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2021-10-06 07:22:49
Chaya Czernowin as composer-in-residence, two James Dillon premieres and much more: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is back.
Chaya Czernowin, hcmf// composer-in-residence Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) returns to in-person, live performance for the (somewhat delayed) 2021 festival, following its online presence for 2020. From 18 to 22 November 2021, hcmf// 2021 features a wide ranging programme of concerts, talks, exhibitions and installations. This year's composer-in-residence is the American/Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin, and there will be two new works by Scottish composer James Dillon. Other premieres include music from composer/improvising saxophonist John Butcher and Cath Roberts, writing for her own trio. UK premieres will include Laurence Osborn (UK), Eva Reiter (Austria), Enno Poppe and Eva-Maria Houben (Germany), and Mauro Lanza and Andreas Valle (Italy).Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik gives the UK premiere of Czernowin’s latest composition, The Fabrication of Light, whose structure she compares to optical illusions, 'colours that seem striking and deep, but that aren’t really there', whilst The Arditti Quartet and IRCAM perform HIDDEN (2014), one of Czernowin’s […]
2020-08-18 20:06:49
Russian pianist Evgeny Sinaiski performing in the world premiere music video of VC Young Artist Maria Dueñas’ original work: ‘Farewell’ for Solo Piano. Originally composed for the 2016 Robert Schumann International Piano Competition, when Maria was just 13, the new music video was recently recorded and produced by music producer Alexander Houben during the COVID-19 lockdown. […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2018-07-05 07:05:13
New music for viola and cello
840 is a London-based concert series, curated by the composers Alex Nikiporenko and James Luff to provide a platform for new experimental and minimal music. Each concert focuses on a particular chamber instrumentation, showcasing works by living composers. For the concert on 7 July 2018 at the St James' Church, Islington, the focus is on duos for viola and cello, a surprisingly intimate and intriguing combination of instruments. The performers are Jennifer Ames Alexander and Colin Alexander.The concert will feature new works from Colin Alexander, James Luff, Alex Nikiporenko and Garrett Sholdice, alongside music by Eva-Maria Houben, Marc Sabat, and Amanda Feery.Full details from the 840 website.
2017-01-19 16:45:06
Houben/Feilen/Carlson/Kumper (Wandelweiser)Eva-Maria Houben (b 1955) is a German composer/organist who epitomises the Wandelweiser aesthetic of sparseness, slowness, unwavering quiet, fastidious calm. “Music may exist ‘between’,” she writes. “In my music you will find sounds which seem to avoid the decision: appearing or disappearing?” She sets up situations as much as anything, lingering after a note has been struck in that space where anything might just happen. And because nothing does happen – the next note sounds as insistently serene as the previous – there’s a creeping tension, like someone holding a feather a millimetre from your nose. Houben’s Livres d’Heures is named after the medieval Christian devotional books and is delivered with exemplary control on this recording. The first book features tubular bells in warm unison with Houben’s piano; the second book inhabits the fragile upper harmonics of two violins; the third, a whispered panoply of bow scrapes and […]
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