Some events! Thibaut Surugue video, BBC Phil, Rolf Hind & Trio Mazzolini
Posted on 18 Sep 2020
Some news, including actual performances, sometimes with an audience…:
- The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (or a distanced 15-player subset of them) are recording my Rainbow-Shooting Cloud Contraption at BBC MediaCity on September 26, under the baton of John Storgårds. There’s no audience, but it’ll be broadcast on Radio 3 before long.
- During lockdown, pianist Rolf Hind asked composers for short piano pieces that he recorded and put out on Facebook. He’s now performing a selection at London’s King’s Place on 7 October, including my Gymnopédie No. 1 which I sent him. Writing this little piece got me out of a compositional rut early on in lockdown, and I’ve now written four more little Gymnopédies to make a set. Tickets are available here.
- Trio Mazzolini, Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy of Music, are performing my Piano Trio “The Chronophage” at the Academy’s David Josefowitz Recital Hall on 26 November, alongside Mendelssohn’s 2nd trio. There’s only a small number of people in the audience but the concert will be streamed live on YouTube
- French pianist Thibaut Surugue gave the German premiere of a selection of my Inventions (for Heath Robinson) at the Hochschule für Musik Frankfurt earlier this month, and has made a video of the whole piece for International Ensemble Modern Akademie, in which he plays beautifully.
(the video also contains great performances of Lachenmann and Kurtág. My piece starts at 4:57):