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Tickets are now on sale for the three concerts at the Spitalfields Music Summer Festival: Chris Newman Portrait, (15 June), Aldo Clementi Portrait (18 June), Weeks/Mazulis double bill (21st June). Performed by three leading new music ensembles, Kürbis, ELISION and Apartment House, and taking place in three unusual venues in the Spitalfields, area these events are linked by their emphasis on radical aesthetics and on introducing major composers neglected or new to the UK.
More details and booking: www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk
EXAUDI begins its summer season in Paris with two performances of Gerard Pesson's new work, Cantate=pays, at IRCAM. Later in June we visit the Aldeburgh Festival to collaborate with the CBSO on Boulez' cummings ist der Dichter, and August sees us return to Dartington for a week of coaching and performances of Scelsi and Rihm.
I will be conducting the premiere of Billone's Kosmoi.Fragmente as well as a performance of his epic Mani.Long with the brilliant French ensemble L'Instant Donné on 22 September at Festival d'Automne, Paris. A pupil of both Lachenmann and Sciarrino, Billone's music is scarcely known in this country but is highly regarded on the continent, very detailed instrumentally and with a sense of invoking a very pure sonic power which I've not encountered in quite the same way in other composers' music.
This summer sees two big premieres in London: on 10th May I will conduct the Anglo-Irish ensemble Scratch the Surface (artistic director, Conall Gleeson) in The Nunhead Harmony, the most extreme of my Harmonies series, at King's Place. Then on 21st June as part of my residency as Artistic Associate of Spitalfields Festival, Apartment House will perform my Tide Trilogy, a 35-minute composite work for cello, oboe d'amore, clarinet and electronics, in Flowers East gallery.
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www.spitalfieldsfestival.org.uk
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