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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Volkov
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £10 – 30
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Christine Rice mezzo soprano
Marcus Farnsworth baritone
Theatre is at the heart of David Sawer’s incisive and original music, and his new commission Flesh and Blood is a dramatic scena, with words by Howard Barker, featuring star soloists Christine Rice and Marcus Farnsworth. Dieter Schnebel’s Schubert-Fantasia recalls dreamlike fragments from Schubert’s G major Piano Sonata refracted through a shimmering haze of dissonant harmonies. 150 years earlier, Schubert wrote his ‘Great’ Ninth Symphony, a powerful feat of sustained momentum, driven by buoyant rhythms, explosive emotions and vast, inexorable climaxes which Ilan Volkov will no doubt shape with his characteristically dynamic vision.
Dieter Schnebel : Schubert-Phantasie (UK premiere)
David Sawer : Flesh and Blood (BBC commission: World premiere)
Franz Schubert : Symphony No 9 in C major, ‘Great’
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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 7pm
The Tyranny of Fun
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF
United Kingdom
0121 767 4050
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conc
Conductor/Piano: Ryan Wigglesworth
Piano: Nicolas Hodges
Electronics: Nye Parry
Richard Baker is one of the foremost composer-conductors of his generation. Commissioned through BCMG’s Sound Investment scheme, Baker’s new work for ensemble and electronics addresses the theme of ‘irrational exuberance’; taking in Ravel’s death-driven waltzes, and the sounds of 80s New York disco; with live electronics that Baker has developed together with his colleague, composer/sound artist Nye Parry.
BCMG premiered Causton’s Chamber Symphony in 2009 and this performance will be the Group’s first since Causton revised the piece following its premiere.
Giving context to these works are three pieces from the 1940s and 50s. Scored for unorthodox percussion instruments, John Cage’s Second Construction is one of a series of three works composed between 1939-42, while Cage was touring the west coast of America with a percussion ensemble.
Oiseaux exotiques (Exotic Birds), for piano and an orchestra of winds and percussion, is an enchanting sound fantasy containing imitations of no fewer than 40 different birdsongs or calls. Pianist Nicolas Hodges, the soloist for the Messiaen, is joined by Ryan Wigglesworth to open the concert with Igor Stravinsky’s Sonata for Two Pianos.
There will be a free pre-concert talk from 6-6.30pm with Richard Baker, open to all ticket holders.
Igor Stravinsky : Sonata for 2 pianos
John Cage : Second Construction
Richard Baker : The Tyranny of Fun
Richard Causton : Chamber Sypmhony
Olivier Messiaen : Oiseaux Exotiques
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15 Feb
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Friday, February 15, 2013 at 7pm
The Tyranny of Fun
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: £5-16
Conductor/Piano: Ryan Wigglesworth
Piano: Nicolas Hodges
Electronics: Nye Parry
Richard Baker is one of the foremost composer-conductors of his generation. Commissioned through BCMG’s Sound Investment scheme, Baker’s new work for ensemble and electronics addresses the theme of ‘irrational exuberance’; taking in Ravel’s death-driven waltzes, and the sounds of 80s New York disco; with live electronics that Baker has developed together with his colleague, composer/sound artist Nye Parry.
BCMG premiered Causton’s Chamber Symphony in 2009 and this performance will be the Group’s first since Causton revised the piece following its premiere.
Giving context to these works are three pieces from the 1940s and 50s. Scored for unorthodox percussion instruments, John Cage’s Second Construction is one of a series of three works composed between 1939-42, while Cage was touring the west coast of America with a percussion ensemble.
Oiseaux exotiques (Exotic Birds), for piano and an orchestra of winds and percussion, is an enchanting sound fantasy containing imitations of no fewer than 40 different birdsongs or calls. Pianist Nicolas Hodges, the soloist for the Messiaen, is joined by Ryan Wigglesworth to open the concert with Igor Stravinsky’s Sonata for Two Pianos.
There will be a free pre-concert talk from 6-6.30pm with Richard Baker, open to all ticket holders.
Igor Stravinsky : Sonata for 2 pianos
John Cage : Second Construction
Richard Baker : The Tyranny of Fun ~ (BCMG Sound Investment commission / world premiere)
Richard Causton : Chamber Symphony (BCMG Sound Investment commission 2009)
Olivier Messiaen : Oiseaux Exotiques
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 8pm
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Jerwood Hall
London
United Kingdom
Tickets: £10-22
Gwilym Simcock piano
John Patitucci double bass/bass guitar
LSO String Orchestra
A self-confessed jazz addict, Mark Anthony Turnage allows the presence of Miles Davis and others to infuse his work. For this late-night gig, LSO St Luke’s will be transformed into a jazz den of dizzying talent featuring Grammy-winning double bass and fusion electric bass player John Patitucci, and the first ever jazz musician to be selected for the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, Gwilym Simcock.
Mark-Anthony Turnage : A Prayer out of Stillness
Gwilym Simcock : New work for piano and strings
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 at Various times
Contemporary Music Festival
University of Plymouth - England
University of Plymouth, Drakes Circus
United Kingdom
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=37709
Tickets: Various
Festival Directors:
Simon Ible, Director of Music, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University
Eduardo R. Miranda, Professor of Computer Music, Plymouth University
Thursday 21 – Sunday 24 February
As well as creating a platform for music emerging from research, this year’s festival will explore the theme of memory as a virtual sixth sense - through inward journeys of the human brain and the pursuit of lost memories of childhood, forgotten ancestors and global connections.
Drawing on both classical and electronic music Sensing Memory will implement innovative research into computer music and engage with classic orchestral experiences to reveal new sound worlds to the audience. The theme of Sensing Memory is allied to a new four-year ICCMR research project being funded by EPSRC entitled Brain-Computer Interface for Monitoring and Inducing Affective States led by Prof Eduardo R Miranda and Dr Slawomir J. Nasuto at the University of Reading’s Cybernetics Research Group. This project aims to create an intelligent musical computer that can help someone adjust their emotions when they are depressed or stressed. The computer will play music, analysing the person’s brain activity as they do so, allowing it to select what sounds to generate based on how close the person is to feeling the way they want. This research will impact on the health and entertainment industries such as the gaming industry.
various composers : For more details: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=39702
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 7.30pm
Looking to the Heavens
Dora Stoutzker Hall
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Castle Grounds, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3ER
United Kingdom
02920 391391
http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk
boxoffice@rwcmd.ac.uk
Tickets: £12
Soprano: Claire Booth *
Flute: Marie-Christine Zupancic
Clarinet: Timothy Lines
Piano: Malcolm Wilson
Violin/Viola: Laurence Jackson
Cello: Ulrich Heinen
Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire was premiered at the Berlin Choralion-Saal on 16 October 1912. The small mixed ensemble that Schoenberg invented for this masterpiece of early atonal music has over the last 100 years become a ‘standard ensemble’, spawning a large repertoire for this grouping of instruments by subsequent composers.
Pierrot Lunaire is a three-part work that sets German translations of poems by Albert Giraud. The eight instruments played by five performers are arranged differently in every number and produce an amazing variety of sound. A striking feature of the work is the vocalist’s Sprechstimme (speech-singing), an eerie declamation between song and speech, where the pitch is sounded but not held; instead, the vocalist immediately leaves the note, falling or rising to the next.
Olivier Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the end of time) was first heard on a brutally cold January night in 1941, at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Görlitz, Germany. The title does not exaggerate the ambitions of the piece. An inscription in the score supplies a catastrophic image from the Book of Revelation: ‘In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse, who lifts his hand toward heaven, saying, “There shall be time no longer”.
The Quartet is however, the gentlest apocalypse imaginable. There are no roaring sound-masses of doom, but instead fiercely elegant dances, whose rhythms swing along in intricate patterns without ever obeying a regular beat - episodes of transfixing serenity, to which words fail to do justice. That Messiaen’s apocalypse has little to do with history and catastrophe, but instead records the rebirth of an ordinary soul in the grip of extraordinary emotion, is why the Quartet remains as overpowering today as it was on that frigid night in 1941.
Arnold Schoenberg : Pierrot Lunaire
Olivier Messiaen : Quatuor pour la fin du temps
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Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 7:30pm-9:30pm
Present Music-In the Chamber
The Hamilton Cocktail Lounge
823 E. Hamilton St. Milwaukee, WI 53202
United States
(414) 271-0711 x 5
http://www.presentmusic.org
susan@presentmusic.org
Tickets: Tickets are $25-$35. Students receive 1/2 price off tickets
Present Music Ensemble
Intimately heard and intensely played, Present Music takes you In the Chamber. Andrew Norman’s Sabina, inspired by Roman churches in the early morning, shines through sophisticated patterns and grows with the light and warmth of experience while Ted Hearne’s Vessels travels through difficult yet forceful turns of mood and understanding. Other selections featured honor the Composer’s idols. Motion, composed by Nico Muhly, is a tribute to Orlando Gibbons’s verse anthem See, See the World, which captures the nervous energy of obsessive counting. Inspiration for I Found it by the Sea, composed by Tmothy Andres, is drawn from Brahms’ chamber music, creating space and resolution between its variations. Witness the inspiration behind each piece, as Present Music brings you up close and personal with our musicians. Experience In the Chamber.
Timothy Andres : I Found it by the Sea
Nico Muhly : Motion
Ted Hearne : Vessels
Andrew Norman : Sabina
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 7.30pm
Baltic Nights
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Tickets: £8-32
Britten Sinfonia
Alina Ibragimova violin
Britten Sinfonia Voices
Acclaimed violinist Alina Ibragimova joins Britten Sinfonia in a programme journeying through 400 years of music. Demonstrating her skills at both contemporary and early repertoire, Alina performs Peteris Vasks’ Violin Concerto ‘Distant Light’ and one of only two surviving violin concertos by Bach. Britten Sinfonia’s professional choir, Britten Sinfonia Voices, interweave music from Perotin and Bach, and Eriks Esenvalds brings the themes of the programme together in a new commission for strings and voices.
. Perotin : Viderunt omnes
J.S. Bach : Violin Concerto in A minor
Eriks Esenvalds : New work (world premiere)
J.S. Bach : Komm Jesu, komm
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27 Feb
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 8pm
10th Anniversary Festival of Galway Music Residency
Aula Maxima
NUIG, Galway
Ireland
http://www.thegalwaymusicresidency.ie
Tickets: €15/20
ConTempo String Quartet
Isabelle O' Connell
RTE Vanburgh Quartet
Dermot Dunne
Ariel Hernandez
Tuesday, February 26th @ 6 pm, NUI Galway, Aula Maxima: Piano Workshop with Isabelle O'Connell. Click here for application.
Wednesday, February 27th @ 1:10 pm, NUI Galway, The Cube. Lunchtime Talk - 'The Making of Music' with Dr. Jane O'Leary, Galway-based composer and Dr. Karen Power, The Galway Music Residency Composer-in-Residence. Free Admission.
Wednesday, February 27th @ 7:00 pm, NUI Galway, Lower Aula. Opening of The Galway Music Residency Display of Archival Materials. Free Admission. This exhibit is open every evening during the Festival.
Wednesday, February 27th @ 8:00 pm, NUI Galway, Aula Maxima. The Galway Ensemble in Residence, ConTempo Quartet and Isabelle O'Connell, piano. Piano quintets by Jane O'Leary, Shostakovich, Mozart. PLUS the World Premiere of a special 10th Anniversary musical piece - 'hearing leaves' - by Dr. Karen Power performed by ConTempo Quartet. See ticket/booking information below.
Thursday, February 28th @ 1:10 pm, Galway City Library, Lunchtime @ The Library - 'New Ground' - with cellist/vocalist Naomi Berrill. Free Admission.
Thursday, February 28th @ 8:00 pm, NUI Galway, Aula Maxima. The Galway Ensemble in Residence, ConTempo Quartet, Dermot Dunne, accordion and Ariel Hernandez, guitar/voice. A Night of Latin American Music and Song - Tangos, Sambas and more. See ticket/booking information below.
Friday, March 1st @ 1:10 pm, Galway City Library, Lunchtime @ The Library - 'Music & Words' - with The Galway Ensemble in Residence, ConTempo Quartet and poet Kevin O'Shea. Free Admission.
Friday, March 1st @ 8:00 pm, NUI Galway, Aula Maxima. The Galway Ensemble in Residence, ConTempo Quartet and RTE Vanbrugh Quartet. A Night of Octets, Sextets and Quartets, including the most wonderful Mendelssohn Octet. See ticket/booking information below.
Karen Power : hearing leaves
Jane O'Leary : Piano Quintet
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Monday, March 04, 2013 at 7pm
Composition: Wales
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales
Tickets: Free
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Jac van Steen
How does an idea move from inside a composer's head through to its realisation by a full symphony orchestra? Find out for yourself in this concert of brand new music by composers working in Wales, following on from intensive days of workshop conducted and introduced by Jac van Steen, supported by Resident Composer Mark Bowden.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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6 Mar
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013 at 19:30
The Fidelio Trio
The Helix, Dublin
Dublin City University
Ireland
353 1 700 7000
http://thehelix.ie/
info@thehelix.dcu.ie
Tickets: €10
Daragh Morgan
Robin Michael
Mary Dullea
The Fidelio Trio were formed in 1995 and perform extremely diverse repertoire and have an international profile appearing at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Casa da Musica, Porto, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice and Symphony Space, New York City. They regularly broadcast for BBC Radio 3 and RTE Lyric FM, and have released CDs on NMC, Delphian, Convivium, Col Legno and MN Records. Their 2012/13 season includes performances at City of London Festival, UK Capital of Culture Walled City Festival, Derry and a tour of South Africa. The Fidelio Trio’s have a substantial discography, their most recent CD release being the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records.
Fergus Johnston : Piano Trio
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6 Mar
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6 Mar
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Wednesday, March 06, 2013 at 8:00PM
Liss Fain Dance Presents NY Premiere of "The Water is Clear & Still"
Powerhouse Arena
37 Main Street
United States
http://www.powerhousearena.com
Tickets: $25
Liss Fain Dance
Liss Fain Dance, a San Francisco-based contemporary company known for its site-specific works, presents the New York premiere of The Water is Clear and Still - a combination of the powerful choreography of Liss Fain and the spoken text of Jamaica Kincaid’s sharp-edged and beautiful short story collection, At the Bottom of the River. Comprised of six dancers, an actor, original music, and an interactive audience, The Water is Clear and Still encompasses the 5,000 square foot Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn.
Dan Wool : The Water is Clear & Still
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Thursday, March 07, 2013 at 8:00PM
Liss Fain Dance Presents NY Premiere of "The Water is Clear & Still"
Powerhouse Arena
37 Main Street
United States
http://www.powerhousearena.com
Tickets: $25
Liss Fain Dance
Liss Fain Dance, a San Francisco-based contemporary company known for its site-specific works, presents the New York premiere of The Water is Clear and Still - a combination of the powerful choreography of Liss Fain and the spoken text of Jamaica Kincaid’s sharp-edged and beautiful short story collection, At the Bottom of the River. Comprised of six dancers, an actor, original music, and an interactive audience, The Water is Clear and Still encompasses the 5,000 square foot Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn.
Dan Wool : The Water is Clear & Still
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Friday, March 08, 2013 at 8:30pm
Liss Fain Dance Presents NY Premiere of "The Water is Clear & Still"
Powerhouse Arena
37 Main Street
United States
http://www.powerhousearena.com
Tickets: $25
Liss Fain Dance
Liss Fain Dance, a San Francisco-based contemporary company known for its site-specific works, presents the New York premiere of The Water is Clear and Still - a combination of the powerful choreography of Liss Fain and the spoken text of Jamaica Kincaid’s sharp-edged and beautiful short story collection, At the Bottom of the River. Comprised of six dancers, an actor, original music, and an interactive audience, The Water is Clear and Still encompasses the 5,000 square foot Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn.
Dan Wool : The Water is Clear & Still
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Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 7:00pm
LIAISONS II: Pianist Anthony de Mare Re-Imagines Sondheim
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, New York, NY
United States
212-864-5400
http://www.symphonyspace.org
info@symphonyspace.org
Tickets: $55
Pianist Anthony de Mare
On Saturday, March 9 (7 pm), as part of Symphony Space’s The Music of Now Series, pianist Anthony de Mare returns to the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre for the second installment of Liaisons: Reimagining Sondheim from the Piano. Marrying his reputation as a champion of contemporary classical music with his deep respect for legendary musical theater composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, de Mare is building a unique piano repertory by commissioning 36 leading contemporary composers from the classical, jazz, theater, and film worlds to write short solo piano pieces inspired by Sondheim’s music.
Phil Kline : Paraphrase
Frederic Rzewski : I'm Still Here
Jason Robert Brown : Birds of Victorian England
Thomas Newman : Not While I'm Around
Rodney Sharman : Notes on Beautiful
Nico Muhly : Color and Light
Mary Ellen Childs : Now, Later, Soon
Eve Beglarian : Perpetual Happiness
Bernadette Speach : In and Out of Love
John Musto : Epiphany
Michael Daugherty : Everybody's Got the Right
Nils Vigeland : Merrily We Roll Along
Peter Golub : A Child of Children and Art
Steve Reich : Finishing the Hat
Eric Rockwell : You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Mason Bates : Very Put Together
Annie Gosfield : A Bowler Hat
Jake Heggie : I'm Excited. No You're Not
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Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 7.30pm
Hear and Now: Stuart MacRae’s Earth
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland
Tickets: Free
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Stuart MacRae is the latest composer to pen a work specifically for the unique surroundings of Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket. Earth, inspired by themes of war, nature and interconnectedness, receives its World Premiere alongside two works related to Orkney's St Magnus Festival: fellow Scot and director of the festival Alasdair Nicolson's The Last Meeting, and Arne Gieshoff's Stanza which was a St Magnus commission. MacRae's World Premiere is matched by one from Andrew Simpson, whose Phantasmagoria completes an evening of electrifying new music.
Arne Gieshoff : Stanza
Alasdair Nicolson : The Last Meeting
Andrew Simpson : Phantasmagoria
Stuart MacRae : Earth
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Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 7.30pm
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF
United Kingdom
0121 767 4050
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk
Tickets: In advance: £14 full price / £8 concession / £5 under 16s // On the door: £16 full price / £10 conc
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Baritone: Leigh Melrose
Works by American experimentalists provide the setting for the world premiere of BCMG/SAM Apprentice Composer-in-Residence Joanna Lee’s new piece for baritone and ensemble, conducted by Oliver Knussen, who has mentored Joanna through her residency.
Young composer Joanna Lee is widely regarded as a strikingly original voice in the musical world, whose music has already received glowing reviews from critics including the Telegraph’s Ivan Hewett and the Birmingham Post’s Christopher Morley.
The beginning of the 20th century saw composers in the United States begin to turn away from the European conventions on which their music had been modelled. It was in this period of change that experimentalism was born and America subsequently became, as it remains, a major source of new musical ideas for European musicians.
There will be a free pre-concert talk from 6.30-7pm with Joanna Lee, open to all ticket holders.
Joanna Lee : new work
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Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 9.45pm
Thumb late-night
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom
Tickets: Free
Alexandra Wood Viola
Kyle Horch Saxophone
This concert represents a significant milestone for the Birmingham-based Thumb. It sees the world premiere of the ensemble’s first commission, written by BCMG’s 2011 Apprentice Composer-in-Residence, Seán Clancy – a double concerto for BCMG musicians Alexandra Wood and Kyle Horch.
Through funding from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, Thumb seek to be recognised as a commissioner of new and exciting repertoire and build on their current portfolio of over 50 premieres.
Howard Skempton : In Tandem
Joe Cutler : Sikorski B
Seán Clancy : Strange to See You Again
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10 Mar
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Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 3:00pm
Organist Gail Archer Performs Free Concert 3/10
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
316 East 88th Street
United States
http://www.holytrinity-church.org
Tickets: Free
organist Gail Archer
Internationally renowned star concert organist Gail Archer celebrates the distinctive voice of organ music in The Muses Voice: A Celebration of International Women Composers – a five-concert series touring the churches and synagogues of New York City. Performing a colorful collection of organ music spanning 19th – 21st century female composers, Archer is slated to premiere two works: the New York premiere of The Everlasting Crown by Judith Bingham; and the world premiere of And the Greatest of These is Love by Alla Borzova. Hailed for championing contemporary organ music by female composers, Archer will also feature works by Nadia Boulanger, Jeanne Demessieux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Judith Bingham and Jennifer Higdon, to name a few. Several of these works are being recorded for Archer’s next album to be released in Spring 2013.
Eve Duncan : Exusiai
Pamela Decker : Retablos, Pange Lingua, Ubi Caritas, Victimae paschal
Anne Kilstofte : Fractals
Margaret Vardall Sandresky : Wondrous Love, The Mystery of Faith
Mireille Tissot : Choral et Fugue, Meditation
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 7.30pm
Martyn Brabbins conducts Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom
02075898212
Tickets: £40, £32.50, £25, £15
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Jack Liebeck, violin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
A concert devoted to music by one of Britain’s most dynamic composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who regularly works with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and who collaborated with the Orchestra in choosing this programme. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies will introduce each of his pieces, giving the audience a fantastic insight into his compositional practices.
The Sixth Symphony was written with members of the Royal Philharmonic in mind, and was premièred by the RPO. Maxwell Davies’ Violin Concerto combines enthralling originality with the influence of Scottish folk music. Of the irrepressible An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, Gramophone wrote: 'Davies is a master storyteller in this vividly detailed tone-painting of a rustic, often raucous, all-night wedding celebration.' The Independent added: 'It brought the house down.'
Box Office: 020 7730 4500
http://www.cadoganhall.com/event/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-130312/
Peter Maxwell Davies : Symphony No.6
Peter Maxwell Davies : Violin Concerto No.1
Peter Maxwell Davies : An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
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13 Mar
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 7.30pm
HK Gruber presents Oedipus Rex
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: £34, £27, £23, £19, £14, £10
BBC Philharmonic
HK Gruber Conductor
Richard Watkins Horn
Timothy Robinson Tenor
Ian Bostridge Oedipus
Angelika Kirchschlager Jocasta
Darren Jeffery Creon
Matthew Best Tiresias
Timothy Robinson Shepherd
Neal Davies Messenger
Hallé Choir
Expect the unexpected with new music and performance in the foyer of The Bridgewater Hall.
In a ravaged land, a terrified people cry out for deliverance, but even great leaders can hide terrible secrets. Hear a timeless story made startlingly new, as HK Gruber and some of the greatest singers of our time join forces in Stravinsky's astonishing opera Oedipus Rex.
It's the jaw-dropping finish to a night of myth, poetry and basic instincts: from Britten's rapturous Serenade, through the passionate emotion of James MacMillan's The Sacrifice.
Students get discounted tickets for this concert with the Sonic Card.
James MacMillan : The Sacrifice: Three Interludes
Benjamin Britten : Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
Igor Stravinsky : Oedipus Rex
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