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making new music new making londonsinfonietta.org.uk “If I were in the British Government I would declare Music Programme 2011/12 the London Sinfonietta a National Treasure. … Long may they continue to make music!” Exquisite Labyrinth: Steve Reich the music of Pierre Boulez Saturday 1 October 2011, Queen Elizabeth Hall Pavilions: New Music Show 2 making new music Saturday 5 November 2011, Queen Elizabeth Hall Written/Unwritten Friday 18 November 2011, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Welcome to the London A creative partnership with the public is a @wolfPupJon central part of our mission as we make new Wolfgang Rihm at 60 Sinfonietta’s 2011/12 music together with people of different ages “Wow! @Ldn_Sinfonietta Music Programme. and abilities. Our growing London Sinfonietta Lachenmann Schreiben Tuesday 24 January 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall Collective (page 14) is a group of people interested in creating new work with us, and just phenomenal. Quite, I hope you are excited and inspired by the In Portrait: Olga Neuwirth I encourage you to take the step and join in. mix of events we are producing this year – quite astounding.” Saturday 11 February 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall from explorations of the music of established We are hugely grateful to Arts Council England masters to compelling new voices and for their trust in us. The recent confirmation Perfect Constructions: experimental collaborations. Live music is still of their continued support means we can one of the most powerful experiences. Add to the music of Conlon Nancarrow plan our Music Programme through to 2015. that the anticipation of the new and unusual, We are also grateful to trusts, sponsors, Saturday 21 April 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall and I hope you will choose to come to several promoters and individuals without whose of our events this year. help and partnership we would not survive. In Portrait: George Benjamin You can help us make new music happen by For 43 years we have been commissioning Saturday 12 May 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall becoming one of our Pioneers (page 18). and performing new music, and this season is no exception. The range of new work from I look forward to meeting you at our concerts In Portrait: Harrison Birtwistle Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Dai Fujikura, Bryn at Southbank Centre where our ongoing Harrison and Martin Creed is a reflection of Thursday 24 May 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall residency provides a fantastic home for the diverse styles in new music today and the the ensemble. wider world of contemporary culture that An evening with Martin Creed we are now part of. We are also making new Andrew Burke Saturday 9 June 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall music with composers through our Writing the Chief Executive Future and Blue Touch Paper schemes (page 12) and work from them will be presented online and in live performance throughout the season. Our London Sinfonietta Academy enters its fourth year providing a summer course and main-stage work for the best making new music digital emerging UK players throughout the season. londonsinfonietta.org.uk twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta facebook.com/londonsinfonietta londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com 1 making new music on stage Exquisite Labyrinth: Presented in association with Southbank Centre as part of Exquisite Labyrinth: the the music of Pierre Boulez music of Pierre Boulez. An avant-garde figurehead since the 1940s, musical giant on Saturday 1 October 2011, 7.30pm the world stage and author of some of the key Queen Elizabeth Hall progressive works of musical modernism, the weekend’s other events celebrating the beauty Pierre Boulez Anthèmes 2 of Boulez’s music include: Pierre Boulez …explosante-fixe… Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble Péter Eötvös conductor Friday 30 September Clio Gould violin Michael Cox flute Exploring the labyrinth: Sound Intermedia sound projection an international study day Jérémie Henrot IRCAM sound engineer Saturday 1 October Carlo Laurenzi IRCAM computer production Pierre-Laurent Aimard & A solo violinist stands on a stage and plays. Tamara Stefanovich piano As she plays, the music is transformed into Sunday 2 October cascades of sound which spin around the space, enveloping the audience using live electronics Boulez & Ensemble intercontemporain and a spatial speaker system. Anthèmes 2 is Sunday 2 October a product of IRCAM, Pierre Boulez’s Paris- based underground centre for the research and For more information: development of music technology. …explosante- southbankcentre.co.uk/boulez fixe…, also created at IRCAM, is a flute concerto “…totally intoxicating, Exquisite Labyrinth: the music of Pierre Boulez is in which the live electronic transformation supported by Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, thanks in part to a of the soloist’s sound is played over a large Diaphonique, Franco-British fund for contemporary ensemble. The flute interacts with an advanced music and Institut Français. fabulously energised, edge- computer system to control how the sound is of-the-seat performance shaped and transformed, resulting in music of scurrying energy and often luxuriant beauty. from the three soloists and making new music digital the [London] Sinfonietta.” Tickets £22, £15, £9 Phone 0844 847 9940 londonsinfonietta.org.uk Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph, at the Online southbankcentre.co.uk twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta London Sinfonietta’s performance of … facebook.com/londonsinfonietta explosante-fixe… in Aldeburgh, June 2011 Gareth Hulse Principal oboe londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com 2 3 Pavilions: Dai Fujikura’s Double Bass Concerto and Charlie Piper’s David Hockings Insomniac were commissioned by the London Sinfonietta Principal percussion New Music Show 2 and supported by the London Sinfonietta Pioneers. Tickets £12 Saturday 5 November 2011, 7.30pm Phone 0844 847 9940 Queen Elizabeth Hall Online southbankcentre.co.uk 6.15pm – Event 1 A free concert featuring the world premieres of new chamber works Written/Unwritten by Edmund Finnis, Tim Hodgkinson, Shiva Feshareki and Isambard Khroustaliov Friday 18 November 2011, 7.45pm created on the London Sinfonietta’s Writing Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall the Future scheme (see page 12) Programme to include: 7.30pm – Event 2 Matthew Bourne, Vladimir Tarasov and the Charlie Piper Insomniac London Sinfonietta new collaborations for Dai Fujikura Double Bass Concerto Written/Unwritten (world premiere) Steven Daverson Elusive Tangibility III: Matthew Bourne piano Clandestine Haze (UK premiere) Vladimir Tarasov percussion Iris ter Schiphorst Zerstören (UK premiere) Francisco Coll Piedras (UK premiere) Explore the boundaries between written and unwritten music. Challenge your Martyn Brabbins conductor preconceptions of how new music is made Enno Senft double bass with a creative pianist, an experimental Sound Intermedia sound projection percussionist and a world-leading ensemble. Immerse yourself in improvisations, barefoot Experience the finest new music in an event piano playing and collaborations between offering a selection of the best new sounds musicians with expertise in different genres. being created today. Dai Fujikura’s Double Bass Concerto is full of unique musical invention, Tickets £12 using new playing techniques designed in Phone 0844 847 9940 collaboration with Enno Senft, London Online southbankcentre.co.uk “…a sequence of Sinfonietta’s Principal double bass. Expect beautifully crafted a soundworld influenced by the shamisen, a Japanese plucked instrument similar to a and diversely textured guitar. Charlie Piper’s Insomniac, composed for improvisations, evocative the London Sinfonietta Academy 2011, receives its world premiere, whilst we also profile the of styles ranging from music of Steven Daverson, composition prize- Balakirev and Jarrett winner from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Francisco Coll, pupil of Thomas Written/Unwritten is an ongoing project developed as a to Stockhausen but Adès and German composer Iris ter Schiphorst. collaboration between the London Sinfonietta and sounduk. The event also features the latest compositions wholly convincing in from composers on the London Sinfonietta’s making new music digital their centredness.” Writing the Future scheme. londonsinfonietta.org.uk Guy Dammann, The Guardian, twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta on Matthew Bourne at the London facebook.com/londonsinfonietta Sinfonietta’s Written/Unwritten, londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com Kings Place, June 2011 4 5 Wolfgang Rihm at 60 In Portrait: Olga Neuwirth Tuesday 24 January 2012, 7.30pm Saturday 11 February 2012, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall Wolfgang Rihm Ricercare – in memoriam Olga Neuwirth Five Daily Miniatures Luigi Nono (UK premiere) (UK premiere) Rebecca Saunders Quartet Olga Neuwirth …miramondo multiplo… Jörg Widmann Dubairische Tänze (UK premiere) (UK premiere) Olga Neuwirth Hommage à Klaus Nomi Wolfgang Rihm Nach-Schrift (UK premiere) (UK premiere) Wolfgang Rihm Will Sound More Again Garry Walker conductor (UK premiere) Andrew Watts countertenor Alistair Mackie trumpet Thierry Fischer conductor The London Sinfonietta presents a portrait Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most prolific of Olga Neuwirth, the Austrian composer who composers working today, writing a huge came to prominence in the UK with her operatic range of music and often revisiting and adaptation of David Lynch’s Lost Highway revising earlier pieces and ideas. 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