Date: Saturday 31st October; 5.00pm Venue: St. Nicholas Church, Brighton Jonathan Harvey’s “Death of Light, Light of Death” was inspired by Grünewald’s ‘Crucifixion’ in the Issenheim Altarpiece. Harvey wrote that the “unflinching sense of catastrophe that hangs over this picture has given it a special appeal to the sensibilities of our own time.” The Riot Ensemble […]
Date: Friday 30th January; 7.30pm Venue: MeWe360 The opening concert of our 2015 season! Built around Jonathan Harvey’s raucous trio for Flute, Clarinet and Piano (The Riot) this concert also includes the UK premiere of music by Marco Momi (Reloading Vanishing), our first 2015 performance of composer-in-residence Jose Manuel Serrano (Espantajo de Resaca), Arne Gieshoff’s Invocation to […]
Date: Monday 6th April; 11am – 5pm Venue: Unannounced Fields, by David Bird, is for two percussionists at a linear distance of 150 yards. A total of six microphones record the resulting sound at specific distances between the two. “As sound travels from one microphone to the next, one hears the entire lifespan of a sound in an instant”. […]
Date: Saturday 6th June; 7.30pm Venue: MeWe360 Presented as part of our Sound and Music Portfolio Scheme, this concert sees three emerging UK composers writing pieces for three international soloists. They are: Chloe Knibbs (writing for Accordionist Rafal Luc), Daniel Kidane (writing for Bass Clarinetist Heather Roche), and Ed Nesbit (writing for Viola d’Amore, Marco Fusi). The concert […]
Date: Wednesday 4th February; 7.30pm Venue: MeWe360 A spectacular evening of virtuosic music for four-hands piano, including Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Concertino, Kurtág’s Játékok I and IV, Amy Williams’ Crossings and transcriptions four of Conlon Nancarrow’s studies for player piano.
Date: Monday 24th August; 1.00pm Venue: St. Thomas’ Central Hall, South Wing Presented with live visual artist, this concert will feature a number of pieces for piano duo including Debussy, Kurtag, and “Variations for Judith“, a set of variations on Bist du Bei Mir, written for the chair of our board.
Date: Monday 18th May; 1.00pm Venue: St. Thomas’ Central Hall, South Wing Presented with live visual artist, this concert will feature a number of contemporary vocal works including Patrick Harrex, Elizabeth Maconchy, Ed Nesbit and Wolfgang Rihm.
Date: Wednesday 11th March; 1.00pm Venue: Guys’ Hospital Chapel Presented with live visual artist, this concert will feature a number of works of Claudia Racovicean’s upcoming album recording including Aaron Copland’s Piano Variations (which Claudia began learning while living in Aaron Copland house), Matthias Pintscher’s On A Clear Day, and transcriptions of Hugo Wolf’s songs – written for Claudia by her […]
Date: Thursday 1st October; 7.30pm Venue: Brixton East This concert sees the UK premiere of four pieces by thrilling American composers Jason Eckardt (“Brilliant” – NY Times, “Dazzling” – BBC), Nina C Young (2015 Rome Prize), Thomas Kotcheff (HOCKET Piano Duo), Natalie Draper (2015 TMC Fellow) and John Zorn’s behemoth Ceremonial Magic, in its solo violin version.
Date: Saturday 15th November; 7.30pm Venue: Cecil Sharp House, Trefusis Room. As part of our Sound and Music Portfolio programme this year, we are hosting international soloists Heather Roche (Bass Clarinet), Marco Fusi (Viola D’Amore) and Rafal Luc (Accordion) in London. After a day of masterclasses and composers workshops, these three soloists will give a joint concert […]
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