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Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Celebration of Spring
Alyth, London
NW11 7EN
United Kingdom
http://www.alyth.org.uk/
katie@alyth.org.uk
Tickets: £12 (under 16s free)
VIVIENNE BELOS (MBE), CONDUCTOR
Vivienne Belos, soprano
Tami Tal, soprano
Katie Hainbach, mezzo soprano
Rachel Broadbent, oboe
Stephen Dickinson, piano
Kimon Pallikaropoulos, piano
Kelvin Thomson, piano
Kevin Vockerodt, piano
Noam Solomons-Wise, percussion
Lior Solomons-Wise, shofar
ALYTH CHORAL SOCIETY
ALYTH CHILDREN'S CHOIR
Bob Chilcott : Songs and Cries of London Town
Julian Dawes : Psalm 140
Julian Dawes : Priestly Blessing
Julian Dawes : Limericks from Edward Lear
Julian Dawes : Love Songs
Julian Dawes : Siren Song
Kelvin Thomson : Song's Eternity
Kelvin Thomson : Babel
Kelvin Thomson : There is only...
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13 Dec
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13 Dec
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Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 7pm
LSO FUTURES: CONCERT 2
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing
François-Xavier Roth conductor
Synergy Vocals
London Symphony Orchestra
LSO Futures, the LSO's biennial festival of contemporary music, returns with two 20th-century masterpieces and a world premiere for the 21st.
François-Xavier Roth opens with Ligeti's Atmosphères, a swirling sound mass that rebelled as much against traditional forms as it did against the prevailing dogma of serialism. And Berio's Sinfonia, a monumental work from the Italian master, famous for its haunting ode to the late Martin Luther King and a middle movement that weaves three centuries of musical fragments into a rich tapestry of familiar quotations. 50 years on from their premieres, these two works provide a fitting frame for a new work by former LSO Panufnik composer Elizabeth Ogonek.
Gyorgy Ligeti : Atmosphères
Elizabeth Ogonek : Sleep & Unremembrance
Luciano Berio : Sinfonia
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13 Dec
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Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 4pm
LSO Futures: Concert 1
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
François-Xavier Roth conductor
LSO Chamber Orchestra
LSO Futures, the LSO's biennial festival of contemporary music, returns with two chamber symphonies written at opposite ends of the 20th century that follow a world premier from the 21st.
Donald Glaser won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber, a piece of equipment used for the study of subatomic particles. This is how we begin the 2016 edition of LSO Futures, with a breakthrough: a world premiere from Darren Bloom inspired by this landmark scientific event. Then it’s two chamber symphonies, two more breakthroughs and two very different composers: Schoenberg’s chamber symphony, written on the brink of his revolutionary break with tonality, and Thomas Adès’s, a work of staggering maturity and accomplishment from the 19 year old who would go on to become one of Britain’s leading living composers.
Darren Bloom : Dr Glaser's Experiment
Thomas Ades : Chamber Symphony
Arnold Schoenberg : Chamber Symphony
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Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7.30pm
Anthony Payne Visions and Journeys
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
Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor | Leonard Elschenbroich cello
Visions and journeys: from a scented garden high above the Mediterranean, Walton imagined a cello concerto that blossoms with song; Albert Roussel took the elegance of the French baroque, and exploded it to release a burst of energy and waves of glittering sound; Anthony Payne takes a sea voyage to the Scilly Isles (tonight’s performance is an 80th birthday gift to this last of the British romantics); and Georges Bizet conjures up the sunlight, fragrance and passion of Spain, in what’s surely got to be the world’s favourite opera.
Sexy melodies and ravishing colours: Yan Pascal Tortelier will be in his element, joined by rising star Leonard Elschenbroich, and reunited with the BBC Philharmonic.
Anthony Payne : Visions and Journeys
William Walton : Cello Concerto
Albert Roussel : Suite in F major
Georges Bizet : Carmen – orchestral extracts
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18 Dec
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Friday, March 18, 2016 at 7.30pm
MacMillan Little Mass
Usher Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
Peter Oundjian Conductor
Nicola Benedetti Violin
Crazy in love…when Hector Berlioz couldn’t win the girl of his dreams, he went for broke. The result? His astonishing Symphonie fantastique – a wild-eyed, opium-fuelled blockbuster that still sets hairs on end today. With Peter Oundjian at the helm, a specially-written choral work by one of Scotland’s greatest living composers sung by the RSNO Junior Chorus, and the nation’s favourite Nicola Benedetti playing Szymanowski’s sensuous, shimmering concerto, this is a special 125 performance not to be missed.
Karol Szymanowski : Violin Concerto No.2
James MacMillan : Little Mass
Hector Berlioz : Symphony Fantastique
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19 Dec
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Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 7:30pm
PhiloSonia Inaugural Concert - "Revelations"
The Old Stone House
336 Third Street, btw. 4th/5th Avenues, Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
http://www.theoldstonehouse.org
info@theoldstonehouse.org
Tickets: $20/15
Stanichka Dimitrova,violin
Igor Pikayzen violin
Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola
Adrian Daurov, cello
PhiloSonia is an innovative concert experience, designed to create a personal connection between audience members and classical music.
PhiloSonia offers an insight into established and new works from the chamber music repertoire. Through compelling programming and interactive elements listeners are guided through an in-depth exploration of a wide variety of works.
Ludwig Beethoven : String Quartet Op. 59 #1, Allegro
Ludwig Beethoven : String Quartet Op. 59 #3, Menuetto; Allegro Molto
Bedøich Smetana : String Quartet # 1 "From My Life", Vivace
Franz Schubert : String Quartet D 810 "Death and The Maiden", Andante con moto
Felix Mendelssohn : String Quartet #6 in F minor, Allegro; Adagio
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20 Dec
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Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 7pm
Equinox: light and dark
Turner Hall
1040 N 4th St
United States
414-271-0711
http://www.presentmusic.org/concerts/equinox.aspx
emwoehlke@presentmusic.org
Tickets: 15, 25, 35
Present Music
Last season's Equinox was "aglow with promise" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), contrasting light and dark, death and life, and this year is no different as Present Music presents Equinox: light and dark, March 20, 2016. Performing the brooding, atmospheric Night Scenes from the Ospedale by Robert Honstein (written as part of the Vivaldi Project, the goal of which was to weave early and new music together seamlessly) will make an intriguing contrast to Vivaldi’s sunny L’Estro Armonico. Judd Greenstein’s Clearing, Dawn and Dance (“…an epically high flying work reminiscent of Glass's dance and cinema pieces while never abandoning Greenstein's own signature palette of sounds” - wqxr), Andrew Norman’s Music in Circles (a “5 minute static electricity storm” - Pitchfork) and music by Ligeti and Gubaidulina will connect as we cross the divide from winter to spring.
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Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 1.00pm to 5.00pm and 7.00pm to 9.00 pm
Soundmarks
Hoxton Hall
130 Hoxton St, London N1 6SH
United Kingdom
020 7684 0060
http://https://www.hoxtonhall.co.uk/
Tickets: Daytime £15, £10 and Evening £10, £7
Jerry Wigens, composer, bass clarinet, with:
Evie O’Driscoll, cello
Rosie Bergonzi, percussion
Dylan Bates, bongos
Janet Oates, composer, voice, with
CoMA Singers:
Gordon Banner
Katie Boot
Elizabeth Dobson
Imogen Dyer
Jill House
John McCleod
Sonja Mes
Page Starr
CoMA Winds:
Adam Lewin - clarinet
Emily Nevis - flute
Karen Burnell - tenor horn
Ian Mitchell - bass clarinet
Shamim Azad, poet, story teller
Yousuf Ali Kahn - tabla
Isabel White, performance poet, with:
James Hodgson - performance poet
Sabina Virtuso - violin
Robin Pilcher – performance poet
Cassandra Mathews – Guitar/Lute
Emma O’Rourke – designer
Irene Wernli – dancer, choreographer
Ilze Ikse, flute
Daniel Figols, composer, laptop
Paula Newbery, artist
Marjorie Lazaro, poet
Contakt:
Kerry Andrews, cello
Karen Burnell, tenor horn
Paul Burnell, oboe
Deborah Edwards, laptop
Derek Foster, vibes
Soundmarks is a contemporary variety show - a series of ‘events’ throughout the day in various spaces in the building, organized by Contakt, a contemporary music ensemble.
Soundmarks aims to explore the significance of place in music and our collective and individual lives.
Supported using public fundings by Arts Council England.
Kerry Andrews : TBA
Janet Oates : Off the wall
Janet Oates : Shop
Janet Oates : Cecilia
John King : Lux Aeterna
Robert Percy : Hakka
Deborah Broderick Edwards : Coasts
Derek Foster : Colours of Meditation
Daniel Figols : SVIRA
Jerry Wigens : ACPT
Shamim Azad : A Story
Isabel White : Warp and Weft
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 7.30pm
A musical journey through Holy Week
St Botolph without Bishopsgate
Bishopsgate, London EC2M 3TL
United Kingdom
http://www.botolph.org.uk/
Tickets: £12 (inc glass of wine), under 25's £5
London Concord Singers
Jessica Norton (conductor)
For their Easter Concert on Wednesday 23 March 2016, London Concord Singers, with their new conductor Jessica Norton, are presenting a musical journey through events of Holy Week, combining contemporary works such as John Tavener's The Lamb, James MacMillan's Tenebrae Responsories, Gabriel Jackson's O Sacrum Convivium and Robert Hugill's Resurrexi, with motets and anthems by Bruckner, Brahms, Weelkes and Byrd, concluding with JS Bach's great motet Jesu, meine Freude.
John Tavener : The Lamb
James MacMillan : Tenebrae Responsories
Gabriel Jackson : O Sacrum Convivium
Robert Hugill : Resurrexi
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Friday, March 25, 2016 at 8:00 p.m.
BMOP Presents Song Cycle Child Alice 3/25
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu
Tickets: $20-50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Soprano Courtenay Budd
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the 2016 Musical America Ensemble of the Year, ends its 20th anniversary season with the Boston premiere of David Del Tredici’s complete Child Alice (1981) featuring the acclaimed soprano Courtenay Budd. Based on poems prefacing Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this 135-minute evening-length work changed the course of 20th century music.
David Del Tredici : Child Alice
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at
The Importance of Being Earnest
Covent Garden - Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, London
United Kingdom
http://info.royaloperahouse.org/home
ROH
Irish composer Gerald Barry’s wildly inventive and idiosyncratic setting of Wilde’s classic play The Importance of Being Earnest has been an extraordinary success. Since its 2011 concert premiere in Los Angeles and its 2013 stage premiere in Nancy, it has enchanted audiences with its high-energy madcap humour, and in 2013 it won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best large-scale composition. Ramin Gray’s fabulously ridiculous production for the Royal Opera House marked the work’s UK stage premiere.
Barry’s hyperactive score runs helter-skelter through numerous musical languages – everything from serialist pastiche to galumphing concerto grosso gets a look in, riveted through with increasingly giddy variations on ‘Auld Lang Syne’. From the basso profundo Lady Bracknell’s spluttered Beethovenian Schiller to Gwendolen and Cecily’s Sprechstimme battle of spite through megaphones to the accompaniment of 40 solemnly smashed plates, The Importance of Being Earnest is insanely virtuoso, brilliantly hilarious and packed with invention.
Performances until April 3rd.
Gerald Barry : The Importance of Being Earnest
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Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 20:30
PIERRE BOULEZ, A PORTRAIT
Conservatoire Darius Milhaud
380 Avenue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 13100 Aix-en-Provence
France
04 88 71 84 20
Michael Barenboim, violin
Edgar Moreau, cello
Bertrand Chamayou, piano
Ircam computer music, Andrew Gerzso
In honour of Pierre Boulez, the composer and conductor, leader of the post-1945 avant-garde who passed away on January 5, 2016, Aix Easter Festival have asked a range of young talents to defend his music which marked its time and has slowly but surely become a milestone in the artistic history of the 20th century.
The piano virtuoso Bertrand Chamayou will bring us into the luxuriant world of Incises, a swift piece, the best moments of which are reminiscent of the frantic agitation of a free-jazz chorus.
The solo violin of Anthèmes 2 (1991-1997) will be played by Michael Barenboim and finally, the young cellist Edgar Moreau will light up the work of Matthias Pintscher who takes on Boulez, though born a half a century later.
Pierre Boulez : Incises for piano
Pierre Boulez : Anthèmes 2 for violin and electronics
Matthias Pintscher : Three pieces for cello and piano
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Friday, April 1, 2016 at 7pm
Brett Dean conducts Brett Dean
BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Maida Vale One, Delaware Road, London
United Kingdom
02085761227
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Brett Dean conductor
Thomas Gould violin
Anthony Pateras revox
Thomas Meadowcroft revox
Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale Studios for a concert programmed and conducted by Australian composer Brett Dean.
Through the monumental works of the great Peter Sculthorpe and others, contemporary Australian orchestral music won a reputation of being above all linked to Australia's landscape and evoking the sounds of its nature. Aspects of the natural world still inspire Australian composers but as we'll see in this wide-ranging programme, there's more to it than that.
From the quietly persuasive, Basho-inspired Clouds Now and Then by Richard Meale through to Georges Lentz's extraordinary vision of the cosmos as the "embodiment and proof of divine agency", Australian orchestral music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has grown remarkably in its diversity and sophistication. Still little known outside Australia, this concert presents no less than four European premieres from several of Australia's leading composers.
Admission 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.
Richard Meale : Clouds Now and Then
Thomas Meadowcroft : Peacemaker Tattoo
Georges Lentz : Caeli enarrant... III
Brett Dean : Engelsflügel
Anthony Pateras : Immediata
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Friday, April 1, 2016 at 2:00 pm
Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Place
United States
718.636.4100
http://www.bam.org
Tickets: $75 and Up
Ensemble for the Romantic Century
Celebrating its 15th season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century (ERC) returns to BAM Fisher for six performances of Anna Akhmatova: The Heart is Not Made of Stone. Written by Eve Wolf and directed by Donald T. Sanders, this multi-media production examines the troubled relationship between artistic creation and totalitarianism through the perspective of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). This tale of passion, love, political repression, and redemption is interwoven with music by Russian composers’ Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.
Sergei Prokofiev : Romeo & Juliet
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Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 7:30pm
BASS Composer in Residence Scott Wheeler Premieres Ben Gunn 4/2
Tenri Cultural Institute, NYC
43A West 13th St, NY NY 10011
United States
212-645-2800
http://www.tenri.org
mail@tenri.org
Tickets: $25
Soprano Elisabeth Marhsall, mezzo soprano Kate Maroney, tenor Brandon Snook, and baritone Steven Eddy join pianists Michael Brofman, Jocelyn Dueck, and Miori Sugiyama.
BASS continues its innovative new music series In Context at the Tenri Cultural Center on Saturday April 2nd, 2016. This year’s featured composer is Scott Wheeler, hailed by Fanfare as “one of the freshest American voices.” The program features Mr. Wheeler’s work alongside those by colleagues and mentors (Virgil Thomson and Judith Weir) and favorite classics (Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann). The program will include the world premiere of Ben Gunn. Soprano Elisabeth Marhsall, mezzo soprano Kate Maroney, tenor Brandon Snook, and baritone Steven Eddy join pianists Michael Brofman, Jocelyn Dueck, and Miori Sugiyama.
Scott Wheeler : Ben Gunn
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