WHAT’S ON
23 January 2017
GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA, London, Lecture Recital Room, 10am-5pm
Public workshop with final-year Guildhall undergraduate composers
Admission Free
3 March 2017
MILTON COURT, Silk Street, London, 7pm
A showcase concert of works by student composers on the GSMD MMus course
1 April 2017
WIGMORE HALL, LONDON
15th Anniversary Concert
Arcadelt: Il Primo Libro de’ Madrigali (selection)
James Weeks: Libro di fiammelle e ombre (wp)
Claudio Monteverdi: Ecco mormorar l’onde; Quel augellin che canta
Giaches de Wert: Vezzosi augelli
Salvatore Sciarrino: Sei Madrigali
Generously supported by Arts Council England
2 June 2017
IRCAM MANIFESTE, PARIS
Alberto Posadas: Tenebrae
Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (selection)
with Ensemble InterContemporain/Duncan Ward
10 June 2017
ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL
‘Chromatic Renaissance’
Works by Vicentino, Lassus, Rore
James Weeks: Primo Libro (excerpts, wp)
1 July 2017
PRS FOR NEW MUSIC FOUNDATION: NEW MUSIC BIENNIAL, Albemarle Music Centre, Hull
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art
8 July 2017
PRS FOR NEW MUSIC FOUNDATION: NEW MUSIC BIENNIAL, Royal Festival Hall, London
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art
2016
18 January 2016
GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA, Music Hall, Silk St, London, 10am-5pm
Public workshop with final-year Guildhall undergraduate composers
Admission Free
12 March 2016
FINNISSY at 70, Milton Court Concert Hall, Milton St, London, 7.30pm
Michael Finnissy: Cipriano (1974); Tom Fool’s Wooing (1975-78/2015, world premiere)
Promoted by EXAUDI in association with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Supported by a generous donation from The Hinrichsen Foundation
Part of the Finnissy at 70 Weekend.
16 March 2016
MILTON COURT, Silk Street, London, 7pm
A showcase concert of works by student composers on the GSMD MMus course
2 April 2016
ST JOHN’S, SMITH SQUARE, London
Jürg Frey: Shadow and Echo and Jade (wp, EXAUDI commission*)
Cassandra Miller: Guide
Morton Feldman: Only
James Weeks: A Tear
Aldo Clementi: Im Frieden dein, o Herre mein
* commissioned with funding from the Fondation Nicati-de Luze
22 April 2016
WITTENER TAGE FÜR NEUE KAMMERMUSIK
Gérard Pesson: cantate=pays
with Ensemble L’Instant Donné
25 May 2016
CITY UNIVERSITY SUMMER SOUNDS I
New work-in-progress by Miguel Mera, Leo Chadburn, Newton Armstrong, Bill Thompson, James Weeks and James Wilkes
26 May 2016
CITY UNIVERSITY SUMMER SOUNDS II
Student compositions
7 June 2016
KAMMER KLANG, Cafe OTO, Dalston
Christopher Fox: Catalogue Irraisone
11 June 2016
IRCAM MANIFESTE, Centre Pompidou
Gérard Pesson: cantate=pays
with Ensemble L’Instant Donné
25 June
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
Christopher Fox: from Catalogue Irraisoné
James Weeks: Nakedness
Zeynep Bulut: soul-mates (reworked)
Claudia Molitor: Das Schwein, das Schwein
29 August-9 September 2016
VOIX NOUVELLES, ABBAYE DE ROYAUMONT
Student composition workshops and performances
4 September 2016
ABBAYE DE ROYAUMONT
Le Madrigal Renouvelé
Gervasoni: Di dolci aspre catene
Weeks: new work (excerpts, wp)
Finnissy: Resta di darmi noia
Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigals
and music by Arcadelt, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Wert
7 October 2016
KINGS PLACE, LONDON
Bill Thompson, James Weeks, James Wilkes: Otherwise Josquin
23 October 2016
EXPOSURE2016
1045-1700, Hanbury Hall, 22 Hanbury St, E1 6QR
Workshop Day
for curious singers of all ages and abilities
to include all-comers’ workshop on James Weeks’ Radical Road and performances by CoMA Singers, Musarc and Vocal Constructivists
1930, LSO St Luke’s, EC1V 9NG
Concert (EXAUDI)
Naomi Pinnock: The writings of Jakob Br. (UKp)
Newton Armstrong: partial objects (wp)
Jürg Frey: shadow and echo and jade
Leo Chadburn: Affix Stamp Here (wp, EXAUDI commission)
Claudia Molitor: Das Schwein, das Schwein (wp)
Andrew Hamilton: Proclamation of the Republic (wp, EXAUDI commission)
11 November 2016
ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE
Furrer: FAMA
with London Sinfonietta/Furrer
20 November 2016
HUDDERSFIELD CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Furrer: FAMA
with London Sinfonietta/Furrer