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10 Sep



United Kingdom
 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

11 Sep 
 
12 Sep 
 
13 Sep



United Kingdom
 Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 7.30 pm 
18th London New Wind Festival, Concert for Clarinet & Violin
l'klectik Art Lab
Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, (Royal Street Corner), London SE1 7LG.
United Kingdom
http://www.londonnewwindfestival.co.uk
catherinepluygers@hotmail.com

Tickets: £5 on the door only
Ellie Blackshaw, Violin & Viola
Phil Edwards, Clarinet & Bass Clarinet

New solo works and duets for Violin/viola and clarinet

Edward McGuire : Four 2-part Investions for Violin & Clarinet
Michiko Shimanuki : Flos Ferri for Solo Violin
James Brown : Sonatina for Clarinet & Viola
Marilyn Herman : Michal 06 for Solo Clarinet
Michiko Shimanuki : The Spider and the Fly for violin & clarinet/bass clarinet

14 Sep 
 
15 Sep



United States
 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.


16 Sep 
 
17 Sep



United States
 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

17 Sep



Mexico
 Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 12pm 
BCMG at Festival Internacional Cervantino
Festival Internacional Cervantino
Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico

BCMG

Recognised as one of the most demanding and imaginative ensembles on the international scene, in 2015 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group performs a programme containing works by British composers Oliver Knussen, Tansy Davies, Simon Holt and Harrison Birtwistle at the internationally acclaimed Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico.

The concert also featuring premieres of works commissioned by the Festival by Mexican composers Alejandro Brown and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.


Oliver Knussen : Ophelia Dances
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez : GPS
Tansy Davies : Nature
Harrison Birtwistle : Fantasia upon all the notes
Oliver Knussen : Songs Without Voices
Simon Holt : Lilith
Alejandro Castaños : Détours
Alejandro Castaños : Détours

18 Sep



United States
 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

19 Sep 
 
20 Sep 
 
21 Sep



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 1.00 
Danielle Perrett recital
Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford
Fairfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex
United Kingdom
01245606505
http://www.chelmsford.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=14204

Tickets: Free (£1 donation requested)
Danielle Perrett

Danielle Perrett is widely regarded as one of the UK's finest Harpists

Jeffery Wilson : Contemplation for solo Harp

22 Sep 
 
23 Sep



United Kingdom
 Friday, October 23, 2015 at 1930 - 2030 
London New Wind Festival
Iklectik Artlab
Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane, Waterloo, SE1 7LG
United Kingdom
http://iklectikartlab.com/
iklectikcreativespace@gmail.com

Tickets: £7 (£5 concessions)
Bella Tromba



Howard Skempton : Alveston for four trumpets
Cecilia McDowall : Bells in the Air
John Reeman : L'homme arme
Benjamin Britten : Fanfare for St Edmundsbury

23 Sep



United Kingdom
 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

24 Sep



United States
 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.)



24 Sep



United States
 Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 8:00pm-10:00pm 
Eric Chasalow 60th Birthday Concert with Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
Slosberg Music Center, Waltham
415 South Street, Waltham MA, 02453
United States
(781) 736-3400
http://www.brandeis.edu/tickets/

Tickets: FREE
Dinosaur Annex

The Brandeis University Department of Music presents a free evening with Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble in honor of the 60th birthday of Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Irving Fine Professor of Music Eric Chasalow, known for creating a vivid “super-musique concrete” that combines traditional instruments with manipulated pre-recorded sounds.

Mario Davidovsky : Quartetto No. 4
David Rakowski : All That Chas
Yu-Hui Chang : A Long Overdue Sequel
Eric Chasalow : On That Swirl of Ending Dust
Eric Chasalow : Due (Cinta)mani

25 Sep 
 
26 Sep



United Kingdom
 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

27 Sep 
 
28 Sep



United Kingdom
 Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 7.30pm 
Take Two: Oliver Knussen in Focus Two
Barbican Hall, London
Barbican, Silk Street, London EC2
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing

Britten Sinfonia
Oliver Knussen conductor
Frederieke Saeijs violin


Curated and conducted by Knussen this performance will give a compelling, personal insight into the composer, setting his own works alongside music that he loves by Mozart, Stravinsky and Tippett.


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Masonic Funeral Music in C minor
Oliver Knussen : Violin Concerto
Igor Stravinsky : Ode
Michael Tippett : Concerto for Orchestra

29 Sep



United Kingdom
 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

29 Sep



Scotland
 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

30 Sep



Latvia
 Friday, October 30, 2015 at 7pm 
ON TOUR: LATVIA
Riga Dzintaru Concert Hall
Riga Dzintaru Concert Hall, Riga
Latvia

Andrew Gourlay conductor
Mats Bergström electric guitar
Sound Intermedia sound projection
London Sinfonietta



Michael Nyman : In C Interlude
Tansy Davies : Neon
Steve Reich : Electric Counterpoint
Edmund Finnis : in situ
Steve Reich : Radio Rewrite
Steve Reich : 2 x 5

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