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Sunday, November 14, 2010 at
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
BCMG conducted by Oliver Knussen
This bite-sized interactive concert for young people and families will explore the energetic and jazz-influenced music of composer Mark-Anthony Turnage as well as other pieces from the evening programme. Come early to take part in fun activities in the foyer. The concert will last about an hour.
Families@ is a series of BCMG concerts which explore one or two pieces from our evening concerts in an informal and relaxed way.
For more information please visit: www.bcmg.org.uk
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Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 8pm
Mark-Anthony Turnage 50th Birthday Concert
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 conc / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conc / £6
BCMG
Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Violin: Alexandra Wood
Cello: Ulrich Heinen
We are delighted to celebrate Mark-Anthony Turnage’s 50th birthday year in our 2010/11 season, in a concert conducted by Turnage’s former teacher Oliver Knussen, BCMG Artist-in-Association and winner of this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Conductor Award.
Twenty-one years have passed since Three Screaming Popes was premiered by Sir Simon Rattle and the CBSO, marking the happy beginning of Turnage’s four-year residency in Birmingham and laying the foundations of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s strong relationship with one of Britain’s foremost composers.
No piece symbolises this strong relationship better than Turnage’s Kai and it is fitting that our birthday celebrations include what is one of our most successful commissions to-date. Kai was premiered by BCMG, Ulrich Heinen and Sir Simon Rattle in December 1990. This jazz-influenced cello concerto was written in memory of Kai Scheffler (principle cellist of Frankfurt’s Ensemble Modern at his tragically early death) and features music from an aria entitled Sleep On from Turnage’s abandoned opera, Mingus.
Performed either side of Kai are three more Turnage works – all full of the jazz-infl uenced energy and rhythms that have filled his vivid sound world to date. Oliver Knussen conducted the premieres of both Crying Out Loud, a boisterous and extrovert Ensemble Modern commission from 2003, and Dark Crossing, written for the London Sinfonietta in 2000. Completing our Turnage snapshot, we give the UK premiere of Three for two, a piano quartet written for conductor Christophe Eschenbach’s 70th birthday in February this year.
Oliver Knussen, a long-standing supporter of Mark-Anthony Turnage, has also been a mentor for our Apprentice Composer-in-Residence, Charlotte Bray, whose new violin concerto is given its world premiere. Hans Werner Henze is represented by his short but typically intense and beautiful piano trio Adagio, adagio. That Henze was an important mentor for Turnage, and Bray a former pupil of his, adds a nice touch to the evening’s celebrations.
There will be a pre-concert talk at 7pm with Mark-Anthony Turnage and Charlotte Bray, open to all ticket holders, lasting approx. 30 minutes.
The BCMG/Sound and Music Apprentice Composer-in-Residence scheme is generously supported by The Leverhulme Trust.
Mark-Anthony Turnage : Crying Out Loud
Mark-Anthony Turnage : Three for two (UK premiere)
Mark-Anthony Turnage : Kai* (BCMG commission 1990)
Charlotte Bray : Caught in Treetops
Hans Werne Henze : Adagio Adagio
Mark-Anthony Turnage : Dark Crossing
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Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 7-8pm
St Giles in the Fields
60, St Giles High Street, London WC2H 8LG
United Kingdom
http://www.stgilesonline.org
Tickets: £5
Illumination
chamber choir, conducted by Janette Ruocco
Tickets at the door
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18 Dec
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Friday, November 19, 2010 at 8.00pm
Noszferatu XL
Cafe Oto, London
22 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL
United Kingdom
Tickets: £6
Speaker: Howard Skempton
Flute: Finn Peters
Sax/Bass Cl: James Allsopp
Trumpet: Tom Allan
Tuba: Oren Marshall
Viola: Rose Redgrave
Cello: Clare O'Connell
Percussion: Dave Price
Piano: Ivo de Greef
Maverick New Music collective Noszferatu, in an expanded line-up that features some this country's finest instrumentalists from the worlds of both contemporary classical and jazz, perform music by Howard Skempton and Frederic Rzewski including two world premieres.
Frederic Rzewski and Howard Skempton are two genuine icons of contemporary music whose works share common values: honesty, fragility, rawness, generosity and playfulness. Tonight's event compares and contrasts their work and includes work ranging from Rzewski's viscerally charged Coming Together (tonight with Howard Skempton as speaker) written in response to Attica prison riot of 1971, through to the exquisite delicacy of Skempton's miniature masterpieces. The programme also includes the world premiere of Flowers by Frederic Rzewski and a new version of Skempton's Sirens, especially for tonight's concert.
Frederic Rzewski : Flowers
Howard Skempton : This way up
Howard Skempton : In Tandem
Howard Skempton : Sirens
Frederic Rzewski : Coming together
Frederic Rzewski : Attica
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 5:30pm
Lux Aeterna: Contemporary Greek Composers
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
Crisp Road Hammersmith London W6 9RL
United Kingdom
020 8237 1111
http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Tickets: £15/£12 concs
I Maestri Chamber Orchestra with soprano Katerina Mina, pianist Vicky Yannoula under conductor Anastasios Strikos
One of the Festival highlights, this recital is an exciting collaboration between London-based I Maestri Chamber Orchestra, sensational opera star Katerina Mina and accomplished pianist Vicky Yannoula under the baton of international conductor Anastasios Strikos. The recital features works by some of the most prominent, innovative and celebrated contemporary Greek and Cypriot composers, including Theodorakis, Koumendakis, Baltas, Tsalahouris, Papageorgiou and Kalomoiris.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Music Iris ( Shonorities )
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
Crisp Road Hammersmith London W6 9RL
United Kingdom
020 8237 1111
http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Tickets: £15/£12 concs (The price includes admission to the 5:30 pm concert 'Lux Aeterna' )
Vocalist Shie Shoji and Violinist Stelios Chatziiosifidis
Choreographer: Sarah Fahie
Music by Basil Athanasiadis and Gyorgy Kurtag.
Inspired by the idea of ‘thought fragments’, fresh new production ‘Music Iris’ explores the notion of impermanence that is implicit in birth and death. Making its UK premier, this fusion of opera and musical theatre by vibrant music group Shonorities is a staged performance of Gyorgy Kurtag’ song cycle ‘Kafka Fragments’ and ‘Garden d’ Iris’ by Basil Athanasiadis, involving stage action, puppetry and dance.
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 8:30pm
Cristo Barrios and the Elias Quartet
The Shoe Factory
304 Ermou Nicosia, 1017
Cyprus
003577000 9304
http://www.thepharostrust.org
info@pharosartsfoundation.org
Tickets: EUR22
Cristo Barrios, clarinet
Elias String Quartet
The Pharos Arts Foundation presents a concert with the Spanish clarinettist Cristo Barrios, described by UK's International Record Review as "an alert, sensitive player who knows how to make new audiences for his instrument", and the Elias String Quartet, whose performances are described by The Sunday Telegraph as "Marvellous playing", "poetic, charismatic, virtuosic".
The concert will include Britten's Three Divertimenti and Schumann's String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, as well as the world premiere of a new work for clarinet and string quartet by the Cypriot composer and conductor Christina Athinodorou, whose works have been described by NuovaSesto Periodico as "looking back at her tradition to trace, through music, the path of her homeland, Cyprus, transporting the audience to a Mediterranean aura with an exotic taste".
Christina Athinodorou : Sterna
Benjamin Britten : Three Divertimenti
Robert Schumann : String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41
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Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 5.00pm-12.00pm
ELECTROMEDIAWORKS_10 An Annual Meeting for the Collective Arts and Artistic Synergies
EMW Koumaria 10
ΚΝΟΤ GALLERY (Michalakopoulou & Pyrrou [entrance from Pyrrou] Athens)
Greece
00306940808727 , 0030 6945532887
http://www.medeaelectronique.com
info@medeaelectronique.com
Tickets: 5 Euros
• HELLENIC ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC COMPOSERS ASSOCIATION [H.E.L.M.C.A] (www.essim.gr)
• CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC RESEARCH [C.M.R.C] (www.ksyme.gr)
• BEFORE LIGHT www.beforelight.com
• FTOUXELEFTERIA http://omadaftouxelefteria.blogspot.com/
• M55 PROJECTS (www.m55projects.gr/ )
• OPER(O) (www.myspace.com/operoteam )
• ODC ENSEMBLE (www.myspace.com/odcensemble1)
• MAD SCIENTIST MACHINE ORCHESTRA (http://www.kenaxis.com/mad-scientist-machine/)
• Κ.S.Υ.Μ.Ε ENSEMBLE (http://www.ksyme.gr)
• INSTANT SYNTHESIS ENSEMBLE (I.S.E) (KOYMARIA_10)
• HELLENIC ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC COMPOSERS ASSOCIATION [H.E.L.M.C.A] (www.essim.gr)
• OPER(O) (www.myspace.com/operoteam)
• STUDIO 19 (www.studio19st.com)
• 4+1 (www.myspace.com/tesseraena)
• HOULE_SMULOVITZ DUO (www.vivianehoule.ca)
In the context of ElectroMediaWorks_10 the collective Medeaelectronique (www.medeaelectronique.com) will host KOUMARIA_10, an intensive 10 days Residency at the foot of Mount Taigetos. A 400 square meter residency in a huge private olive field, including a converted mixed-media art studio, will be transformed this November into a laboratory for contemporary art.
Greek and international artists, theoreticians, scientists from different disciplines and backgrounds, are invited to work together and form the Instant Synthesis Ensemble (I.S.E) in order to develop a collective arts project. The outcome of this effort will be introduced in Athens among other productions, presentations in a twoday Collective arts Meeting at KNOT gallery (http://knotarts.blogspot.com).
ElectroMediaWorks is an annual meeting for innovative media art, electronic media art, electronic music and cross-over art, aiming to revive in the future the EMW Festival (www.emw.gr). Koumaria Residency and ElectroMediaWorks embrace a wide range of themes and techniques that promote knowledge and enhance the exchange of ideas and ‘materials’ in order to highlight and reveal the processes of collective creativity within the theory, technology, philosophy and innovative contemporary art practices of mixed media arts.
ElectroMediaWorks_10 will revolve around two broad themes: Collective Arts and Artistic Synergies. The program will feature talks led by our Guests, workshops, presentations and performances later in the day. A dialogue amongst a diverse range of independent collectives, cooperating groups, spaces, institutions etc. will give us the opportunity to explore ideas, methods and practical aspects of the collective creative process, among other issues.
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Friday, November 26, 2010 at 7.30pm
Promised End - Alexander Goehr
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh
Snape Maltings Concert Hall,Snape,Suffolk,IP17 1SP
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1728 687110
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk
enquiries@aldeburgh.co.uk
Tickets: £28, £25, £21, £16, £11, Under 27s half price
English Touring Opera
Conductor - Ryan Wigglesworth
Director - James Conway
English Touring Opera presents Promised End, a new opera based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, by leading British composer Alexander Goehr. Promised End consists of 24 short scenes, selected, distilled and re-arranged by the composer and by scholar Sir Frank Kermode. The effect is to emphasise one aspect of Shakespeare’s great play: King Lear and the Earl of Gloucester, men who in their prime committed errors of judgment, bringing upon themselves their own tragic destinies.
Goehr, a leading composer with a distinguished career in Europe and Asia particularly, has drawn upon a range of influences in creating what he says will be his last opera. He describes the original ‘kernel’ idea as being inspired by Japanese Noh theatre and dance, also citing the influences such as the King Lear film adaptation of Koznitsev (with Shostakovich’s score), Bertolt Brecht, Ezra Pound, and a film by director Miklós Jancsó featuring a Hungarian military band – on which Goehr’s orchestration is partly based.
Booking details:
01728 687110
http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events/english-touring-opera-promised-end
Alexander Goehr : Promised End
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Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 3pm
BCMG conducted by Peter Rundel
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 conc / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conc / £6
BCMG
Conductor: Peter Rundel
Saxophone: Simon Haram
Clarinet: Timothy Lines
This high-octane mid-afternoon concert features works from two established younger composers – Tansy Davies and Enno Poppe.
In recent years Tansy Davies has established herself at the vanguard of the new wave of British composers, whilst Enno Poppe has risen to become one of Germany’s most exciting young composers and conductor of Berlin-based Ensemble Mosaik. Both composers write hyperactive music, often with driving rhythms and an urban edge, characteristics relished by conductor Peter Rundel.
This Anglo-German programme is framed by two works with wind soloists. Timothy Lines opens proceedings with Poppe’s Holz (wood – as in timber), for solo clarinet and ensemble, and saxophonist Simon Haram joins BCMG for Davies’ powerful saxophone concerto Iris, which will bring the concert to a close. Poppe’s Salz (salt), features a Hammond organ and increases in volume and tempo throughout to create a piece loaded with tense energy. Falling Angel, a BCMG Sound Investment commission from 2007, is the other Davies piece in the programme. Davies, whose music is informed by the worlds of both the classical avant-garde and experimental rock, found inspiration for this sometimes bright, sometimes dark piece in the texture of an Anselm Kiefer painting with the same title.
Contrasting with the high energy of Davies and Poppe is the hypnotic timbral piece a visible trace by the British-born, Berlin-based composer Rebecca Saunders. Saunders’ music is widely performed in Germany but rarely performed in the UK.
For more information please visit www.bcmg.org.uk
Enno Poppe : Holz
Tansy Davies : Falling Angel (BCMG Sound Investment commission 2007)
Enno Poppe : Salz
Rebecca Saunders : a visible trace
Tansy Davies : Iris
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Sunday, December 5, 2010 at 3pm
BCMG play Poppe, Davies and Saunders
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 conc / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conc / £6
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor: Christopher Austin
Conductor: Clement Power
Saxophone: Simon Haram
Clarinet: Timothy Lines
Peter Rundel is indisposed and has had to withdraw from this concert. We are very grateful to Christopher Austin and Clement Power for replacing him at short notice.
This high-octane mid-afternoon concert features works from two established younger composers – Tansy Davies and Enno Poppe.
In recent years Tansy Davies has established herself at the vanguard of the new wave of British composers, whilst Enno Poppe has risen to become one of Germany’s most exciting young composers and conductor of Berlin-based Ensemble Mosaik. Both composers write hyperactive music, often with driving rhythms and an urban edge.
This Anglo-German programme is framed by two works with wind soloists. Timothy Lines opens proceedings with Poppe’s Holz (wood – as in timber), for solo clarinet and ensemble, and saxophonist Simon Haram joins BCMG for Davies’ powerful saxophone concerto Iris, which will bring the concert to a close. Poppe’s Salz (salt), features a Hammond organ and increases in volume and tempo throughout to create a piece loaded with tense energy. Falling Angel, a BCMG Sound Investment commission from 2007, is the other Davies piece in the programme. Davies, whose music is informed by the worlds of both the classical avant-garde and experimental rock, found inspiration for this sometimes bright, sometimes dark piece in the texture of an Anselm Kiefer painting with the same title.
Contrasting with the high energy of Davies and Poppe is the hypnotic timbral piece a visible trace by the British-born, Berlin-based composer Rebecca Saunders. Saunders’ music is widely performed in Germany but rarely performed in the UK.
Enno Poppe : Holz
Tansy Davies : Falling Angel (BCMG Sound Investment commission 2007)
Tansy Davies : Iris
Rebecca Saunders : a visible trace
Enno Poppe : Salz
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 8.00pm
Trio IAMA new works
BKA Theatre
Mehringdamm 34, 10961 Berlin, Germany
Germany
030 202200-7
Trio IAMA: Jannis Anissegos, Maria Anissegou, Antonis Anissegos
Strange Geometry for flute, cello and piano circa 18 minutes.
Marc Yeats : Strange Geometry
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