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12 Dec
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Monday, March 12, 2012 at 18.00-20.00 Composer Mehdi Hosseini's "Monodies" in concert POST SCRIPTUM Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory 3 Teatralnaya sq. Russia http://petersburgcity.com/news/culture/2012/02/24/Mehdi-Hosseini_240212/
Presenting “Post Scriptum” Monday, March 12th 2012 in the Chamber Hall of the Saint-Petersburg Conservatory. Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseini’s “Monodies” will be performed by the New music ensemble Sound Ways under the direction of American conductor Brad Everett Cawyer. Mr. Hosseini has dedicated this work to 20th century Italian composer Luciano Berio. Its world premier was in the Glinka Hall of the Saint-Petersburg State Philharmonic on the opening day of the 23rd International New Music Festival “Sound Ways.”
Hosseini often uses the word monodies not only as the title of his composition, but also as a musical term; by which he means the characteristics of single voice structures, adapting themselves to any musical texture. The composer recently had a new recording published in Tehran, which also takes on the title Monodis. For this album he collected compositions which were written based on regional folk tunes from different parts of Iran. The album was recorded in Russia by well-known local soloists, ensembles, and the Saint-Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra and State Academic Orchestra. All of the compositions were written between 2003 and 2009.
In the last few years, Mehdi Hosseini has been actively participating in contemporary music projects local to St. Petersburg, the “Cultural Capital of Russia.” His music is regularly performed in such festivals as St. Petersburg Musical Spring, Contemporary East and West, Contemporary Past, Sound Ways and others. His music has been performed in concert by orchestras such as The St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra and more. Works of Hosseini have been published by theCompozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg.
Hosseini made an invaluable contribution to the development of the St. Petersburg cultural scene in 2010 when he opened the St. Petersburg Contemporary Music Center “reMusik.org”
Iranian composer Mehdi Hosseini was born in 1979 in Tehran. Hosseini began his musical training in Iran, studying Persian music and the fundaments of composition under the guidance of Farhad Fakhreddini.
Following his studies in Iran, Hosseini finished his Master’s degree at the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory with Professor Alexander Minatsakanian and his Doctor of Music degree (DMA) in Composition with Sergei Slonimsky. Hosseini also studied composition with composer Nigel Osborn, worked on problems of music theory under the direction of professor T. Bershadskaya, and is presently a Doctoral Candidate of Musicology at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory.
Mehdi Hosseini : Monodies
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12 Dec
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Monday, March 12, 2012 at 7.30pm Judith Weir: Miss Fortune Covent Garden - Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London United Kingdom http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
Tickets: Various Conductor
Paul Daniel
Tina (Miss Fortune)
Emma Bell
Lord Fortune
Alan Ewing
Lady Fortune
Kathryn Harries
Fate
Andrew Watts
Hassan
Noah Stewart
Donna
Anne-Marie Owens
Simon
Jacques Imbrailo
Chorus
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
The UK premiere of a new opera takes a roller-coaster ride through life in the company of fate. Leading British opera composer Judith Weir transposes the Sicilian folktale Misfortune to today as the daughter of a rich family turns her back on wealth to make her own way in the world – too often with unfortunate results. Not many operas combine great music with breakdancing and a burning kebab van, but Miss Fortune does all this and more under the direction of Chen Shi-Zheng (his spectacular staging of Monkey: Journey to the West was presented at the Royal Opera House in 2008). This new, approachable and engaging opera had its premiere at the Bregenz Festival in summer 2011 and now comes to the Royal Opera stage with the same acclaimed cast – Emma Bell sings the title role and former Jette Parker Young Artist singer Jacques Imbrailo plays her eventual love Simon. Paul Daniel conducts this effective and atmospheric score in a visually beautiful and inventive production whose story is funny, touching, moral and contemporary. Miss Fortune continues the series of high-profile new works of recent years that have included Anna Nicole, The Tempest and The Minotaur. With the added impact of the world-class Royal Opera Chorus Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune is a highlight of this Royal Opera Season.
Judith Weir : Miss Fortune
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13 Dec
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7.30pm Nash Inventions Wigmore Hall, London 36 Wigmore St, London W1 United Kingdom 02079352141 http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Tickets: £12 £14 £18 £22 Nash Ensemble
Wigmore Hall Chamber Ensemble in Residence
Claire Booth
soprano
Lionel Friend
conductor
The Nash Ensemble, Wigmore Hall’s renowned chamber ensemble in residence, presents its annual selection of Nash Inventions, consisting of music by a roll-call of Britain’s leading composers.
There are revivals of recent works written specially for the Ensemble and two works by senior figures of the highest international standing.
Mark-Anthony Turnage : Returning, for string sextet Colin Matthews : The Island, for soprano and seven instruments Alexander Goehr : Clarinet Quintet Peter Maxwell Davies : Clarinet Quintet Harrison Birtwistle : Fantasia on all the notes, for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp Jonathan Harvey : Song Offerings, for soprano and eight instruments
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13 Dec
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 1.10 pm A Manchester Mid-day Concert 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
Tickets: £9.00 Richard Uttley, piano
Richard Uttley began piano lessons at the age of nine. He studied with Ian Buckle at the Junior School of the Royal Northern College of Music before reading music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double first in Music in 2008. His dance-inspired programme contrasts the precision of Bach with the clarity and the deft colours of Debussy. Richard completed his Master’s of Performance (with Distinction) in September 2010 at the Guildhall School of Music in Drama in London, where he studied with Martin Roscoe.
J.S Bach : Partita No.1 in B flat BWV 825 Frederyk Chopin : Five Mazurkas, Op.7 Claude Debussy : Images from Book 1 Thomas Ades : Three Mazurkas, Op.27 Frederyk Chopin : Polonaise in A flat, Op.53 ‘Heroic’
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15 Dec
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 8.00 pm American Mavericks: MTT, Emanuel Ax, and John Adams Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco United States http://www.sfsymphony.org
Tickets: $35 to $140 Michael Tilson Thomas
conductor
Emanuel Ax
piano
Paul Jacobs
organ
Mason Bates
electronica
St. Lawrence String Quartet
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony
Two world premieres by Bay Area residents round out the American Mavericks concerts. Mason Bates, who is also the Project San Francisco composer, brings his individual style of electronica and choral writing to Mass Transmission. And John Adams introduces Absolute Jest, featuring the St. Lawrence String Quartet and based on fragments of Beethoven scherzos. Rounding out the evening is pianist Emanuel Ax with the SFS in Feldman’s work of free-floating rhythms and slowly evolving sounds, Piano and Orchestra. The Orchestra reprises its highly praised performance of Varèse’s Amériques.
Mason Bates : Mass Transmission John Adams : Absolute Jest Morton Feldman : Piano and Orchestra Edgar Varèse : Amériques
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16 Dec
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17 Dec
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 7.30pm Circus Tricks Riverside Studios, Hammersmith Crisp Road Hammersmith London W6 9RL United Kingdom 020 8237 1111 http://www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Tickets: £18 Cast:
Alice (Trapeze Artist): Yvette Bonner
Xiu (Mongolian Contortionist): Lilly Papaioannou
Tanya (Knife Thrower’s Assistant): Alison Crookendale
Jack (Knife Thrower): Daniel Broad
Barney (Trick Pony): Christopher Diffey
Tom (Acrobat): Daniel Keating-Roberts
Jemmy (Acrobat, brother of Tom): Simon Wilding
Chroma:
Sarah O’Flynn Flute/Piccolo
Stuart King (16 March Massimo di Trolio) Clarinet/Bass Clarinet
Heidi Bennett Trumpet
Clare O’Connell (20 March Chris Allan) Cello
Steve Gibson Percussion
Elena Hull Bass
Music Director: Gerry Cornelius
Circus Tricks by Michael Henry & Adey Grummet is set in the spellbinding, fleeting world of the circus, where laughter is tragic, tears are hilarious and wonder both wrenches the heart and makes it soar!
The knife thrower’s assistant cannot stand the pain of her secret love for the knife thrower, an acrobat fights the world through the bottle, his brother struggles to catch him one more time, the trapeze artist is entranced by the pursuit of a single moment of weightlessness, the horse dreams of running in straight lines and the contortionist is just plain lonely.
And then there’s the elephant…
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17 Dec
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 7.30pm Hear and Now: New Music from New Zealand and Aust City Halls Glasgow Scotland
Stephen De Pledge piano*
Otto Tausk conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
The BBC SSO presents an evening of music by composers from New Zealand and Australia, many of them European Premieres.
Edinburgh-based composer Lyell Creswell's Piano Concerto, written for a close friend, is by turns melancholic, angry, and contemplative, while Jack Body's Little Elegies was composed in response to the horrors of war. Liza Lim's work has been acclaimed for its vibrancy and colour and the orchestra gives the UK Premiere of one of her new works while Helen Bowater's New Year Fanfare re-captures a raucous Hogmanay in Java.
Expect vibrancy, energy and some exotic instrumentation as the countries' composers fuse European, Pacific and Asian influences to stunning effect under the direction of the young Dutch conductor Otto Tausk.
Tickets: Free (unreserved seating) limited to 4 tickets per application (children under age of 12 not admitted) (booking fee may apply).
This concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3's regular late-night Saturday programme Hear and Now.
Helen Bowater : New Year Fanfare Lyell Cresswell : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - in memory of Edward Harper Samuel Holloway : Fault Liza Lim : Pearl, Ochre, Hair String
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17 Dec
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Saturday, March 17, 2012 at Total Immersion: Brett Dean Barbican Hall, London Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2 United Kingdom 020 7638 8891 http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £31 / 28 / 25 / 22 / 18/ free
Brett Dean in conversation plus a performance by the composer of his Intimate Decisions for solo viola.
Various concerts during the day. Please visit:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/series.asp?id=968
There are a range of Total Immersion day passes available, which include admission to all events on Thursday 17 March and reflect the prices for tickets in the Barbican Hall. Total Immersion Day passes are not available to book online, but can be booked by calling the Box Office on 020 7638 8891 or in person.
Brett Dean : Various Concerts
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18 Dec
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 7:15pm - 9:00pm LEGENDARY DRUMMER CHICO HAMILTON DROM, New York , 85 Ave A (b/w 5th & 6th St) in East Village United States (212) 777-1157 http://www.dromnyc.com/events/772/composers-concordance-records-release-party
Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at door DROM presents EUPHORIC – Celebrating the Life & Music of Chico Hamilton for three Sunday night performances this Spring (March – May) featuring Chico and his long-time touring band featuring Nick Demopoulos (guitar), Paul Ramsey (bass), Evan Schwam (flute + reeds), Mayu Saeki (flute), and Jeremy Carlstedt (drums + percussion) as well as special featured guests TBA. Program includes mostly Chico originals off of Revelation ranging from the samba-ish gem “Footprints in the Sand” to the ballad “Every Time I Smile.”
http://www.dromNYC.com
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18 Dec
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 3.00pm - 5.00pm Cantata Singers Presents a Musical Reflection on The Passion Jordan Hall, Boston 30 Gainsborough Street United States 617-585-1260 http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: General $17-$32, Students $10 As part of its season-long dedication to creating harmonious contexts for J.S. Bach’s music, Cantata Singers presents The Passion, an Eastertide program of Bach masterpieces coupled by a few unexpected companions. In recognition of the emotions evoked by The Passion’s events, this Cantata Singers concert features untraditional Passion music.
Pre-concert lecture with David Hoose at 2:00PM in the Keller roomm.
www.cantatasingers.org
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19 Dec
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Monday, March 19, 2012 at 8.00 pm Fracas IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris
France
Tickets: 14€ Shigeko Hata soprano
Michaël Chanu, bass
Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
Conductor Daniel Kawka
Computer Music Design Christophe Lebreton (Grame), Gilbert Nouno (IRCAM)
"Above, a strident stone shatters." At the beginning of Droben Schmettert ein greller Stein, a drama by Michael Jarrell, the harmonic pizzicato of the solo bass that fathers the rich harmonic universe of a gripping work, rooted in the low register.
Kenji Sakai, a student of Jarrell's in Geneva, developed his own art of orchestration during his time at IRCAM, and today uses the resources made available in this field by computer music applications: targets, screens, and new possibilities of timbre combinations.
In this concert created by Grame, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, and IRCAM, the work by Ondøej Adámek refuses neither the slightest timbre effect nor acoustic illusion. Since his work, Nôise, we have been aware of the Czech composer's proximity with Japan and of his interest in the voice: ranting, speaking, or singing. He is inspired here by Japanese mechanical dolls, by perfection, and by the concentration of a living mechanism.
Kenji Sakai : Fog and Bubbles Ondøej Adámek : Karakuri-Poupée Mécanique Michael Jarrell : Droben Schmettert ein greller Stein
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20 Dec
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7.30pm Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin 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
Tickets: £10.00 - £40.00 Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Lambert Orkis piano
2011 marked the 35th anniversary of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Lucerne Festival debut at the age of 13. Ever since, the renowned German virtuoso has been an advocate of new music. Lutoslawski wrote his Partita for her in 1984; a work considered among the finest for violin and piano since 1945. In a programme revealing the full breadth of her musicianship, Anne-Sophie Mutter performs a youthful work by Mozart; Schubert’s technically demanding Fantasy, concluding with an epic Sonata by Saint-Saëns.
‘Mutter’s gold thread is reduced to a dusky murmur, before shifting through tones as subtle as they are various. Orkis’s contribution is equally vital…pedalling up a penumbra of resonance to balance Mutter’s whispers.’ - The Sunday Times
CD Signing with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis
Part of The Bridgewater Hall's International Concert Series.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Violin Sonata in G, KV379 Franz Schubert : Fantasy in C, D934 Witold Lutoslawski : Partita (for ASM) Camille Saint-Saëns : Violin Sonata No.1 in D minor Op.75
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Friday, March 23, 2012 at 7:30pm - 9pm Organist Gail Archer Presents “An American Idyll”- a Quintet of Free NYC Concerts Featuring Works by American Composers St. Francis Xavier Church, NYC 46 West 16th Street United States
Tickets: FREE Internationally renowned star concert organist Gail Archer celebrates the distinctive voice of American organ music in An American Idyll - a five-concert series touring the churches and synagogues of New York City. Performing a colorful collection of organ music by 20th and 21st century American composers, Archer is slated to premiere two commissioned works: organ preludes He Leadeth me! O Blessed Tho’t!, Be Thou My Vision, and Eternal Father, Strong to Save by Columbia alumnus Hayes Biggs; and a new work (title TBA) by Pulitzer-prize finalist and Vassar College professor Harold Meltzer. Hailed for championing contemporary organ music by female composers, Archer will also feature works by Joan Tower, Judith Lang Zaimont, Pamela Decker, Claire Shore, Libby Larsen, Emma Lou Diemer, and Kim D. Sherman.
www.gailarcher.com
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24 Dec
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 7.30pm
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
Tickets: £9.50 - £45 St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Simon Trpèeski piano
There’s nothing like seeing a legendary Russian orchestra unleashing the full power and passion of the great Russian masterworks. The St Petersburg Philharmonic enjoyed close associations with both Prokofiev and Shostakovich, whose works they perform tonight, alongside Rachmaninov’s richly romantic Second Piano Concerto with virtuoso Simon Trpèeski.
Classic FM’s Anne-Marie Minhall, recommends tonight’s concert: “A few years ago I got to hear the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra perform under its conductor, Yuri Temirkanov, in its home city – I’ve never forgotten what a wonderful experience it was… this all-Russian programme looks to be a knockout.”
Sergei Prokofiev : Classical Symphony Sergei Rachmaninov : Piano Concerto No 2 Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony No 5
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Friday, March 30, 2012 at 7:30pm - 9:00pm, New York City CIRCADIA ENSEMBLE PRESENTS THE PAST IS PROLOGUE Christ & St Stephen's Church 120 West 69th St United States 212-787-2755 http://www.csschurch.org/?page=concerts concert@csschurch.org
Tickets: FREE CONCERT Kaoru Hinata, flute
Christopher Cullen, clarinet
Lynn Bechtold, violin
Jennifer DeVore, cello
Laura Barger, piano
On Friday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m., New York–based chamber ensemble Circadia will perform The Past Is Prologue. Four modern composers re-imagine music of the past, from the church vocal music of the German Renaissance to Elizabethan court music, from vaudeville to bebop—and finally to music from a culture that never actually existed.
Charles Wuorinen's Bearbeitungen über das Glogauer Liederbuch is a kaleidoscopic development of 15th-century church vocal music preserved in the songbook of a German cathedral. Thomas Adès' Court Studies from The Tempest is an evocative arrangement for clarinet, strings and piano from the composer's operatic setting of the Shakespeare play. Dan Cooper's Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Piano channels vaudeville, bebop, and other styles in a collection of concise little movements. Steven Mackey set out to create a completely original work which still evokes the distant past in Indigenous Instruments. With retuned strings and a vocabulary of primitive sounds, Mackey draws us into a soundscape that could have been but never was.
Founded in 1998, Circadia is committed to exploring and expanding the chamber music repertoire for winds, especially in combination with other instruments. Through concerts as well as education and outreach appearances, the members of our ensemble seek to introduce new audiences to chamber works ranging from the familiar to the innovative.
Dan Cooper : Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Piano Thomas Ades : Court Studies from the Tempest Steven Mackey : Indigenous Instruments Charles Wuorinen : Bearbeitungen über das Glogauer Liederbuch
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31 Dec
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31 Dec
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 7.00 pm Shape-Shifting Schott Recital Room @ Bauer & Hieber 48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F7BB United Kingdom
Tickets: £10 £7 (concessions) Contakt, an experimental ensemble of composers and performers:
Karen Burnell: horn/percussion, Paul Burnell: oboe/percussion, Ann Wolff: voice, Derek Foster: piano, Deborah Edwards: piano, Kerry Andrews: cello; with Sally Davies: voice/violin and Jonathan Ticher: piano
Shifting back and leaning forward, samples of British and American sound works
John Cage : Winter Music with Sound Anonymously Received Cornelius Cardew : Octet '61 Morton Feldman : Piece for 4 Pianos David Lumsdaine : Six Postcards Steve Reich : Clapping Music Kerry Andrews : Ghost Studies Paul Burnell : Take Flight Paul Burnell : This is not a rehearsal Derek Foster : Re-Jig Deborah Broderick Edwards : shape-shifting Ann Wolff : Take That Ann Wolff : Tessa's Tale Ann Wolff : Long Scissors
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