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making new music
Music Programme 2012/13
Welcome to the London Sinfonietta’s Music Programme 2012/13. We have several strands to our season this year.
Our own London Sinfonietta Academy goes from strength to strength and we now feature emerging players and conductors from the course in our season concerts and projects both at home and abroad.
Tyondai Braxton: Central Market Tuesday 9 October 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 26 February 2013, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
As usual, the London Sinfonietta will be on tour around the UK and overseas to give our first performance in China in October at the Beijing Music Festival. With additional concerts to announce as the season progresses, stay in touch with what we are doing through our website, e-zine, Facebook and Twitter feeds.
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of Time
Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite
Friday 23 November 2012, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Blue Touch Paper New Work Preview Event
We are proud to be part of Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross’ book of the same name, with concerts in January and February exploring the Second Viennese School and Igor Stravinsky. This series, to accompany Alex Ross’ book, will provide compelling events at Southbank Centre across 2013. Landmarks is our own new way of presenting concerts which will put pieces, composers and musical movements of the past century in context. Artist Netia Jones’ careful and creative use of video will bring the composers to life, and explore their influence far more than any programme note can do. Steve Reich’s music continues to enthral audiences across the world, and I’m proud that we have co-commissioned Radio Rewrite which receives its world premiere on 5 March 2013. In one of our Landmarks concerts, we will explore how musical minimalism in the U.S. began. We continue to make new music through our commissions, the New Music Show, the Blue Touch Paper programme and Writing the Future scheme. New work generated on these initiatives last year now forms part of this season.
We are hugely grateful to Arts Council England, the trust funders and the growing number of individuals who support this organisation and our programme of work. Andrew Burke Chief Executive London Sinfonietta Resident at Southbank Centre Headquarters at Kings Place Associate Artists at Turner Sims, Southampton Project partners with Central St Martins College of Arts and Design
New Music Show 3 Sunday 2 December 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall & Purcell Room
Webern and the Second Viennese School Tuesday 29 January 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Igor Stravinsky: Renard Sunday 10 February 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Repeating Patterns: the start of U.S. minimalism
Tuesday 5 March 2013, Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 14 May 2013, Village Underground
In Portrait: Luke Bedford Wednesday 22 May 2013, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass Rose Saturday 1 June 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 Final Performance Saturday 13 July 2013, Venue to be announced
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Tyondai Braxton: Central Market
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of Time
Tuesday 9 October 2012, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall
Landmarks series Friday 23 November 2012, 7.45pm Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Ingram Marshall Fog tropes II for string quartet & tape * Edgard Varèse Octandre * Toru Takemitsu Rain coming * Bryce Dessner Aheym * Tyondai Braxton Central Market # Leo Hussain conductor * Caleb Burhans conductor # Sound Intermedia sound projection
Olivier Messiaen La Colombe; Plainte Calme; Theme and Variations; Quartet for the end of Time Netia Jones / Lightmap video design John Constable piano
Warp label artist Tyondai Braxton, the former guitarist, keyboardist and singer of Battles, comes together with the London Sinfonietta for a gig laying together a sound world “where Marshall stacks and micro-processing go hand in hand” and a first half of works by composers including Takemitsu and Varèse.
The London Sinfonietta launches Landmarks, a new series of chamber concerts, featuring performances of seminal music combined with short video interventions setting a context for the composer, the work, and its impact on the musical and cultural life of the 20th century. The first subject is Olivier Messiaen and his Quartet for the end of Time, premiered in a prisoner of war camp in 1941 where the composer himself was incarcerated.
Tickets £25, £20, £15 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk
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Presented by the London Sinfonietta and Southbank Centre as part of Ether.
Presented by the London Sinfonietta. This concert is also performed on tour: 22 November, Turner Sims, Southampton.
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Sunday 2 December 2012, 4.00pm – 10.00pm Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall & Purcell Room Programme includes: Tansy Davies Nature (London premiere) Larry Goves Trends in personal relationships (first performance) Andrew Norman Try (London premiere) David Fennessy 13 Factories (UK premiere) And music by John Cage and Morton Feldman The day also includes: Hidden – a series of intimate solo performances in hidden spaces Foyer Films and Talks Oliver Coates late set Martyn Brabbins conductor Huw Watkins piano Sound Intermedia sound projection The New Music Show is the London Sinfonietta’s platform for new music from the very best composers from the UK and abroad. Enjoy a festival-in-a-day with performances, installations, films, talks and opportunities to participate. Full details at londonsinfonietta.org.uk Tickets £15 (day ticket) Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk
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Webern and the Second Viennese School Landmarks series Tuesday 29 January 2013, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Anton Webern 3 Lieder Arnold Schoenberg Five Pieces for orchestra, Op. 16 Anton Webern Six Pieces for orchestra, Op. 6 Anton Webern Five Pieces for orchestra, Op. 10 Anton Webern Three Traditional Rhymes, Op. 17 Anton Webern Symphony, Op. 21 Alban Berg Four Pieces for clarinet and piano, Op. 5 Anton Webern Three Small Pieces for cello and piano Op. 11 Anton Webern Concerto for nine instruments, Op. 24 Baldur Brönnimann conductor Sarah Gabriel soprano Netia Jones / Lightmap video design The composers of the Second Viennese School, and not least Anton Webern, influenced many of the composers of the second half of the 20th century championed by the London Sinfonietta today. The second concert in the Landmarks series looks at these composers in depth, presenting some key works together with video projections about their life and work to create an immersive concert experience.
Igor Stravinsky: Renard Sunday 10 February 2013, 3.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Erik Satie Socrate # Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartet Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for clarinet Igor Stravinsky Concertino for String Quartet Igor Stravinsky Renard - chamber opera in 1 act * Barbara Hannigan director /soprano# * Daniel Norman tenor * Edgaras Montvidas tenor * Roderick Williams bass * John Molloy bass * Reinbert de Leeuw piano # Paris between 1910 and the 1920s was a hotbed of experimentation and creative dialogue between the arts and this concert explores the important works that came out of the city’s salons, hosted by great patrons such as Winnaretta Singer, aka la Princesse Edmond de Polignac. Central to the concert is Stravinsky’s comic chamber opera Renard, in which a fox comes to a sticky end. Tickets £35, £28, £21, £15, £9 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk Presented by the London Sinfonietta and Southbank Centre as part of Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest Is Noise.
Tickets £22, £15, £9 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk Presented by the London Sinfonietta as part of Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest Is Noise.
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Repeating Patterns: the start of U.S. minimalism
“Will Sound More Again was a magnificent whirlwind of sound, performed with tremendous warmth by the Sinfonietta and conductor Thierry Fischer.”
Landmarks series Tuesday 26 February 2013, 7.45pm Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph, at the London Sinfonietta’s In Portrait: Wolfgang Rihm, January 2012
La Monte Young Composition 1960 #7; X for Henry Flynt Terry Riley In C Steve Reich It’s Gonna Rain; Clapping Music; Violin Phase Philip Glass 1+1; Knee Play 2 Sound Intermedia sound projection Netia Jones / Lightmap video design An introduction to the world of minimalism, tracing its origins in 1960s New York loft apartments and art-galleries to a cult musical movement in the ‘70s and beyond. This concert continues London Sinfonietta’s new Landmark series, with a video and audio narrative created by Netia Jones of Lightmap. Tickets £12 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk Presented by the London Sinfonietta. This concert is also performed on tour: 28 February, Turner Sims, Southampton
Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite Tuesday 5 March 2013, 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall Steve Reich Clapping Music; Electric Counterpoint; 2 x 5; Radio Rewrite (world premiere); Double Sextet Brad Lubman conductor Steve Reich performer Sound Intermedia sound projection The London Sinfonietta gives the world premiere of Radio Rewrite, a new work from master of minimalism Steve Reich, inspired by the music of Radiohead. The programme includes 2 x 5, Reich’s first exploration of rock instrumentation, with electric guitars, bass guitar, keyboard and drum set. The guitar also features in Electric Counterpoint, with its themes derived from Central African horn music, whilst Reich also performs in Clapping Music. Tickets £28, £22, £16, £12, £9. Premium Seats £35 (sold out) Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk Radio Rewrite is co-commissioned by the London Sinfonietta with New York’s Alarm Will Sound and supported by Sir Richard Arnold, Trevor Cook, Susan Grollet in memory of Mark Grollet, Stephen Morris, Richard Thomas, John Wheatley and the London Sinfonietta Pioneers. Presented by the London Sinfonietta. This concert is also performed on tour: 6 March, Town Hall, Birmingham 7 March, Brighton Dome 9 March, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall June, Holland Festival, Amsterdam
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In portrait : Luke Bedford Wednesday 22 May 2013, 7.45pm Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Luke Bedford Wonderful No-Headed Nightingale (UK premiere of ensemble version) Gérard Grisey Périodes from Les Espaces Acoustiques Luke Bedford New work (world premiere) Luke Bedford will be interviewed about his new work at the start of the second half of the concert. Luke Bedford New work (repeated) Luke Bedford has fast become one of the most important composers of his generation, in part on the evidence of past work for the London Sinfonietta. This new ensemble composition is a major 25-minute work, which will be performed for a second time after the interval to give the rare instant second chance for an audience to get to know this brand-new composition. The programme also includes an ensemble arrangement of the 2011 doublesoloist and string ensemble composition Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale, and music by Gérard Grisey, whose music holds a fascination for Bedford. Tickets £15 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk
Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass Rose
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Saturday 1 June 2013, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Mauricio Kagel The Pieces of the Compass Rose (complete) Thierry Fischer conductor “The sound references are never used anecdotally; every one of them is integrated by Kagel’s extraordinary harmonic imagination into a world in which nothing is what it seems, and in which every new vista contains a genuine surprise.” Andrew Clements Discover Mauricio Kagel’s The Pieces of the Compass Rose, a musical travelogue taking you from the north east of Brazil, to the Gulf of Finland and the South American Andes using instruments from piano and harmonium to a full range of percussion. An Argentinian composer whose cultural and musical outlook embraced a life lived crossing continents, The Pieces of the Compass Rose is Kagel’s response to the diverse soundworlds evoked by geography, language and ethics. Tickets £22, £15, £9 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk
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Luke Bedford’s new work is commissioned by the London Sinfonietta with the generous support of Michael and Patricia McLaren-Turner Presented by the London Sinfonietta.
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London Sinfonietta On Tour Current projects include: London Sinfonietta in China Wednesday 24 October 2012 Beijing Music Festival Harrison Birtwistle Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum OIiver Knussen Songs without Voices Qigang Chen Extase II George Benjamin Into the Little Hill George Benjamin conductor Hila Plitmann soprano Katalin Károlyi mezzo soprano Gareth Hulse oboe The London Sinfonietta gives its first ever performance in China, as part of the Beijing Music Festival. The programme includes a concert performance of Benjamin’s extraordinary first stage work Into the Little Hill. The ensemble’s visit also includes open rehearsals and masterclasses with students from the Beijing Conservatoire of Music, as an international extension of its own London Sinfonietta Academy programme. London Sinfonietta in China is part of the UK Now festival, made possible with the support of the British Council.
Friday 5 October, 6.00pm Palladium, Malmö, Sweden Oliver Knussen Secret Psalm Tansy Davies inside out 2 Thomas Adès Catch; Court Studies from the Tempest Oliver Knussen Songs without Voices Pelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen Near Still, Distant Still Edmund Finnis Unfolds Simon Bainbridge Concertante in Moto Perpetuo Saturday 6 October, 5.00pm Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Run; Turn II; Song; Play; Sounds I; Sounds II; Company Sunday 25 November 2012, 3.00pm Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Run; Turn II; Song; Play; Sounds I; Sounds II; Company (all UK premieres) March 2013 Town Hall, Birmingham (6 March) Brighton Dome (7 March) Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (9 March) Steve Reich Clapping Music; Electric Counterpoint; 2x5; Radio Rewrite; Double Sextet May – June 2013 UK Festivals / venues Half of Me World premiere performance tour of new chamber-scale puppetry and music piece created by Elspeth Brooke, Seonaid Goody and Anna Jones on the London Sinfonietta’s 2012 Blue Touch Paper programme. June 2013 Holland Festival Steve Reich Clapping Music; Electric Counterpoint; 2x5; Radio Rewrite; Double Sextet
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Saturday 3 August 2013 Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije, France Programme includes: George Benjamin Into the Little Hill
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making new music now is the London Sinfonietta’s platform for commissioning new work, new ways of working and pioneering new creative partnerships. London Sinfonietta Commissions The London Sinfonietta’s mission to commission new music, from emerging talent through to established masters, continues at the heart of the Music Programme 2012/13. Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite for the London Sinfonietta and New York’s Alarm Will Sound is inspired by the music of Radiohead, while Larry Goves’ Trends in Personal Relationships was written initially for the London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble in summer 2012. Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s new work Run is a prelude to a special portrait concert. The London Sinfonietta is also proud to perform the world premiere of a major new work for the group by Luke Bedford.
Blue Touch Paper Preview Event 2012 at Village Underground.
Writing the Future Writing the Future will continue pairing composers with London Sinfonietta Principal players to develop new chamber compositions which will be performed across the season, as well as being made available online. Projects for the composers also include creative cross artform collaborations with students at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. Work from the last round of Writing the Future has been recorded on the London Sinfonietta’s New Music Show CD, due for release in October 2012. Writing the Future is generously supported by Michael and Patricia McLaren-Turner, and other anonymous donors.
Tuesday 14 May 2013, 7.30pm Village Underground The Blue Touch Paper New Work Preview Event will showcase the culmination of a year-long collaboration between groups of composers and multi-disciplinary artists and London Sinfonietta players. Three works-inprogress, portraying wide ranging themes, will be presented to an audience for the first time against the backdrop of a recently renovated turn-of-the-century warehouse. Limited tickets on application see londonsinfonietta.org.uk for details Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Participants are supported by a Jerwood Blue Touch Paper bursary.
Blue Touch Paper The London Sinfonietta’s groundbreaking Blue Touch Paper programme continues into another round of developing inventive cross artform work. The new projects that are to be developed over the coming season will be announced in October 2012, following the open call for ideas from composers and collaborators. Photos and film showing the outcomes of the successful 2011/12 Blue Touch Paper programme can be seen at londonsinfonietta.org.uk/blue-touch-paper
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Blue Touch Paper New Work Preview Event
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Serge Vuille & Scott Lygate London Sinfonietta Academy players
The London Sinfonietta Academy is central to the London Sinfonietta’s commitment to working with young musicians. A week-long summer course enables 30 students and three conductors from across the UK to learn skills specific to performing new music from the ensemble’s Principal players. The London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 will be conducted by world-renowned composer, conductor and performer George Benjamin. London Sinfonietta Academy players
London Sinfonietta Academy commissions
Over 35 emerging players from the London Sinfonietta Academy project have gone on to perform as part of the London Sinfonietta at Southbank Centre, Kings Place and in partnership with BBC Proms in the past four years. Some of the players to have featured include Scott Lygate (clarinet), Serge Vuille (percussion), Will Oinn (oboe) and Adam Wynter (double bass). In summer 2012 the London Sinfonietta Academy players performed as part of a Kaaija Saariaho BBC Proms Plus Portrait and a late night BBC Prom featuring Louis Andriessen’s De Snelheid as well as recording a series of new commissions inspired by John Cage for the BBC Proms 2012 Music Walk.
The London Sinfonietta Academy’s focus is also on the development of composing talent. The London Sinfonietta Academy 2012 Final Performance included the premiere of Larry Goves’ Trends in personal relationships. This commissioning policy continues in 2013.
Players rehearse at the London Sinfonietta Academy 2012.
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Larry Goves’ Trends in personal relationships is a London Sinfonietta commission for the London Sinfonietta Academy and is generously supported by the Britten-Pears Foundation.
London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 Final Performance Saturday 13 July 2013, 7.30pm Venue to be announced
Programme to include:
Olivier Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques Unsuk Chin Akrostichon-Wortspiel Sean Shepherd Blur Luke Bedford Or voit tout en aventure The London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 culminates with a showcase performance from participating musicians, led by George Benjamin after a week of rehearsals, workshops and masterclasses. Limited tickets on application see londonsinfonietta.org.uk for more details
Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design The success of the London Sinfonietta Academy is also helping the ensemble to forge links with a new generation of students from across contemporary arts. The London Sinfonietta Academy 2012 was based at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design whose students are also creating design elements as part of Writing the Future for presentation at the New Music Show 3. Image © Briony Campbell
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Get closer to the London Sinfonietta and contemporary classical music with projects that give you the opportunity to compose, curate and perform with a world - class ensemble. Public Participation – Mass Clapping Music Mass Clapping Music is the next initiative from the London Sinfonietta aimed at involving the public in the soundworld of contemporary classical music. Members of the public will have the chance to learn Steve Reich’s seminal Clapping Music and participate in a preevent performance at the Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite concert on Tuesday 5 March 2013 at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. Keep an eye on facebook.com/londonsinfonietta for the call for participants.
Repeating Patterns – Schools concert by and for young people As part of the Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite tour in March 2013 the London Sinfonietta is presenting a schools concert featuring elements created by a collective of young people from across London and the UK. The concert will include Reich’s Electric Counterpoint which features in the GCSE curriculum, and will be accompanied by specially devised learning resources to be made available to schools.
The KX Collective in rehearsal.
For further details of this opportunity please contact together@londonsinfonietta.org.uk or call 020 7239 9340.
KX Collective The KX Collective is an ongoing dynamic young ensemble who create and perform new music, collaborate with professional musicians and artists, produce projects and events, find out about music being made today and develop leadership skills. Projects in 2012/13 will draw inspiration from the London Sinfonietta’s performances at the BBC Proms as well as the new commission by Steve Reich. If you want to get involved why not join the KX Collective Facebook group at www.facebook.com/ groups/79457908099/ The KX Collective is generously supported by The Corporation of London’s City Bridge Trust, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Marple Trust and Youth Music.
For more information about joining The KX Collective, please visit londonsinfonietta.org. uk/kx-collective or call the Participation and Learning department on 020 7239 9340.
Social Media Facebook, Twitter and Wordpress are your channels for the most up-to-date, exclusive and behind the scenes information on the London Sinfonietta. From monthly Live Chats with high profile musicians such as Nicholas Collon to Disk of the Month choices from London Sinfonietta staff and live concert streams this is the place for an exclusive view into the workings of the London Sinfonietta.
On Record Available at londonsinfonietta.org. uk/recordings and facebook.com/ londonsinfonietta Music Streams and the London Sinfonietta Label are your journey into new soundworlds. Music Streams are a complete new piece of contemporary music available exclusively from the London Sinfonietta. The London Sinfonietta Label and releases on NMC Recordings and Signum Records present a recordings catalogue of the finest new music performed by the London Sinfonietta. The latest release, New Music Show, features music composed on Writing the Future including tracks by Edmund Finnis, Shiva Feshareki and Duncan MacLeod. For more information on all recordings visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/recordings
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The London Sinfonietta is a registered charity and relies on the considerable generosity of many trusts, foundations and individuals to continue to create and perform outstanding new music. We need your support to make new music happen.
Pioneers Do you share our passion for new music? Join the London Sinfonietta Pioneers and you will play a crucial role in making new music happen.
Membership starts from just £35 per year (less than £3 per month) and will support all areas of the London Sinfonietta’s new music making and help us to remain at the forefront of contemporary classical music. You might like to direct your support to a major new commission with an annual gift of £200 and above and gain an insight into the creative commissioning process. Recent Pioneer supported commissions have included In Broken Images by Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Insomnia by Charlie Piper. A gift of £1000 and above per year will support one of our world-class Principal players for a season and give you a close connection with the performing ensemble.
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Trusts and Foundations
Creative Pioneers
Find out more by contacting our Development team on 020 7329 9340, by emailing pioneers@londonsinfonietta.org.uk or visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/pioneers
Arts Council England The Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation The Boltini Trust British Council The Britten-Pears Foundation The John S Cohen Foundation The Columbia Foundation The Corporation of London’s City Bridge Trust The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Esmèe Fairbairn Foundation Fenton Arts Trust The Holst Foundation Jerwood Charitable Foundation The Marple Charitable Trust The Adam Mickiewicz Institute Musicians Benevolent Fund PRS for Music Foundation The RVW Trust Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Youth Music
Entrepreneurs
Lead Pioneers
The London Sinfonietta is forming a group of individuals who have a passion for new music and the organisation itself. With them, new work has been funded and new schemes for composers, artists, musicians and conductors launched. The work is a vital part of building the ensemble’s future.
Sir Richard Arnold Trevor Cook Susan Grollet in memory of Mark Grollet Leo and Regina Hepner Penny Jonas Anthony Mackintosh Belinda Matthews Andrew Mitchell Robert & Nicola McFarland Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner Sir Stephen Oliver QC Nick & Claire Prettejohn Richard Thomas & Caroline Cowie David and Jenni Wake-Walker
Ian Baker Sir Alan Bowness Andrew Burke Robert Clark & Susan Costello Jeremy & Yvonne Clarke Rachel Coldicutt Dennis Davis Deborah Golden Patrick Hall Nicholas Hodgson Andrew Hunt Maurice & Jean Jacobs Frank & Linda Jeffs Tim Joss Alana Lowe-Pestraske Jane McAusland Stephen Morris Julie Nicholls Simon Osborne Patricia O’Sullivan Geoff Peace Ruth Rattenbury Dennis Stevenson Iain Stewart Anne Stoddart Sally Taylor Barry Tennison Estela Welldon John Wheatley Jane Williams Stephen Williamson Michelle Wright Paul & Sybella Zisman
Your support, at any level, is enormously valuable to the London Sinfonietta and all Pioneers enjoy a close relationship with the ensemble with regular opportunities to meet our players and attend special events. Help us continue to lead the way, sparking the greatest innovations in music and nurturing the best musical talent as we go. Become a Pioneer today and help us make new music happen.
For more information contact Claire Barton on claire.barton@londonsinfonietta.org.uk or call 020 7239 9352
Plus those generous Lead and Creative Pioneers who prefer to remain anonymous Thanks also to the London Sinfonietta Pioneers.
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Music Programme 2012/13 Tyondai Braxton: Central Market Tuesday 9 October 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Olivier Messiaen : Quartet for the end of Time Friday 23 November 2012, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
New Music Show 3 Sunday 2 December 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall & Purcell Room
Webern and the Second Viennese School Tuesday 29 January 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Igor Stravinsky: Renard Sunday 10 February 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite Tuesday 5 March 2013, Royal Festival Hall
Blue Touch Paper New Work Preview Event Tuesday 14 May 2013, Village Underground
In Portrait: Luke Bedford Wednesday 22 May 2013, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass Rose Saturday 1 June 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall
London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 Final Performance Saturday 13 July 2013, Venue to be announced
Repeating Patterns: the start of U.S. minimalism Tuesday 26 February 2013, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
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