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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 24 May 2012
The London Sinfonietta's long association with British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle continues with an event which uncovers his musical language with help from the composer himself and live excerpts from London Sinfonietta.
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Purcell Room
Regular Music II with Kaffe Matthews: Endings
Saturday 26 May 2012
Regular Music II were early instigators of the UK post-systems movement whose work straddles the spheres of rock, minimalism and post-punk
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 31 May 2012
One of 20th century's greatest musical innovators, Gérard Grisey created his own visionary universe by exploring thoroughly the nature of musical time, perception and sound.
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Purcell Room
Saturday 9 June 2012
What are the inspirations for music and contemporary art and is it possible to combine the two? Martin Creed, Turner prize-winner for Work No.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 12 June 2012
Tristan Murail's masterpiece Les Courants de l'espace is a rich, orchestral palette of ever-changing sound images, shimmering between moments of haunting simplicity and passages of swirling density.
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Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra: Music of Today
Thursday 28 June 2012
The culminating concert of the Philharmonia Orchestra's Young Composers Academy, supported by the Royal Philharmonic Society, sees new works from young composers being performed under the baton of British composer-conductor David Robert Coleman.
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Purcell Room
Sergei Podobedov/Erato Piano Trio play David Braid
Monday 2 July 2012
The Erato Piano Trio make their Purcell Room debut in a concert shared with pianist Sergei Podobedov and clarinettist Peter Cigleris, launching the new CD of David Braid's chamber and instrumental music, released by Toccata Classics
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Purcell Room
Friday 13 July 2012
We live in times of musical plurality, with fast-changing questions of what students know, what audiences want and how best artists articulate their ideas.
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Purcell Room
Friday 13 July 2012
Our Day is a new opera set against a backdrop of events in Northern Ireland in 1972.
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St. Paul’s Pavilion
Friday 13 July 2012
An international line-up of music promoters, programmers, producers, curators, funders, artists and composers join together for a day of talks and discussions to consider models for commissioning, including finance, risk, rights, joint ventures, and commissioning as a creative process.
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Purcell Room
A Painter of Figures in Rooms with EXAUDI
Saturday 14 July 2012
Aaron Cassidy's new work extends his research into performative physicality, choreography and tablature notation, exploring extended vocal techniques developed through a separation of the physiological components of singing.
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The Front Room at QEH
Saturday 14 July 2012 - Sunday 15 July 2012
Got a piece of music that you have written or are trying to, that you'd like to have looked over by a composer-doctor?
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Saturday 14 July 2012
Ping! is a collaboration between the Coull String Quartet, composer Joe Cutler, artist Tom Dale, Fusion Table Tennis Club, English Table Tennis Association, Ping London, Warwick Arts Centre and Birmingham Conservatoire.
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Level 5 Function Room
Composing Workshop 2: Composing for voice
Saturday 14 July 2012
The second of four lively workshops aimed at aspiring and emerging composers and musicians, exploring in more depth some of the themes of the New Music 20x12 commissions.
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Purcell Room
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Beyond This
Sunday 15 July 2012
One of Britain's most successful composers, Mark-Anthony Turnage has achieved international stature and is commissioned and performed throughout the world.
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Purcell Room
Sunday 15 July 2012
Zátopek! is a 12-minute opera with music by Emily Howard and libretto by Selma Dimitrijevic inspired by the life and times of legendary Czech long distance runner Emil Zátopek.
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The Front Room at QEH
Richard Causton: Twenty-Seven Heavens
Sunday 15 July 2012
Twenty-Seven Heavens is a concerto for orchestra scored for around 120 players and conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
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Level 5 Function Room
Composing Workshop 3: Composing and text
Sunday 15 July 2012
The third of four lively workshops aimed at aspiring and emerging composers and musicians, exploring in more depth some of the themes of the New Music 20x12 commissions.
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Hayward Lecture Theatre
Sunday 15 July 2012
Technophonia is written for a new kind of ensemble.
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Level 5 Function Room
Composing Workshop 4: Composing for dance
Sunday 15 July 2012
The last of four lively workshops aimed at aspiring and emerging composers and musicians, exploring in more depth some of the themes of the New Music 20x12 commissions.
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