Steen-Andersen: Black Box Music

London Sinfonietta Steen-Andersen: Black Box Music 2013/14 season

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Steen-Andersen: Black Box Music Wednesday 12 March 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London Simon Steen-Andersen Run Time Error @ Queen Elizabeth Hall #1 (world premiere) Christian Winther Christensen Trio (UK premiere) Simon Steen-Andersen Run Time Error @ Queen Elizabeth Hall - 1st Detour Nicolai Worsaae Kuro ton’neru (world premiere) ** Simon Steen-Andersen Run Time Error @ Queen Elizabeth Hall #2 Rune Glerup Quartettsatz (UK premiere) ** Simon Steen-Andersen Run Time Error @ Queen Elizabeth Hall - 2nd Detour Christian Winther Christensen Sextet (world premiere) ** Simon Steen-Andersen Run Time Error @ Queen Elizabeth Hall #3 Each piece will segue into the next without applause Interval Simon Steen-Andersen Black Box Music (London premiere) * Post-concert Composer Conversation with Simon Steen-Andersen Håkon Stene solo performer * Gerry Cornelius conductor ** Sound Intermedia sound projection London Sinfonietta The London Sinfonietta is grateful to Arts Council England and the PRS for Music Foundation for their generous support of the ensemble’s Music Programme 2013/14, to the John Ellerman Foundation for their support of the ensemble and to the Danish Arts Council Committee for Performing Arts, the Danish Composers’ Society’s Production Pool / KODA’s Fund for Social and Cultural Purposes and Edition Wilhelm-Hansen for their support of the Denmark Calling series and to NOTAM (Norwegian Centre for Technology in Music and the Arts) and Arts Council Norway for their support of Black Box Music.

Welcome Welcome to the second concert in our Denmark Calling series. This evening we feature the exciting work of a younger generation.

In 2010, we visited Copenhagen to perform the graduation concert of music by Rune Glerup, Christian Winther Christensen and Nicolai Worsaae. The music had such invention and promise – and it’s good to feature their work back here in London now. Alongside them, we are excited to be working with Simon SteenAndersen, whose creative musical mind seems to know no bounds. His work demonstrates brilliantly how new music has become a cross-art form genre in the minds of many composers.

Tonight, and last Sunday’s concert of the highly original music of Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, is part of what the London Sinfonietta does best.

Giving world-class performances of new music that needs to be heard in the UK, and which will inspire composers, artists and audiences for the future. The other role we are proud of is to perform for young people. Earlier today we played Black Box Music to over 600 teenage school students in a concert which demonstrated different compositional styles happening today.

We trust the event has not only inspired them, but supported their studies at GCSE and A-Level.

Thanks again to our partners – without whom we could not work. Not least Arts Council England and PRS for Music Foundation, but also the Danish Arts Council, Danish Composers’ Society and Edition Wilhelm Hansen for their financial support of this project.

Do get a copy of the Mixed Company CD of the Gudmundsen-Holmgreen concert. It’s a very good listen.

Thanks for coming.

Andrew Burke @ab2102 Chief Executive, London Sinfonietta

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Simon SteenAndersen (b. 1976) internationally by challenging normal musical ways of thinking. He has won several major prizes including the Carl Nielsen Prize (Denmark) and Kunstpreis Musik from Berlin’s Akademie der Künste in 2013, the International Rostrum of Composers, the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm Residency 2010 and the Kranichsteiner Music Award 2008.

His works from the last 6-7 years concentrate on integrating concrete elements in the music and emphasizing the physical and choreographic aspects of instrumental performance. The works often include amplified acoustic instruments in combination with sampler, video, simple everyday objects or homemade constructions.

Simon Steen-Andersen is a Berlin-based composer, performer and installation artist.

He works in the field between instrumental music, electronics, video and performance, writing for settings ranging from symphony orchestras and chamber music groups (with and without multimedia) to stagings, solo performances and installations.

Steen-Andersen studied composition with Karl Aaage Rasmussen, Mathias Spahlinger, Gabriel Valverde and Bent Sørensen in Aarhus, Freiburg, Buenos Aires and Copenhagen from 1998-2006.

He was appointed lecturer of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark in 2008 and is currently guest professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.

Steen-Andersen’s music is always surprising.

In recent years he has established himself

Biographies Christian Winther Christensen (b. 1977)

their experiments, in which contemporary music is presented in new contexts and pushed over the edge. Out to the place where new art emerges.

Christian Winther Christensen studied composition at the Royal Danish Conservatory with Bent Sørensen, Niels Rosing-Schow, Hans Abrahamsen and Hans-Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg as well as at the Paris Conservatoire with Frédéric Durieux. His music has been performed by a series of ensembles and orchestras including the Oslo Sinfonietta, the Esbjerg Ensemble and Zoom.

His works have been played at the Tage für Neue Musik 2010, ISCM Festival Sydney 2010, Festival di Nuova Musica 2008, as well as Nordic Music Days, UNM Festival, SPOR, Athelas, Wundergrund, Suså and Musikhøst.

© Eva Ohrt

In addition to being a composer and an active member of the artists collective DYGONG (which consists of the composers Christian Winther Christensen, Nicolai Worsaae, Regin Petersen and Simon Løffler), and Pliiinggg (Christian Winther Christensen, Rune Glerup and Nicolai Worsaae), he is also organist at the Frederiksberg Palace Church and, together with the composer Rune Glerup, artistic leader for the Athelas Sinfonietta in Copenhagen.

Nicolai Worsaae (b. 1980) In 2009 , Nicolai Worsaae completed his education in composition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, where he received tuition from Bent Sørensen, Hans Abrahamsen, Niels Rosing-Schow and Hans Peter Stubbe-Teglbjærg.

In 2008-09 he continued with postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz with Beat Furrer.

Together with the composers Simon Løffler, Christian Winther Christensen and Regin Petersen, Nicolai Worsaae founded the artists’ collective DYGONG. Together they are known for

Rune Glerup (b. 1981) Rune Glerup has received tuition from a number of composers in both Denmark and abroad, including Walter Zimmermann in Berlin, and Niels Rosing-Schow, Bent Sørensen and Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjærg as part of the soloist class at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory, from which he made his debut in 2010. He also studied at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in Paris from 2010-12.

Rune Glerup has participated in masterclasses with Phillippe Leroux, Phillippe Manoury, Hans Peter Kyburz, Dennis Smalley, Ivan Fedele, Adriana Hölszky and Rolf Wallin. Glerup’s work has been performed at festivals including Printemps des Arts in Monte-Carlo, Nordic Music Days, Young Nordic Music and Pulsar. © Eva Ohrt

Programme notes Simon Steen-Andersen: Run Time Error at Queen Elizabeth Hall (2014) Run Time Error is a concept for a site-specific audio/visual performance and/or installation.

It contains three main dogmas: 1) Only objects and instruments found at the location can be used for the compositions. 2) Each object or instrument can only be used once. 3) Each sound/action must have an immediate point of association with its neighbouring sounds/actions.

The objects are organized along on a route going from the stage of the concert hall through the backstage areas, hallways and corridors, integrating and exploring the architecture and the non-public sites as much as possible. The compositions are played through by a performer with a stick in one hand and a microphone in the other, closely followed by a camera man. At the concert these videos will be time-manipulated in a two-part system controlled live with two joysticks. A performance with the performance.

Camera: Peter Tinning © Simon Steen-Andersen

Christian Winther Christensen: Trio (2009) The music consists of constant parallel major or minor chords, like organum from the 13th century – a kind of strange unison. The material is taken from the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony where the choir sings the Friedrich Schiller text, “An die Freude”.

The work is the little brother of Festmusik [mit japanischem Geist und deutschem akzent], even though it was actually written before. © Christian Winther Christensen

Nicolai Worsaae: Kuro ton’neru (2013) Kuro ton’neru means dark tunnel. The title clearly reveals a visual rather than musical stimulus as the basic idea for the piece. In many ways I see it as a cinematic screenplay where the music and musicians are the main characters. But the plot is not as clear as in a regular film. It is more the room (tunnel) and the unidirectional movement inside it that defines the story. In its modern form the tunnel is designed with lights, air conditioners and exits carefully placed at a well-defined distance between each other. This is the modern “urbanized” form of the tunnel made of concrete and steel. When you drive though it in a vehicle with a steady speed you experience the structures, rhythmic patterns and repetitions. Perhaps even mixed with a little bit of good old anxiousness that’s still attached to tunnels and often interpreted as a religious process from life to death to eternal life. However I’m more focused on translating the concrete visual experience of the tunnel into an audible equivalent by working with similar rhythmical patterns and structures through using multiple repetitions of smaller musical parts or cells.

The aim is not a translation at the scale of 1:1 but it serves as an overall structure and helps give an impression of a journey through a room that’s filled with regularities among several other musical happenings. © Nicolai Worsaae

Rune Glerup: Quartettsatz (2013) The composer would like the piece to be heard without a programme note.

Christian Winther Christensen: Sextet (2014) The Sextet is written over the work N’auray ie iamais mieulx by the British composer Robert Morton (c.1430 - 1479). © Christian Winther Christensen

Simon Steen-Andersen: Black Box Music (2012) Black Box Music is scored for percussion soloist, amplified box, 15 instruments and video. The starting point is the classical soloist-conductor, only in this case, the conducting and solo part are one and the same. The setting is a traditional theatre stage with curtains, props and light; only in this case, the stage is also an instrument. Black Box Music could be said to be a deconstruction of conducting and puppet theatre as well as an exploration and exploitation of the audio/visual relations inherent in conducting and staging. The piece is in three movements, starting with ‘Ouverture’ and ‘Slow Second Movement’ and then finishing off with a festive, pompous, self-imploding ‘Finale’.

Commissioned by Oslo Sinfonietta and Darmstädter Ferienkursen 2012. © Simon Steen-Andersen

Programme notes reprinted with the kind permission of Edition·S: www.edition-s.dk

Tonight’s performers Image © Trygve Schonfelder

Håkon Stene solo performer

Gerry Cornelius conductor Håkon Stene studied in Oslo, Freiburg and San Diego. From 2005-2008 he was selected for the launch programme ‘INTRO’ for young soloists

by Concerts Norway.

Solo and chamber performances include engagements with ensembles such as asamisimasa, Pantha du Prince & the Bell Laboratory, Rolf Lislevand Ensemble, Nils Økland Ensemble, Oslo Sinfonietta and Klangforum Wien.

He has performed at numerous festivals and venues including Acht Brücken Köln, Barbican, Wien Modern, Red Bull Music Academy New York, Venezia Biennale, Melbourne Music Week and Stockholm New Music.

Stene has toured throughout Europe, the US and Asia as well as recorded for several labels, radio and TV. He has collaborated with composers such as Laurence Crane, Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann, amongst many others.

He is currently involved in the Artistic Research Programme at the Norwegian Music Academy, developing new platforms for percussion performance.

Gerry Cornelius was born in London and studied music and conducting at Durham University, the Royal Academy of Music and the State Conservatory of St Petersburg where he was in the class of Ilya Musin.

Since making his debut in the UK at the Almeida Opera Festival, he has gone on to conduct for many of the country’s leading orchestras, ensembles, opera and ballet companies. These include recent appearances with Welsh National Opera, English National Ballet, BBC Concert Orchestra, Spitalfields Festival and The Opera Group.

He also regularly conducts in Europe, Asia and America and has recently worked with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Bochumer Symphoniker, RuhrTriennale Opera Festival, Klavierfestival Ruhr and New York City Ballet.

As well as mainstream opera, ballet and symphonic repertoire, he is particularly in demand to conduct major new works. He has recently worked with ensembles including musikFabrik in Cologne, House of Bedlam, the Royal Opera House, Bregenzer Festspiele and Festival d’Automne Paris.

Engagements in the 2013/14 season include the British premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s American Lulu with the Opera Group at the Edinburgh Festival, Bregenz Festival and at the Young Vic in London, the world premiere of Catherine Kontz’s chamber opera in Luxemburg and performances with English National Ballet.

Tonight’s performers Sound Intermedia sound projection *

London Sinfonietta Katherine Lacy clarinet / bass clarinet Simon Haram baritone saxophone * John Orford bassoon * Michael Thompson horn * Supported by Belinda Matthews

Sound Intermedia - alias Ian Dearden and David Sheppard - is dedicated to realising visionary new art works through live performance and cuttingedge technology.

Their trail-blazing initiatives and artistic collaborations continually push past the accepted boundaries of composition, sound design, live sound, music technology and interactive multimedia.

Alongside their role as Principal Players of the London Sinfonietta, they collaborate with many of the world’s most influential artists and organisations as internationally respected composers and performers.

Alistair Mackie trumpet * Byron Fulcher trombone * Jonathan Morton violin * Rachel Roberts viola Lionel Handy cello Markus van Horn double bass Helen Tunstall harp * John Constable piano * Supported by Michael Conroy

David Hockings percussion * Owen Gunnell percussion Oliver Lowe percussion Huw Davies electric guitar *London Sinfonietta Principal Player

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The group also works with talented emerging players, to ensure the unique expertise of its Principals is passed on to the next generation of performers. Having held a world-leading position in education and participation work for many years, the London Sinfonietta continues this with a belief that arts participation is transformational to individuals and communities, and new music is relevant to people’s lives. The ensemble has an extensive back catalogue of recordings made over 46 years, which have been released on numerous prestigious labels as well as its own London Sinfonietta Label. Most recently, a CD of music by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen has been released on Dacapo Records.

Events In autumn 2013, our events at Southbank Centre were important closing chapters in their year-long The Rest Is Noise festival, bringing the story of 20th-century music from postwar to the present day. This spring we have forged ahead into music of the 21st, focusing on commissions and premieres that have grown out of close relationships forged with partners in Denmark and Holland.

New music We have commissioned over 20 pieces of new music for the 2013/14 season. Nine form part of our Writing the Future scheme, which pairs emerging composers with Principal Players to develop new chamber compositions, and were premiered at The New Music Show in December 2013. A series of other commissions are being released as Sinfonietta Shorts downloads.

This year we also expand the Blue Touch Paper programme, in order to further experiment with interdisciplinary art. In May 2014 we’ll explore the results in our annual new work night at Village Underground.

Take part This season there are concerts for schools to inspire pupils and teachers with the music of today, and original public performances by teenagers from Kings Cross as part of the KX Collective. Just this afternoon 600 secondary school pupils explored Black Box Music with Simon Steen-Andersen, as part of a matinee concert illustrating different methods of composing through contemporary repertoire.

The London Sinfonietta Academy continues into its sixth year, giving the UK’s most talented young players the chance to learn side-byside with our Principal Players. This is now the foremost route into our new Emerging Artists Programme, giving professional musicians at the start of promising careers working opportunities alongside our Principals on stage.

Then there are open calls to the public (that’s you!) to take part across the season in person and online, culminating in a mass participation event at Southbank Centre in June 2014 called Assemble.

Denmark Calling

Two concerts celebrating Danish music in London The London Sinfonietta has championed the work of Danish composers across Europe in recent years. This March, we bring this brilliant music back to you at home, concluding with this evening’s concert featuring the music of Simon Steen-Andersen.

We began our series on Sunday 2 March with a performance of works by esteemed elder statesman of the Danish music scene, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.

Elegant and deeply moving, GudmundsenHolmgreen’s music redefines the concept of simplicity. It is curious, inventive, quirky, intense and ultimately beautiful. Across the course of the evening, he deconstructed Dowland’s haunting madrigal Flow My Tears, exploring and expanding its harmony and syllables.

Secondary Schools Concert: Musical Snapshots Black Box Music was performed at the London Sinfonietta’s Secondary Schools Concert this morning, alongside other works demonstrating different compositional techniques such as Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint.

The concert also showcased a new commission from the KX Collective, a group of young people from the King’s Cross area who have a passion for exploring, creating and performing new music.

The concert united the forces of the London Sinfonietta with Theatre of Voices, led by Paul Hillier and also marked the launch of a CD recording of the evening’s music: Mixed Company released on Dacapo Records.

The Danish theme continues on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 March in a collaboration between SNYK / Danish Composers’ Society and Sound and Music. Two exciting days at Cafe OTO feature contemporary, experimental music and sound art from British and Danish composers.

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Mixed Company available now on Dacapo Records

With thanks to the Danish Arts Council Committee for Performing Arts, the Danish Composers’ Society’s Production Pool / KODA’s Fund for Social and Cultural Purposes and Edition Wilhelm Hansen for their support of the Denmark Calling series.

On record Sinfonietta Shorts

CD releases

Sinfonietta Shorts are pieces by today’s leading composers, commissioned, recorded and released by the London Sinfonietta.

The London Sinfonietta’s recordings continue to offer world-class performances of new music on disc and digital download, delivered in partnership with different labels. Recent and upcoming releases are:

The series started in 2008 to celebrate the ensemble’s 40th birthday, and the works created for it have enduring relevance as bite-sized introductions to the best new music of our time.

Philip Cashian Piano Concerto (contributor) NMC Recordings (out now)

Five years on, the series is back with five more.

They have been released as downloads on NMC Recordings and were performed live by London Sinfonietta Principal Players as part of The New Music Show on Sunday 8 December 2013 at Southbank Centre.

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Mixed Company with Theatre of Voices Dacapo (out now)

The works are:

George Benjamin Into the Little Hill Nimbus (summer 2014)

Harrison Birtwistle Duet 3

Dai Fujikura Double Bass Concerto (spring 2014)

supported by Nick & Claire Prettejohn

Larry Goves Debut Disc NMC Recordings (summer 2014)

supported by Robert Clark and Susan Costello

Ben Foskett Debut Disc (contributor) NMC Recordings (summer 2014)

Mark Bowden Parable Dai Fujikura es

Jonathan Harvey Little Duo

supported by Sir John and Lady Tusa

Anna Meredith Axeman

Download now from NMC Recordings nmcrec.co.uk/sinfonietta-shorts

Nicolo Castiglioni Previously unissued recordings Signum (autumn 2014)

UK touring This season our UK touring takes us to Canterbury and Spitalfields as we continue to champion new music across the country.

Sounds New Festival, Canterbury Monday 5 May 2014 We explore politics in music in a programme featuring the music of Louis Andriessen, Johannes Kreidler and Frederic Rzewski. We will also be working with Canterbury Christ Church University students in a series of rehearsals and workshops as part of a residency at St Gregory’s Music Centre.

Rich Mix, Spitalfields Summer Festival Sunday 15 June 2014 Sound and image interplay in the world premiere of the London Sinfonietta commission Passing Light, a collaboration from Bryn Harrison and Tim Head. Music and visuals evolve in subtle transformations of textures, colours and harmonies, while the audience is free to move around, suspending their sense of space and time.

More news on special summer touring projects will be announced in April.

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Louis Andriessen | Image Š Francesca Patella

Van der Aa: Here A black plexiglass cabin, spotlit on an empty stage; a single female figure; a tape recorder shuffling the soundtrack; and just eleven repeated chords.

Michel van der Aa’s complete Here Trilogy is given its UK premiere.

A theatre of the imagination Wednesday 30 April 2014 6.15pm Composer Conversation 7.30pm Main Event Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

Romitelli: An Index of Metals

Sir Harrison Birtwistle at 80

A magma of sounds, shapes and colours

Celebrating a lifelong creative partnership

Wednesday 8 October 2014 8pm Main Event Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

Friday 5 December 2014 7.30pm Main Event Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre

Take Part Assemble: Music with People New music made with you. On Saturday 7 June 2014, the London Sinfonietta collaborates with the public as performers and creators at Southbank Centre.

An open call in March will invite participants to perform alongside the ensemble in classic and new works for public involvement. Submissions of video, sound and music will also be needed as raw material for new works in the event.

The project will involve London Sinfonietta Principal Players, London Sinfonietta Emerging Artists, London Sinfonietta Academy alumni, the KX Collective, young musicians from local schools and members of the wider public.

Programme to include: KX Collective New set Louis Andriessen Workers Union Emily Hall New work Frederic Rzewski Les Moutons de Panurge Visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/events for more information.

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London Sinfonietta Honorary Patrons John Bird Sir Harrison Birtwistle Alfred Brendel KBE Sir George Christie CH

Lead Pioneers Sir Richard Arnold Trevor Cook Susan Grollet in memory of Mark Grollet Leo and Regina Hepner Penny Jonas Anthony Mackintosh Belinda Matthews Robert & Nicola McFarland Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner Andrew Mitchell Sir Stephen Oliver QC Nick & Claire Prettejohn Richard Thomas & Caroline Cowie Paul & Sybella Zisman

Creative Pioneers Ian Baker Andrew Burke Robert Clark Jeremy & Yvonne Clarke Rachel Coldicutt Susan Costello Anton Cox Dennis Davis Patrick Hall Nicolas Hodgson Andrew Hunt Frank & Linda Jeffs Alana Lowe-Petraske Stephen Morris Julie Nicholls Simon Osborne Patricia O’Sullivan Ruth Rattenbury Lord Stevenson of Coddenham

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London Sinfonietta Council Paul Zisman Chairman Andrew Burke Rachel Coldicutt Ian Dearden David Hockings Penny Jonas Alana Lowe-Petraske Belinda Matthews Philip Meaden Sir Stephen Oliver QC Matthew Pike Paul Silverthorne Sally Taylor Elizabeth Davies Company Secretary

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