Concerts 2007
Aldeburgh Residency Recital
19th January
Lecture Recital Room, Snape Maltings Concert Hall
Guy Johnston ('cello)
Tom Poster (piano)
This recital marks the end of Guy and Tom's Artist's Residency at Aldeburgh, during which they will be working with the composer Dylan Pugh to prepare the première of his new Sonata for 'Cello and Piano, which was commissioned by Sounds Underground last year, with funding from the Britten-Pears Foundation. The recital will include music by Frank Bridge and Benjamin Britten, and will be repeated in London on 20th March.
For information about Aldeburgh Residencies visit Aldeburgh Music.
Concert for Four Hands
27th February
Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Iain Farrington (piano)
Two stars of the present generation of pianists present an evening of music to sweep you off your feet. La Valse is the apotheosis of the Viennese Walz. It is, in Ravel's words, "a fantastic and fatal whirling", an "almost hallucinatory ecstasy", ending in nightmare. The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky's revolutionary ballet, provoked a riot at its first performance because of the uncompromising modernity of the score. In this programme the shock of the old is placed side by side with the shock of the new: the premieres of dance-inspired music by Iain Farrington and Bushra El-Turk, commissioned by Sounds Underground.
| Iain Farrington | Dance Craze* |
| Bushra El-Turk | Metaphysical Enemy* |
| Maurice Ravel | La Valse |
| Igor Stravinksky | The Rite of Spring |
*World premiere
Bishopsgate Institute website
Cello Recital
20th March
Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
Guy Johnston ('cello)
Tom Poster (piano)
Tom Poster and Guy Johnson met in 2000, when Guy won the BBC Young Musician of the Year and Tom was a finalist in the same competition. Since then, as well as pursuing international careers as soloists, they have performed together as a duo and in the Aronowitz Ensemble, which was recently selected for BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme.
Tom and Guy will give an uplifting concert of mainly British music, and the second performance of Dylan Pugh's heartfelt and rhapsodic sonata for the duo.
| Benjamin Britten | Cello Sonata |
| Alicia Grant | Night Spell |
| Frank Bridge | Spring Song and Scherzo |
| Dylan Pugh | Sonata for Cello and Piano* |
*Commissioned by Sounds Underground with funding from the Britten-Pears Foundation
Bishopsgate Institute website
Sargasso : C Concert
17th May
Finsbury Town Hall, Rosebery Avenue, London
Ensemble Na Mara
Tom Hankey (violin)
Oliver Coates ('cello)
Alasdair Beatson ('piano)
Sargasso artists:
Daniel Biro (electric piano + electronics)
Daniel Finfer (trumpet)
Ensemble Na Mara will perform My fleeting Angel by Cheryl Frances-Hoad - a work that won the Robert Helps prize for composition last year - and the world première of Johnny Herford's Piano Trio in 6 movements.
Daniel Biro and friends will present ambient jazz electronica soundscape improvisations.
Sargasso: C is a live platform for artists of experimental label Sargasso, as well as special guests from the contemporary music world. Whether improvised music, written compositions or even talks about artistic concepts, each Sargasso: C event will take audiences to uncharted sonic territories. Join the C!Contrasting Colours
23rd November
The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London
Anna Dennis (soprano), Oliver Coates (cello) and Jakob Fichert (piano)
This concert celebrates the musical languages of composers from six different countries; all very different, yet all suffused with a heightened awareness of tone colour. The players will give the world premieres of three pieces for this rare combination of soloists. Elena Langer has been commissioned by the players and Sounds Underground. The Canadian composer, Henry Ng, has written a setting of Rosetti’s In an Artist’s Studio. Strettos and Striations for solo piano was written for Jakob by Bernard Hughes. There is also the chance to hear the London premiere of Changing Light by the well-known Finnish composer, Kaija Saariaho.
| John York | Sonata for cello and piano |
| Hugh Wood | Seven Songs after poems by Robert Graves |
| Bernard Hughes | Strettos and Striations for solo piano* |
| Elena Langer | Songs after poems by Daniil Harms* |
| Morton Feldman | Four Songs to E.E. Cummings |
| Iannis Xenakis | Kottos |
| Henry Ng | In an Artist’s Studio* |
| Kaija Saariaho | Changing Lights for 'cello and voice** |
*World premiere.
**London premiere
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