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Booking Information LS ONLINE Sign up to our e-Zine for exclusive updates and offers Queen Elizabeth Hall, londonsinfonietta.org.uk Royal Festival Hall Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX

0844 847 9940 (10am–8pm daily) southbankcentre.co.uk (Transaction fee applies to both phone and web) & and The Shapes in rehearsal Adventures in Sound: April 2011 Also at Southbank Centre this season: londonsinfonietta.org.uk/adventures London Sinfonietta’s Pavilions image © Barbara Rigon Sunday 29 May 2011, 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall

Celebrating works from British composers including and Martin Suckling, the concert also features installations from the LS Collective.

Tickets on sale from March 2011. ’s Anaïs Nin

See londonsinfonietta.org.uk for more details. image © Kevin Leighton Kevin © image twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta image © Kevin Leighton facebook.com/londonsinfonietta London Sinfonietta is grateful to Arts Council England, PRS for Music Foundation, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and The Holst Foundation for their generous support of the ensemble’s 2010/11 season.

All information correct at time of going to print. Xenakis – Architect of Sound Chopped and Screwed Louis Andriessen: Anaïs Nin/De Staat Saturday 2 April 2011, 7.30pm Micachu and The Shapes Thursday 14 April 2011, 7.30pm Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and London Sinfonietta Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall # Eonta; Kottos; Phlegra; Tuesday 5 April 2011, 7.30pm Louis Andriessen Anaïs Nin (UK premiere); De Staat* La Légende d’Eer Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall conductor* # André de Ridder conductor Micachu and The Shapes with the Cristina Zavalloni soprano Rolf Hind piano London Sinfonietta Chopped and Screwed, Synergy Vocals chorus* Tim Gill cello plus new collaborations and experimental music. Sound Intermedia sound projection Louis Andriessen’s music combines unusual Micachu and The Shapes and the London Sinfonietta orchestral instrumentations and amplification with Explore the music of Xenakis whose pioneering work present Chopped and Screwed, a slice of 21st- influences from jazz to minimalism. This event pairs integrated the worlds of sound and architecture. century experimentalism blending organic, digital and the large-scale De Staat with Anaïs Nin, his multimedia From the computer-calculated piano solo in Eonta analogue sounds and techniques. musical experience profiling the irony, despair and to the chaotic blend of organic and electronic sounds passion of the famous writer and diarist. in La Légende d’Eer, this is the opportunity to explore Presented by Southbank Centre in association with his varied musical styles. the London Sinfonietta as part of Ether. Tickets £22, £15, £9 (Students £4.50, Under 26 £6.50) Tickets £22, £15, £9 Tickets £17.50, £15, £10 Phone 0844 847 9940 Phone 0844 847 9940 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk Online southbankcentre.co.uk Online southbankcentre.co.uk Take Note of a pre-concert talk at 6.15pm. Presented by Southbank Centre in association with LS ONLINE the London Sinfonietta as part of Ether. Watch Micachu and The Shapes and the London Anaïs Nin is a London Sinfonietta co-commission Sinfonietta produce and perform Chopped and Screwed with Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Supported by at londonsinfonietta.org.uk/listen-watch the London Sinfonietta Commissioning Circle. Presented by the London Sinfonietta as part of Southbank Centre’s Ether.

LS ONLINE Listen to Louis Andriessen in conversation at londonsinfonietta.org.uk/listen-watch londonsinfonietta.org.uk