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United States
 Friday, April 10, 2015 at 07:30pm 
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) Performs "Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon"
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org

Tickets: $70 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC)

Celebrating its 14th season, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for a five-day performances series of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon. A phenomenal hybrid of drama, film and chamber music, this fully staged production dramatizes the face-to-face meeting between the French writer Jules Verne and the young American journalist Nelly Bly.


11 Oct



United States
 Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 02:00pm 
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) Performs "Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon"
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org

Tickets: $70 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC)

Celebrating its 14th season, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for a five-day performances series of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon. A phenomenal hybrid of drama, film and chamber music, this fully staged production dramatizes the face-to-face meeting between the French writer Jules Verne and the young American journalist Nelly Bly.


11 Oct



United States
 Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 07:30pm 
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) Performs "Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon"
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org

Tickets: $70 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC)

Celebrating its 14th season, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for a five-day performances series of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon. A phenomenal hybrid of drama, film and chamber music, this fully staged production dramatizes the face-to-face meeting between the French writer Jules Verne and the young American journalist Nelly Bly.


11 Oct



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 7.30pm-9.30pm 
Songcircle
St Mary Magdalene
Munster Square, London NW1 3PH
United Kingdom
http://www.marymagdalenes.co.uk/music/

Tickets: £10 (full price) £5 (concessions - over 60's & students)
Felicity Hayward (soprano)
Catherine Herriott (piano)

Premières of settings for soprano and piano of English, French, Spanish and Japanese poetry from the Middle Ages, the 19th & 20th centuries, plus piano solos.

A rare opportunity to hear fresh song settings from five contemporary composers, distilling their responses to poetry spanning different centuries, languages and cultures. The poems range from the love-struck, bittersweet and nostalgic to the haunted, mystic and sometimes humorous. The pieces for piano vary from richly dramatic to picturesque and evocative.

Felicity Hayward brings her consummate artistry as a singer to each of the song settings and is accompanied by an outstanding pianist with an impressive list of performances to her name: Catherine Herriott.

This concert is in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and their outstanding work with cancer sufferers and their families: http://www.macmillan.org.uk

The venue is the historic church of St Mary Magdalene, graced by the last stained glass window designed by Pugin. It stands a few minutes’ walk from Warren Street and Great Portland Street tube stations.


Bernard Hughes : Maiden in the mor lay
Bernard Hughes : Songs of lost love
Bernard Hughes : Bist du
Cedric Peachey : On moonlit heath
Cedric Peachey : Sonatine
Cedric Peachey : Into my heart an air that kills
Alan Hilton : Reverie
Alan Hilton : Sonnet 14
Alan Hilton : A Christmas Invitation
Alan Hilton : You that love England
Alan Hilton : Chimborazo
R. A. Moulds : Along the Marches of the Sky
R. A. Moulds : Offrande
Tim Ellis : Il pleure dans mon coeur
Tim Ellis : Tres Canciones de Lorca
Tim Ellis : Tsuyu
Tim Ellis : Musica dela Laguna

11 Oct



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 7.30pm 
BETWEEN WORLDS
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom

ENO

Between Worlds is the highly anticipated operatic debut from composer Tansy Davies, who collaborates with director Deborah Warner and librettist Nick Drake on this world premiere.

In this sensitive, spiritual and ultimately uplifting journey inspired by the events of 9/11, a disparate group of individuals is trapped high up in one of the Twin Towers, caught between earth and heaven, life and death.

Described as possessing a ‘rare power to remind listeners of their own inner freedom’ (The Guardian), Davies’ distinctive sound world combines unrestrained exuberance with emotional depth. Deborah Warner directs the composer’s first opera, following critically acclaimed productions of Death in Venice, and Eugene Onegin and her recent Barbican staging of The Testament of Mary. Contemporary music specialist Gerry Cornelius conducts.

11 Apr 15 - 25 Apr 15


Tansy Davies : Between Worlds

12 Oct



United Kingdom
 Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Janácek, Mozart, Robert Matthew-Walker and Respighi
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Lisa Ueda violin; Daniele Rinaldo piano

The Lisa Ueda/Daniele Rinaldo violin and piano duo joins two prize-winning soloists in a highly successful collaboration.

Formed in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Music, the duo has already received many coveted awards; and for its Wigmore Hall debut will perform works by Mozart and Robert Matthew-Walker alongside two late Romantic masterpieces, the sonatas by Janácek and Respighi.



Leos Janacek : Violin Sonata
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Violin Sonata No. 26 in B flat major K378
Robert Matthew-Walker : Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano
Ottorino Respighi : Violin Sonata in B minor

12 Oct



United States
 Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 02:00pm 
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) Performs "Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon"
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org

Tickets: $70 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC)

Celebrating its 14th season, the Ensemble of the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for a five-day performances series of Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon. A phenomenal hybrid of drama, film and chamber music, this fully staged production dramatizes the face-to-face meeting between the French writer Jules Verne and the young American journalist Nelly Bly.


13 Oct



United States
 Monday, April 13, 2015 at 13th - 19th April 2015 following 24 hr gmt clock 
Women In Music Connect The World
IAWM 20th Anniversary Congress 2015
Online
United States
http://college.wfu.edu/iawm/

Tickets: Free
tba



Marilyn Herman : Raglan Road. Performed by Denise Alonzo (soprano), Nick Fitch (electric rock guitar) & Ed Dunlop (Irish bodhran)
Marilyn Herman : Swing Abeba for solo bassoon, performed by John McDougall

14 Oct



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Camille Claudel: Into the Fire / Brentano Quartet
Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt

The climax of Joyce DiDonato’s Artist Spotlight: a new song cycle written specially for her by Jake Heggie, with the composer at the piano.

As the centrepiece of her Artist Spotlight, Joyce DiDonato has herself curated this programme, which pairs the belle-époque subtleties of Hahn and Debussy with a new song-cycle by Jake Heggie. “Joyce is its perfect champion” says Heggie – who accompanies DiDonato in this deeply personal evening of song.

The artist Camille Claudel was many things – lover, muse, friend of Debussy, Proust and Hahn, and creator of sculptures that, in the words of Jake Heggie, “dance and sing to us through time”. Inspired by the passionate life of this misunderstood figure, Heggie - the pre-eminent living composer of American art-song - created Camille Claudel: Into the Fire specially for his friend Joyce DiDonato. With Heggie joining the Brentano String Quartet at the piano, this will be its European premiere – a fitting climax to DiDonato’s Artist Spotlight, and an intimate portrait of a very special creative relationship.



Joyce DiDonato mezzo soprano
Jake Heggie piano
Brentano String Quartet


Claude Debussy : String Quartet
Renaldo Hahn : Venezia
Jake Heggie : Camille Claudel: Into the Fire

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17 Oct



Japan
 Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7pm 
NONCLASSICAL // TOKYO VOL.1
SuperDeluxe
,スーパー・デラックス 東京都港区西麻布3-1-25 B1F Tokyo
Japan
03-5412-0515
http://www.super-deluxe.com

Nonclassical

We're immensely excited to announce that in collaboration with the legendary Tokyo venue Superdeluxe we are making our debut in Asia this April with a clubnight celebrating the links between the alternative classical scenes in London and Tokyo.

Traversing the common ground between contemporary classical and electronic soundscapes, from London we welcome Premieres and Asian Premieres from founder Gabriel Prokofiev and associated artists Tansy Davies ("a live wire … impossible to pigeonhole" - The Times) and avant-electronics guru John Richards. Plus new work from Sam Mackay & James Greer.

Representing the local scene are virtuosic performances and new music from Emiko Miura and Shohei Amimori (Music Competition Japan 2013 composition 1st Prize, J-Wave Radio Sakamoto finalist, Messiaen Prize, Academie de Musique Francaise, Kyoto 2013), alongside brain-shatteringly intense free improvisation from Atsuko Hatano.

Headlining the bill is a once in a lifetime Medieval DJ set from legendary Tokyo musician Keiji Haino. Seven years ago Haino performed a one-off DJ set of purely medieval music in Superdeluxe, which has become the stuff of legend. After a long wait, this will be only the second time he has performed in this guise so we can expect more than a few surprises.

Direct from London, Nonclassical resident DJs Sam Mackay, Nwando and James Greer are hosting the evening, spinning Nonclassical label favourites, leftfield electronica, glitch, and premieres of their own brand new remixes.



17 Oct



United Kingdom
 Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Barbican International Associate Residency
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert conductor
Joyce DiDonato mezzo soprano

Joyce DiDonato, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic perform sensuous, colourful scores by Strauss, Ravel and Esa-Peka Salonen.

The New York Philharmonic has a sound like few other orchestras. To open its Barbican residency, Alan Gilbert conducts a ravishing programme: from the sonic chiaroscuro of Esa-Pekka Salonen to the silken richness of Ravel and Strauss, by way of another exquisite showcase for Joyce DiDonato.

With a tradition that stretches back through Bernstein, Barbirolli and Mahler, the New York sound has been shaped over 170 years. Music director Alan Gilbert understands that tradition innately, and tonight’s programme plays directly to his orchestra’s strengths. The iridescent hues of Ravel’s Valses Nobles et Sentimentales form a discreet contrast to Strauss’s sensuous Rosenkavalier suite; both demand brilliant virtuosity and effortless style. Joyce DiDonato’s performance of Ravel’s Shéhérazade is a gorgeous coda to her Artist Spotlight season, and Gilbert opens with a UK premiere: a shimmering 21st century nocturne for orchestra by a living master of tone-colour.



Esa-Pekka Salonen : Nyx
Maurice Ravel : Shéhérazade
Maurice Ravel : Valses nobles et sentimentales
Richard Strauss : Rosenkavalier Suite

17 Oct



United Kingdom
 Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7pm 
LSO Soundhub
LSO St Luke's, London
161 Old Street London EC1V 9NG
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.lso.co.uk/lsostlukes/
admin@lso.co.uk

LSO
Daniel Cohen conductor *
Aaron Holloway-Nahum conductor ^

LSO Soundhub provides a flexible space where composers can explore, collaborate and experiment. This concert is a chance to meet six of the composers in their second year of Soundhub membership who have spent the year pushing their work in unexpected directions with a series of new chamber pieces written for the musicians of the LSO to perform.

Featured composers: Maxim Boon*, Laurence Osborn*, Helen Papaioannou*, Robert Szymanek*, Laurie Tompkins and Aaron Holloway-Nahum^.



17 Oct



United Kingdom
 Friday, April 17, 2015 at 7.30pm 
HK Gruber Presents…
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

BBC Philharmonic
HK Gruber Conductor
Matthew Barley Cello

In Weimar Berlin, the workers plot a musical revolution. A cello flies as high as Icarus – then crashes in flames. And an Austrian composer clambers up a tree, and listens to its songs. Whether it is the poetry of Kurt Schwertsik, Kurt Weill’s reports from Berlin, or his very own cello concerto, no-one makes new music sing, dance, and laugh quite like our Composer / Conductor HK ‘Nali’ Gruber. Add a brand-new symphony by national treasure David Matthews, and this concert might change the way you think about music of our time.


18 Oct 
 
19 Oct



United Kingdom
 Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 13.00 
Piano Recital
Southend Civic Centre
Victoria Avenue, Southend, SS2 6ER
United Kingdom
01702 215000
http://www.southend.gov.uk

Tickets: £5.00
Simone Green

Award-winning pianist Simone Green will perform a programme of classical music for solo piano with readings by presenter Thomas Cleary.

Tom Lawrie : Displaced Hope

20 Oct



France
 Monday, April 20, 2015 at 8.30pm 
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - PETER EÖTVÖS
Salle Pleyel
252 rue u Fauborg Saint-Honore, 75008 Paris
France

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - PETER EÖTVÖS

The renowned creator and brilliant modern repertoire conductor Peter Eötvös will be joining the London Symphony Orchestra to demonstrate the real flamboyance of Pierre Boulez’s Livre pour cordes and Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, before their interpretation of Stravinsky’s masterpiece The Rite of Spring.

Pierre Boulez : Livre pour cordes
Pierre Boulez : Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna
Igor Stravinsky : Le Sacre du printemps

21 Oct 
 
22 Oct 
 
23 Oct



United Kingdom
 Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 7.45pm 
HAAS: ATTHIS
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home

Pierre-André Valade conductor
Claire Booth soprano
Netia Jones director and video artist
London Sinfonietta

Written more than two and a half thousand years ago, the beauty of Sappho’s lyric love poetry continues to cast a spell over composers. With Atthis, a setting of Sappho’s fragments, Haas said he wanted to write ‘a modern Winterreise with a happy ending’. Although the texts evoke the same expressive spirit of Schubert’s masterpiece, Haas’ rich use of overtones – seamlessly blended here with lighting and video created by Netia Jones – will lure you into a brilliantly intense 21st century soundworld.

Thursday 23, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 April 2015 at 7.45pm


Georg Friedrich Haas : String Quartet No 2
Georg Friedrich Haas : Atthis

24 Oct



France
 Friday, April 24, 2015 at 7.00pm 
les yeux clos... rêver et danser autour du piano Œuvres de Debussy - Ravel - Takemitsu - Loridan - Weir - Keay
Chateau de Saint Ouen
12 Rue Albert Dhalenne, 93400 Saint-Ouen
France

Tickets: free admission
Piano : Jennifer Lee

Programme :
Takemitsu: Les Yeux Clos II (8 min)
Nigel Keay: the dancer leads the procession (1999) (10min)
Ravel: Ondine (7min)
Loridan: 4 fragments d'un rêve (2012)(20mins)
Weir: I've turned the page (2007) (5min)


Toru Takemitsu : les yeux clos II
Nigel Keay : the dancer leads the procession
Martin Loridan : 4 fragments d'un rêve
Maurice Ravel : ondine
Judith Weir : I've turned the page

24 Oct



United Kingdom
 Friday, April 24, 2015 at 7.30pm 
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Joshua Weilerstein conductor
Jonathan Biss piano

Jonathan Biss performs Beethoven’s majestic ‘Emporer’ piano concerto alongside the UK premiere of Christopher Rouse’s Edgar Allan Poe-inspired Prospero’s Rooms and Lutosławski 's Concerto for Orchestra.

Expect a feast of dazzling virtuosity from the BBC SO’s players throughout Lutosławski 's ingenious stylisation of Polish folk melodies, led by the fast-rising conductor Joshua Weilerstein. Christopher Rouse draws on Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death and Leonid Andreyev’s symbolist play The Black Maskers for the musical narrative of his recent orchestral work.


Ludwig Van Beethoven : Piano Concerto No 5
Christopher Rouse : Prospero’s Rooms
Witold Lutoslawski : Concerto for Orchestra

24 Oct



United States
 Friday, April 24, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Hilarious
Turner Hall Ballroom
Milwaukee, WI
United States

Present Music

Laugh along with us in this humorous concert presenting Richard Ayres’ In the Alps. Featuring stage direction by Milwaukee Opera Theater's Jill Anna Ponasik, lighting design by Jason Fassl, and the world premiere of the Delightfully Playful Present Music Toy Theater Company (DPPMTTC), come frolic on the mountainside with a young girl who is raised by goats. There will be speaking in trumpets, playful puppets, and zoological coloratura in our most animated event yet! (Program subject to change.)

Richard Ayres : In the Alps
Phillip Bimstein : Garland Hirshi's Cows
Michael Daugherty : Elvis Everywhere
John Adams : Road Movies

25 Oct



United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 7.30pm 
The Miracle of the Rose
CBSO Centre
Berkley Street. B1 2LF
United Kingdom
http://www.bcmg.org.uk
info@bcmg.org.uk

CBSO

The only Birmingham concert of BCMG’s 2014/15 season with the masterful Oliver Knussen at the helm, sets three American works (Stravinsky was a naturalised U.S. citizen by the time he wrote Septet in 1953) alongside two by German composers – including a world premiere from Arne Gieshoff. Plus a late addition to the programme, Alexander Goehr’s chamber symphony between the Lines following BCMG’s premiere of the piece in Cambridge in November 2014.

The most substantial piece in the programme, Henze’s 40-minute Le Miracle de la Rose, is a musical evocation of a literary work of the same title by the French poet and playwright Jean Genet. The poetic content is transposed entirely into instrumental terms, with the exceptional Timothy Lines as soloist evoking the principal characters: the sixteen-year-old murderer Harcomone who awaits execution (solo clarinet); and the poet himself (bass clarinet). Many of the other thirteen instruments represent figures from the Genet book – the judge expresses himself through the trumpet, the priest is represented by the horn, the trombone stands for the lawyer, while the heckelphone stands for the executioner.

Of the American modernist composers to emerge in the second half of the 20th century, George Perle proved to be one of the most delectable craftsmen. Born in 1915, his first encounter with the music of Schoenberg in the late 1930s made a profound impression, ultimately leading him to develop his own rich and complex musical language. His late works Critical Moments (1996) and Critical Moments 2 (2001) are collections of pithy movements (six and nine respectively) in which flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion exchange piquant thematic fragments.



Igor Stravinsky : Septet
George Perle : Critical Moments
Alexander Goehr : between the Lines
Arne Gieshoff : katá
George Perle : Critical Moments 2
Hans Werne Henze : Le Miracle de la Rose

26 Oct 
 
27 Oct 
 
28 Oct



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Ensemble Intercontemporain / Boulez at 90
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Ensemble Intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher conductor

Ensemble Intercontemporain offers a 90th birthday salute to its founder Pierre Boulez, with music by Debussy, Robin, Pintscher - and Boulez himself.

For eight decades, Pierre Boulez has challenged the world of music – and Ensemble Intercontemporain has explored the pathways he’s opened. Tonight, under Mattthias Pintscher it continues to explore, and pays a 90th birthday tribute to its founder: Boulez himself, and two modern classics that never sound any less new.

Boulez founded Ensemble Intercontemporain in 1976, and he’s the presiding genius tonight - his influence resonates through the music of IRCAM graduate Yann Robin. Current music director Matthias Pintscher is an increasingly influential creative force, and his performance of Choc, his powerful “Antiphon” from 1996 will have a special energy and authority. But behind each of these works is the towering presence of Boulez himself, and performances of his Memoriale and the astonishing Sur Incises for three pianos, three harps and percussion will reveal afresh the beauty and sheer creative power of this great modernist mind.


Claude Debussy : Syrinx
Pierre Boulez : Memoriale
Matthias Pintscher : Choc (Monumento IV)
Yann Robin : Asymétriades
Pierre Boulez : Sur Incises

29 Oct



Wales
 Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Evening Concert: In Collaboration with Tŷ Cerdd
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Tecwyn Evans Conductor
Ruby Hughes Soprano
Philippe Schartz Trumpet

A concert championing the works of five female composers from Wales. Grace Williams collaborated extensively with BBC NOW during her lifetime – here, her Trumpet Concerto is played by our Principal Trumpet Philippe Schartz. There’s also music by Tŷ Cerdd’s Composer in Residence Hilary Tann; plus, two world premieres from acclaimed composers Sarah Lianne Lewis and Lynne Plowman.

Hilary Tann : The open field
Grace Williams : Trumpet Concerto
Sarah Lianne Lewis : Is there no seeker of dreams that were?
Lynne Plowman : Catching Shadows
Rhian Samuel : Clytemnestra

30 Oct 
 
31 Oct 
 
1 Nov 
 
2 Nov 
 
3 Nov



United States
 Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 7.00pm 
(con)temporary (in)sights presents: Ryan Muncy
Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor, NYC
United States
http://https://www.facebook.com/spectrumNYC

Tickets: $10 at the door
Ryan Muncy - http://ryanmuncy.com/

The (con)temporary (in)sights initiative brings new audiences, composers, and performers together to celebrate and explore the world of contemporary music. Our 2015 concert series focuses on featuring composers/performers of exceptional musicality and aims to contextualize some of the most intricate and demanding contemporary music being written today.

Chaya Czernowin : The Last Leaf
Ann Cleare : Luna
Evan Johnson : Largo Calligrafico
Andrew Greenwald : 33 Words Compressed
Aaron Cassidy : Asphyxia

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