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United Kingdom
 Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 7.30pm 
RILEY: IN C
Kings Place
Kings Cross, London
United Kingdom

London Sinfonietta

As John Adams once described it, minimalism is to music what spring cleaning is to our environment. What better way to start the new year afresh than two concerts of minimalism’s most celebrated composers, whose music holds listeners in a joyous, hypnotic soundworld. The first is a performance of Terry Riley’s In C, a work that defined a new style of composition. The first half will consist of works which were inspired by, or written as a tribute to, In C.

This concert is followed one month later by a stack of must-see Steve Reich pieces including Clapping Music, performed by Reich himself; click here for details.

Part of the Kings Place Minimalism Unwrapped series.



Stephen Montague : Eine kleine Klangfarben Gigue
(Robin Rimbaud) Scanner : New work
Naama Zisser : Drowned in C
Terry Riley : In C

10 Jul



United States
 Saturday, January 10, 2015 at 9:30pm - 10:30pm 
(con)temporary (in)sights: Steven Beck
Spectrum
121 Ludlow Street, 2nd floor, NYC
United States
http://https://www.facebook.com/spectrumNYC

Tickets: $10 at the door
Steven Beck, pianist
www.stevenbeckpiano.com



This series will focus on challenging contemporary music and features performers/composers of exceptional musicality.

Event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/740241199388766/

(con)temporary (in)sights page:
https://www.facebook.com/contemporaryinsights


Helmut Lachenmann : Serynade
Beat Furrer : Phasma

11 Jul



Netherlands
 Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 14:15 
Van Keulen & Brautigam: from blues to ‘tintinnabulation’
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Het Concertgebouw, Concertgebouwplein 2-7, 1071 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
http://www.concertgebouw.nl



Isabelle van Keulen (viool)
Ronald Brautigam (piano)


Maurice Ravel : Sonate in G
Arvo Pärt : Fratres
Sergei Prokofiev : Eerste sonate in f, op. 80

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United Kingdom
 Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 1pm 
Kaija Saariaho, Debussy and Fauré
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore St, London W1
United Kingdom
02079352141
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Jacqueline Shave violin
Caroline Dearnley cello
Huw Watkins piano

Kaija Saariaho conjures sonic images of magnetic force in her music, while the power of suggestion and gifts of lyricism, colour and rhythm of the French composers Fauré and Debussy result in soundworlds that are both luminous and dazzling.

In this programme we hear one of Debussy’s finest chamber works and Fauré’s profound Piano Trio in company with Saariaho’s Nocturne for solo violin.


Kaija Saariaho : Nocturne
Claude Debussy : Cello Sonata in D minor
G Faure : Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120

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Scotland
 Saturday, January 17, 2015 at  
Hear and Now: Hans Abrahamsen
City Halls
Glasgow
Scotland

BBCSSO

The BBC SSO celebrates the music of Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen with a concert for BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now which features two UK premieres. Originally considered part of the Danish New Simplicity movement which was a reaction to 1960s Modernism, Abrahamsen’s music exhibits imagination, moving lyricism and spirituality.

In this concert the Danish String Quartet performs the composer’s First String Quartet and later, to close the evening, the BBC SSO plays a re-working of the same piece in Ten Sinfonias. Sisters Baiba and Lauma Skride give the UK Premiere of the Double Concerto written for them, and, as a complete contrast, there’s a performance of Abrahamsen’s beautiful arrangement for orchestra of Debussy’s suite for piano, Children’s Corner.

To be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.


Hans Abrahamsen : String Quartet No.1
Hans Abrahamsen : Double Concerto
Claude Debussy : Children’s Corner: Suite
Hans Abrahamsen : Ten Sinfonias

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United Kingdom
 Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 7.30pm 
DILLON: STABAT MATER DOLOROSA
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
South Bank, London SE1
United Kingdom
08700 606 096
http://www.rfh.org.uk

Ilan Volkov conductor
BBC Singers
London Sinfonietta

“A Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival highlight… beautiful, distant and compelling" **** The Guardian (on the world premiere in November).

One of the most celebrated but least performed composers in the UK, James Dillon has described his music as like ‘stepping into the magic circle'.

In this, the London premiere of his new work for choir, ensemble and electronics, Dillon explores the myth surrounding one of the most important texts in Biblical history, the Stabat Mater Dolorosa. Combining the original Latin text with excerpts from an essay by radical feminist writer Julie Kristeva, John Donne’s A Valediction 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

22 Jul



United States
 Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 08:00pm 
BMOP Reimagines Six Brandenburg Concertos
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu

Tickets: $20-50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Having just accepted the 2016 Musical America Ensemble of the Year award, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) continues its 20th anniversary season with a one-night-only concert celebrating Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. BMOP will perform the “New Brandenburgs,” six works commissioned as companion pieces to Bach’s six original Brandenburg Concertos as a result of a four-year project by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The program includes the Boston premieres of Brandenburg Gate (inspired by Brandenburg No. 2) by Paul Moravec, Muse (inspired by Brandenburg No. 3) by Christopher Theofanidis, Little Moonhead (inspired by Brandenburg No. 4) by Melinda Wagner, Sea Orpheus (inspired by Brandenburg No. 5) by Peter Maxwell Davies, and Concerto with Echoes (inspired by Brandenburg No. 6) by Aaron Jay Kernis, as well as a performance of A Brandenburg Autumn (inspired by Brandenburg No. 1) by Stephen Hartke.


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United States
 Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 08:00pm 
BMOP Spotlights Music by Great Hungarian Composers
Jordan Hall, Boston
30 Gainsborough Street
United States
617-585-1260
http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu

Tickets: $20-$50
Boston Modern Orchestra Project

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), the nation’s premier orchestra dedicated exclusively to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music, presents an evening dedicated to four composers of Hungarian descent – Bálint Karosi (b.1979), Kati Agócs (b.1975), György Ligeti (1923-2006) and Béla Bartók (1881-1945). Complemented by the innovative all-female vocal group Lorelei Ensemble, BMOP performs the world premieres of Karosi’s Existentia—in memory of Sándor Weöres (commissioned by BMOP) and Agócs’s The Debrecen Passion, as well as Ligeti’s Violin Concerto (1990) featuring violinist Gabriela Diaz, and Bartók’s Three Village Scenes (1926).


Gyorgy Ligeti : Violin Concerto
Béla Bartók : Three Village Scenes
Kati Agocs : The Debreceb Passion
Balint Karosi : Existensia

25 Jul 
 
26 Jul



United States
 Monday, January 26, 2015 at 8pm 
FOCUS! 2015: Nippon Gendai Ongaku | Japanese Music Since 1945
Julliard School of Music
New York
United States

Juilliard artists

Juilliard artists present chamber works for the annual FOCUS! festival

Toru Takemitsu : Paths
Keiko Fujiie : Three Pieces for Clarinet
Hiroaki Kobayashi : String Quartet
Takashi Tokunaga : Time Sisters
Atsuhiko Gondai : La soledad sonora
Keiko Harada : Third Ear Deaf I
Akiko Ushijima : Mare serenitatis
Akiko Yamane : Plastic Babys

27 Jul



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 6pm - 7.30pm 
Fidelio Trio Project
Royal Holloway University of London
Egham, Surrey
United Kingdom

Tickets: Free
The Fidelio Trio
Darragh Morgan - violin
Adi Tal - cello
Mary Dullea - piano

The music department at Royal Holloway have developed a relationship with The Fidelio Trio, the UK’s leading piano trio ensemble and exponents of contemporary music for the idiom, and welcome them to the College this term for a day devoted to new music written for piano trio.

Mark Bowden : Airs No Oceans Keep
Gavin Higgins : The Ruins of Detroit
Ed Bennett : Slow Down
Nathan James Dearden : Riffs for piano trio
Kelvin Thomson : Montage

28 Jul



Wales
 Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Composer Portrait: Thierry Escaich
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Cardiff
Wales

BBCNOW

Join us as we delve into the music of composer Thierry Escaich, the award-winning French composer and organist.

Thierry Escaich : Baroque Song
Thierry Escaich : Miroir d'Ombres
Thierry Escaich : Three Motets
Thierry Escaich : Vertiges de la Croix

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30 Jul



United Kingdom
 Friday, January 30, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Oliver Knussen conducts Academy Manson Ensemble
Royal Academy of Music
Marylebone Road, London
United Kingdom
http://www.ram.ac.uk

Tickets: £7.50 (concessions £5.50)
Oliver Knussen conductor
Academy Manson Ensemble


Oliver Knussen, recently appointed as the Academy’s Richard Rodney Bennett Professor of Music, launches his new relationship with Academy Manson Ensemble.

Knussen dedicated the first of his Two Organa to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Visiting Professor of Composition at the Academy. The Academy’s Head of Composition Philip Cashian studied with Knussen; and the latest generation in this teaching line is Cashian’s own PhD student Ryan Latimer.


Oliver Knussen : Two Organa, op.27
Richard Rodney Bennett : Dream dancing
Philip Cashian : Skein
Ryan Latimer : new work
Peter Maxwell Davies : A Mirror of Whitening Light

31 Jul



United Kingdom
 Saturday, January 31, 2015 at Various times, all day 
Total Immersion: Percussion!
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

BBCSO and others

Talks on and concerts of percussion music by contemporary composers.

Contemporary Composers : Various

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