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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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