A series of intimate solo performances in hidden spaces‌
Hear the best new music and join us for a day festival of performances, installations, talks and unexpected discoveries. The New Music Show is the London Sinfonietta’s platform for new music from the very best emerging talent from the UK and abroad. Listen to the familiar and the downright strange, be swept away and feel invigorated.
Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer John Cage Suite for Toy Piano Juliana Hodkinson Stills Andrew Hamilton Music for Losers A set of short, extraordinary chamber pieces starts the day. John Cage’s Suite for Toy Piano is perhaps the most famous composition for the instrument. Juliana Hodkinson’s Stills is a hugely evocative and experimental short piece for clarinet and piano, while Andrew Hamilton’s Music for Losers is a roaring, repetitive solo cello work.
Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer Composer Talks: Andrew Hamilton / Tansy Davies / Larry Goves Backstage Hidden: Small group tours to secret performances of short new works.
Queen Elizabeth Hall Tansy Davies Nature (London premiere) Larry Goves Trends in personal relationships (UK premiere / London Sinfonietta commission) Martyn Brabbins conductor Huw Watkins piano A set of contrast – Huw Watkins gives the London premiere of Tansy Davies’ hugely well-received new piano concerto Nature, a dense, colourful and energetic work casting the soloist as a wild, instinctive Shamanistic figure. Then learn all you need to know about intimacy and relationships from Larry Goves with the five movements in Trends in personals relationships: Threesome, Benign violations, Falling in love and the Internet, Trends in personal relationships and Exhausted English landscapes. ‘…glistening, hyperactive solo writing and a confrontation between piano and harp, there was the real sense of a journey completed.’ The Guardian on world premiere of Nature
Intimate solo performances in hidden spaces. Four composers have created new short solo works. These will be performed in backstage spaces dressed and curated by students from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. New works by: Mark Bowden, Jordan Hunt, Edward Jessen, Bushra El-Turk Settings by: Students on the Performance Design and Practice Course, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design – Course tutors Michael Spencer, Selma Dimitrijevic, Fred Meller
Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer Composer Talks: David Fennessy Backstage Hidden: Small group tours to secret performances of short new works.
Queen Elizabeth Hall David Fennessy 13 Factories (UK premiere) Andrew Norman Try (London premiere) Gerald Barry Lisbon Martyn Brabbins conductor Huw Watkins piano Sound Intermedia sound projection Featuring hand-held car speakers and pre-recorded sound, David Fennessy’s 13 Factories was inspired by the intimacy of the single voice in the crowded noise and buzz of city life. Quiet and moving, the work was inspired by a trip to industrial China and also evokes a lost world of weaving looms in Scotland. Andrew Norman is an American composer whose music is often inspired by forms and textures encountered in the visual world. In Try he says: ‘I never get things right on the first try, so why should my music? This is a piece that tries things over and over until it finally (fingers crossed) gets them right.’ The set finishes with the anarchic energy of Gerald Barry’s Lisbon.
Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer Composer Talks: Composers and artists working on Hidden. Backstage Hidden: Small group tours to secret performances of short new works.
Purcell Room Oliver Coates and Serafina Steer Alvin Lucier Music for cello and one or more amplified vases Serafina Steer Songs Charlie Usher Yawl Ketch Schooner Brig Oliver Coates cello Serafina Steer voice / harp End the evening with a compelling performance by cellist Oliver Coates with guest artist Serafina Steer in this special late set.
Hidden: Join backstage tours to access spaces which are usually off-limits to the public. Tour group size is limited. Tours will happen between concert sets. Sign up on the day at the foyer table to book your space on the tour. Hidden tours are only available to ticket holders for New Music Show 3. Hidden is inspired by Music Mining, developed at the Cross-Linx Festival, Holland.
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