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10 Oct
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Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 7.30pm
FELDMAN: FOR SAMUEL BECKETT
St John's, Smith Square
London, SW1P 3HA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7222 1061
http://sjss.org.uk
info@sjss.org.uk
Garry Walker conductor
London Sinfonietta
The soaring 300-year-old arches of St John’s Smith Square are the backdrop for this absorbing opening to the season: an evening of immersive music as broad and compelling as Rothko’s grand canvases. Two world premieres form the centre of the programme, with a new work by Mexican composer Marisol Jiménez bristling against Laurence Crane’s understated style. Morton Feldman’s intimate portrait For Samuel Beckett, much admired and rarely performed, completes the bill. Sit back, soak up the atmosphere and lose yourself.
Laurence Crane : Chamber Symphony no.2 'The Australian'
Marisol Jiménez : XLIII - MEMORIAM VIVIRE
Morton Feldman : For Samuel Beckett
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15 Oct
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Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 8:00pm-11:00pm
Composers Concordance Presents – Pitches at an Exhibition - CHORUS 72 – Art by Rainer Gross
Gallery MC
549 West 52 Street, 8 floor
United States
info@milicaparanosic.com
Tickets: N/A
The eight-piece chorus will feature singers Sharon Harms, Melanie Mitrano, Eleanor Taylor, Melanie Gall, Gonzalo Mena, Charles Coleman, and Doug Shapiro, among others, conducted by Thomas Carlo Bo.
On October 15th, Composers Concordance continues its series ‘Pitches at an Exhibition’ with the art & music event ‘CHORUS 72.’ Presented at the innovative Gallery MC, this will feature Rainer Gross’ epic series ’72,’ inspired by the kabbalah, plus a live performance of nearly fifty one-minute choral compositions inspired by the paintings.
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17 Oct
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Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 8:00pm-10:00pm
Lydian String Quartet with Tony Arnold, soprano
Slosberg Music Center, Waltham
415 South Street, Waltham MA, 02453
United States
(781) 736-3400
http://www.brandeis.edu/tickets/
Tickets: $20 Adults | $15 Seniors & Brandeis Community | $5 Students
Lydian String Quartet, Tony Arnold
an event dedicated to the late musician, scholar and beloved Brandeis University professor of music Robert Koff, the world-renowned Lydian String Quartet kicks off their Brandeis University season with Brandeis Creative Arts Award recipient Tony Arnold, soprano. Please join us for a pre-concert talk with members of the quartet at 7 p.m. as well as a post-concert reception with the artists at the Slosberg Music Center.
Richard Wernick : String Quartet No. 5
Harold Meltzer : Aqua
Johannes Brahms : String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op. 51 no. 1
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17 Oct
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18 Oct
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Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.
BMOP Pays Musical Tribute to Armenia 10/18
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20-50
Joining BMOP on the Jordan Hall stage are guests artists Nareh Arghamanyan (piano), Terry Everon (trumpet), the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Boston University’s Marsh Chapel Choir.
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, opens its 20th anniversary season with Resilient Voices: 1915-2015, a concert commemorating the centennial of the Armenian genocide, in collaboration with Friends of Armenian Culture Society. The program includes 20th century works by Komitas/Aslamazyan, Alan Hovhaness, and Dmitri Shostakovich, as well as the Boston premiere of Tigran Mansurian’s 2009 Requiem.
Tigran Mansurian : Requiem
Alan Hovhaness : Khrimian Hairig
Dmitri Shostakovich : Piano Concerto No. 1
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21 Oct
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23 Oct
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23 Oct
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Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7.30pm
Nordic Choral Music
St Giles, London
Cripplegate, Fore Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
BBC Singers
Grete Pedersen conductor
James McVinnie organ
Join the BBC Singers, organist James McVinnie and leading Norwegian conductor Grete Pedersen for an evening of Scandinavian choral music at St Giles’ Cripplegate, London.
The concert features Grieg’s captivating arrangement of traditional Norwegian chorales – the Four Psalms Op. 74 for baritone and mixed chorus – which became the composer’s final composition before his death in 1907.
Choral works by contemporary Norwegian and Danish composers complete the programme: from Cecilie Ore’s Shakespeare-inspired drama on the vulnerability of life ‘Toil and Trouble’ to the profound harmonic layers in Knut Kystedt’s ‘Immortal Bach’, conceived by overlapping the elegant chords of Bach’s chorale ‘Komm, süsser Tod’.
Admission to this concert is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that as not everyone who asks for tickets uses them, to make sure we have a full house we send out more tickets than there are places. We do our best to get the numbers right, but unfortunately we occasionally have to disappoint people so please arrive early.
Knut Nystedt : Immortal Bach
Knut Nystedt : O Crux
Knut Nystedt : Resurrexit
Edvard Grieg : 4 Psalms, Op 74
Bo Holten : Regn, rusk og rosenbusk ('Rain, mist and rosebush')
Alfred Janson : Sonnet 76
Cecilie Ore : Toil & Trouble
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24 Oct
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Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 8pm
Carnival
Broadway Theatre Center
158 N Broadway
United States
414.271.0711
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/carnival.aspx
Tickets: $15, $25, and $35
Present Music
Cory Smythe
Fiery? Impetuous? Calm? Which alter ego will you don for this evening of masqueraded revelry? Play with zany characters as we collaborate with Quasimondo Physical Theatre for an evening of costumed revelry.
Allow your senses to be ravished by the sumptuous performance of PM ensemble member and 2015 Grammy award winning pianist Cory Smythe performing the music of Robert Schumann, Sciarrino, John Zorn and his own original pieces and improvisations.
Join us afterwards for our very own carnival, fabulous drinks and a costume contest to crown the King and Queen of the Night! Costumes and masks highly encouraged! (Program subject to change.This concert is not intended for children under 10.)
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26 Oct
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Monday, October 26, 2015 at 7.30pm
AURORA ORCHESTRA: THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Jerwood Hall
London
United Kingdom
Nicholas Collon conductor
Ann Murray DBE Mrs Grose
Andrew Staples Quint
Sophie Bevan The Governess
Jane Irwin Jessel
Aurora Orchestra
Britten's last and arguably greatest chamber opera, The Turn of the Screw combines Henry James' supernatural tale of innocence and corruption with some of the composer's most powerful music, creating a work that is by turns ravishing and shattering. A truly stellar cast – including Ann Murray, Sophie Bevan, Jane Irwin and Andrew Staples – join Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon for an unmissable concert performance, atmospherically lit to intensify this most elusive and claustrophobic of ghost fables.
'Refreshing the repertoire and broadening appeal are imperative these days. Nobody does it better than Aurora.'
Barry Millington, The Evening Standard
Benjamin Britten : Turn of the Screw
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28 Oct
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29 Oct
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Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 7.30pm
London Symphony Orchestra / John Adams
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
John Adams conductor
Leila Josefowicz violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Essential American composer John Adams brings his own take on storytelling to the Barbican including a new dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra.
Performed by close collaborator and new music champion Leila Josefowicz, Adam’s latest work takes the idea of the original Scheherazade into the present day and “imagines a modern woman storyteller/hostage whose strength of character and powers of endurance are tested over and over”. There are more traditional tales to be told in the first half with Ravel’s youthful ballet score Mother Goose, featuring Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb and Beauty and the Beast.
Maurice Ravel : Pavane pour une infante défunte
Maurice Ravel : Mother Goose
John Adams : Scheherazade.2
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29 Oct
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Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 7.30pm
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: The Maiden in the Tower
Queens Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
0131 668 2019
http://www.thequeenshall.net
Tuomas Hannikainen: conductor; Pekka Kuusisto: violin
Just as Brahms and Sibelius did in their concertos, Danish composer Carl Nielsen combines genuine gravitas with luminous virtuosity to present the violin “in the best light, that is, rich in content, popular and dazzling.” These gorgeous melodies are augmented by a treasure from Sibelius’ only opera The Maiden in the Tower, from which an orchestral suite has been arranged by tonight’s conductor.
To complete this programme is the world premiere performance of distinguished Finnish composer Lotta Wennäkoski’s tribute to the work of Jean Sibelius, which celebrates the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Lotta Wennäkoski : Verdigris
Carl Nielsen : Violin Concerto
Jean Sibelius : The Maiden in the Tower: Orchestral Suite
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30 Oct
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31 Oct
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Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 8:00pm-10:00pm
Clarinetist/Composer Kinan Azmeh
Slosberg Music Center, Waltham
415 South Street, Waltham MA, 02453
United States
(781) 736-3400
http://www.brandeis.edu/tickets/
Tickets: $20 Adults | $15 Seniors & Brandeis Community | $5 Students
Kinan Azmeh, painter and digital artist Kevork Mourad, and film maker and writer Khalil Younes
From Syria, clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh (“intensely soulful, a virtuoso” – The New York Times), is joined by painter and digital artist Kevork Mourad, and film maker and writer, Khalil Younes in a live, 60-minute audio-visual performance that is the centerpiece the evening’s exploration of the role of the artist in society. In this work, art and music develop in counterpoint to each other, creating a beautiful impressionistic reflection on the Syrian revolution and its aftermath. Also on the program is a premiere of a new work by Kinan Azmeh and film maker Khalil Younes for clarinet, electronics, and string quartet, performed with the Lydian String Quartet, resident faculty ensemble at Brandeis since 1980.
The visiting Syrian artists conclude a week-long residency on the Brandeis campus with the concert on Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 8 p.m (preconcert talk at 7 p.m.) at the Slosberg Music Center.
The pre concert talk “Art, Beauty, and War: A Short History” will be given at 7 p.m. by Dr. James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theater at the University of Manchester and Director of the In Place of War project that supports arts in war and conflict zones. There will be a post-concert reception and conversation with the artists.
Kinan Azmeh : New work for clarinet and live digital illustration
Kinan Azmeh : New work for clarinet, electronics, and string quartet
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1 Nov
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Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 7:30pm
Silk Moth - Opera
20th Century Theatre
291 Westbourne Grove, London W11 2QA
United Kingdom
020 7229 4179
http://https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/nour/events/performance2015/silkmoth.aspx
nour@rbkc.gov.uk
Tickets: £15, £12 (concs.)
Soprano: Enas Massalha and Ensemble Zar
Conductor: Toby Purser
Music: Bushra El-Turk, Libretto: Eleanor Knight
Co-Directors: Michael Moxham, Maria Koripas
Designer: Giulia Scrimieri
Each year an estimated 5,000 women worldwide are murdered by their own families in ‘honour killings’, 12 of them here in the UK. Silk Moth places onstage a Mother. This one-woman performance raises powerful questions: what is her role in this horrific ‘tradition’? Is she a victim, submissive, or coldly complicit?
Based on a series of workshops and interviews conducted in partnership with IKWRO, the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation, this new work by pre-eminent composer Bushra El-Turk tackles a controversial and sensitive issue, created by a team of internationally renowned artists and performers.
Bushra El-Turk : Silk Moth
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5 Nov
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Thursday, November 5, 2015 at Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm
Rich Perks + vLookup Trio: Fretless Architecture
Colchester Arts Centre
Church St, Colchester, Essex CO1 1NF
United Kingdom
01206 500900
http://www.colchesterartscentre.com
info@colchesterartscentre.com
Tickets: Tickets £7 / £6 concessions
Rich Perks (fretless electric guitar), Andrew Hall (trumpet) and Tom Atherton (percussion).
As both a guitarist and composer Rich exhibits a keen interest in anything unusual, progressive and innovative. As well as being an active gigging musician in the commercial industry, he performs much contemporary, experimental and improvised music, specialising in fretless electric guitar.
The vLookup Trio is comprised of Rich Perks (fretless electric guitar), Andrew Hall (trumpet) and Tom Atherton (percussion). Together they explore pieces which combine pre-composed material with improvisation in styles that range from avant-garde noise to funk-rock, whilst also pushing the sonic possibilities of a trio instrumentation by incorporating effects and live electronics.
Last year Rich released an international call for scores, in conjunction with Colchester New Music. His aim was to explore the possibilities of the fretless electric guitar further; in the hope that through making relationships with composers, the full potential of this young and exciting instrument could be discovered and developed.
In this ground-breaking performance, Colchester Arts Centre hosts the premieres of five works selected from this call, juxtaposed with vLookup's sonic adventures.
Julia Usher : Turbulence
Tyler Minshew : Rhapsody No. 1
Phil Maguire : Elephants
Andrew Hall : Divisions
Josh Trotter : Deadly Sinner
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5 Nov
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Thursday, November 5, 2015 at
NONCLASSICAL CLUB NIGHT @ THE VICTORIA, DALSTON W/ CHROMA
Victoria, Dalston
United Kingdom
Join us for an explosive Bonfire Night at The Victoria in Dalston for our next monthly club night! Featuring the very best new contemporary, experimental and electronic music, we're very excited to have CHROMA at Nonclassical for the first time in years.
CHROMA’s accordionist Ian Watson is on a mission to demonstrate what an amazing, surprising and versatile instrument the modern accordion is. He curates this programme from an accordionists’ point of view, adding Christian Forshaw on saxophones, Elena Hull on bass and Steve Gibson on percussion, bringing a fresh performance perspective to minimalist masterworks.
, Moondog : Chaconne in G
, Kilar : Orawa
Gavin Bryars : After the Requiem
, Ayuo : Eurasian Tango
Joby Talbot : String Quartet No. 2
Michael Nyman : Chromattic
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5 Nov
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Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 08:00pm
Husband/Wife Duo Richard and Mika Stoltzman Return to Carnegie 11/5
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
New York
United States
http://www.carnegiehall.org
Tickets: $50
Richard Stoltzman (clarinet)
Mika Stoltzman (marimba)
World-renowned artists Mika (marimba) and Richard Stoltzman (clarinet) return to Carnegie Hall on November 5, 2015, to showcase their amazing versatility and crossover ability in a one-night only concert event. The program includes works by Chick Corea, John Zorn, Toru Takemitsu, Bach, Ravel, and Stravinsky, as well as the world premiere of William T. McKinley’s 22-movement Mostly Blues for Clarinet and Marimba. Joining the duo on stage are guest artists Eddie Gomez (bass), Adam Albert (clarinet), John Hamann (bass clarinetist), and Miki Orihara (principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company).
Toru Takemitsu : Air
John Zorn : The Nymphs
William Thomas McKinley : Mostly Blues for Clarinet and Marimba
Bill Douglas : Walz Cantando for Marimba and Clarinet
Igor Stravinsky : 3 pieces for solo clarinet
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6 Nov
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7 Nov
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Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 7.30pm
Julian Anderson: Composer in Residence
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Nash Ensemble
Two world premières and other works by Julian Anderson, Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, supply the potent substance of a programme that also includes Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for string quartet, one of which was inspired by the English music hall comedian Little Tich, and also the London première of John Woolrich’s Pluck from the Air.
Claire Booth joins the Nash Ensemble in Sea Drift, Anderson’s evocative setting of Walt Whitman, and Ravel’s Chansons madécasses.
Igor Stravinsky : Three Pieces for String Quartet
John Woolrich : Pluck from the Air for piano quintet
Julian Anderson : The Colour of Pomegranates
Julian Anderson : Sea Drift
Julian Anderson : Ring Dance
Maurice Ravel : Chansons madécasses
Julian Anderson : Van Gogh/Blue
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