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16 Oct
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Sunday, November 16, 2014 at 7.30pm
London Sinfonietta on Tour
Turner Sims, Southampton
United Kingdom
Southampton University music students
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta perform side-by-side with music students from Southampton University, in the world premiere of Michael Finnissy's Remembrance Day . Among the most distinguished British composers working today, this is his major new work for baritone soloist, choir and orchestra, setting wartime texts by Henry Lamont Simpson.
Michael Finnissy : Remembrance Day
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18 Oct
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19 Oct
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 6:30pm - 7:30pm
CD Launch - Farpoint Recordings Label
The Contemporary Music Centre
Fishamble street, Temple Bar, Dublin
Ireland
http://www.cmc.ie
The CD, which takes place in CMC from 6.30–7.30, will be launched by Aodán O Dubhghaill, Head of RTÉ lyric fm. The event will also include a performance by Baroque violinist Claire Duff of one of the works from the album: hang on, I’m not ready for a pig yet and an improvised performance by David Stalling, Anthony Kelly, John Godfrey and Karen Power.
The CD, which takes place in CMC from 6.30–7.30, will be launched by Aodán O Dubhghaill, Head of RTÉ lyric fm. The event will also include a performance by Baroque violinist Claire Duff of one of the works from the album: hang on, I’m not ready for a pig yet and an improvised performance by David Stalling, Anthony Kelly, John Godfrey and Karen Power.
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19 Oct
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Brett Dean: The Annunciation
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josep Pons conductor
BBC Singers
Respighi’s intimate evocations of Botticelli’s art, including the central ‘Adoration of the Magi’, preface Brett Dean’s festive Christmas cantata, The Annunciation, inspired by and commissioned for the 800th birthday of Bach’s own Thomanerchor (St Thomas’s Choir) in Leipzig, where it was premiered. The Annunciation depicts the journey of the three kings from darkness into light, in a four-part work for chamber orchestra and choir. 'Dean succeeds in achieving something that cannot be valued too highly: integrity' RBB Kulturradio.
In the second half Josep Pons presents Strauss’s effervescent theatre suite for Molière’s satire Le bourgeois gentilhomme, a showcase for the orchestra’s stylish versatility.
Ottorino Respighi : Trittico Botticelliano
Brett Dean : The Annunciation
Richard Strauss : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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21 Oct
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Friday, November 21, 2014 at 7.30pm
17th London New Wind Festival
Regent Hall
275 Oxford St., London W1 2DJ
United Kingdom
Tickets: £8 (£5)
Simon Desorgher - Flutes, Catherine Pluygers - Oboes, Phil Edwards - Clarinets, Henryk Sienkiewicz - Horn, Glyn Williams, Bassoon, Alan Tomlinson - Trombone, Robert Coleridge - Piano.
Brand new works for winds.
Before the concert, at 6pm, there is a Composers Forum, with the composers discussing their works.
Enid Luff : Lament for Wind Trio
Jane Serter : Sky Fragments, Earth Fragment & The Collector for Piccolo, Bassoon and Piano
Anthony Green : Slieve League-Variant for Wind Ensemble
Daniel Linker : Tendrils for Solo Flute
Frank Sartain : Epic Journey for Trombone and Piano
Robert Coleridge : ‘New Work’ for Solo Piano
Richard Pressley : 7 Haiku for Wind Quintet
Steven Denison : Triptych for Wind Ensemble
Giorgio Coslovich : Montenotte for Winds and Piano
Ada Gentile : Quartetto per Fiati (Quartet for Winds)
Tim Ambler : Trench Fever for Clarinet and Piano
Jane Wells : Five Storyteller Studies for Solo Oboe
Marilyn Herman : Swing Abeba for Solo Bassoon
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21 Oct
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21 Oct
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Friday, November 21, 2014 at 7.30pm
The world stage premiere of composer John Adams’s latest work
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom
ENO
N.B Performances continue until 5th December.
Director Peter Sellars returns to ENO for what will undoubtedly be one of the most significant events in London’s contemporary music season: the world stage premiere of John Adams’s latest dramatic work, The Gospel According to the Other Mary. ENO enjoys a unique association with Adams, having staged all three of his major operas, most recently The Death of Klinghoffer in 2012.
Using a text fashioned by Sellars from Biblical sources as well as several 20th-century writers (including Primo Levi), leading US composer Adams has created what Sellars describes as an attempt to ‘set the Passion story in the eternal present, in the tradition of sacred art’. The Gospel According to the Other Mary is an interpretation of the Resurrection from the perspective of two women close to Jesus (Mary Magdalene and Martha), in which the narrative switches between the Biblical past and the worldly present, drawing parallels between Christ’s Passion and contemporary events such as the Arab Spring.
Designer George Tsypin, responsible for the opening ceremony of 2014 Sochi Olympiad, resumes his partnership with Sellars, which began with Theodora at Glyndebourne, while ENO regular Patricia Bardon (Mary Magdalene) leads a cast that includes a major role for the ENO Chorus.
The Gospel According to the Other Mary is sung and surtitled in English | Running time: 2hrs 20mins
Pre-performance talk with Peter Sellars and Christopher Cook: 27 Nov, 5.15 – 6pm, £5/£2.50 concs.
Signed performance 3 Dec.
John Adams : The Gospel According to the Other Mary
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23 Oct
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Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 8pm
London Sinfonietta on Tour: Huddersfield
St Pauls Hall
Huddersfield
United Kingdom
Ilan Volkov conductor
BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta
The London Sinfonietta and BBC Singers perform the world premiere of Stabat Mater Dolorosa, written especially for them by James Dillon.
Composer in Residence at hcmf// this year, Dillon is one of the most celebrated but least performed composers in the UK, describing his music as like ‘stepping into the magic circle.’
In this new work for choir, ensemble and electronics, Dillon explores the myth surrounding one of the most important texts in Biblical history. Combining the original Latin text with excerpts from an essay by radical feminist writer Julie Kristeva, John Donne’s A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning and even a letter to Picasso from his mother, this contemporary rendering of Mary’s lamentation at the foot of the cross will have a powerful, expressive impact.
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3, hcmf// and Casa da Música Porto.
James Dillon : Stabat Mater Dolorosa
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23 Oct
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Sunday, November 23, 2014 at
Inspire concert with musicians from the BBC SO
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
Tickets: Free
BBCSO
The BBC has commissioned eight talented young composers to write a piece for obbligato instrument and ensemble of BBC SO musicians. Each composer has taken as a starting point one story from One Thousand and One Nights, the inspiration for Rimksy-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
This concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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23 Oct
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Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 10.30
Charles Ives Day
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
Speakers include Robin Bowman, Dr William Brooks, Professor J. Peter Burkholder, Michael Finnissy, Dr David Nicholls and Dr Evan Rothstein.
The music of Charles Ives is a rich tapestry of allusions, both musical and textual, ranging from the writings of the Transcendentalists and European poetry to American vernacular music and childhood memories.
Ives scholar J. Peter Burkholder leads this exploration of Ives’ sources and models. The all-day event includes performances of new Ives-inspired works by composition staff and students, a song masterclass from Robin Bowman, and an evening concert.
Charles Ives : Various
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23 Oct
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Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Thanksgiving 2014
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
812 N Jackson St. MIlwaukee WI
United States
414-271-0711
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/thanksgiving14.aspx
emwoehlke@presentmusic.org
Tickets: $35, $25, $15
Present Music Ensemble, Hearing Voices, Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group, Milwaukee Handbell Choir
Gather together as handbells, instruments, drums and voices start the holiday season. Present Music‘s vocal ensemble, Hearing Voices, will perform alongside Milwaukee Handbell Choir and the Bucks Native American Singing and Drumming Group. Celebrate creation with Ince’s Hammers and Whistlers, commissioned by PM in 2006, with jubilant sounds from the brass and choirs and be a part of Kevin’s newest sound montage!
Kamran Ince : Hammers and Whistlers
Kamran Ince : Gloria Everywhere
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26 Oct
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27 Oct
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Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 19:30
Birtwistle in Birmingham
Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham
Paradise Place, Birmingham
United Kingdom
0121 331 5901
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/pme/conservatoire
conservatoire@bcu.ac.uk
Birtwistle in Birmingham is a mini-festival celebrating the music of arguably Britain’s greatest living composer, while also celebrating his 80th birthday. The festival builds on the Conservatoire’s retrospectives of Pierre Boulez, Louis Andriessen, Heiner Goebbels and Robert Ashley in recent years.
Over three days, Sir Harrison Birtwistle will be in attendance at Birmingham Conservatoire, working with our composers and instrumentalists. In addition to public talks, the culmination on his visit will be a final concert with the Conservatoire’s celebrated Thallein Ensemble, which will include a performance of his acclaimed work Panic which caused a minor scandal at the Last Night of the Proms a few years ago.
Birtwistle in Birmingham is produced in partnership with the Park Lane Group and supported by the Hinrichsen Foundation, Holst Foundation and the RVW Trust.
Andy Ingamells : Having never seen (a) Ghost
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29 Oct
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Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 15:00
James Dillon World Premiere
Huddersfield Town Hall
Huddersfield Town Hall, Ramsden Street, Huddersfield HD1 2TA
United Kingdom
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Noriko Kawai piano
Steve Schick
conductor
The world premiere of a large scale orchestral work by renowned composer James Dillon is always a cause for celebration - and doubly so when that work is premiered in the UK! hcmf// is delighted to present the premiere of Physis 1 & II, commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris, alongside a performance of Dillon's piano concerto Andromeda by soloist Noriko Kawai and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, first premiered at the BBC Proms in 2006 to critical acclaim.
To be recorded for future broadcast in ‘Hear and Now’, BBC Radio 3’s Saturday late-night contemporary music programme.
Héctor Parra : L’absència
James Dillon : Concerto for Piano 'Andromeda'
James Dillon : Physis No. I & II
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1 Nov
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3 Nov
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014 at 1pm
Michael Berkeley, Crawford Seeger, Patrick John Jones and Nielsen
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Britten Sinfonia
The great Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s fondness for wind instruments relates closely to his love of nature. He was inspired to write his Wind Quintet after hearing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for four winds; likewise, Michael Berkeley turned to past models for his Re-Inventions, based on the famous two-part Inventions of JS Bach.
The programme includes the London première of Uncanny Vale, a new work by Patrick John Jones, the winner of OPUS2014, Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall’s open call for submissions from unpublished UK composers.
Michael Berkeley : Re-Inventions
Ruth Crawford Seeger : Suite for wind quintet
Patrick John Jones : Uncanny Vale
Carl Nielsen : Wind Quintet Op. 43
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4 Nov
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4 Nov
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Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 7.30pm
CBSO MacMillan’s St Luke Passion
Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Broad Street,
Birmingham,
West Midlands,
B1 2EA
United Kingdom
0121 200 2000
symphonyhall@necgroup.co.uk
http://boxoffice.necgroup.co.uk/iccsym.asp
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
CBSO Chorus
CBSO Youth Chorus
James MacMillan conductor
Toby Spence tenor
Richard Watkins horn
James MacMillan has been called the greatest British composer since Britten, and his music is urgent, melodious, and burning to communicate. The UK premiere of his St Luke Passion – co-commissioned for the 40th anniversary of the CBSO Chorus – is a major event, and with the composer himself conducting our famous choruses, this is a chance to experience musical history in the making.
6.15pm Pre-concert talk: James MacMillan introduces the UK premiere of his St Luke Passion, in conversation with Stephen Maddock.
Benjamin Britten : Serenade for tenor, horn and strings
James MacMillan : St Luke Passion
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5 Nov
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Friday, December 5, 2014 at 7.30pm
BIRTWISTLE: A CELEBRATION
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk
David Atherton conductor
Geoffrey Paterson conductor*
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble^
London Sinfonietta
Sir Harrison Birtwistle in conversation, interspersed by The Message for trumpet, clarinet and side drum and two new additions to his duet series (world premieres)
In Broken Images*
Theseus Game*
Few other composers have played such an integral role in the London Sinfonietta’s growth as Sir Harrison Birtwistle, whose music has always remained defiantly uncategorisable. Once considered the bad boy of British music, Birtwistle’s extraordinary output has transformed him into a contemporary icon. Now in his 80th year, this is a chance to get under the skin of one of music’s most challenging minds as we relive his 21st century commissions and premiere new additions to his series of duets. Join us for the celebration.
Harrison Birtwistle : The Message
Harrison Birtwistle : In Broken Images
Harrison Birtwistle : Theseus Game
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7 Nov
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8 Nov
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9 Nov
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10 Nov
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 6.30pm
ALTERNATIVE VISIONS
BFI Southbank, London
London, SE1 8XT
United Kingdom
020 7928 3232
http://www.bfi.org.uk
London Sinfonietta
The BFI’s major season, Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, plays host to a meeting of music and film. Five solo voyages have been specially written by emerging composers for double bass, cello, tuba, viola and flute, each brought to the screen by artists at Central Saint Martins. All five films will be premiered over an hour-long screening, accompanied live by the London Sinfonietta soloists.
Blue Touch Paper is where we light the fuse of new work, with different art forms in alternative spaces.
Part of BFI Southbank’s Sonic Cinema strand.
Contemporary Composers : Various
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