Christian Mason

Full Works List 2003 – Present

Date Piece Premiere Premiere Performer(s) / Subsequent Performances Date/Place Artist(s)

ORCHESTRA In Preparation From Space the Earth is Blue… TBC Nathalie Forget, Ensemble Concerto for ondes martenot, soloist ensemble (8 l’Itinéraire, Orchestre players), chamber orchestra, female voice choice d’Auvergne and choir

In Preparation New Commission 2021 - Lucerne Festival Academy c.20 mins. Donaueschingen Alumni Orchestra Symphony Orchestra, ondes martenot (tbc) Festival, Donaueschingen, Germany

2020 However long a time may pass…All things must 2020, June 4th, Konzerthausorchester Berlin 2020, June 5th – 6th, Berlin Konzerthaus, Germany yet meet again… Berlin Konzerthaus, (cond: Christoph Eschenbach) 21 mins. Berlin, Germany 2020, June 7th, Dortmund Konzerthaus, Germany Symphony Orchestra 2020, June 8th, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Germany

2020, June 20th, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Germany (tbc)

2019 Eternity in an hour 2019, April 27th, Wiener Philharmoniker (cond: 2019, April 28th, Musikverein, Golden Hall, Vienna, 15 mins. Musikverein, Golden Christian Thielemann) Austria Symphony Orchestra Hall, Vienna, Austria 2019, May 2nd, Berlin Dom, Berlin, Germany

2019 Eternal Return 2019, January 26th - hr-sinfonieorchester (cond: 7 mins. Breitkopf Festival Michal Nesterowicz) Symphony Orchestra Jubilee concert, Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

2018 Man Made 2018, May 24th, Royal Philharmonia, Anu Komsi 18 mins. Festival Hall (Music of (soprano) (cond: Gergely Soprano and Ensemble Today series), Madaras)

London, UK

2017 Aimless Wonder 2017, June 22nd, Münchener Kammerorchester, 21 mins. Münich John Storgårds String Orchestra and 2 horns Prinzregententheater, Münich, Germany

2015 Sympathetic Resonance 2015, June 19th, Orchestre National de France 10 mins. Recording (commissioned by Radio-France Symphony Orchestra ‘Alla Breve’) 2015, September 7th – 13th, Broadcast

2012-2013 Isolarion – Rituals of Resonance (for Orchestra) 2013, September 7th, Lucerne Festival Academy 2017, February 10th, Auditorium Rai, Turin, Italy, Rai 20 mins. Lucerne Festival, Orchestra (cond: Gergely Orchestra (cond: Gergely Madaras) Symphony Orchestra Lucerne Hall, KKL Madaras) Broadcast on SRF Lucerne, Switzerland

2007/8 Clear Night 2007, June 8th, LSO London Symphony Orchestra 2008, September 30th, Barbican Centre, London, UK, 7 mins. St. Luke’s, (cond: Francois-Xavier Roth) London Symphony Orchestra (cond: Pavel Kotla) Symphony Orchestra London, UK 2015, May 31st, Münich, Germany, Bamberger Symphoniker (cond: Christoph Eschenbach)

2006 …from bursting suns escaping… 2006, October 17th, London Symphony Orchestra 2007, February 23rd, Broadcasting House, 3 mins. LSO St. Luke's, (cond: Francois-Xavier Roth) Manchester, UK, BBC Philharmonic (cond: James Symphony Orchestra London, UK MacMillan)

2013, March, publication of the CD - LSO Live label

2005 Aspects of Radiance 2005, May 20th, Sir Opera North Orchestra (cond: 2005, July 8th, Opera North Orchestra (6 young 10 mins. Jack Lyons Concert Elgar Howarth) conductors), Leeds Conductors Competition, Town Symphony Orchestra Hall, York, UK Hall, Leeds, UK

OPERA In Preparation Disembodiment Spring/Summer 2021, 3 voices, 3 actors, repetiteur, and electronics Royal Opera House, in collaboration with Patrick Eakin Young and Deborah London Pearson (workshop in December 2019)

2017 Remnants 2017, April 27th, Old Erratica 2018, November 9th and 10th, Schaubeuhne 60 mins. Fire Station, Oxford, Lindenfels (Euro-Scene Leipzig), Leipzig, Germany Four live voices, recorded choir, electronic music UK (Concert version) - Collaboration with Shelley Parker, Alex Groves, 2017, June 13th – July 1st, The Print Room, London, Patrick Eakin Young 2017, June 12th, The UK Print Room, London, UK (Premiere)

2014 Triptych: Reunion 2014, May 17th – Opera Erratica 2014, June 9th - 10th, Wilton’s Music Hall, London, as 20 mins. June 7th, The Print part of the Spitalfields Summer Festival, UK 5 voices and electronic accompaniment Room, London, UK

CHORAL 2013 Unseen Seasons 2014, February 8th, Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus 17 mins Concert Hall (cond: Kazuki Yamada) Choir (a cappella) Shizuoka, Japan

MIXED ENSEMBLE In Preparation Slowed-down bird Autumn 2019 Ensemble l’Itinéraire 12 mins. Clarinet, viola, tuba

In Preparation Hyla(s) Autumn 2019 Ensemble l’Itinéraire 12 mins. mixed ensemble (8 players): bass flute, cor anglais, clarinet, trombone, tuba, viola, cello, contrabass

2021 The Singing Tree 2021, January – Birmingham Contemporary 45 mins. Town Hall, Music Group with Neue Vocal trio and mixed instrumental ensemble Birmingham, UK Vokalsolisten Stuttgart

2019 I wandered for a while… 2019, August 12th – The Octandre Ensemble 7 mins. Internationales Chamber ensemble (flute, cello, electronics, bells, Künstlerhaus Villa piano) Concordia, Bamberg

2019 Zwischen den Sternen 2019, January 18th, Ensemble Recherche 2019, January 25th, Ensemblehaus Freiburg, 25 mins. Festival Ultraschall Freiburg, Ensemble Recherche Mixed ensemble, 8 players: violin, viola, double bass, Berlin, Germany flute, oboe, clarinet, percussion and piano(s) 2020, February 20th, SWR Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Ensemble Recherche

2016 In the Midst of the Sonorous Islands (‘CONNECT’ 2016, October 22nd, London Sinfonietta/ 2016, October 30th, Frankfurt, Germany, Ensemble project) St John's Smith CONNECT Project Modern 30 mins. Square, London, UK Large Ensemble with audience participation 2016, November 5th, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Asko Schoenburg

2016, December 6th, Portugal, Remix Ensemble

2016 Lahara 2016, November 22nd Korean Music Project (6 15 mins. - 24th, Asian Arts percussionists) Percussion Sextet Theatre, Gwangju, South Korea

2015 Open to Infinity: a Grain of Sand 2015, August 23rd, Ensemble Intercontemporain 2015, August 29th, Cadogan Hall as part of the BBC 9 mins. Lucerne Festival, (cond: Matthias Pintscher) Proms, London, UK, London Sinfonietta (cond: Mixed Ensemble, 15 players: flute, oboe, clarinet, Lucerne, Switzerland Thierry Fischer) bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, harp, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass

2015 Layers of Love 2015, June 16th - 17th, KlangForum Wien (cond: Clark 2015, July 10th, Tokyo Sinfonietta, Tokyo, Japan 12 mins. Recording Rundell), recording only Mixed Ensemble, 13 players: alto flute, cor anglais, 2018, January 28th, UMZE Ensemble, Budapest Music bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, flugelhorn, trombone, Centre, Budapest, Hungary (cond: Madaras Gergely) tuba, 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass 2018, May 24th, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK Philharmonia ‘Today of Music Series’

2019, March 3rd, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, Ensemble Modern (cond: George Benjamin)

2019, March 5th, Wigmore Hall, London, UK, Ensemble Modern (cond: George Benjamin)

2019, March 11th, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Ensemble Modern (cond: George Benjamin)

2014 In Late Late Night (I Thank Cage) 2014, October 18th, Octandre Ensemble 3 mins. Westminster School Soprano, mezzo soprano, 2 alto flutes, viola, cello, Music Centre,

harp London, UK

2014 Remember the Golden Age? 2014, August 15th, Darmstadt Percussion 12 harmonicas and 1 percussion Darmstadt Workshop, coached by Christian International Summer Dierstein Course for New Music, Germany

2013 The Years of Light 2013, August 8th, TCM Fellows Broadcast on Q2 Music 15 mins. Tanglewood, USA Soprano, mezzo soprano, and mixed ensemble

2009 Noctilucence 2009, December 13th, Britten Sinfonia 2009, December 15th, West Road, Cambridge, UK 12 mins. Filharmonic Hall, Mixed Ensemble, 8 players: flute, clarinet, Krakow, Poland 2009, December 16th, Wigmore Hall, London, UK glockenspiel, piano, string quartet 2009, December 17th, Town Hall, Birmingham, UK

2009, December 18th, Assembly House, Norwich, UK

2012, December 8th, St Lawrence Jewry, London, UK, The Octandre Ensemble

2013, August 3rd, Festival Messiaen, France, London Sinfonietta Broadcast on France Musique

2014, April 27th, Auditorium RSI, Lugano, Switzerland, Ensemble 900, conductor: Arturo Tamayo

2017, October 27th, Logan Center, Chicago, USA, Talea Ensemble

2008 In Time Entwined, In Space Enlaced 2008, December 2nd, London Sinfonietta 2017, June 24th, Waterloo Festival at St John’s, Smith 10 mins. Queen Elizabeth Hall, Baldur Bronnimann Square, London, UK Mixed Ensemble (9 players): flute, cor anglais, London, UK clarinet, 3 percussion, violin, viola, cello (and 36 harmonicas)

2007 Seeking Sweet Springs 2007, September 5th, Ensemble Cairn

7 mins. Royaumont, France Guillaume Bourgogne Mixed Ensemble (9 Players): flute, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello

2005 Under Heaven: sometimes... 2006, June 7th June, Okeanos Plus 2006, June 8th, York Late Music Festival, St 10 mins. Wilton’s Music Hall, Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York, UK Japanese and Western Instruments (8 Players): sho, London, UK shakuhachi, clarinet, oboe, viola, harp, 2 kotos 2016, June 13th, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK 2005 Improvisations In Memoriam Giacinto Scelsi 2005, December 8th, Chimera Ensemble 20 mins. York, UK Mixed Ensemble (12 players) using harmonicas, bells, voices and theremin

2004 Episodes in the Life of a Line 2004, December, Chimera Ensemble 11 mins. York, UK Large Mixed Ensemble (15 players)

CHAMBER MUSIC VOCAL 2014 Somewhere between us… 2014, December 1st VOCALLAB and Tom Beets 2016, September, Gaudeamus Muziekweek Vocal quartet (SATB) and bass recorder, all amplified December – LOD, Ghent ***, Ghent, Belgium

2009 - 11 On Love and Death – 5 Rossetti Songs (Soprano 2012, October 20th, Emily Hindrichs (soprano) and 2014, January 8th, Purcell Room (Park Lane Series), Version) Aldeburgh Church, Joseph Middleton (piano) London, UK, Joanna Marie (soprano) and Melanie 25 mins. Aldeburgh, UK Jones (piano) Soprano and piano

SOLO 2019 Inner Landscapes 2019, April 11th – Orléans Concours International: 15 mins. 14th, Orléans ‘Brin d’herbe’ Junior Piano A collection of pedagogical pieces for solo piano Concours Competition International Brin d’Herbe Junior Piano Competition, Orléans, France

2018 The Singing Sea 2018, December 2nd, Jack Adler-McKean 8 mins. Laboratory Nineteen, Solo tuba Berlin, Germany

2018 Remembered Radiance 2018, April 22nd - Joe Houston (piano), Christian 2019, August 12th – The Octandre Ensemble, 17 mins. Occupy the Pianos, St Mason (percussion) Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Piano and Percussion John’s Smith Square, Bamberg London, UK

2017 Bird learning to fly 2017, October 26th - Corentin Chassard 2017, October 27th - 7 mins. Coronet International Coronet International Festival, Notting Hill, London, Solo scordatura Cello Festival, Notting Hill, UK London, UK 2019, August 12th – The Octandre Ensemble: Corentin Chassard (cello), Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg

2016 In a world of invisible waves: a butterfly 2016, June 26th, Momo Kodama 2016, July 10th, Kawanishi Hall, Japan, Momo Solo piano Passau Music week, Kodama (piano) Germany

2014 Remembered Resonance 2014, March 9th, The Joseph Houston 2014, July 18th, Ryedale Festival, Yorkshire, UK 8 mins. Forge, London, UK Solo piano with auxiliary instruments 2018, January 10th, St John’s Smith Square, London, UK, Joseph Houston (piano)

2018, October 19th, Nuovi Spazi Musicali Festival, Ascoli Piceno, Italy, Joseph Houston (piano)

To be recorded by Ricardo Descalzo (date TBC)

2011 Incandescence 2011, June 21st, Jean-Guihen Queyras 2013, May 16th, Philharmonie (Salle de musique de 10 mins. Aldeburgh Festival, chambre) Luxembourg Solo cello UK 2019, August 12th – The Octandre Ensemble: Corentin Chassard (cello), Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia (revision), Bamberg

2008 Efflorescence 2008, May 8th, LSO Midori 2011, September 27th, Chichester Cathedral, 9 mins. St. Luke’s, London, Chichester, UK, Mieko Kanno Solo violin UK

2007 When Joy Became Mixed With Grief 2007, February 27th, Mieko Kanno 2011, December 13th, Leighton House, Kensington, 8 mins. Sir Jack Lyons London, UK, The Octandre Ensemble: Aisha Solo violin Concert Hall, York, Orazbayeva (violin) UK

2006 …just as the sun is always… 2009 - Swedish Hall, Johan Hugosson 2011, December 13th, Leighton House, Kensington, 8 mins. London, UK London, UK, The Octandre Ensemble: Joseph Solo piano Houston (piano)

2017, August 27th – 29th, Busoni Competition, Bolzano, Italy (final stage) – 3 performances

2019, August 12th – The Octandre Ensemble: Joseph Houston (piano), Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg

2006 Sorrowfully Very Beautiful 2006 - Dartington, UK Helen Bledsoe 3 mins. Alto flute

DUO In Preparation Piece for Violin and Piano Spring/Summer 2020 Dima Tkachenko (violin) Rika 10 mins. – University of York Zayasu (piano) Violin and piano Concert Series

2016 Isolarion III 2016, May 12th, St Françoise-Green Duo Piano duo John’s Smith Square, London, UK

2011 Learning Self-Modulation 2011, October 14th - Carolin Widmann (violins) European Tour: 23 mins. Le Louvre, Paris, Simon Lepper (piano) 2011, October 17th, Centro Nacional de Difusion Violin and piano France Musical (CNDM), Madrid, Spain

2011, October 22nd, Wigmore Hall, London, UK

2012, February 17th, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam / Musée d'Art et d'Histoire MAHF, Fribourg, Switzerland

2012, March 3rd, Fribourg, Eclats, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland

2016, June 29th, Diaghilev Festival, PERM, Russia

2011 On Love and Death – 5 Rossetti Songs 2012, February 5th - Rika Zayasu (piano) (Saxophone Version) The Forge, Camden Nick Roth (sax) 25 mins. Town, UK Saxophone and piano

2010 Heavens Chimes Are Slow 2011, December 13th The Octandre Ensemble: 2013, April 6th, Wigmore Hall “George Benjamin 7 mins. - Leighton House Audrey Milheres (flute) and Day”, London, UK, Adam Walker (flute) and Marino Flute and piano Museum, London, UK Joseph Houston (piano) Formenti (piano)

2019, August 12th – The Octandre Ensemble: Audrey Milheures (flute) and Joseph Houston (piano), Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg

2009 The Lamp Light in the Willow Trees 2009, December 5th - CsEaLLOx duo 2010, March 16th, De Duif, Amsterdam, The 9 mins. International Netherlands Cello and saxophone duo Saxophone Festival, Fermo, Italy

TRIO In Preparation Trio Accanto Klangspuren Festival? Trio Accanto

2012 TRIO: In Space Enlaced 2012, September 9th - members of the Arirang Wind 2013, July 6th, LSO St. Luke’s, London, UK 7 mins. Pharos Contemporary Quintet Flute, oboe, clarinet Music Festival, Cyprus 2016, March 9th, Freiburg, Germany, Ensemble Recherche

2017, June 4th, Forum Wallis, Leuk, Switzerland, Ensemble Recherche

2008 TRIO: In Time Entwined 2008, September 9th - Next Mushroom Promotion 7 mins. Echizen-shi Bunka Bass flute, cor anglais, viola Center, Takefu, Japan

QUARTET In Preparation Xhosa Songbook TBC late 2020/early Ligeti Quartet 15 mins. 2021 String Quartet

2020 The present moment used to be the 2020, January 14th – Arditti Quartet 2020, March 23rd – Cologne Philharmonie, Cologne, unimaginable future Philharmonie de Paris Germany 15 mins. - Biennale des String Quartet Quatuors à cordes

2018 Sardinian Songbook 2018, April 24th – Ligeti Quartet 2018, November 24th - St Paul’s Hall, University of 20 mins. Firth Hall, University Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, Ligeti Quartet String Quartet of Sheffield, UK

2018, May 13th – Uferlos Festival, Freising, Germany, Ligeti Quartet

2018, June 5th – Goldsmiths College, London, UK, Ligeti Quartet

2018, July 11th – Cheltenham Festival, Cheltenham, UK, Ligeti Quartet

2016 Tuvan Songbook 2016, May 10th – St. Ligeti Quartet 2018, November 24th, St Paul’s Hall, University of String Quartet John’s Smith Square, Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, Ligeti Quartet London, UK 2017, February 17th, Kings Place, London, UK, Ligeti Quartet

2017, February 27th, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK, Ligeti Quartet

2016, December 18th, University of Sheffield, UK, Ligeti Quartet

2016, December 15th, Newington Green Unitarian Church, London, UK, Ligeti Quartet

2016, December 14th, Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye, UK, Ligeti Quartet

2016, May 17th, University of Sheffield, UK, Ligeti Quartet

2012 Sai Ma (Racing Horses) 2012, July 21st - Ligeti Quartet 2012, July 27th, Hangzhou, China 5 mins. Dongguan Cultural String Quartet Weekend Theatre, 2012, July 29th, Hell Hot Music Festival, Convocation China Room, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2012, December 19th, Park Lane Series, St James Piccadilly, London, UK

2013, May 17th, MOOT @ St. Nicholas Church, Brighton, UK

2013, July 7th, Late Music Concert Series, York, UK

2008 Equinoxes of the Infinite 2008, July 14th - The Atelier Acanthes 2013, October 12th, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 8 mins. Arsenal, Metz, France (cond: Sylvio Gualda) Makrokosmos Ensemble 2 pianos, 2 percussion

2005 In the Fields of Reflection 2005, May – York, UK Elysian Quartet 7 mins. String Quartet

2003 The End is Near the Beginning 2003, December, Chimera Ensemble 15 mins. York, UK Clarinet, violin, cello, piano

QUINTET 2012 Isolarion II 2012, April 16th, LSO Brass Ensemble 2012, April 19th, Hamarikyu Asahi Hall, Tokyo 7 mins. Hiroshima, Japan Brass Quintet 2012, April 20th, Musashino Shimin Bunka Kaikan (Musashino Civic Cultural Hall), Tokyo

OCTET 2009/10 Looking for the Land that is Nowhere 2010, June 29th, Lydia Kavina, members of the 14 mins. Royal Festival Hall, Philharmonia Orchestra Solo theremin and scordatura string octet London, UK

MUSIC FOR THEATRE 2015 As Good A Time As Any 2015, April/May, Print Peter Gill (author and director) Incidental music for theatre Room, London, UK

2012 Making Noise Quietly 2012, April 19th – May Robert Holman (author) and Incidental music for theatre 26th, Donmar Peter Gill (director) (Flute, trumpet, cello and electronics) Warehouse, London, UK

2011 The Breath of Life 2011, January 17th – David Hare (author) and Peter Incidental music for theatre February 26th, Gill (director) (Flute and electronics) Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield, UK

2009 Another Door Closed 2009, August 1st - Peter Gill (author and director) Incidental music for theatre 29th, Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath, UK

2006 Songs for the Last Slam Door Train 2006 - East Barbara Keal and Friends 40 mins. Grinstead, London, Performance artist and 20 amateur voices UK

MUSIC FOR DANCE 2010 BLOB 2010, June 12th - Emilie Gallier and Clemence 20 mins. 13th, La Festival Coconnier (choreographers) Electronic music for contemporary dance Echappée Belle, Blanquefort, France

2009 As if it were my first and last... 2008, March Christina Towle and Laurence 15 mins. Royaumont, France Pages (choreographers) Breath sound of three dancers

MULTIMEDIA 2019 A kingfisher dives into the sun… 2019, August 12th – The Octandre Ensemble 24 mins. Internationales Electronic soundscape with video (James Stephen Künstlerhaus Villa Wright) Concordia, Bamberg