Date: Monday 15th June, 7pm Venue: The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone A chance to see a new chamber opera in the making. As part of Rough for Opera, a scratch night for new opera hosted and curated by Second Movement, four scenes from this new opera will be presented as a work-in-progress followed by a Q&A with audience […]
Date: Thursday 28th May; 7.30pm Venue: Orgelpark, Amsterdam Last year, as part of our Les Citations project, we commissioned UK composer Chris Roe to write a new work for Oboe, Harpsichord, Percussion and Double Bass. Chris’ piece WIRED was recorded for our first CD, and has now been selected as a finalist for the Prix annelie de Man. We are […]
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 […]
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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