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Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 7.30pm FIREWHEEL University of York York United Kingdom
Dark Inventions
Folk songs and brand new British music weave together in Dark Inventions’ 2014 Firewheel Tour.
Joined by singer, composer and songwriter Stef Conner, the group performs old songs interwoven with music by emerging composers of the contemporary British scene.
Central to the tour is Firewheel, a brand new work from leading British composer Philip Cashian.
Dark Inventions is a young chamber ensemble that seeks to highlight the links between traditionally disparate music. Established by composers Christopher Leedham and Martin Scheuregger, the group focuses on combining music of different periods, curating projects that aim to entertain and inspire audiences whilst introducing some hidden gems from past and present repertoire.
Firewheel was commissioned with financial assistance from Britten-Pears Foundation. Dark Inventions’ Firewheel Tour is presented in partnership with Sound and Music.
Philip Cashian : Firewheel
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11 Aug
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12 Aug
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 8.00pm Trio Casals Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall New York United States http://www.carnegiehall.org
Tickets: $25 Trio Casals - Piano Trio based in Philadelphia - Ovidiu Marinescu (cello); Sylvia Ahramjian (violin); Anna Kislitsyna (piano)
Concert sponsored by Parma Recordings, of New Hampshire, perform new works for cello solo and piano trio that will be released on CD (title: Moto Continuo) on August 11th 2015, on the Navona label.
Brian Noyes : Piano Trio Op38
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12 Aug
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at All Day Atmospheres New Music Day Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Castle Grounds Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3ER Wales http://www.rwcmd.ac.uk/
Nieuw Ensemble
Experience the raw energy of the work of emerging young composers in a unique festival-in-a-day. Featuring an exciting range of world premieres from immersive sound environments, electronic interventions and formal chamber concerts.
The day includes a concert by the Nieuw Ensemble performing works by the students.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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16 Aug
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Saturday, May 16, 2015 at Peter Pan Millennium Centre, Cardiff Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom
WNO
Follow Peter Pan out through the window and fly with us to a land filled with wonder. Pirates, fairies and a ticking crocodile all await in Neverland - a place of unending imagination.
JM Barrie's eternally enchanting story is now a major new opera. With its battle between love and freedom, Peter Pan is perfect for opera. British composer Richard Ayres and librettist Lavinia Greenlaw have created an original yet faithful take on this much-loved tale. Keith Warner's inventive production, his first for WNO, promises pure Edwardian fantasy. This is an ideal opportunity to introduce young family members aged 8 and over to the magic of opera.
Peter Pan children's tickets - Tickets for £1 for under 16s accompanied by at least one adult. Not available online.
Production supported by the Getty Family as part of British Firsts, Colwinston Charitable Trust, The John S Cohen Foundation and The N Smith Charitable Settlement.
WNO gratefully acknowledges support from PRS for Music Foundation.
Performances at the Royal Opera House are supported by the Welsh Government.
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
16 May - 31 May
Birmingham Hippodrome
11 Jun
Royal Opera House, London
24 Jul - 25 Jul
Richard Ayres : Peter Pan
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17 Aug
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Sunday, May 17, 2015 at 03:00pm Odyssey Opera: The British Invasion Theatre Boston University Theatre 264 Huntington Avenue United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival kick-starts with a three-night performance of Vaughan Williams's Sir John in Love (May 17, 20 + 23). A Shakespearean opera in English, Sir John in Love perfectly depicts the colorful characters and jumbled relationships of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Vaughan Williams : Sir John in Love
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19 Aug
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19 Aug
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 7pm ĽUBICA ČEKOVSKÁ: DORIAN GRAY Prague National Theatre
Czech Republic http://www.narodni-divadlo.cz/en
Sybil Vane: Helena Becse-Szabó
Paní Leafová Mrs Leaf: Terézia Kružliaková
Bordelmama: Denisa Hamarová
Dorian: Eamon Mulhall
Alan Campbell: Martin Gyimesi
James Vane: Ján Ďurčo
Basil: Martin Malachovský
Lord Henry: Aleš Jenis
Musical preparation and Conductor: Christopher Ward
Stage director: Nicola Raab
Set design and costumes: Alix Burgstaller, Anne Marie Legenstein
Ľubica Čekovská : Dorian Gray
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19 Aug
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 8pm Prague Philharmonic Choir Church of St Simon and St Jude Prague Czech Republic
Prague Philharmonic Choir
The concert of the Prague Philharmonic Choir will present four extraordinarily fine works of enormous musical diversity.
The sacred music of John Tavener (1944 – 2013) is comparable to the works of Arvo Pärt and Henryk Gorecki. In the 1960s, he succeeded at ingeniously combining classical music with the current wave of popular music. In 1968, it was John Lennon who saw to the release of a recording of Taverner’s cantata The Whale, in which the composer combined electronic tape, electrically amplified percussion instruments, and choir using a megaphone. From the 1970s, John Tavener turned his attention to the East, taking inspiration from sources including India’s sacred texts, Islamic mysticism, and especially Easter Orthodoxy. “The text [for the composition Svyati – O Holy One] is used at almost every Russian Orthodox service, perhaps most poignantly after the congregation have kissed the body in an open coffin at an Orthodox funeral. The choir sings as the coffin is closed and borne out of the church, followed by the mourners with lighted candles. The cello represents the priest or icon of Christ. As in Greek drama, the choir and priest are in dialogue with each other.” (John Tavener)
Concerning Veljo Tormis (*1930), The Daily Telegraph wrote: “After Arvo Pärt, Tormis is probably Estonia’s most important living composer.” His works have been commissioned and performed by such ensembles as the King’s Singers and the Hilliard Ensemble, which is well known to the Prague public. He writes almost exclusively for choirs, and the number of his choral works is in excess of 500. The vast majority of his music is based on old Estonian folk songs.
Cloudburst is one of Whitacre’s most spectacular works. Eric Whitacre (*1970) composed it at the age of 22 for eight-part chorus, piano, and percussion. The first part of the composition effectively combines clusters with spoken or sung solos. The second part, from which the work takes its name, actually evokes the feeling of an impending storm, not only thanks to the addition of instruments, but also because of the singers’ handclapping, finger snapping, and thigh slapping that are intended to make the effect of raindrops. In 2007, a recording of Cloudburst and other works by Whitacre was nominated for a Grammy in the category for “Best Choral Performance”.
John Tavener : Svyati for mixed choir and cello Arvo Pärt : Seven Magnificat Antiphons for mixed choir Veljo Tormis : Livonian Heritage for solos and mixed choir Eric Whitacre : Cloudburst for mixed choir, percussion and piano
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20 Aug
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 7:30pm Odyssey Opera: The British Invasion Festival Boston University Theatre 264 Huntington Avenue United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival kick-starts with a three-night performance of Vaughan Williams's Sir John in Love (May 17, 20 + 23). A Shakespearean opera in English, Sir John in Love perfectly depicts the colorful characters and jumbled relationships of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Vaughan Williams : Sir John in Love
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21 Aug
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Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 8pm Rautavaara, Hanuš, Mahler Municipal House Smetana Hall Obecní dům, a.s. nám. Republiky 5 110 21 Prague 1 Czech Republic (+420) 222 002 101
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen is well known to the Prague public primarily because of his collaborations with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, with which he made his first appearance back in 2007. Pietari Inkinen’s Prague Spring debut will be, at the same time, his inaugural concert as the principal conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra.
The first work on the programme will be A Relay Race Op. 63 by the Czech composer Jan Hanuš – in 2015 we shall be commemorating the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The composer dedicated this symphonic allegro, written in 1968, “To the Czech Radio announcers and technicians in May of 1945 and August of 1968”. Next will be the Czech premiere of the final movement (Apotheosis) from the Symphony No. 6 “Vincentiana” by the Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. In his music, he combines elements of modernism and ‘mystical romanticism’, and he finds inspiration mainly in the area of metaphysics and religion. The music of the composer’s Symphony No. 6 “Vincentiana” is taken from his opera Vincent, which deals with the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh. In it, Rautavaara uses tonal music as well as elements of serialism, and he is a master of orchestration, as is excellently demonstrated by the symphony’s final movement that we will be hearing. The evening will end with Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor with its famous Adagietto, which Mahler is said to have composed as a profession of his love for his wife Alma.
Jan Hanuš : A Relay Race op. 63 Einojuhani Rautavaara : Apotheosis from Symphony No. 6 “Vincentiana” Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
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22 Aug
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Friday, May 22, 2015 at 03:00pm Odyssey Opera: The British Invasion Festival Boston University Theatre 264 Huntington Avenue United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival continues with a two nights of a double-bill of William Walton’s The Bear and Arthur Sullivan’s The Zoo (May 22 + 24). Based on a short play by Chekhov, The Bear is a humorous tale about an ostentatiously virtuous widow, Yelena Ivanovna Popova, and her late husband’s boorish but well-‐‑intentioned creditor, Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov. With a libretto written by B.C. Stephenson and music by Arthur Sullivan, The Zoo remained unpublished and unperformed for many years. This one-‐‑act “musical folly” is sprightly and charming, unfolding through cleverly set arias, choruses, and patter.
William Walton : The Bear Arthur Sullivan : The Zoo
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23 Aug
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Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 7:30pm Odyssey Opera : The British Invasion Festival Boston University Theatre 264 Huntington Avenue United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival kick-starts with a three-night performance of Vaughan Williams's Sir John in Love (May 17, 20 + 23). A Shakespearean opera in English, Sir John in Love perfectly depicts the colorful characters and jumbled relationships of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Vaughan Williams : Sir John in Love
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24 Aug
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Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 07:30pm-09:00pm Odyssey Opera: The British Invasion Festival Boston University Theatre 264 Huntington Avenue United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival continues with a two nights of a double-bill of William Walton’s The Bear and Arthur Sullivan’s The Zoo (May 22 + 24). Based on a short play by Chekhov, The Bear is a humorous tale about an ostentatiously virtuous widow, Yelena Ivanovna Popova, and her late husband’s boorish but well-‐‑intentioned creditor, Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov. With a libretto written by B.C. Stephenson and music by Arthur Sullivan, The Zoo remained unpublished and unperformed for many years. This one-‐‑act “musical folly” is sprightly and charming, unfolding through cleverly set arias, choruses, and patter.
William Walton : The Bear Arthur Sullivan : The Zoo
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at Britten, Berio, Bach Church of Our Lady of the Snows Jungmannovo náměstí 4 110 00 Prague 1 United Kingdom (+420) 222 246 243 http://www.pms.ofm.cz
Tickets: 9.30pm Charles-Antoine Duflot - cello
“A cellist caught my eye – a Frenchman, Charles- Antoine Duflot, who managed to play Suite No. 6 – the most difficult of them all – with delicacy and wit.” (The Guardian)
One can hardly imagine more stylistically and technically diverse repertoire for solo cello than the works chosen for his Prague Spring evening recital by the French cellist Charles-Antoine Duflot. This young artist, who is often called one of the most prominent talents of the younger generation, will be presenting on a single evening a combination of works by Baroque and contemporary composers, who share in common above all the extreme demands they place on performers.
For his Suite No. 3 Op. 37, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) took inspiration from the personality and playing of the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered the work in 1974. Britten, who had been captivated by Rostropovich’s interpretation of Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello, placed in his work a number of fragmentary references to Russian music, including a hymn of the Orthodox Church.
On the other hand, in Sequenza XIV (2002) Luciano Berio (1925-2003) introduces the cello right at the beginning of his composition in a less familiar role – as a percussion instrument. In addition to that, the work presents perhaps every sonic possibility that the cello has to offer.
Another interesting feature of the programme will be Bach’s Suite in D major BWV 1012, which the composer wrote for the fivestring ‘violoncello piccolo’. Although the work has traditionally been played on a modern four-string instrument, Duflot, who learned to play the Baroque cello during his university studies in Basel, will be performing the work on an 18th-century Italian Baroque instrument. This evening will be a unique opportunity to experience the colorful sound world of classical music through three phenomenally original compositions.
The French cellist Charles-Antoine Duflot has devoted himself to music since he was five years old. He first studied in Paris and Stuttgart, then he completed his master’s studies at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where he studied performance on the Baroque cello. He is a laureate of a number of international competitions (the International J&A Beare Solo Bach Competition in London and the Beethoven’s Hradec International Music Competition), and he has appeared as a soloist under the baton of such conductors as Christoph Alstaedt, Nicolás Pasquet, and Christoph Prick. He plays an instrument made by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume in 1865 and an Italian five-string cello from the 18th century.
Benjamin Britten : Suite No. 3 Op. 87 Luciano Berio : Sequenza XIV J.S Bach : Suite in D major BWV 1012
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28 Aug
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Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 8pm Instruments of Ice DAAD Gallery Zimmerstraße 90, 10117 Berlin, Germany Germany +49 30 2613640 http://www.daadgalerie.de/en/index_en.php
Quiet Music Ensemble + Karen Power
Dan Bodwell: Kontrabass
Ilse De Ziah: Eello
John Godfrey: elektrische Gitarre
Seán MacErlaine: Klarinette
Roddy O'Keeffe: Posaune
Karen Power: Elektronik
Karen Power verbrachte im Kontext des künstlerischen Projektes „The Arctic Circle Residency“ intensive Wochen in der Arktis. Stark beeindruckt von der besonderen Akustik dieser nordischen Weltregion nahm sie ein Meer von Klängen auf, präparierte Eisblöcke mit Mikrophonen oder ließ Hydrophone ins Wasser sinken, um Geräusche unter dem Eis aufzunehmen. Diese Aufnahmen dienen in dem Konzert als aurale Partitur für die Live-Musiker, die den räumlich projizierten Field Recordings mit akustischen Instrumentalklängen begegnen. Die Hörer werden mit auf eine Reise durch reale und aus der Erinnerung nachgebildete arktische Klanglandschaften genommen. Das Stück reflektiert in seiner dialogischen und meandernden Form das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Eis.
Die Verflechtung von Instrumentalklängen und Alltagsgeräuschen sowie von akustischen Instrumenten und elektroakustischen Elementen bildet das künstlerische Zentrum von Karen Powers Schaffen. Sie untersucht dabei nicht nur die Gemeinsamkeiten und Eigenheiten instrumentaler und elektroakustischer Musik, sondern zielt vielmehr auf integrative Strategien, die die unterschiedlichen Potenziale anerkennen und in der kompositorischen Arbeit zusammenführen.
Die Komponistin, Klangkünstlerin und Improvisatorin Karen Power (Irland) ist 2015 Gast des Berliner Künstlerprogramms des DAAD. Das Quiet Music Ensemble kommt wie Karen Power aus Cork in Irland.
Eintritt frei
Karen Power spent in the context of the artistic project "The Arctic Circle Residency" intensive weeks in the Arctic. Highly impressed by the special acoustics of these Nordic region of the world took on a sea of sounds, groomed ice blocks with microphones or hydrophones let fall into the water to absorb noises under the ice. These recordings are used in the concert as aural score for the live musicians who meet the projected spatial field recordings with acoustic instrumental sounds. The listeners are taken on a journey through real and simulated from memory Arctic soundscapes. The piece reflects in its dialogue and meandering shape the relationship between man and ice.
The intertwining of instrumental sounds and everyday sounds and acoustic instruments and electroacoustic elements forms the artistic center of Karen Powers work. It examines not only the similarities and peculiarities of instrumental and electroacoustic music, but aims rather to integrative strategies that recognize the different potentials and merge in the compositional work.
The composer, sound artist and improviser Karen Power (Ireland) 2015 Guest of the Berlin Artists Programme of the DAAD. The Quiet Music Ensemble comes as Karen Power from Cork in Ireland.
Admission free
Karen Power : instruments of ice
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29 Aug
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30 Aug
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Saturday, May 30, 2015 at 7:30pm Odyssey Opera Performs Five Monodramas Boston University Theatre 264 Huntington Avenue United States
Tickets: $20 and Up Odyssey Opera
Odyssey Opera's month-long (May-Jun) THE BRITISH INVASION opera festival continues with a one-night only performance (May 30th at 7:30 p.m. at Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA) of five compelling monodramas. Odyssey Opera introduces audiences to a selection of the brightest stars among Boston’s emerging vocalists in a special evening of monodramas by five great British composers of the 20th century. The program includes Phaedra by Benjamin Britten (1913-76), Ophelia by Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila by Lennox Berkeley (1903-89), King Harald's Saga by Judith Weir (b.1954), and Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies (b.1934). Each of these works is a tour-de-force for a solo singer, sometimes inhabiting multiple roles.
Benjamin Britten : Phaedra Richard Rodney Bennett : Ophelia Lennox Berkley : Four Poems of St. Teresa of Avila Judith Weir : King Harald's Saga Peter Maxwell Davies : Eight Songs for a Mad King
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31 Aug
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31 Aug
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1 Sep
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Monday, June 1, 2015 at 8.30pm Lecture-recital Jean-Guihen Queryas Holland Festival Amsterdam Netherlands
Jean-Guihen Queyras
In connection with the festival’s focus on Pierre Boulez, master cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras is joined by his students of the Musikhochschule Freiburg to give a lecture recital on Boulez’ Messagesquisse for solo cello and six cellists. In a special seating arrangement the musicians as well as the audience are positioned on the stage of the Stadsschouwburg. After an initial run-through of the piece, Queyras will bit by bit introduce the audience to Boulez’ rich universe of sounds. Rounding off with a second full performance of the piece, the audience will now experience the music in a completely new way.
Pierre Boulez : Messagesquisse
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 08:00pm The Sorrows of Young Werther Operatic Concert 6/3-4 Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, New York, NY United States 212-864-5400 http://www.symphonyspace.org info@symphonyspace.org
Tickets: $47 Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Described recently by The New York Times as “a dazzling musical and multimedia paean to human aspiration,” the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to Symphony Space for two performances of The Sorrows of Young Werther. Written by James Melo based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s groundbreaking novella Sorrows of Young Werther, ERC’s production is an original, fully-staged theatrical concert blending drama based on Goethe's tale, and music of the German Lied repertoire.
Robert Schumann : Dichterliebe
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4 Sep
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Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 08:00pm The Sorrows of Young Werther Operatic Concert 6/3-4 Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, New York, NY United States 212-864-5400 http://www.symphonyspace.org info@symphonyspace.org
Tickets: $47 Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Described recently by The New York Times as “a dazzling musical and multimedia paean to human aspiration,” the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to Symphony Space for two performances of The Sorrows of Young Werther. Written by James Melo based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s groundbreaking novella Sorrows of Young Werther, ERC’s production is an original, fully-staged theatrical concert blending drama based on Goethe's tale, and music of the German Lied repertoire.
Robert Schumann : Dichterliebe
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