On Sunday 26 January Kettle鈥檚 Yard plays host to a dynamic programme of new Italian music to mark the start of its 2014 New Music series.
On Sunday 26 January Kettle鈥檚 Yard plays host to a dynamic programme of new Italian music to mark the start of its 2014 New Music series.
Richard Causton鈥榮 Phoenix uses idiosyncratic techniques (slow-motion trills and tremolando, for example), to paint a vivid picture
Allan Kozinn, New York Times
探花直播eclectic and wide ranging music series has been programmed by Richard Causton in his first year as Kettle鈥檚 Yard New Music Associate. Lecturer in Composition in the Faculty of Music, Causton has been described听 as 鈥渙ne of the finest of the new generation of British composers鈥, 探花直播Guardian. His inspirational programme explores themes of lineage, with several performances of works by teachers and their students. In the first concert on 26 January, the highly acclaimed Chroma Ensemble perform Causton鈥檚 award winning Phoenix (2006), alongside works by one of his Italian teachers, Franco Donatoni, and a newly commissioned piece by one of Causton鈥檚 students, Andrew Thomas. 探花直播series also celebrates Italian 20th century music, and the works of Jeremy Dale Roberts, one of the unsung heroes of British New Music.
探花直播second concert on 16 February, a memorial to Michael Harrison, Director of Kettle鈥檚 Yard from 1992 to 2011, presents new works by every one of the composers he appointed whilst Director -听 an extraordinary homage to his legacy and a chance to hear world premiers by composers including John Woolrich, Richard Baker and Kenneth Hesketh.听 Kettle鈥檚 Yard is delighted that the works will be performed by Anton Lukoszevieze, cello (a former New Music Associate) and Mark Knoop, piano.
On March 2 , Jeremy Dale Roberts鈥 Oggetti for piano (an homage to the Italian artist Giorgio Morandi) is presented alongside music by Morandi鈥檚 contemporary Luigi Dallapiccola and Dallapiccola鈥檚 pupil Edwin Roxburgh.听 探花直播Kreutzer String Quartet (with cellist Bridget MacRae) will also be performing a vibrant string quartet by Dale Roberts on 25 May, which draws its inspiration from the art of Edvard Munch along with Virginia Woolf, Marina Tsvetayeva and Janaceks.
Further new commissions are showcased in the fourth concert on 27 April, in which 探花直播 third year music student Kate Honey鈥檚 substantial new work will be performed by Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin and Roderick Chadwick, piano (kindly supported by the PRS for Music Foundation).
探花直播series also presents works outside the classical mainstream including the electronic music pioneer Trevor Wishart, with a selection of his electroacoustic works on 11 May. 探花直播programme closes with a final concert on 15 June, featuring Errollyn Wallen,听 a composer who is 鈥渘ot afraid to take risks in her music鈥 (International Record Review), who will perform a selection of her own compositions. Wallen, MBE, was recently the recipient of an Ivor Novello Award.
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