Past performances
‘Thrilly Marvel Chants’ – Oliver Leith curation
Music by Ligeti, Billings, Brahms, Ben Johnson, Miller, Hamilton, Hildegard, Joanna Ward and others. Supported with funding from Hinrichsen and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
‘In dew of roses’ – songs for loving and parting
Music by Morley, Dowland, Machaut, Hildegard, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Cardew, Cage, Hogg and Monk Feldman
‘In dew of roses’ – songs for loving and parting
Music by Morley, Dowland, Machaut, Hildegard, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Cardew, Cage, Hogg and Monk Feldman
‘In dew of roses’ – songs for loving and parting
Music by Morley, Dowland, Machaut, Hildegard, Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Cardew, Cage, Hogg and Monk Feldman
New Music Weekend
Martyn Harry: OUR SEPARATE WAYS
‘Verses of Love’
Michael Finnissy: Cipriano
Luca Marenzio: Dura legge d’amor; Quel augellin che canta
Claudio Monteverdi: Sfogava con le stelle; Quel augellin che canta
Elisabeth Lutyens: Verses of Love
Orlando Gibbons: O that the learned poets
Gibbons, arr. James Weeks: Songs (wp)
Cassandra Miller: Guide
EXPOSURE2023
Works by Guildhall Masters composers (wp)
Lawrence Dunn: May Song (wp)
Chiyoko Szlavnics: Whorl Whirling Wings
Joanna Ward: Living on Ice Cream and Chocolate Kisses
Paul Newland: new work (wp)
EXAUDI gratefully acknowledges funding from the Cockayne Foundation towards this concert.
Berio: Sinfonia
With Tenerife Symphony Orchestra
Fabián Panisello, conductor
‘Chromatic Renaissance’
Elisabet Dijkstra: here, now
Sylvia Lim: paper wings
Madrigals and motes by Vicentino, Lasso, Marenzio, Luzzaschi, Rore
‘Rainbow Across the Night Sky’ – 20th anniversary concert
Hildegard of Bingen, arr. James Weeks: Hymns
Arvo Pärt: Missa Syllabica
Catherine Lamb: song/form (wp)
John Cage: Ear for EAR
Alvin Lucier: Unamuno
Brendan Champeaux: Periscope (wp)
Gloria Coates: Rainbow across the night sky (wp of revised version)
Supported by RVW Trust and Hinrichsen Foundation, with grateful thanks.
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Mikel Urquiza: HOWL (UKp)
Chiyoko Szlavnics: whorl whirling wings (UKp)
Naomi Pinnock: Landscape (UKp)
Lorenzo Pagliei: Marea flusso deriva (wp)
Pagliei commission supported by Diaphonique, Franco-British fund for classical contemporary music in partnership with the SACEM, the Friends of the French Institute Trust, the British Council, the Institut français, the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, the Centre National de la Musique, Creative Scotland and the Salabert Fondation
Linos Festival
Bach: Cantata 106 ‘Actus Tragicus’
Cardew: Ah, Thel
Rishin Singh: Clotho Chant
Annalies van Parys: new work
music by Hildegard, Marenzio, Dowland
‘Gesualdo: Cruel Ecstasy’
Gesualdo: madrigals
Sylvia Lim: burst flood wound
Joanna Ward: new work (wp)
‘EXPOSURE2022’
Works by Guildhall Masters composers (wp)
Josh Levine: Cicada June | Geheimlicht (wp)
Sylvia Lim: burst flood wound (UKp)*
Simone Corti: Three Madrigals (wp)
* supported by funding from RVW Trust
Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik
Naomi Pinnock: new work (wp)
Chiyoko Szlavnics: Whorl Whirling Wings (wp)
Mikel Urquiza: Howl (wp)
Gesualdo: madrigals
Finnissy: from Gesualdo: Libro Sesto
Bernat Vivancos: Nigra es, pulchra sum
‘Moord en Madrigalen’
Gesualdo: madrigals
Simone Corti: Oh, piacere doloroso (wp)
Sylvia Lim: burst flood wound
Listenpony
William Marsey: I am become a man (wp)
Louise Drewett: The Yellow Bittern (wp)
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Gentlest Chord
Morton Feldman: Only
John Cage: Ear for EAR
and works by Machaut, Morley and Anon
Boulez: cummings ist der dichter
Ensemble InterContemporain, Matthias Pintscher (conductor)
‘EXPOSURE2021’
ONLINE EVENT
Works by Guildhall Masters composers
Georgia Rodgers: Near + Far
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art
‘Chromatic Renaissance’
ONLINE EVENT
Lassus: from Prophetiae Sibyllarum
Vicentino: Musica prisca caput
madrigals by Marenzio, Luzzaschi, Gesualdo
‘Book of Flames and Shadows’
James Weeks: Fantasie di strani e dolci misteri della parola (wp)
Jacques Arcadelt: Madrigals
James Weeks: Libro di fiammelle e ombre
‘lonesingness’
Linda Catlin Smith: In Black Ink (UKp)
Michael Pisaro: A bird in the beast
James Weeks: even here (wp)
Barbara Monk Feldman: The Gentlest Chord (UKp)
Lisa Robertson: Almost (wp)
Zesses Seglias: lonesingness (UKp)
John Cage: Ear for EAR
Rodney Lister: Devotion (UKp)
‘Gesualdo: Cruel Ecstasy’
Gesualdo: Madrigals
Christopher Fox: Canti del carcere (wp)
Patrick Hegarty: Recitation (wp)
sound festival, Aberdeen
Ailie Robertson: new work
Linda Catlin Smith: Uncertain
Jürg Frey: Out of Chorales
Christopher Fox: Song (24.iv.1916)
Cassandra Miller: Guide
Gesualdo: Asciugate i begli occhi
Berio: Sinfonia
With Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki
‘Toujours et pres de moi’: Hologram Madrigal Opera
With Opera Erratica
Music by James Weeks, Salvatore Sciarrino, Christopher Fox, Machaut, Monteverdi and Gesualdo
‘Toujours et pres de moi’: Hologram Madrigal Opera
With Opera Erratica
Music by James Weeks, Salvatore Sciarrino, Christopher Fox, Machaut, Monteverdi and Gesualdo
EXPOSURE2019
Works by Guildhall School of Music and Drama Masters students
Geoff Hannan: Pocket Universe (wp)
Linda Catlin Smith: Uncertain
Jürg Frey: Out of Chorales (UKp)
Cassandra Miller: Rounding (wp)
Christopher Fox: Song (24.iv.1916)
Sylvia Lim: paper wings
James Saunders: constant interchange of the most various kinds
MUSICON
The EXAUDI Italian Madrigal Book
Eric Egan: new work (wp)
madrigals by Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Marenzio, Sciarrino
L’Auditori, Barcelona
Bryn Harrison: Eight Voices
Linda Catlin Smith: Uncertain
Jürg Frey: Shadow and Echo and Jade; Out of Chorales (wp)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Madrigali (selection)
Morton Feldman: Christian Wolff in Cambridge
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Salvatore Sciarrino: Carnaval (Ukp)
with Explore Ensemble
James Weeks, conductor
Supported with public funding from Arts Council England
Pascal Dusapin: Passion
With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales
Pascal Dusapin: Passion
With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales
Pascal Dusapin: Passion
With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales
Pascal Dusapin: Passion
With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales
Pascal Dusapin: Passion (Ukp)dfewqas`
With Music Theatre Wales, London Sinfonietta, National Dance Company Wales
‘Amours, Espaces’
Sivan Eldar: Heave (wp)
Lorenzo Pagliei: corpi celesti (Frp)
Osvaldo Coluccino: Scomparsa (Frp)
madrigals by Gesualdo and Monteverdi
Beverley Early Music Festival
‘Quel augellin che canta…’
Marenzio, Monteverdi, Gesualdo: Madrigals
Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigali
Finnissy: from Gesualdo: Libro Sesto
BBC OPEN EAR
Michael Oesterle: All Words
Amber Priestley: Help with Adverbs (wp)
Lorenzo Pagliei: Corpi Celesti (wp)
Osvaldo Coluccino: Scomparsa (wp)
Pieces by students on the Guildhall Masters programme (wp)
PRINCIPAL SOUND
Kurtág: Hölderlin-Gesänge no.1
Nono: Sarà dolce tacere
Rihm: Quo me rapis
Feldman: Voices and Cello
Linda Catlin Smith: Uncertain (wp)
Machaut: Fins cuers doulz; Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure
Public workshop
With final-year Guildhall undergraduate composers
Fondazione Pietà de Turchini
Stefano Gervasoni: Di dolci aspre catene; Donne settings (wp)
Salvatore Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigali
music by Monteverdi and Tomkins
Milano Musica
Stefano Gervasoni: Di dolci aspre catene; Donne settings (wp)
Salvatore Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigali
music by Monteverdi and Tomkins
Rainy Days
EXAUDI Italian Madrigal Book
works by Monteverdi, Marenzio, Gesualdo
Catherine Kontz: new work
Stefano Gervasoni: Di dolci aspre catene
Michael Finnissy: from Gesualdo: Libro Sesto
Salvatore Sciarrino: from 12 Madrigali
Nordic Music Days
Madeleine Isaksson: Ciels
Mette Nielsen: Song
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Song
Ansgar Beste: In the Steppes of Sápmi
PRS for New Music Foundation: New Music Biennial
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art
PRS for New Music Foundation: New Music Biennial
Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art
‘Chromatic Renaissance’
Works by Vicentino, Lassus, Rore
James Weeks: Primo Libro (excerpts, wp)
Ircam Manifeste
Alberto Posadas: Tenebrae
Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories (selection)
with Ensemble InterContemporain/Duncan Ward
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
Showcase concert
A showcase concert of works by student composers on the GSMD MMus course
Public workshop
With final-year Guildhall undergraduate composers
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Furrer: FAMA
with London Sinfonietta/Furrer
EXPOSURE2016
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
King’s College London
Christopher Fox: from Catalogue Irraisoné
James Weeks: Nakedness
Zeynep Bulut: soul-mates (reworked)
Claudia Molitor: Das Schwein, das Schwein
City University Summer Sounds I
New work-in-progress by Miguel Mera, Leo Chadburn, Newton Armstrong, Bill Thompson, James Weeks and James Wilkes
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
Gérard Pesson: cantate=pays
with Ensemble L’Instant Donné
St John’s Smith Square
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
Finnissy at 70
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.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Public workshop with final-year Guildhall undergraduate composers
Wigmore Hall
Music of celebration and consolation for the Christmas season. Works by Schütz and the world premiere of Christopher Fox Trostlieder (in Widerwärtigkeit des Kriegs)
EXPOSURE2015
New work by Jeffrey Gavett, Alastair Putt, Luke Nickel, Pia Palme, Charlie Usher and Michael Perrett.
Bridgewater Hall
EXAUDI and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. World première of Mark Simpson’s The Immortal
City University
A programme including works by Chase, Skempton and student composers from City University
Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ
EXAUDI joins the Ives Ensemble to perform works by Hobbs, Riley and Mažulis
Wigmore Hall
Finnissy: Kelir; Holliger: from Nicht Ichts – nicht Nichts; Scelsi: Tre Canti Sacri; Machaut, Léonin, Ciconia and Rodericus.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme
Six singers from EXAUDI, along with James Weeks and composer Michael Finnissy will be working with young composers writing for vocal ensemble.
Gervasoni Dir – In dir with L’Instant Donné
Theatre Garonne, Toulouse (24th)
Conservatoire de Musique, Geneva (27th)
Conservatoire de Lausanne (28th)