New work for Claire Booth & Mahler Chamber Orchestra – 13 June

I’m delighted to have been commissioned by Aldeburgh Music to write an orchestral song cycle for the 2015 Aldeburgh Festival, to be premiered by soprano Claire Booth with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin. The programme will also feature Wagner’s Siegried Idyll, Benjamin’s A Mind of Winter, Boulez’s Mémoriale and Ravel’s Piano Concerto, featuring festival director Pierre-Laurent Aimard on piano. The concert will be at Snape Maltings concert hall on the 13th of June.

George is a featured artist at this year’s festival, and will also be conducting the London Sinfonietta, as well as appearing as a pianist alongside Aimard in Ravel’s Ma mère de l’oye. A rundown of some highlights of the festival programme is available here, and the full lineup will be announced in January when tickets go on sale.