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United Kingdom
 Friday, May 12, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Ravi Shankar's opera: Sukanya
Curve Theatre
Rutland Street Leicester, LE1 1SB
United Kingdom
0116 242 3595
www.curveonline.co.uk

Aakash Odedra Company

BBC Singers

London Philharmonic Orchestra

David Murphy
conductor


After a terrible mistake leaves the ancient sage Chyavana blinded, the beautiful princess Sukanya finds herself marrying for the sake of her kingdom. As a pair of swaggering, meddling gods watch this unlikely union blossom, will love grow in the strangest of circumstances?
Taken from the legendary Sanskrit texts of the Mahābhārata, the story of Sukanya has been brought to life in this innovative production with music by Indian music legend Ravi Shankar and combines traditional Indian instruments with Western orchestra and singers.
This performance is directed by Curve Associate Director Suba Das and unites dance choreographed by the Aakash Odedra Company, production by the Royal Opera and the musicians of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Come and experience Ravi Shankar’s Sukanya. This special event combining myth, music and dance brings Ravi Shankar’s opera to life for the very first time.


Ravi Shankar : Sukanya

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France
 Monday, May 15, 2017 at 8pm 
New works for string quartet
IRCAM/Centre Pompidou-Grande salle-Paris

France

Diotima Quartet
Yun-Peng Zhao, violin
Constance Ronzatti, violin
Franck Chevalier, viola
Pierre Morlet, cello

Today, electronics have created unimagined possibilities to a new generation of musicians.

Anima by Ashley Fure represents a quest for electric blood, for digital breathing…. Like a stethoscope listening to the body’s secrets, the performers move transducers from one spot to another on their instruments; instruments that then become loudspeakers.
In memory of the Italian composer Fausto Romitelli, The 1987 Max Headroom Broadcast Incident by Mauro Lanza is a tribute to obsolescent or soon to be forgotten technologies.
In Philipp Maintz’ Geubteste Ferne, the composer questions each instrument’s heterogeneity. How does one keep an open mind when presented with an unexpected object? How does one understand its qualities?

Ghost stories by Oscar Strasnoy blends the voices of famous authors with instrumental sounds. Like genies trapped in lamps, Perec Calvino and Borges speak to us as if they were still alive.
For works that, via alterations or electronics, shift the representation of the string quartet.



Mauro Lanza : The 1987 Max Headroom Broadcast Incident
Ashley Fure : Anima
Oscar Strasnoy : Ghost Stories
Philipp Maintz : Quatuor

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United Kingdom
 Friday, May 19, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Y Tŵr
Sherman Theatre
Cardiff CF24 4YE
United Kingdom

Guto Puw Composer
Gwyneth Glyn Libretto
Caryl Hughes The Woman
Gwion Thomas The Man
Richard Baker Conductor
Michael McCarthy Director
Samal Blak Designer
Ace McCarron Lighting

“We’ll go up, you and me, together, hand in hand, no fear, no regrets.”

Y Tŵr explores the journey of two people bound together through life’s all too brief struggle, from youth to old-age, from love to despair, from desire to disillusionment. An intense and searching opera from the UK’s leading new opera company and the Welsh-language national theatre company, based on the work of one of Wales’ most important playwrights. Personal and universal. Particular and timeless.

Sung in Welsh with English surtitles.


Guto Puw : Y Tŵr

19 Sep



United States
 Friday, May 19, 2017 at 7:00pm 
Ecce Ensemble Culminates Le Lab Residency with May 19th Concert
Le Laboratoire
650 East Kendall Street
United States
617-945-7515
http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com

Tickets: $20
Ecce Ensemble
Roberta Michel (flutes), Carlos Cordeiro (clarinet), Jennifer Choi (violin), John Popham (cello), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), Hassan Anderson (oboe), Colin Gee (choreographer/dancer), Sam Budish (percussion), and Julia Den Boer (piano)

As the 2016-17 contemporary music ensemble-in-residence at Cambridge’s Le Laboratoire, the Ecce Ensemble completes its French-inspired season with a diverse program juxtaposing American and French music. The concert features chamber performances of masterworks by French composer Philippe Hurel and by American composer John Aylward. The event is also a program of memorials, featuring two of Hurel's significant homage works, Pour Luigi and In Memoriam a Berio, and the world premiere of Aylward’s Angelus Novus, an homage to Lee Hyla.

John Aylward : Angelus Novus
John Aylward : Daedalus
Philippe Hurel : Pour Luigi

19 Sep



Netherlands
 Friday, May 19, 2017 at 19.00pm 
MUSMA FEAT. AMÔN QUARTET
de Doelen
Rotterdam
Netherlands

Aymeric De Villoutreys - violin
Eva Pusker - violin
Nina Poskin - viola
Anne-Gabrielle Lia-Aragnouet - cello


MusMA, Music Masters on Air is a collaboration between European art institutions, festivals and radio networks that started in 2010. MusMA showcases works by five young composers around a theme. The 2017 theme is ‘Music and Exile’: the galvanising effect of cultural exchange during crisis and displacement. MusMA composers wrote pieces addressing this, performed at Classical:NEXT by Amôn Quartet.


Martin Q Larsson : Ares and Afrodite

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Wales
 Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 4pm 
A Day by the Sea with Onyx Brass
Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales
http://www.valeofglamorganfestival.org

Onyx Brass

Join Onyx Brass, “easily the classiest brass ensemble in Britain” (BBC Music Magazine) for a series of free, informal short performances along the Vale of Glamorgan coastline culminating in an hour-long concert at the Eastern Shelter, Barry Island which will feature the world premiere of a new work for fairground organ and brass quintet by Guto Puw.

nformal performances –

10.30 – 10.50am Penarth Pier Pavilion

12.00 – 12.20pm Victoria Park, Barry

3.30 – 3.50pm Barry Island Gardens

Concert

4pm Eastern Shelter, Barry Island


James Maynard : Fanfare
Joe Duddell : Still Life
Stuart MacRae : Two Cairns
Guto Puw : New work for Fairground Organ and Brass Quintet
John Adams : China Gates
Tim Jackson : Extract from “Anything But”
Michael Berkeley : Music from Chaucer

21 Sep



United States
 Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 4:00PM-6:00PM 
New Voices
Old Stone House
336 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
http://theoldstonehouse.org

Tickets: $25/$15
Laura Strickling, Elisabeth Marshall, soprano; Steven Eddy, baritone; Pascal Archer, clarinet;
Michael Brofman, Miori Sugiyama, piano

On Sunday, May 21st, 2017 Brooklyn Art Song Society will present its season finale, a concert of songs written after 2010, as part of its New Voices series. Two works will be world premieres: A new work by Tom Cipullo written to celebrate the wedding of artistic director Michael Brofman and Glen Rovens Three Songs by Thomas Hardy for baritone and bass-clarinet. Also on the program: Scott Wheelers swashbuckling Ben Gunn Songs on texts from Treasure Island (which BASS premiered in 2015), Michael Djuptroms lushly romantic Three Teasdale Songs and James Kellembachs epic A Primer of Bird on texts by Ted Hughes. Sopranos Laura Strickling and Elisabeth Marshall and baritone Steven Eddy perform works written specifically for their voice.


Tom Cipullo : New Work
James Kallembach : A Primer of Birds
Glen Roven : Three Poems by Thomas Hardy
Scott Wheeler : Ben Gunn
Michael Djuptom : Three Teasdale Songs

21 Sep



United States
 Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 4:00pm 
The Dessoff Choirs in Concert: A New Amorous World
Holy Trinity Church
3 West 65th Street, New York City, NY
United States

Tickets: $15-35
The Dessoff Choirs
Voices of Haiti
United Nations International School Senior Chorus

Hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness (The New York Times),” The Dessoff Choirs completes its 92nd season with an unforgettable concert dedicated to utopian visions. The Dessoff Choirs welcomes intergenerational and cross-cultural guest artists including the United Nations International School Senior Choir and its director Mr. Daniel Stroup, and Johanne Francois and Wenson Delice, co-directors of “Voices of Haiti,” a children’s choir based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The featured piece on the program The New Amorous World will be complemented by contemporary choral music sung in the original language from Haiti, China, and the Middle East.

Lembit Beecher : The New Amorous World

22 Sep



United Kingdom
 Monday, May 22, 2017 at 7.30pm 
PSYCHO WITH ORCHESTRA
Bath Festival

United Kingdom

Bath Philharmonia

A thrilling opportunity to experience Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece with a live orchestra. Bernard Herrmann’s score is integral to the spine-chilling atmosphere of the film, adding impact to the highpoints and maintaining an almost unbearable level of tension throughout. Conductor Jason Thornton and the Bath Philharmonia combined with a great film will provide a cinematic experience to remember.

Bernard Herrmann : Psycho

23 Sep



United States
 Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 12:00pm 
Renowned Organist Gail Archer Performs Free Concert in St Paul, MN 5/23
Church of St Louis
506 Cedar Street
United States
651-224-3379

Tickets: Free
Organist Gail Archer

Gail Archer is an international concert organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer who draws attention to composer anniversaries or musical themes with her annual recital series including Max Reger: The Last Romantic, The Muse’s Voice, An American Idyll, Liszt, Bach, Mendelssohn and Messiaen. Ms. Archer was the first American woman to play the complete works of Olivier Messiaen for the centennial of the composer’s birth in 2008; Time Out New York recognized the Messiaen cycle as “Best of 2008” of classical music and opera.

Cesar Cui : Prelude in G Minor

23 Sep



Wales
 Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 8pm 
Grand Band
Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales
http://www.valeofglamorganfestival.org

Grand Band

Six grand pianos and six virtuoso pianists from New York bestride St David’s Hall’s stage. Described as “awesome” (Sequenza 21) and “inventive” (New York Magazine), Grand Band champion new music from today’s composers, ranging through classical and pop-crossover to post minimal. There are classics by Reich, Lang and Glass, a world premiere from Ben Wallace and music from Wales by John Metcalf.



Paul Kerekes : wither and bloom
Philip Glass : Closing
Ben Wallace : Fryderyk Chopin's Psychedelic Technicolor 'lectro-Funk-Core Superstarlit Ultra-Throwdown on Op.28 No.4
David Lang : face so pale
John Metcalf : Never Odd or Even
Steve Reich : Six Pianos

24 Sep



Wales
 Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Apollon Musagète Quartet
Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales
http://www.valeofglamorganfestival.org

Apollon Musagète Quartet

Since their debut six years ago, this young, award-winning string quartet from Poland has been captivating audiences with their energy and conviction. Alongside their own devised work, Multitude they perform two works inspired by dance rhythms: Penderecki’s roller-coaster ride of waltzes and gypsy melodies, and John Adams’s lively fusion of bluegrass, jazz, habanera and Latin sounds for his joyous set of dances.



Krzysztof Penderecki : String Quartet No. 3 - Leaves of an unwritten diary
John Adams : Book of Alleged Dances

25 Sep



United Kingdom
 Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 3pm 
STEVEN ISSERLIS
Bath Festival

United Kingdom

Steven Isserlis, cello

Bach’s cello suites are among his very finest music and Steven Isserlis’s performances are justly of world renown. Britten’s Cello Suites, written for the great cellist Rostropovich, mirror them in depth of emotional expression and Kurtag’s miniature character pieces add the icing on the cake of a fascinating programme.

J.S. Bach : Solo Cello Suite No. 5
Gyorgy Kurtag : Az Hit
Gyorgy Kurtag : Pilinszky János: Gérard de Nerval
Gyorgy Kurtag : In memoriam Ferenc Wilheim
Benjamin Britten : Solo Cello Suite No. 3

25 Sep



Wales
 Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 7.30pm 
Marsyas Trio
Vale of Glamorgan Festival
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales
http://www.valeofglamorganfestival.org

Marsyas Trio

Six works for flute, cello and piano by six women composers. Whilst each has a unique musical voice, they are bound together by a strong sense of place – encompassing a Buenos Aires dance hall, the rain forests of Papua New Guinea, the Chinese countryside at night and the landscape of Wales

Cecilia McDowall : Not just a place - Dark memories from an old tango hall
Judith Weir : Several Concertos
Hilary Tann : In the Theatre of Air
Chen Yi : Night Thoughts
Steph Power : and ante
Elisenda Fábregas : Voices of the Rainforest

26 Sep



United Kingdom
 Friday, May 26, 2017 at 7:30 pm 
Mirrors and Meditations
Church of the Sacred Heart
25 South Street, Exeter EX1 1EB
United Kingdom
01392 667080
www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

Tickets: £11
Jonathan Storer - Violin
Stephen Beville - Piano

Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Stephen Beville and concert-violinist Jonathan Storer perform a meditative programme featuring Arvo Part's Fratres, Spiegel im Spiegel, Beville's Monodrama (world premiere) and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, Op 47.

Frederick Chopin : Two Nocturnes, Op 27
Frederick Chopin : Ballad No 3 in A-flat, Op 36
Arvo Part : Fratres (1977/80)
Stephen Beville : Monodrama (2011)
Ludwig Van Beethoven : Sonata in A, Op 47, 'Kreutzer'
Arvo Part : Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)

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