

Peter Harris tenor

James Geidt baritone

St Cecilia Singers

The Bristol Ensemble

Jonathan Hope conductor



3.30 pm Cirencester Parish Church

£27, £22

A coach will depart from Lower Westgate Street at 2.15 pm. Ticket £9 return

Philip Lancaster's new War Passion for chamber choir and ensemble is a telling of the Passion story interspersed with words by nine First World War poets, offering both a commentary on the Passion and a parallel narrative recounting the experience and sacrifice of that war. It is paired with the searing Requiem by Herbert Howells, inspired by the death from polio of the composer's nine-year-old son Michael.




Herbert Howells : Requiem
Philip Lancaster : War Passion

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United Kingdom
 Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at 7.30pm 
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com

Ray Chen violin
The BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis conductor

Vaughan Williams’s Toward the Unknown Region was his first large-scale masterpiece, setting the visionary words of Walt Whitman.
Sir Andrew Davis also conducts Tchaikovsky’s swashbuckling The Tempest and the first performance of Anthony Payne’s Of Land, Sea and Sky. Bruch’s radiant First Violin Concerto completes the programme.


Pyotr Tchaikovsky : The Tempest
Anthony Payne : Of Land, Sea and Sky
Max Bruch : Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams : Toward the Unknown Region

27 Nov



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 7pm 
Michael Berkeley Premiere
Royal Albert Hall, London
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP
United Kingdom
020 7589 8212
http://www.royalalberthall.com/
boxofficeenquiries@royalalberthall.com

Paul Dukas’s brief, intoxicating ballet La Péri opens tonight’s Prom, before Chloë Hanslip gives the world premiere of a new Violin Concerto by Michael Berkeley.

Jac van Steen conducts excerpts from one of the most dramatic and colourfully scored of all ballets, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, a highlight of our series marking 400 years since the death of Shakespeare.


Chloë Hanslip violin
Diego Espinosa tabla
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Jac van Steen conductor


Paul Dukas : La Péri – Fanfare
Michael Berkeley : Violin Concerto
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo and Juliet

28 Nov



United Kingdom
 Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm 
Sigyn Fosnes, Ásdis Valdimarsdóttir, Ruth Nelson, Kari Ravnan, Simon Lane
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
Wales
United Kingdom
01970 623232
http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/
cardiff_new_music_collective@yahoo.co.uk

Sigyn Fossnes (violin) Ásdis Valdimarsdóttir (viola) Ruth Nelson (viola) * Kari Ravnan (cello) Simon Lane (piano) Joseph Shiner (clarinet) * Anya Fadina (piano)*



Kenneth Hesketh : Threats and Declamations
Per Husby : ‘Mechanic Breath’ for violin, piano and music box

28 Nov



Austria
 Thursday, July 28, 2016 at 7pm 
The Exterminating Angel
Salzburger Festspiele
various, Salzburg, Austria
Austria
ttel.: +43-662-8045-500
http://www.salzburgfestival.at/
info@salzburgfestival.at



With its fusion of realistic, surreal and religious elements, El ángel exterminador constitutes a summa of Buñuel’s oeuvre prior to his late French works. Thomas Adès has chosen the film as the basis for his third opera: ‘It’s territory that I like very much because it looks as though the people are in a room, but it’s not really about the room, they’re actually trapped in their own heads.’ The enclosed, self-contained situation links the subject with both of Adès’s earlier works for the stage: with the hotel room of the Duchess of Argyll in his chamber opera Powder Her Face (1995), described in a recent article in the Observer as already having the status of a modern classic, and with Prospero’s island in the Shakespeare-based opera The Tempest, which since its first performance in London in 2004 has also impressed audiences at the Met, the Vienna State Opera and other houses, further cementing Adès’s reputation as one of today’s most exciting (opera) composers. The librettist of The Exterminating Angel, Tom Cairns, who is also directing the premiere, has reduced the twenty-one main characters of Buñuel’s film to fifteen by merging a number of figures, still an astonishing number of protagonists, making The Exterminating Angel a true ensemble opera. In musical terms this means that it will deal less with the psychology of the individual figures than express the often abrupt changes in emotional temperature of the communication and human relationships, realizing individual and collective moods. ‘Particularly in opera, you have to deal with the creation of atmos-phere, of emotional atmosphere’, emphasizes Adès; however, this atmosphere should not have the character of decorative accompaniment but arise directly from the musical fabric. The fact that the situations in The Exterminating Angel constantly tip over into the absurd and surreal makes the story all the more attractive for Adès: the musicologist Richard Taruskin had already called him ‘a surrealist composer’ in 1999, and Tom Service, a writer on music intimately familiar with Adès’s works, admires how the composer casts even very familiar musical ingredients – major and minor chords, say, or sequences of simple intervals – in a wholly new light, making them sound ‘rich and strange’.

SCHEDULE

July 28, 2016 19:00:00
August 01, 2016 19:00:00
August 05, 2016 19:00:00
August 08, 2016 19:00:00


Thomas Ades : The Exterminating Angel

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United Kingdom
 Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm 
Orion Orchestra
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth
Wales
United Kingdom
01970 623232
http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/
cardiff_new_music_collective@yahoo.co.uk

Orion Orchestra, Toby Purser (conductor)



Kenneth Hesketh : Notte Oscura

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