Frontiers Festival 2015 Brochure

COMPOSING: ELECTRIFIED

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16.03.15 - 27.03.15

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www.frontiersmusic.org

HELLO Frontiers Festival is a two-week celebration of bold, new music and is now recognised as one of the UK’s most ambitious festivals of contemporary music and interdisciplinary practice.

This year we take a close look at technology in contemporary music, and in particular at the intersection between electronic and acoustic music.

The Festival explores existing live electronics repertoire and showcases music created using the Integra Live software and the resources of Birmingham Conservatoire’s ground-breaking Integra Lab. Among the highlights, a rare performance of Jonathan Harvey’s seminal From Silence side by side with Gérard Grisey’s Le temps et l’écume, the world première of Ed Bennett’s new PRS commission for piano and live electronics, and a monographic concert by the Ensemble Court-circuit devoted to the music of Philippe Hurel on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Frontiers also features contemporary pianist Xenia Pestova, the experimental and energetic Decibel and the Conservatoire’s own Thallein Ensemble for what promises to be a memorable journey of discovery.

For full programme details and examples of the performers’ works, please visit www.frontiersmusic.org. For further details about the Conservatoire’s Integra Lab, please visit www.bcu.ac.uk/integra We look forward to welcoming you to another inspiring festival of cutting edge new music.

Rosie Clements Artistic Director, Frontiers Festival 2

*Tickets paid for online via Eventbrite are subject to a booking fee.

SUN 15 MAR

MON 16 MAR

TUE 17 MAR

PRE-FESTIVAL SHOWCASE: YOUNG COMPOSERS PLATFORM

£108 – ART NEVER LIES

ELTON JOHN CAGE THE SONGBIRD

6.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

£5 (£3) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

Free event

£5 (£3) Tickets available on the door

£108 – Art Never Lies is a collaboration between Michael Wolters, Marcus Dross, Andy Ingamells, Paul Norman, Suzie Purkis, Fumiko Miyachi, George Kirkham, Jack McNeill, Joe Young, Victoria Farren and Oliver Clark.

Paul Norman presents an installation with photographs, audio and video.

Regular guided tours are available.

The Young Composers Project is an initiative ran by Birmingham Conservatoire to support the development of composers aged 14-18 in the West Midlands. The students attend a number of workshops led by composer Kirsty Devaney, Jack McNeill and a team of Conservatoire composers to experiment, create new pieces and learn from each other.

The platform will include a diverse range of music from the students including a large group arrangement developed with Jack McNeill and a world première from past YCP student Meghan Owen.

7.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

3pm-9.30pm Ort Cafe

“John Cage did not compose by rolling dice.”

The number 108 appears in Crying Freeman as the sinister society of 108 Dragons, Devil Hunter Yohko is the 108th generation demon slayer in her family and in Sekire there are 108 beings called Sekirei which bond with humans.

In Sands of Destruction there are 108 laws of robotics in clock town, 108 is the atomic number of Hassium and there are 108 cards in a deck of UNO cards.

In Homer’s Odyssey, the number of suitors coveting Penelope, wife of Odysseus, is 108 and there are 108 seats available to witness this event!

Please note that an event photographer and film crew will be at the festival and photographs and footage taken may be used for future publicity. *Tickets paid for online via Eventbrite are subject to a booking fee.

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TUE 17 MAR

BALANDINO DI DONATO AND FRIENDS 6pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire £5 (£3) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk* Join us for an evening of diverse performance brought to you by the Conservatoire Music Technology Department.

Balandino Di Donato brings us a completely new spatialisation of Berio’s Sequenza III and Cathy Berberian’s Stripsody, accompanied by soprano Vittoriana De Amicis, who joins us from Italy for the festival.

Also including works by Tychonas Michailidis, Stephen Knight, Andrew Thomas and Balandino Di Donato with Josephine Wilkin, Sam James and Vittoriana De Amicis.

A full programme is available at www.frontiersmusic.org

WED 18 MAR

GAMELAN CONCERT 9.30am Arena Foyer, Birmingham Conservatoire Free event. Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk* Start your day with the sounds of the Jasmine Isle interpreted by the composers of today. Hear brand new works for Birmingham Conservatoire’s Gamelan Mardi Rahayu by students and postgraduate composers written especially for this Frontiers event.

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Featuring: Seàn Clancy, Daniel Blanco Albert, James Alexandropoulos-McEwan, Apostolis Alysandratos, Anthony Leung, Izzy Spint, Blanka Stachelek, Fedor Voronov, Ayid Shaffie, Wan Azlan and Sam Leith Taylor.

*Tickets paid for online via Eventbrite are subject to a booking fee.

WED 18 MAR

THE PATCHWORK COAT with a pre-concert performance by the Conservatoire’s Creative Ensemble 7pm-7.45pm Creative Ensemble (new works) 8.15pm & 9.15pm The Patchwork Coat The Old Joint Stock Theatre Free event. Tickets available on www.eventbrite.co.uk* Composer Rob Jones Catrin Wright Puppet and Set Designer/Director Patchwork Ensemble: Vicky Boham, Christine Cornwell, Rosie Clements, Juliana Day, Chloe-jade Actors from Birmingham School of Acting and The School of Visual Communication.

Join us in the intimate setting of The Old Joint Stock Theatre and be led along a captivating story using puppetry and music to tell the story of Khaim Yankl.

Watch Khaim as he battles through the hardships of poverty to travel down the road to riches only to meet a tragic end.

This event will be supported by a 45-minute set of new music from Birmingham Conservatoire’s Creative Ensemble at 7pm, followed by two performances of The Patchwork Coat at 8.15 and 9.15pm.

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THU 19 MAR

THU 19 MAR

THU 19 MAR

FRI 20 MAR

BIRTHDAY PRESENT

AMI OPRENOVA PRESENTS: THE NOVA EXPERIENCE

A MOVEABLE FEAST

THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL PASSION

Free event

8pm Fleet Street Kitchen

Free event

12.30pm St Martin’s in the Bullring

An evening of collaborative creation and celebration improvised, arranged and composed by Sam Leith Taylor, Robert Nettleship, Patrick Ellis, Paul Zaba and James Alexandropoulos-McEwan.

Free event

A Moveable Feast is a 12-piece ensemble of strings, horns and rhythm section led by award winning pianist Mark Pringle. It boasts a line-up of players that represent the cream of Birmingham’s thriving young jazz scene, including Percy Pursglove. It also features newly created animations from Londonbased artist Maxwell Jeffery.

Free event

‘A talented newcomer’ The Guardian on Mark Pringle.

Performed by Kirsty Williamson, Lucy Morton, Christopher Griksaitis and Daniel Wyman.

8pm The Sunflower Lounge

Enjoy an evening of jazz, folk and contemporary music arranged and written by Ami Oprenova and performed by Baxter/Dunnet Big Band, Nova Sisters and George Stuart.

This event is organized to fundraise for the Bulgarian Partners Trust working with homeless and orphan children in Bulgaria.

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8.30pm 6/8 Kafe

David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Little Match Girl Passion comes to St. Martin’s, Birmingham, brought to life by four vocalists from Birmingham Conservatoire.

An adaptation of the Danish Little Match Girl story by Hans Christian Anderson, it is a heartbreaking tale of innocence and poverty.

FRI 20 MAR

FRI 20-SAT 28 MAR

FRI 20 MAR

8BIT LOUNGE IN 8BITS

FOR>WARDS: WHAT DOES YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD SOUND LIKE?

THE SKEMPTONS AND FRIENDS

Live performances in public libraries:

Free event, donations accepted.

Fri 20 Mar 4pm Small Heath Library

Join cheeky ska band The Skemptons for a night of fun and frivolity at Cherry Reds. They share the stage with friends and special guests; expect the unexpected.

The Old Joint Stock Theatre Free events Despite significant advancements in computer gaming technology, playing Pong on the Atari or Duck Hunt on the NES is still undeniably satisfying. In partnership with Flatpack Festival, we celebrate the oldskool with a whole day dedicated to 8 Bit technologies.

8BIT LOUNGE 12pm-6pm Drop-in for some casual gaming on various consoles throughout the day – perfect for a Friday lunch break, or a lazy afternoon.

EUROPE IN 8 BITS* 6:30pm (dir. Javier Polo) Spain, 2013 – 76min Kickstart the evening as Spanish filmmaker Javier Polo takes us on a journey into the world of chip music with his documentary Europe in 8 Bits* charting the European movement of turning 8bit consoles into musical instruments.

Sat 21 Mar 3pm Balsall Heath Library Thu 26 Mar 4pm Aston Library Sat 28 Mar 2.30pm & 3.30pm Library of Birmingham

8.30pm Cherry Reds

Free events Explore your city through sound. Top musicians have collaborated with local communities in Balsall Heath, Small Heath and Newtown to write music about where they live. Hear three new works performed by professional musicians featuring sounds of the city.

With music written by Kirsty Devaney, Sebastiano Dessanay and BobbieJane Gardner in partnership with local communities and performed by Chris Mapp, Percy Pursglove, James Douglas, Anton Butler-Clarke and David Westbourne.

*Screening presented by Vivid Projects as part of µChip3 Festival 7

SAT 21 MAR

SAT 21 MAR

SAT 21 MAR

FAIRY TALES

SOUNDkitchen: EARspace

EARspace 2.0

1pm Birmingham Midland Institute

2pm-5.30pm, HFWAS Gallery, Minerva Works

8pm HFWAS Gallery, Minerva Works

Free event

Free event

ÂŁ6 Tickets available on the door.

Experience a selection of exquisite, early twentieth century silent shorts from the PathĂŠ archives accompanied by live soundtracks from Conservatoire composition students.

SOUNDkitchen, in collaboration with Frontiers Festival, presents an extended immersive sonic experience of stereophonic and multichannel works.

Each of the films are based on fairy tales with every frame handstencilled with colour, bringing a vibrancy and magical quality to these forgotten gems.

This event is the culmination of a recent call-for-works and focuses on pieces that accentuate the changing use of technology in electronic music, from subtle uses of analogue tape to the shredding extremes of digital. Multichannel works will be presented in their original format whilst stereo pieces will be diffused in realtime over the loudspeaker array by members of the SOUNDkitchen collective.

In association with Flatpack Festival, presented as part of Film Bug, in partnership with and across Colmore Business District.

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Drop-in anytime and stay from a few minutes to a few hours.

This festival venture has kindly been supported by HFWAS. Home for Waifs and Strays is a live art initiative based in Birmingham. They are housed in the ever growing cultural hub that is Minerva Works in Digbeth. The venue acts as a performance space for both the members of Home for Waifs and Strays and for general public.

Due to the malleable nature of the space it is often used for workshops, performance events or for people looking to simply test out an idea.

Join us for an intimate evening of immersive audiovisual performance brought to you by Formuls (James Dooley & Matt Parker), MzTek (Sophie-Louise Mercedes) and Annie Mahtani & Iain Armstrong of SOUNDkitchen.

www.hfwas.co.uk

*Tickets paid for online via Eventbrite are subject to a booking fee.

SAT 21 MAR

SUN 22 MAR

LUNTING GENT

RYAN PROBERT PRESENTS: SELECTED KEYBOARD WORKS

7pm The Wellington Free event. Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

5.45pm Pure Bar and Kitchen

Newly formed grunge band Lunting Gent perform their debut gig.

Ryan A. Probert electric keyboard Thomas Caddick electric piano/clavichord

It’s going to get rowdy.

Featuring: Rob Nettleship, Izzy Spint and James Oldham Limited capacity, order tickets in advance or arrive early to guarantee entry.

Free event

Plus special guests A concert of works for various keyboard instruments, which have been recorded as part of Ryan A. Probert’s new album, presented here in new and expanded versions.

Ryan’s music takes inspiration from conscious and unconscious memory, using this to find unique approaches to composition and combining his love of melody, certain sonorities and episodic structure.

The concept that outdated, kitsch or overly clichéd material can be transformed into something new and exciting often appears in his work.

‘Authentically of the present moment in their lightness and stubborn eccentricity… charmingly Satielike in their oddity.’

Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph, on the music of Ryan Probert.

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SUN 22 MAR

SUN 22 MAR

MON 23-FRI 27 MAR

MON 23 MAR

JUSTIN WIGGAN: FALSE FLAG/TRUE MIRROR

A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE

THE HOUR GLASS

8pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

£4 Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

THE PEOPLE’S CLOUD PRESENTS: THE CLOUD IS MORE THAN AIR AND WATER

£5 (£3) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

Step inside the beating heart of Birmingham Conservatoire after dark to hear an ensemble of composers and graduates led by Luke Deane.

False Flag/True Mirror is a culmination of a three day workshop investigating the modification of self-help tapes and playback by the use of reconstructed tape and block baton bows.

9pm Birmingham Conservatoire

With inspiration from the Nelson Algren book of the same name, A Walk On the Wild Side questions the lost and unreal nature of data, electricity and signals, especially in the practice of live electronic music.

See Justin Wiggan and A Walk On the Wild Side for £7 (£5).

Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

An opera composed by Blanka Stachelek and Ignatius Sokol

Free event In this 14” looped installation sound artist Matt Parker explores what ‘The Cloud’ is and how it affects our lives.

Matt creates immersive experiences that reveal and amplify hidden connections between every-day technology and the environment. His project The People’s Cloud seeks to investigate the acoustic ecology and impact of cloud computing on the places it is physically located, and the people who work to maintain it.

Supported by:

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£5 (£3) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

10am-10pm Ground Floor, Birmingham Conservatoire

www.thepeoplescloud.org

7.30pm Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

The Hour Glass tells a story of a wise man, who converts his students away from their supernatural beliefs, and a fool who resists. It features an angel resolving the dilemma, making for an enigmatic finale.

It is a 45-minute chamber electroacoustic opera rooted in the traditional narrative-based form of music theatre, with a Libretto based on the William Butler Yeats play of the same title.

By combining the spiritual, divine and innocent, you will be treated to an ambiguous and yet compelling imaginary landscape.

*Tickets paid for online via Eventbrite are subject to a booking fee.

MON 23 MAR

WE BUILT THIS STADT 8.30pm Arena Foyer, Birmingham Conservatoire £4 Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk* Andy Ingamells Ludwig Abraham Neele Hülcker Guest starring Bastard Assignments Conceived with the the belief that it’s better to make a piece than to perform, to perform than to listen and to listen than to hear, We Built This Stadt repaints the grey area between music, theatre, dance and art.

This performance questions everything and takes nothing for granted.

Your presence is required.

WE BUILT THIS STADT

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TUES 24 MAR

TUE 24 MAR

FRONTIERS PRESENTS: SOFIA SARMENTO

4 YEARS – 10 MINUTES

1.05pm Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

Free event

£6 (£3.50) Tickets available on the door.

Sofia Sarmento piano John Ireland Sarnia João Pedro Oliveira Pirâmides de Cristal Ignatius Sokol New Work Benjamin O´Sullivan New Work Tiago Morais Morgado New Work MON 23-FRI 27 MAR

BEETHOVEN’S 5TH

BY EMILY WRIGHT 10am-10pm Ground Floor, Birmingham Conservatoire Free event Emily Wright one person orchestra Ben Ulyatt cameraman

Supported by:

3pm-4.30pm Studio 2, Birmingham Conservatoire

As Sofia Sarmento both reveals her Portuguese musical background and explores English music, the distance between the two countries is significantly reduced. Her recital for Frontiers Festival 2015 includes works for both solo piano and piano with live electronics.

Composer Patrick Ellis Expect to hear a variety of different pieces by composer Patrick Ellis in this audio installation featuring works dating from 2011 to 2015.

Displaying a unique insight into the adaptable life of a working composer, take the opportunity to hear a variety of different compositions over 10 minutes selected by Ellis himself.

Sofia is currently studying on the Conservatoire’s flagship Professional Performance programme.

A video installation of the first movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, played by an orchestra of just one person, Emily Wright, on a series of peculiar instruments.

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TUE 24 MAR

TUES 24 MAR

TUE 24 MAR

ELEMENTAL

DECIBEL

NEW WORKS: FIVE CONCERT PIECES

6pm-8pm The Shell, Parkside

7.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

9.30pm Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

Free event Elemental is an immersive projection-mapping experience that will explore the 4 elements of nature: Fire, Water, Earth, and Light.

Using the projection mapping technique, combined with a variation on Pepper’s Ghost, this performance combines visuals and illusions to create a unique experience.

Presented in association with Flatpack Festival.

£6.50 (£4) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk* Director Ed Bennett The virtuosic and energetic Decibel present eight brand new compositions for large amplified ensemble by Birmingham Conservatoire composition students.

This project is the culmination of an intensive two day workshop as part of Frontiers Festival 2015.

£4 or free to Decibel ticket holders. Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk* New works by Rosie Clements, Patrick Ellis, Tom Earl, L.K. Anthony Leung and Ben Ulyatt.

Performed by students of the Birmingham Conservatoire.

An exciting concert of new music, brought to life through a collaboration between Birmingham Conservatoire student performers and composers.

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VOCAL MARATHON DAY See all Vocal Marathon Day events for £8 (£4).

Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk* WED 25 MAR

WED 25 MAR

NEW MUSIC FOR VOICE AND SMALL ENSEMBLE

SOUL ZISSO – NEW MUSIC FOR SOLO UNACCOMPANIED VOICE

12pm The Round Room, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Free event As the opening to the Vocal Marathon Day this concert features world premières of pieces for voice and 1-4 instruments written by composers studying at Birmingham Conservatoire, alongside vocal pieces by renowned composers such as Judith Weir.

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2.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire £5 (£3) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk* Soprano Soul Zisso performs Berio’s Sequenza III for Female Voice alongside premières of new pieces for solo unaccompanied voice written by herself, Fleur de Bray, Daniel Galbreath, Ben Lunn and Nathan James Dearden. *Tickets paid for online via Eventbrite are subject to a booking fee.

WED 25 MAR

WED 25 MAR

THE TICKLISH SUBJECT

VIA NOVA

6pm-7pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

7.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

Free event

£5 (£3) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

Did you think that the ‘New’ was a little treat that would come at the end of your well-rounded three-course meal of the Ordinary, the Normal, and the Classic?

Andy Ingamells, and those who follow him into his work, take a gamble. You will either (and most likely) lose your taste for it altogether, or if you stick it out, you will come out on the other side hooked for life like a true believer.

You are free to enter and leave the performance whenever you like, or to stay as long as you can stand it.

Please note that this performance contains content that some may find distressing.

Daniel Galbreath musical director / conductor Eleanor Hodkinson, Jessica Wise, Yfat Soul Zisso sopranos Emma Cowper, Chloe Salvidge, Nicola Starkie altos David Emerson, Robert Tilson, Daniel Wyman tenors Alistair Donaghue, William Gee, Andrew Randall basses With Howard Skempton Join Via Nova as they explore a broad range of repertoire, ranging from experimentalism to minimalism and from new sacred music to opera and oratorio.

Complementing these exciting new and recent works are several more standard works, including Robert Ashley’s hypnotic She Was a Visitor, featuring Howard Skempton.

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WED 25 MAR

THU 26 MAR

JAZZ COMPOSERS ENSEMBLE PRESENTS…

STATES: CONFLICT AND COEXISTENCE

1.15pm New Lecture Theatre, Birmingham Conservatoire

8pm Arena Foyer, Birmingham Conservatoire

£3 Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

£3 Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Composers Ensemble

Ben Lee composer/guitar

The Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Composers Ensemble will be performing brand new in-house compositions and arrangements of George Russell’s Complete Bluebird Recordings. This promises to be a superb night, showcasing the talented composers in the Jazz department and of course celebrating George Russell.

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Chris Young saxophone Richard Foote trombone Percy Pursglove trumpet Naomi Hodson violin Sara Gale cello David Ferris organ Euan Palmer drums Jonathan Silk drums Witness an exciting, visceral and yet at times serene suite of music divided by two bands. This music is inspired by and expresses the conflict within, and between, two separate states. The piece starts with a birth, then enters a cycle of turmoil. When tensions rise too high, there is apocalypse, which is then followed by a rebirth.

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THU 26 MAR

XENIA PESTOVA 7.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire £6.50 (£4) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk* Xenia Pestova solo piano, toy piano, keyboard and electronics Ed Bennett New work Pierre Alexandre Trembelay New work Heather Hindman Work for piano and electronics Also featuring works by the Conservatoire Composition Department Colourful and inventive composer/pianist Xenia Pestova premières a large-scale work for piano and electronics by Ed Bennett.

This concert also features the premiere of a piece for the ROLI Seaboard by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay. The Seaboard is a radical new musical instrument that reimagines the piano keyboard as a soft, continuous surface marrying the intuitiveness of a traditional instrument with the versatility of digital technology.

Try out the Seaboard for yourself at the ROLI Seaboard trade stand from 5pm.

6.30pm Pre-concert Seaboard Demonstration

Ed Bennett’s piece is commissioned by INTER/actions Festival for Interactive Electronic Music, Frontiers Festival and Cork Orchestral Society and was made possible with funding through Beyond Borders from the PRS for Music Foundation, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Wales.

Image credit: Caroline Tabah

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FRI 27 MAR

FRI 27 MAR

PHILIPPE HUREL & L’ENSEMBLE COURT-CIRCUIT

THALLEIN & INTEGRA

6.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

8pm Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

£6.50 (£4) or 2 performances for £10 (£5) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

£6.50 (£4) or 2 performances for £10 (£5) Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk*

L’ensemble Court-circuit

Conductor Daniele Rosina

Philippe Hurel Plein jeu Philippe Hurel Trait d’union Philippe Hurel Interstices Philippe Hurel D’un trait

Thallein Ensemble

It is our great pleasure to welcome L’ensemble Court-circuit performing a programme of Phillippe Hurel’s music. Hurel is a prominent figure in French contemporary music, whose highly inventive work encompasses spectralist techniques, serialist polyphonic structures, and the driving rhythms of jazz.

The programme features four recent pieces. Plein-jeu explores the intersection between acoustic and electronic sounds, and the organlike sonorities of the accordion.

Interstices, for piano and three percussionists, is a very energetic and rhythmical piece in which even the most static and poetic moments are disrupted by interventions of incisive rhythmic motives.

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Victoria Adams soprano

Trait d’union is a work of extreme dramatic tension for violin and cello; and finally D’un trait, a piece for solo cello that emerged directly from Hurel’s relationship with tonight’s cellist, Alexis Descharmes.

L’ensemble Court-circuit were founded by Hurel and Pierre André Valade over twenty years ago. Not shy of experimentation, they regard themselves as an art project promoting intense risk-taking, an agitator in the international contemporary scene.

This concert promises to be a real highlight of this year’s Frontiers.

Jonathan Harvey From Silence Gérard Grisey Le Temps et l’Écume Ben O’Sullivan New work Edmund Hunt New work Thallein Ensemble celebrate wonderful compositions for ensemble and live electronics that the influential Integra Project, based at Birmingham Conservatoire, has helped to create, preserve and promote. *27TH MARCH DOUBLE BILL – SEE PHILLIPPE HUREL & L’ENSEMBLE COURT-CIRCUIT AND THALLEIN & INTEGRA FOR £10 (£5).

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ON THE DOOR Tickets are available to purchase from the box office of the venue in question from up to 30 minutes prior to the event start time.

BY PHONE You can guarantee your ticket by telephoning the Conservatoire’s Venues, Concerts and Events Office on 0121 331 5909 to reserve your ticket in advance. Telephone lines are open Monday to Friday 10am-4pm. Your ticket will then be available for you to purchase or collect at the box office of the venue in question from up to 30 minutes prior to the event start time.

Please note that when purchasing tickets on-line credit and debit card bookings incur a fee per transaction.

*A transaction fee is charged per ticket paid for online. Therefore tickets will be charged at £43.05 (£32.45) each.

No transaction fee is applied to tickets sold at Birmingham Conservatoire.

Entry to all Frontiers events is free to Birmingham City University staff and students.

CONCESSIONS Unless otherwise stated, concessionary prices apply to children (16 and under), students, 60 plus, registered disabled and the unemployed.

Identification may be requested for those carrying concessionary tickets.

Frontiers Festival cannot guarantee refunds or exchange tickets after purchase. All details in the printed programme were correct at the time of going to print, however the festival reserve the right to change the programme or replace artists due to unforeseen circumstances.

Adrian Boult Hall, Recital Hall, Arena Foyer, New Lecture Theatre & Studio 2 Birmingham Conservatoire Paradise Place, B3 3HG Aston Library 99 Whitehead Road B6 6EJ Balsall Heath Library Moseley Road B12 9BX Birmingham Cathedral Colmore Row B3 2QB Birmingham Midland Institute 9 Margaret Street B3 3BS Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Chamberlain Square B3 3DH Cherry Reds John Bright St B1 1BE Fleet Street Kitchen Fleet Street B3 1JH HFWAS Gallery Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley Street B5 5RS

Library of Birmingham Centenary Square, Broad Street B1 2ND The Old Joint Stock Theatre 4 Temple Row West B2 5NY Ort Café 500-506 Moseley Road B12 9AH Pure Bar & Kitchen 30 Waterloo Street B2 5TJ The Shell Parkside, 5 Cardigan Street B4 7BD Six Eight Kafé 6/8 Temple Row B2 5HG Small Heath Library Muntz Street B10 9RX St Martin’s in the Bullring Edgbaston Street B5 5BB The Sunflower Lounge 76 Smallbrook Queensway B5 4EG The Wellington 37 Bennetts Hill B2 5SN 19

THANK YOU Birmingham Conservatoire would sincerely like to thank the following for their generous support, without which Frontiers Festival would not be able to take place: Funders Beyond Borders Concours De Orleans Hinrichsen Foundation Holst Foundation RVW Trust Partners Beat City Jazz Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Court-circuit Creative Triangle Flatpack Festival ROLI SOUNDkitchen Supporters Cherry Reds HFWAS The Old Joint Stock Theatre ORT Cafe TITAN Films Frontiers Festival would like to thank the many musicians, composers and artists that feature in the programme and the volunteers that have given their time so generously.

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