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londonsinfonietta.org.uk “If I were in the British Government I would declare Music Programme 2011/12 the Sinfonietta a National Treasure. … Long may they continue to make music!” Exquisite Labyrinth: the music of 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 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 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: Sir Harrison Birtwistle, , Bryn at 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 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 - 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 “…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 , 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, , twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta on Matthew Bourne at the London facebook.com/londonsinfonietta Sinfonietta’s Written/Unwritten, londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com , 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 (UK premiere) (UK premiere) 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. Nach-Schrift produced by the ENO and Young Vic. The event of 2004 is connected to his earlier ‘chiffre’ includes Hommage à Klaus Nomi, a cabaret-style cycle from the 1980’s when he was exploring tribute to the eponymous Berlin tenor and his compositional style, and Will Sound More theatrical visionary. Expect “jazzy cover versions Again is a recently extended and reworked of well-known arias and songs, wedging the great version of a piece from 2006, full of energy lament from Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and immediate appeal. Rihm’s music in this against standards by Marlene Dietrich and Judy concert is set against that of two of his most Garland.” (Tim Ashley, The Guardian). The concert celebrated pupils – Rebecca Saunders’ haunting also features …miramondo multiplo… for solo Quartet and Jörg Widmann’s Dubairiche Tänze, trumpet, “a skilfully joined, shimmering realm of a set of dances with echoes of the composer’s random memory tableaux, where you meet, for native Bavaria, coloured by his inventive example, Miles Davis, Berg, Mahler, Messiaen compositional voice. and even Handel.” (Stefan Musil, Die Presse)

Tickets £22, £15, £9 Tickets £12 Phone 0844 847 9940 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk Online southbankcentre.co.uk

@_nick_adams_ “great performance by @Ldn_Sinfonietta at @etherfestival last night. de staat sounded amazing.”

making new music digital londonsinfonietta.org.uk twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta facebook.com/londonsinfonietta Principal bassoon londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com

6 7 Perfect Constructions: In Portrait: Joan Atherton Principal violin 2 the music of Conlon George Benjamin

Nancarrow Saturday 12 May 2012, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Saturday 21 April 2012, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall György Ligeti Melodien George Benjamin Flight Programme to include: George Benjamin Duet Conlon Nancarrow György Ligeti Hamburg Concerto Study No 21 (arr. Murcott) George Benjamin Antara Piece No 2 for chamber ensemble Study No 5 (arr. Mikhashoff) Nicholas Collon conductor Study No 26 (new arrangement) Tamara Stefanovich piano Study No 12 (new arrangement) Michael Thompson horn Tango Michael Cox flute Study No 6 (arr. Mikhashoff) Sound Intermedia sound projection Toccata for violin and player piano Concerto for player piano and ensemble The London Sinfonietta and Southbank Centre explore the music of George Benjamin, Baldur Brönnimann conductor showcasing his wide range of influences from Rex Lawson pianola electronics through to new acoustic techniques. Antara, composed after studies at IRCAM, The London Sinfonietta celebrates the the music technology research centre in works of 20th-century musical maverick Paris, is a meshing of the electronic sounds of Conlon Nancarrow. A former soldier in the Peruvian panpipes, accompanied by an unlikely Spanish Civil War, Nancarrow spent most instrumental ensemble of flutes, trombones, of his life in Mexico exploring intricate strings and two anvils. rhythmic designs only playable by mechanical instruments. This event highlights existing Tickets £22, £15, £9 and new arrangements of his jazzy and Phone 0844 847 9940 hyperkinetically energetic music. Online southbankcentre.co.uk “London Sinfonietta’s Tickets £22, £15, £9 Phone 0844 847 9940 conductorless performance Online southbankcentre.co.uk of Reich’s 1976 Music Presented in association with Southbank Centre as for 18 Musicians, [was] part of Perfect Constructions: the Music of Conlon Nancarrow, a special weekend exploring the work of a pulsating wall of sound one of the most enigmatic, freethinking composers of 20th-century American music. For more information with honeyed female visit southbankcentre.co.uk voices and winds, and an extraordinary amalgam of making new music digital pianos and marimbas.” londonsinfonietta.org.uk twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta Michael Dervan, Irish Times, at the facebook.com/londonsinfonietta London Sinfonietta’s performance at londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com Cork Opera House, July 2011

8 9 In Portrait: An evening with Harrison Birtwistle Martin Creed

Thursday 24 May 2012, 7.30pm Saturday 9 June 2012, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall

Part One Martin Creed Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Tom Service discuss Martin Creed Band the composer’s music onstage, with examples Sound Intermedia sound projection played live by the London Sinfonietta Martin Creed, Turner prize-winner for the Part Two lights going on and off and fresh from the Sir Harrison Birtwistle success of his low-fi punk single Thinking/Not Cortege Thinking, joins the London Sinfonietta for an Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum evening exploring the synergies between 5 Distances for 5 Instruments the two art forms. Expect new music, video, In Broken Images (UK premiere) speech and sets from Creed’s own band. Keep an eye on londonsinfonietta.org.uk as we conductor follow the progress of Creed’s work with the Tom Service presenter London Sinfonietta. Sir Harrison Birtwistle in conversation Tickets £20, £10 The London Sinfonietta’s long association Phone 0844 847 9940 with British composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle Online southbankcentre.co.uk continues with an event which will uncover his musical language, featuring examples from earlier works and including the UK premiere of his latest composition for the ensemble, In Broken Images based on a poem by Robert Graves of the same name. The first half will be an on-stage introduction to the music led by music writer Tom Service in conversation with Sir Harrison Birtwistle and illustrated with musical extracts played live by the London Sinfonietta. Once you’ve gained an insight into how the legendary composer thinks about his music, the London Sinfonietta will then perform a selection of compelling works which encapsulate some of the most important elements of his compositional style.

Tickets £22, £15, £9 Phone 0844 847 9940 Online southbankcentre.co.uk making new music digital In Broken Images was co-commissioned by the London londonsinfonietta.org.uk Sinfonietta and MiToSettembreMusica and supported by the London Sinfonietta Pioneers. twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta facebook.com/londonsinfonietta Simon Haram londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com Principal saxophone

10 11 London Sinfonietta London Sinfonietta Academy Alumni The London Sinfonietta Academy Alumni is Academy composed of the growing number of London making new music The London Sinfonietta Academy is an Sinfonietta Academy participants who have opportunity for the UK's finest young trained alongside the London Sinfonietta’s musicians, conductors and composers to Principal players. Following a performance come together and further their performance at the 2011 BBC Proms with a portrait of experience and training. An intensive week- Graham Fitkin’s music, the group continues now long course every July offers rehearsals, to give emerging talented musicians the masterclasses, workshops and lectures around chance to perform in the London Sinfonietta’s the specialism of performing contemporary world-class Music Programme. The London . Each course focuses on core Sinfonietta also works closely with educational making new music now Blue Touch Paper pieces of contemporary repertoire plus a new institutions across the UK, and in October 2011 members of the Royal Northern College The 2011/12 Music Programme sees the commission, with sessions led by London is the London Sinfonietta’s of Music join with the ensemble to perform next phase of the London Sinfonietta’s Sinfonietta Principal players alongside world- Larry Goves’s Things that are blue, things that platform where exceptional groundbreaking Blue Touch Paper programme. renowned composers and scholars. are white and things that are black as part of Nurturing and promoting the next generation composers, performers Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. of inventive partnerships, the programme Full details of the audition process for the London Sinfonietta Academy 2012 will be posted online in and conductors can gives composers and collaborators the chance November 2011. experiment with new ideas, to develop new works with the London For more information about making new Sinfonietta. So far this next generation The London Sinfonietta Academy is generously supported music now, please visit londonsinfonietta. by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, The Fenton Arts Trust, org.uk or call the Participation and Learning forge creative partnerships, of Blue Touch Paper associates includes Leo and Regina Hepner, Musicians Benevolent Fund and composers, writers, poets, visual artists The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. department on 020 7239 9340. share expertise and and scientists. Three new works created produce the most on the programme will be performed at a preview event in Spring 2012. Keep an eye on innovative and inspirational londonsinfonietta.org.uk for the latest news. projects in the London Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Sinfonietta’s repertoire. Jerwood Charitable Foundation with support from the Edmund Finnis, composer, and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Participants are supported , Principal by a Jerwood Blue Touch Paper Bursary. viola collaborate for Writing the Future. Commissions Writing the Future The London Sinfonietta continues its rich Writing the Future encourages and supports the tradition of commissions in the 2011/12 best new music by inviting composers to work Music Programme with new works from Sir closely with London Sinfonietta musicians as Harrison Birtwistle (the ensemble composition they make new music. Writing the Future works In Broken Images), Dai Fujikura (his Double Bass are given their public premieres by the ensemble Concerto), Bryn Harrison (a composition for (see event on page 4) and all works are actively installation with digital artist Tim Head) and promoted as part of the scheme. Following their artist Martin Creed (a new work as part of his world premieres, recordings are streamed online collaborative evening in June, see page 10). with scores available to download. Current We welcome support for these commissions Writing the Future composers include Shiva through our Pioneers scheme (see page 18). Feshareki, Edmund Finnis, Tim Hodgkinson, Isambard Khroustaliov, Duncan MacLeod and Michael Mayhew.

Writing the Future is generously supported by The Boltini Trust, The John S Cohen Foundation, Anthony Mackintosh and Michael and Patricia McLaren Turner. Image © Briony Campbell 12 13 Collective On Stage Public Participation The 2011/12 Music Programme will see Public Participation is the London the launch of a new series of events Sinfonietta’s strand giving the general public making new music programmed with, and for, young people. the chance to get involved through special These performances will look to bring events. People of all ages and abilities will contemporary classical music and the be invited to join the ensemble in creating London Sinfonietta’s varied, multi-disciplinary innovative art with impact. Each event will repertoire alive for a new generation of be curated by a guest artist and will be the together concert-goers. Each programme will focus chance for you to get closer to the London on an aspect of new music designed to Sinfonietta in a range of live and digital compliment classroom-based learning through experiences. Get closer to the based arts and music colleges and universities. an inspirational, interactive and engaging In the coming season the LS Collective will be experience. Look out for more details in the For more information about joining The London Sinfonietta and curating a programme to accompany Martin run up to spring 2012. Collective, please visit londonsinfonietta. contemporary classical Creed’s new commission premiered on 9 June org.uk or call the Participation and Learning (see page 10). department on 020 7239 9340. music with activities that KX Collective give you the opportunity The KX Collective is a dynamic group of young to create, curate and people from the King’s Cross area who have an enthusiasm for exploring and creating new perform with a world-class music. By working closely with the London ensemble. Sinfonietta they produce an annual programme of activity culminating in a spectacular summer performance. In the 2011/12 season The Collective this will include projects inspired by the Sonic The KX Collective The Collective is a community of people from Explorations Festival at Kings Place, music perform at Kings Place around the world who have a passion for theatre and vocal improvisation. in June 2011. contemporary music. It is your chance to get involved in the London Sinfonietta’s activity The KX Collective is generously supported by Cripplegate Foundation, the Marple Charitable Trust and Youth Music. through experiencing performances, sharing thoughts and ideas, participating in events and projects as well as generating and responding to creative content on the London Sinfonietta website. The Collective is constantly growing and evolving, and the London Sinfonietta is actively looking to give its members ever more possibilities to engage with the ensemble.

LS Collective The LS Collective is your chance to join a group of emerging curators, producers, artists and performers from across London who work with the London Sinfonietta to develop events

making new music Image © Briony Campbell as part of the ensemble’s Music Programme, digital often using this as an opportunity to showcase londonsinfonietta.org.uk their own experimental style of work. twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta The LS Collective has close connections with facebook.com/londonsinfonietta Southbank Centre and with many London- londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com

14 15 On Record Thomas Adès: In Seven Days – following a recent national tour of Adès’s groundbreaking making new music digital presents a video-ballet you can now watch a DVD of recordings catalogue of the finest new music Tal Rosner’s visuals with the score played making new music performed by the London Sinfonietta. Look by the London Sinfonietta. Recorded live at out for three new CD releases in 2011 as we Symphony Hall, Birmingham in March 2011. announce a new partnership with Signum and Released on Signum. continue our work with NMC Records. digital London Sinfonietta recordings are available to download straight to your desktop. A selection of tracks is available on iTunes and the NMC website. The complete London Sinfonietta The London Sinfonietta doesn’t just make music on stage. Label back catalogue is available online from We’re also making new music digital. With a whole host NMC Recordings and in all good record shops. of content for you to explore, londonsinfonietta.org.uk is For more information on all recordings visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/onrecord your destination for the latest from the London Sinfonietta.

Listen-Watch Social Media : Anaïs Nin/De Staat – the UK premiere performance of a monodrama The London Sinfonietta is your Digital londonsinfonietta.org.uk is full of podcasts focussing on the diarist Anaïs Nin plus the ensemble. We’re on Twitter, Facebook and and films for you to listen to and watch. You can iconic De Staat, recorded live in concert on Wordpress to bring you regular updates review content from previous years, including 14 April 2011 at Southbank Centre’s Queen from your favourite ensemble, including iconic films with Steve Reich and Helmut Elizabeth Hall. Released on Signum. Lachenmann, plus listen to podcast interviews behind the scenes pictures and insider knowledge on making our concerts happen. with artists including Louis Andriessen, Jonathan Harvey: Bird Concerto with Follow us on Twitter (@Ldn_Sinfonietta), Matthew Herbert and . Keep an Pianosong – a live recording of the British like us on Facebook (facebook.com/ eye on the website for the latest releases. composer’s work featuring solo piano and londonsinfonietta) and read us on Wordpress electronics inspired by the song of the golden- (londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com). Music Streams crowned sparrow, the indigo bunting and the orchard oriole. Released on NMC. The London Sinfonietta Music Streams give exclusive access to live recordings from London On Air Sinfonietta concerts. Every month we bring The London Sinfonietta is proud to be you the very best new music direct to your supported and broadcast by BBC Radio 3. desktop. 2010/11 Music Streams included For full details of programmes and broadcasts works by Richard Causton, Gerald Barry and visit .co.uk/radio3 Dai Fujikura. e-Zine Log on to londonsinfonietta.org.uk and sign up for our monthly e-Zine, bringing you the latest London Sinfonietta news straight to your inbox. Be the first to find out about the latest making new music digital Music Stream, get up-to-date information londonsinfonietta.org.uk on forthcoming concerts and find out about twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta our projects in now (see pages 12 & 13) and facebook.com/londonsinfonietta together (see pages 14 & 15). londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com

16 17 Trusts and Foundations Creative Pioneers Adam Mickiewicz Institute Ian Baker Arts Council England Susan Burdell making new music The Boltini Trust Andrew Burke British Council Robert Clark The John S Cohen Foundation Jeremy & Yvonne Clarke Cripplegate Foundation Rachel Coldicutt The DCMS Jerwood Creative Bursaries Scheme Susan Costello happen Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Dennis Davis The Fenton Arts Trust Deborah Golden The Holst Foundation Nicholas Hodgson The creation of new music Membership ranges from £35 to £1,000+ Jerwood Charitable Foundation Andrew Hunt per year with options to support future The Lynn Foundation Maurice and Jean Jacobs lies at the very heart of the commissions from both living legends and The Marple Charitable Trust Frank & Linda Jeffs London Sinfonietta, and we the newest emerging talent, as well as ground- The Mercers’ Company Tim Joss breaking new projects and our world-class Music Centre The Netherlands Jane McAusland need your support to make Principal players. Musicians Benevolent Fund Stephen Morris The Roger and Ingrid Pilkington Julie Nicholls new music happen. Help us continue to lead the way, sparking the Charitable Trust Simon Osborne greatest innovations in music and nurturing PRS for Music Foundation Patricia O'Sullivan the best musical talent as we go. Become a The Royal Netherlands Embassy Geoff Peace Pioneers Pioneer and help us make new music happen. The RVW Trust Ruth Rattenbury Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation David & Alex Rhodes Find out more by contacting our Development Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Keith Salway team on 020 7329 9340, by emailing Société Gavignès Dennis Stevenson [email protected] or The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation Iain Stewart visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/pioneers The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Anne Stoddart Bold and incurably ambitious, the London Youth Music Estela Welldon Sinfonietta champions some of today’s John Wheatley finest composers, encourages young artists Entrepreneurs Stephen Williamson to develop their work in extraordinary new We will soon be launching an exclusive group Lead Pioneers Paul Zisman directions and paves the way for some of the for supporters interested in working closely Sir Richard Arnold most inspiring collaborations for audiences with the London Sinfonietta to kick-start a Sir Vernon & Lady Ellis Plus those generous Lead and Creative the world over. landmark project or commission they feel Susan Grollet in memory of Mark Grollet Pioneers who prefer to remain anonymous passionately about. Each member of this Leo and Regina Hepner The greatest discoveries rely on the commitment, group will be engaged with a project from start Penny Jonas Thanks also to the London Sinfonietta Pioneers. generosity and vision of a passionate group of to finish, helping to drive forward our most Anthony Mackintosh supporters. Our imagination is unlimited, but ambitious projects. Belinda Matthews our funds are not. Our Pioneers play a crucial role Robert & Nicola McFarland to help us make new music happen. They provide Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner invaluable support for brand new commissions, Sir Stephen Oliver QC world premiere performances and ground- Nick & Claire Prettejohn breaking new projects. In return, we provide Richard Thomas & Caroline Cowie our Pioneers with opportunities to form a close Christoph & Marion Trestler association with the ensemble, and be part of the making new music digital David and Jenni Wake-Walker journey of the creation of new music with us. londonsinfonietta.org.uk twitter.com/Ldn_Sinfonietta facebook.com/londonsinfonietta londonsinfonietta.wordpress.com Image © Briony Campbell

18 19 London Sinfonietta London Sinfonietta Freelance and London Sinfonietta Saturday 14 April 2012 Principal players Council Consultant Staff Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton Michael Cox flute Tony Mackintosh (chairman) Richard Baker Artistic Advisor On Tour Programme to include: Gavin Bryars The Sinking of the Titanic (Supported by Michael & Patricia Andrew Burke John Fulljames Artistic Advisor McLaren-Turner) (Blue Touch Paper) Current projects include: Rachel Coldicutt Friday 4 May 2012 Gareth Hulse oboe Monday 5 September & Tuesday 6 September 2011 Ian Dearden Dominic Murcott Artistic Advisor Canterbury Sounds New! Festival, Canterbury MiToSettembreMusica, Italy Mark van de Wiel clarinet David Hockings (Nancarrow project) A concert as part of a festival of British A programme of world premieres: John Orford bassoon Claire Stevens Recording Projects contemporary music Penny Jonas Fabio Vacchi Notte Italiana Simon Haram saxophone Manager & Book-keeper Tim Joss Louis Andriessen Concerto for violin La Girò Julie Nicholls Michael Thompson horn Alana Lowe-Petraske Matteo Franceschini Archaeology (Supported by Belinda Matthews) Consultant Accountant Belinda Matthews Harrison Birtwistle In Broken Images Contact us Alistair Mackie trumpet Emma Kraemer Philip Meaden London Sinfonietta Academy trombone Saturday 17 September 2011 Headquarters at Kings Place Sir Stephen Oliver QC Project Manager Warsaw Autumn Festival, Soho Factory, Poland position vacant violin 1 Since moving into its new administrative Matthew Pike Lesley Wynne Personnel Manager Songs of wars I have seen (Supported by Christoph Trestler) headquarters at this beautiful office development Paul Silverthorne Joan Atherton violin 2 Christopher Alderton and arts centre at King’s Cross in 2008, the London Thursday 27 – Saturday 29 October 2011 Sally Taylor Concerts Manager (temporary) Sinfonietta has promoted more work for London Paul Silverthorne viola Festival Internacional Cervantino and Visionas Christoph Trestler Michelle Wright for Cause4 audiences, and initiated collaborations with jazz and (Supported by Nick and Sonoras Festival, Mexico Fundraising Consultant world musicians, poets, actors, comedians and pop Claire Prettejohn) Paul Zisman Programme of electroacoustic music Timothy Gill cello (Supported by sounduk Public Relations acts. We can be contacted using the details below. Sir Stephen Oliver QC) London Sinfonietta London Sinfonietta is grateful to its Monday 31 October 2011 London Sinfonietta Enno Senft double bass Staff Wien Modern 2011, Mozart Hall accountants: Martin Greene Ravden Kings Place, 90 York Way (Supported by Anthony Mackintosh) Andrew Burke Chief Executive at the Konzerthaus, Austria LLP and its auditors MGR Audit London, N1 9AG John Constable piano Sarah Tennant Limited for their ongoing support. George Benjamin At First Light Luke Bedford (Supported by Michael Conroy) Artistic Projects Manager Man Shoots Strangers from E [email protected] Helen Tunstall harp Hannah Bujic Concerts & Touring Skyscrapers T 020 7239 9340 Lilith David Hockings percussion Administrator F 020 7239 9369 Harrison Birtwistle Silbury Air Tina Speed Participation & Ian Dearden Sound Intermedia Resident at Thomas Adès Living Toys (Supported by Penny Jonas) Learning Manager Sinfonietta Productions Ltd Southbank Centre Registered in London No. 926551 David Sheppard Sound Intermedia Michael Duffy Assistant Producer, The London Sinfonietta is Sunday 13 November 2011 Registered Charity No. 255095 (Supported by Penny Jonas) Creative Projects proud of its Residency at Melos-Ethos Festival 2011 – Mark Lewis Marketing Manager Southbank Centre. From the Slovak Radio Concert Hall, Slovakia London Sinfonietta Claire Barton world-class platform of events George Benjamin At First Light Honorary Patrons Development Manager and festivals at Southbank Iris Szeghy Neniae Booking Information Centre, the London Sinfonietta Simon Holt Lilith John Bird Annabel Marsland Marketing & Development Assistant takes major performance projects Harrison Birtwistle Silbury Air Queen Elizabeth Hall and Sir Harrison Birtwistle around the UK and the world, Thomas Adès Living Toys Elizabeth Davies Head of Royal Festival Hall Ticket Offices creates new work through KBE Administration & Finance Southbank Centre commissions and collaborations Saturday 19 November 2011 Sir George Christie CH Esther Mulholland Belvedere Road, London with major composers and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival SE1 8XX Administrative Assistant artists, and involves the Jexper Holmen Marula Emmi Tingey Projects Intern public from across London in Lefteris Papadimitriou Liquid Glass 0844 847 9940 contemporary performance Agata Zubel Shades of Ice (9am–9pm daily) events with the ensemble. For Cezary Duchnowski 151, 242, 333 southbankcentre.co.uk full details of Southbank Centre’s Larry Goves Things that are blue, things that are events and exhibitions go to white and things that are black (Transaction fee applies to both phone and web. Booking in southbankcentre.co.uk person at Southbank Centre is free of charge) Saturday 24 March 2012 All information was correct at time of going to press. The London City Halls, Glasgow Sinfonietta reserves the right to make changes where necessary. Programme to include: Steve Reich City Life Louis Andriessen Anaïs Nin

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Exquisite Labyrinth: Perfect Constructions: the the music of Pierre Boulez music of Conlon Nancarrow Saturday 1 October 2011 Saturday 21 April 2012 Queen Elizabeth Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall

Pavilions: New Music Show 2 In Portrait: George Benjamin Saturday 5 November 2011 Saturday 12 May 2012 Queen Elizabeth Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall

Written/Unwritten In Portrait: Harrison Birtwistle Friday 18 November 2011 Thursday 24 May 2012 Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall

Wolfgang Rihm at 60 An evening with Martin Creed Tuesday 24 January 2012 Saturday 9 June 2012 Queen Elizabeth Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall

In Portrait: Olga Neuwirth Saturday 11 February 2012 Queen Elizabeth Hall

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