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3 Apr 
 
4 Apr



Wales
 Monday, March 4, 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

5 Apr



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 7.30 
Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite - London
Royal Festival Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
020 7840 4242
http://www.rfh.org.uk

Brad Lubman conductor
Steve Reich performer
Mats Bergström guest electric guitar
Sound Intermedia sound projection

The London Sinfonietta gives the world premiere of Radio Rewrite, a new work from master of minimalism Steve Reich inspired by the music of Radiohead. Reich will also perform Clapping Music.

Radio Rewrite is a co-commission by the London Sinfonietta and New York’s Alarm Will Sound.


Steve Reich : Clapping Music
Steve Reich : Electric Counterpoint
Steve Reich : 2x5
Steve Reich : Radio Rewrite
Steve Reich : Double Sextet

6 Apr



Ireland
 Wednesday, March 6, 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

6 Apr



Netherlands
 Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 20.15 
JOOST ZWAGERMAN FINDS CONSOLATION IN FELDMAN
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Joost Zwagerman - spreker
Nederlands Kamerkoor
Asko|Schönberg
Klaas Stok - dirigent



Arvo Pärt : Summa
Arvo Pärt : Magnificat
Arvo Pärt : Da pacem Domine
Pēteris Vasks : Mate saule (Moeder zon)
Morton Feldman : Rothko Chapel

6 Apr



United States
 Wednesday, March 6, 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

6 Apr



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 7.30 
STEVE REICH’S RADIO REWRITE
Town Hall, Birmingham
Victoria Square B3 3DQ
United Kingdom
0121 780 3333
http://www.thsh.co.uk/

Tickets: £9.50-38
London Sinfonietta
Brad Lubman conductor
Steve Reich performer
Sound Intermedia sound projection
Mats Bergström guitar

Hot on the heels of its world premiere, the London Sinfonietta gives the second performance of Radio Rewrite, a new work from master of minimalism Steve Reich. The ideas for Radio Rewrite were inspired by the music of Radiohead. To open the concert, Reich himself will perform his famous Clapping Music.

Radio Rewrite is a co-commission by the London Sinfonietta and New York’s Alarm Will Sound.


Steve Reich : Clapping Music
Steve Reich : Electric Counterpoint
Steve Reich : 2 × 5
Steve Reich : Radio Rewrite
Steve Reich : Double Sextet

7 Apr



United States
 Thursday, March 7, 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

7 Apr



United States
 Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 7:30PM 
Riedel + Rivka Dance Share the Stage to Premiere New Works March 7-9
Ailey Citigroup Theatre
400 West 55th Street
United States

Tickets: $25
Riedel Dance Theatre + Rivka Dance companies



David Homan : Vashti

8 Apr



United States
 Friday, March 8, 2013 at 8PM 
Season Concert III (Presented by Washington Square Contemporary Music Society
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
43A West 13th St, NY NY 10011
United States
212-645-2800
http://www.tenri.org
mail@tenri.org

Tickets: Admission $15 general, $10 seniors, $5 students
Ensemble Mise-En (Chamber Orchestra )



Karen Power : cold or hot bean slurper (2013)
Isang Yun : Distanzen
Hans Abrahamsen : Walden for Wind Quintet (1995)
EunHye Park : The Morning Star
Eric Lyon : Noise Variations

8 Apr



United States
 Friday, March 8, 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

9 Apr



United States
 Saturday, March 9, 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

9 Apr



Scotland
 Saturday, March 9, 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

9 Apr



United Kingdom
 Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 8 pm 
Cyril Scott/ Leopold Stokowsi & Rachmaninov
West Road Concert Hall
West Road, Cambridge
United Kingdom
http://www.westroad.org
info@westroad.org

Tickets: £20, £14, £10
Peter Donohoe - Piano
Martin Yates - Conductor
Symphony Orchestra of Cambridge University

Cyril Scott - Pelleas and Mellisand (UK Premier)
Mussorgsky/Stokowski Pictures at an Exhibition
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3
with PETER DONOHOE


Cyril Scott : Pelleas and Mellisanda

10 Apr



United Kingdom
 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

10 Apr



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 10pm approx 
Crossing the Atlantic
CBSO Centre, Birmingham
Berkley Street, Birmingham
United Kingdom

Tickets: Free
Thumb Ensemble

The Thumb set will take place following Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s Crossing the Atlantic concert. Thumb’s partnership with BCMG (including mentoring and this concert) has been generously supported by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

Joe Cutler : Sikorski B
Howard Skempton : In Tandem
Seán Clancy : Strange to See You Again

10 Apr



United Kingdom
 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

10 Apr



United States
 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

11 Apr 
 
12 Apr



United Kingdom
 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

13 Apr



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 2pm 
Baroque Spring and British Music
St. Paul's, Knightsbridge
St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge 32a Wilton Place London SW1X 8SH
United Kingdom
http://www.stpaulsknightsbridge.org

Tickets: Free
Andrew Griffiths conductor
James McVinnie continuo
BBC Singers

The BBC Singers perform Italian Baroque and British contemporary music for Holy Week including Lotti's setting of the ‘Crucifixus' text. Listen to the ten interweaving voice parts of Scarlatti's Stabat Mater cascade through the beautiful interior of St Paul's Knightsbridge in a concert that also includes James MacMillan's homage to Renaissance masters of polyphony in his Tenebrae Responsories.

Domenico Scarlatti : Stabat Mater in C minor
James MacMillan : Tenebrae Responsories
Antonio Lotti : Crucifixus

13 Apr



United Kingdom
 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

14 Apr



United Kingdom
 Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 6pm 
Cage’s Water Music
Ikon, Birmingham
1 Oozells Square, B1 2HS
United Kingdom
0121 248 0708
http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/

Tickets: Free
Christopher Hobbs Piano

BCMG and IKON Gallery present Cage’s Water Music for piano (plus radio, whistles, water containers and a deck of cards) as part of a live internet concert curated by the Forum of Contemporary Music Leipzig – the biggest highlight of the international art and music festival CAGE100. The concert will be one of several Water Music performances across Leipzig’s sister cities from 8 – 15 March, including Bologna, Houston and Lyon – all streamed live on www.cage100.com.

The setting for this six-minute piece is Ikon’s exhibition of work by the Russian artist Timur Novikov – who along with Cage and others, created and performed Water Symphony in St. Petersburg in 1988, a piece symbolising the unification of American capitalist and Soviet state culture.


John Cage : Water Music

14 Apr



United Kingdom
 Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7.30pm 
Los Angeles Philharmonic / Dudamel LA Phil International Associate Residency Green Umbrella Concert
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Tickets: £9-35
LA Phil New Music Group
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
John Adams conductor
Joseph Pereira percussion

The LA Phil’s Green Umbrella concert series has created a legion of fans for contemporary classical music in Los Angeles. Now it comes to London as Gustavo Dudamel conducts a major new work from the pen of Unsuk Chin, one of the most fascinating and evocative composers alive. Her music is sensuous, enchanting and constantly surprising – combining an extraordinary facility for orchestral colour with a firm capacity for orchestral organization. Gustavo Dudamel conducts his own orchestra in the European premiere of a major new work from this truly international talent.

Unsuk Chin : Graffiti
Joseph Pereira : Concerto for Percussion and Chamber Orchestra
John Adams : Son of Chamber Symphony

14 Apr



United Kingdom
 Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 7pm 
Margaret Leng plays Cage at the Barbican Art Gallery
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Tickets: Free to The Bride and the Bachelors same-day ticket holders
Margaret Leng Tan Pianist

Pianist and pre-eminent Cage interpreter Margaret Leng Tan performs Cage's monumental Four Walls from 1944.

Hailed as the 'revelation of a masterpiece' when she first premiered it at Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival in 1989, this one-time only performance invites you to engage with Cage's work and its compelling beauty.


John Cage : Four Walls

15 Apr



United Kingdom
 Friday, March 15, 2013 at 7pm 
Studio Concert: Zhubanov, Gribbin and Prokofiev
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227

Tickets: Free
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Alan Buribayev conductor
Finghin Collins piano

Kazakh conductor Alan Buribayev conducts Akhmet Zhubanov and Khamidi Latyf’s symphonic arrangement from the opera Abai. Both composers were pivotal in the development of Kazakh musical culture in the 20th century. Irish pianist Finghin Collins joins the BBC SO for the UK premiere of The Binding of the Years, by Belfast-born composer Deirdre Gribbin. The concert opens with three new chamber works by composers from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and closes with Prokofiev’s nostalgic final symphony, completed in 1952, the year before his death.

Contemporary Composers : Guildhall Octets
Zhubanov/ Hamidi : Wedding Dances from the opera Abai
Deidre Gribbin : The Binding of the Years
Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 7

15 Apr



United Kingdom
 Friday, March 15, 2013 at 7.30 pm 
Cyril Scott/ Leopold Stokowsi & Rachmaninov
Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace, London, SW1X 9DQ
United Kingdom
02075898212

Tickets: £20, £16, £5
Peter Donohe - Piano
Martin Yates - Conductor
Symphony Orchestra of Cambridge University



Cyril Scott : Pelleas and Mellisanda
Leopold Stokowski : Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
Sergei Rachmaninov : Piano Concerto No.3

16 Apr



United Kingdom
 Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 7.30pm 
The Gospel According to the Other Mary / John Adams
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Tickets: £15-65
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel conductor
Peter Sellars director / librettist
Kelley O’Connor Mary
Tamara Mumford Martha
Russell Thomas Lazarus
Daniel Bubeck countertenor
Brian Cummings countertenor
Nathan Medley countertenor
Michael Schumacher dancer
Anani Sanouvi dancer
Troy Ogilvie dancer
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon music director

Their 1987 music drama Nixon in China has become the most popular American opera since Porgy and Bess. Now the powerhouse creative partnership that is John Adams and Peter Sellars unveil their new work for Barbican audiences, played and conducted by the musicians for whom it was written. The Gospel According to the Other Mary is a 90-minute oratorio for orchestra, chorus and soloists, based on the New Testament stories of Lazarus and Jesus’s Passion and which draws on evocative Mexican poetry. The score is played here in its European premiere by the orchestra which Adams has described as ‘one of the most supple and flexible of any in the world.’

John Adams : The Gospel According to the Other Mary

17 Apr



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 7.30 
Beethoven, Osvaldo Golijov and Dvořák
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £12-28
St. Lawrence String Quartet

Since winning the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 1992, the St. Lawrence Quartet has delighted audiences with its spontaneous, passionate and dynamic performances. The St. Lawrences, noted Alex Ross in The New Yorker, ‘are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music-making … but for the joy they take in the act of connection.’
The programme opens with the last of Beethoven’s Op. 18 string quartets, in which the composer showed his unfailing mastery of the style developed by Haydn and Mozart. Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov enhanced his long and fruitful association with the St. Lawrences in 2011 when he created Qoheleth for the group, a new work inspired by core texts from the book of Ecclesiastes. Dvořák’s final string quartet brings the concert to a joyful close.


Ludwig Van Beethoven : String Quartet in Bb Op. 18 No. 6
Osvaldo Golijov : New work (UK première)
Antonin Dvorak : String Quartet No. 14 in Ab Op. 105

17 Apr



United Kingdom
 Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 4.00pm - 6pm 

Royal Holloway University of London
Egham, Surrey
United Kingdom

Tickets: £10 and £5




Kelvin Thomson : The Silence of the Bees

18 Apr 
 
19 Apr



France
 Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 8pm 
Quartett
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris

France

Allison Cook soprano, the marquise de Merteuil
Robin Adams baryton, the vicomte de Valmont
Ensemble intercontemporain
Conductor Susanna Mälkki
IRCAM computer music design Serge Lemouton
Recording of the choir and orchestra at La Scala in Milan Julien Aléonard

Carried by the music of Luca Francesconi and the words of Heiner Müller that reinvent the Dangerous Liaisons, the opera Quartett interpenetrates three worlds.
The interior, a post-apocalyptic space where two solitary monsters caught up in a delirium of masks, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, collide; the exterior, the thoughts and conspiracies of the protagonists; and outside, a space of metaphysical forces like attraction and magnetism, the only space capable of absorbing the psychological tension in Quartett.
IRCAM's technology was called upon to create this spatial staging for the work’s premiere at la Scala in Milan, directed by La Fura Dels Bauls: passage from a microscopic dimension to the occupation of almost the entire theater-world, vocal grafts that incarnate the feminine side of de Valmont and the masculinity of de Merteuil, the founding and sonorous ambiguities of a "quartet" for two.


Luca Francesconi : Quartett

20 Apr



Switzerland
 Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 18.30 
John Adams The Gospel According to the Other Mary
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch

Tickets: 30-240 CHF

Los Angeles Philharmonic | Los Angeles Master Chorale (Grant Gershon music director) | Gustavo Dudamel conductor | Peter Sellars director | Kelly O'Connor Mary Magdalene | Tamara Mumford Martha | Russell Thomas Lazarus | Daniel Bubeck Narrator | Brian Cummings Narrator | Nathan Medley Narrator | Michael Schumacher dancer | Anani Sanouvi dancer | Mark Grey sound designer | James Ingalls lighting designer | Dunya Ramicova costume designer

With Nixon in China, composer John Adams and director Peter Sellars created the most successful American opera since Porgy and Bess, while their El Niño juxtaposed biblical texts with apocryphal scriptures, a medieval mystery play, and Latin American poetry to fashion a “nativity oratorio for the 21st century.” Now comes their latest collaboration: The Gospel According to the Other Mary, an oratorio which is being premiered in its fully staged version in March 2013 in Los Angeles with conductor Gustavo Dudamel – just two weeks before this performance in Lucerne. Adams and Sellars recount the biblical Passion from an unusual perspective. Beginning with the raising of Lazarus, these events are narrated by the risen Lazarus and his two sisters, Martha and Mary Magdalene, who directly experience the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus – all framed in the “eternal present.” Adam’s ambitious score combines his powerful rhythmic sense with a complex harmonic language, haunting melody, and innovative choral and orchestral writing.


John Adams : The Gospel According to the Other Mary

20 Apr



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 7.30 
Alexander Goehr and George Benjamin
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Tickets: £10-30
Fretwork

Susan Bickley
mezzo-soprano
Tabea Zimmermann
viola
Antoine Tamestit
viola
George Benjamin
piano

London-born George Benjamin began composing at the age of seven and gained granite-like foundations for his future career through childhood composition and piano lessons with Peter Gellhorn. He went on to study with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and Alexander Goehr at Cambridge University, while attracting international attention with his orchestral work Ringed by the Flat Horizon. Wigmore Hall’s George Benjamin Series, a significant addition to the venue’s growing commitment to contemporary chamber music and song, presents fascinating perspectives on the composer’s diverse works within the context of programmes of music by his influences and colleagues.

Alexander Goehr : Three sonnets and two fantasias
George Benjamin : Piano Figures
George Benjamin : Viola, Viola
Alexander Goehr : from Shadow of Night Op. 86
Alexander Goehr : Sur terre, en l'air

21 Apr 
 
22 Apr 
 
23 Apr



United Kingdom
 Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 7.30 
Aurora Orchestra: Insomnia
Jerwood Hall
London
United Kingdom

Tickets: £12-30
Nicholas Collon conductor
Allan Clayton tenor
Thomas Gould violin
William Reynolds designer/lighting designer
Aurora Orchestra

For the first in its 2013 New Moves series, Aurora collaborates with tenor Allan Clayton to produce a unique and haunting theatrical concert built around Britten’s Nocturne. The programme charts a course through the darkness of a troubled night, with other repertoire including Vivaldi’s La Notte (‘The Night’) and James MacMillan’s Deep but Dazzling Darkness with solo violinist Thomas Gould, commissioned for the opening of LSO St Luke's in 2003.

Antonio Vivaldi : Flute Concerto in G minor Op 10 No 2, La Notte ('The Night')
James MacMillan : A Deep but Dazzling Darkness
Gyorgy Ligeti : Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes
Benjamin Britten : Nocturne
Ivor Gurney : Sleep

23 Apr



Switzerland
 Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 18.30 
Britten War Requiem
Lucerne Festival
Lucerne
Switzerland
http://e.lucernefestival.ch

Tickets: 150-240 CHF
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Bavarian Radio Choir (Peter Dijkstra chorus master) | Tölz Boys’ Choir (Ralf Ludewig chorus master) | Mariss Jansons conductor | Emily Magee soprano | Mark Padmore tenor | Christian Gerhaher baritone

On 14 November 1940 the English city of Coventry was bombed by the German Luftwaffe and almost completely destroyed. Among the ruins were those of the famous Gothic cathedral, which had been built around 1400. For the consecration of the newly rebuilt cathedral in May 1962, Benjamin Britten created his large-scale War Requiem, in which he wove the liturgical text together with verses by Wilfred Owen, the British poet who was killed in the First World War at the age of only 25. Britten wrote the solo voice parts for three singers, each of whom represented one of the nations that had been at war: Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, English tenor Peter Pears, and German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Indeed, the idea of reconciliation is at the center of the work: “I am the enemy you killed, my friend,” writes Owen in his poem. To mark the 100th birthday of Britten, Mariss Jansons performs this moving Requiem with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Benjamin Britten : War Requiem

23 Apr



France
 Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 8pm 
The Gospel According to the Other Mary : musique de John Adams (création)
Salle Pleyel
252 rue u Fauborg Saint-Honore, 75008 Paris
France

Tickets: Cat. 1 110€ Cat. 2 80€ Cat. 3 60€ Cat. 4 35€ Cat. 5 10€
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel : conducting
Peter Sellars : mise en scène
Kelley O'Connor : mezzo-soprano
Tamara Mumford : contralto
Russell Thomas : tenor
Daniel Bubeck : contre-ténor
Brian Cummings : contre-ténor
Nathan Medley : contre-ténor
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Grant Gershon : choirmaster
Michael Schumacher : danse
Anani Sanouvi : danse
Troy Ogilvie : danse



John Adams : The Gospel According to the Other Mary

24 Apr



Australia
 Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 2pm 
"Of Time and Place"
Bribie Island Anglican Church

Australia

ARTICO Ensemble



Paul Kopetz : An Australian Backyard Suite

25 Apr 
 
26 Apr



France
 Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 8pm 
Versus Nunes
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris

France

Tickets: 14€ | 10€ | 5€ |
Solistes de l'Ensemble intercontemporain
IRCAM computer music design José Miguel Fernandez

Under the generic term Einspielung (sich einspielen, warming up before playing), Emmanuel Nunes designed a series that originally intended the inclusion of nine solo pieces for violin, viola, and cello.
His project exploits the polyphonic potential of these instruments, a potential that has been reinforced with the use of electronics. While Einspielung I for violin is the work that is the most constricted and melodic, Einspielung II for cello reveals its labyrinthine appearance.


EMMANUEL NUNES : Rubato, registres et résonances
EMMANUEL NUNES : Einspielung II
EMMANUEL NUNES : Versus
EMMANUEL NUNES : Aura
EMMANUEL NUNES : Einspielung I

26 Apr



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 8pm 
Manchester Camerata: UpClose III
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
Camerata Principal Players


UpClose is our eclectic series of laid-back concerts in smaller, more intimate venues around the city, shining a light on hidden gems, both in terms of the music and the venues themselves. Relax and unwind with a drink and enjoy a blend of classical and contemporary music at close quarters. Arrive early for contemporary sound-based artworks by John Hyatt and Lewis Sykes, taking inspiration from the music at each event.

The centre-piece of this concert is Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, one of the most emotionally wrenching and spiritually reflective works written for chamber group. Written for the unusual combination of piano, violin, cello and clarinet, the work received its first performance outside in the rain in a German prisoner of war camp in 1941 on a collection of damaged instruments. This reflective programme also features a performance by Camerata’s principal cellist, Hannah Roberts, of Bach’s D minor Cello Suite, and a new chamber work by Camerata’s composer in residence.


J.S. Bach : Suite for solo cello No.2 in D minor
Chris Mayo : World Première by Manchester Camerata’s Composer in Residence
Olivier Messiaen : Quartet for the End of Time

27 Apr 
 
28 Apr



Wales
 Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 7pm 
Hoddinott Hall: Panufnik, Britten, Hisatada Otaka and Lutoslawski
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales

Tickets: £8.50-11.50
BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Conductor Tadaaki Otaka
Flute Adam Walker
Viola Lawrence Power
Violin Anthony Marwood



Andrzej Panufnik : Katyn Epitaph
Benjamin Britten : Double Concerto
Hisatada Otaka : Flute Concerto
Witold Lutoslawski : Concerto for Orchestra

29 Apr



Netherlands
 Friday, March 29, 2013 at 20.15 
THE NIGHT OF EARTH, SEA AND BUTTERFLIES
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl

Nieuw Ensemble
Ed Spanjaard - dirigent

An unforgettable evening out
The Concertgebouw is one of the best concert halls in the world, famous for its exceptional acoustics and varied programme. It serves as the home base of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and features performances by the world’s best orchestras, conductors and soloists. Bernard Haitink once praised the Concertgebouw as the best instrument in the orchestra that it houses. The wide-ranging programme offers an excellent selection of classical, pop and jazz music. Attend a concert and have an evening you will never forget. Come experience inspiring music in the beautiful surroundings of the Main Hall or the more intimate Recital Hall.


Iannis Xenakis : Roscobeck
Toru Takemitsu : Itinerant
Sofia Gubaidulina : Five Etudes
Giacinto Scelsi : Et maintenant c'est à vous de jouer
Toru Takemitsu : Toward the Sea
Kaija Saariaho : Sept Papillons
Giacinto Scelsi : Okanagon

30 Apr 
 
1 May 
 
2 May 
 
3 May



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 7pm 
The Firework-Maker's Daughter
Linbury Studio Theatre
Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
United Kingdom
020 7304 4000
http://www.roh.org.uk

Composer David Bruce
Libretto Glyn Maxwell
Director John Fulljames
Designer Dick Bird
Puppetry design Steve Tiplady
Puppetry design Sally Todd
Lighting Designer Guy Hoare

This opera by award-winning composer David Bruce and poet Glyn Maxwell is based on an acclaimed children’s novel by Philip Pullman. John Fulljames’s imaginative staging, with puppet designs by Indefinite Articles, follows Lila’s adventures as she undertakes a perilous quest. With the help of a talking elephant, Lila sets out to discover the secret of becoming a firework-maker. Bruce’s score is characterized by infectious energy and spirited humour, offering musical fireworks of its own.

NB: PERFORMANCES from 3rd April to 13th April

More details: http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/the-firework-makers-daughter-by-john-fulljames


David Bruce : The Firework-Maker's Daughter

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