new music
Contemporary Concerts January - May 2011
Stephen Montague is the Kettle’s Yard/Faculty of Music New Music Associate 2010-11. Below are nine thrilling concerts Stephen has programmed for the new season, each of which he will introduce with illuminating insight.
Sunday coffee concerts Aika Collective 30 January, 12noon • £7 (£4) A lissom dancer entwined with cello, a Ligeti Cello Sonata, and the world premiere of a new commission by Hannah Varty for solo dancer and two cellists in prone position.
Gabriella Dall’Olio, harps 6 February, 12noon • £7 (£4) The harp - a naked piano: 47 strings, 7 pedals, and a gold metal frame built to beguile, bemuse & bewilder. Gabriella, Angel of Bologna, reveals ‘heaven and hell’ with two harps and spiders.
Wu Quartet 20 February, 12noon • £7 (£4) “The Wu Quartet were the night’s stars!” (The Times), but this lunchtime it’s ‘My Day in Hell’ by C F Hoad leavened with some Ligeti, Piazzolla & Montague.
Eliza McCarthy, piano 6 March, 12noon • £7 (£4) A virtuoso pianist in a two part programme ‘The Piano Inside/Out’. Composers Cage, Cowell, Crumb & Cheshire (new commission) excite the insides; Bartok, Ives, Cutler & Rzewski electrify the outside: exotic percussion chased by Lisztian torrents.
Langham Research Centre 8 May, 12noon • £7 (£4) Four Radio 3 Producers dug deep in the BBC archives and found lost humour in vintage electronic sounds! The young soprano Catherine Carter puts new life on the crusty bones.
benjamin powell, winner British Contemporary Piano Competition 22 May, 12noon • £7 (£4) 1st Prize Winner - British Contemporary Piano Competition Benjamin Powell hailed by the 2010 jury as one of the most astonishing pianists ever to win the competition is a rising star not to be missed!
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Electric Voice Theatre
EVEning concerts Montague Chamber Works with pianist Philip Mead 2 March, 8pm • £10 (£6) “Montague is an ex-patriot maverick who knows how to charge a concert hall with lightning bolts!” (Chicago Tribune) “It would be hard to find a much more exciting combination than the Montague/Mead duo. Virtuosity at the highest level.” (Tagesblatt, Dresden) They are joined here by the Cambridge University New Music Ensemble.
New Music Ensemble 11 March, 8pm • £10 (£6) Kate Whitley and Joe Snape lead this passionate student ensemble. Be ready for a mixed programme of ‘classic’ contemporary repertoire alongside new compositions written by the students. Professional performers will play alongside the students.
Electric Voice Theatre with Frances Lynch 17 May, 8pm • £10 (£6) “Britain’s leading electro-acoustic music theatre ensemble” (The Independent) in a tour de force singer/actor programme of outstanding works by Alejandro Vinao, Cage, Paul Barker and Eduardo Reck Miranda.
New Music Mornings on sundays by local new music groups Riprap 27 February, 12noon • free • Kevin Flanagan and Dave Gordon will explore original compositions, text settings and improvisations with their ensemble Riprap. They work with poets and writers in a variety of festivals and venues in the UK.
Past Forward: Tape to tape 13 March, 12noon • free • Original music from Cambridge and beyond from producers utilising the diverse sonic and artistic possibilities of obsolete tape and cassette technology for home grown experimental music. Self-releases, loops, swaps, splices and found sounds.
David Ryan, clarinets & Joe Zeilin, ‘cello 1 May, 12noon • free • Both David and Joe are excited by contemporary music and forging new ways of thinking across boundaries. They will explore fusing the traditions of classical music making with free improvisation.
new music SUNDAY COFFEE CONCERTS Presented by Stephen Montague, this year's Kettle’s Yard and Faculty of Music New Music Associate. Sunday Coffee Concerts begin at 12 noon with a short introduction. Coffee is served from 11.30am in the gallery. Concerts are about an hour long.
EVENING CONCERTS Evening concerts will have an interval in the gallery, with a bar available.
NEW MUSIC MORNINGS These free events begin at 12 noon and are presented by local composers, students and staff from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), and students from the University of Cambridge. No need to book, just turn up. Donations welcome.
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The Kettle’s Yard New Music Programme is supported by the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, The Radcliffe Trust, The PRS Foundation, The RVW Trust, The Holst Foundation.
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cover image: Aika Collective (London)
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