Date: Wednesday 1st July, 7.30pm Venue: The Forge, Camden The closing ‘summer party’ on the second season of the critically acclaimed Wednesdays at the Forge concert series. The concert is built around Kevin Malone’s cabaret based around A Clockwork Orange, which sets the “songs” that Burgess included in his own script for the film (which Kubrick was eventually to […]
Our 2015 Call for Scores received 151 applications from composers all over the world. It has been a pleasure to get to know so much new music, being made by such inspiring and exciting artists. We are extremely proud to announce the composers we’ll be collaborating with for our 20th November concert, this year. Thanasis […]
Date: Friday 15th May; 7.30pm Venue: Palmers Green United Reformed Church In association with the foreSOUND school of music, we’re running an education project to encourage and train the next generation of composers. Five young foreSOUND students have been selected to attend an instrument introduction day with our players (28th Feb) and take composition lessons with our Artistic Director […]
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.
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