Illuminate 2020 Season I – Oxford Digital Edition

St Michael’s Church near Northgate lunchtime concert series

​Come and join us in your lunch break to enjoy the works of women composers old and new!

​Concert starts at 1.00pm
Present online on St Michael's Near Northgate Youtube channel

Programme

Ray Gibson I Reach Out Into Darkness 
– postcard piece for piano (1/2)
Lara Poe Mainspring postcard piece for saxophone and piano
Nina Danon Aquatic dances – postcard piece for saxophone and piano
Morfydd Owen Four Welsh Impressions for solo piano
Ruth Crawford Seeger Study in Mixed accents for solo piano
Joan Tower Wings for solo saxophone
Charlotte Bray Late Snow for solo Saxophone
Yshani Perinpanayagam I only bite because you make me for solo piano
Blair Boyd Slowly Tilting, Sinking for solo piano
Angela Elizabeth Slater Echo [punch] postcard piece for saxophone and piano
Ray Gibson Ray Gibson I Reach Out Into Darkness 
– postcard piece for saxophone (2/2)

Jæren Symphoniorkester Concert

Jæren Symfoniorkester Concert

Soloist: Anne-Margrethe Svanes, soprano

Conductor: Christopher McMullen-Laird

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An orchestral programme including Lara Poe's arrangement of Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade from the Goethe songs.  

Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemian perinteinen Aikamme musiikin luentosarja kutsuu tapaamaan eturivin nykysäveltäjiä. Sarjan järjestää sävellyksen ja musiikinteorian aineryhmä, ja isäntinä toimivat sävellysopettajat Juhani Nuorvala ja Matthew Whittall. Luennot torstaisin klo 13.00–14.30 Musiikkitalon auditoriossa.

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The Sibelius Academy's longstanding Current Music lecture series invites leading contemporary composers to present at this series.  The academy's composition and music theory faculty organises the series, which is led by faculty composers Juhani Nuorvala and Matthew Whittall.  Lectures run on Thursdays from 13.00 – 14.00 in the Musiikkitalo auditorium.  

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 5 – Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 4 – University of Georgia, Athens, GA

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 3 – Mercer University, Macon, GA

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 2 – Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville FL

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

University of Florida Chamber Players Tour Concert 1 – University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

A program of chamber works, conducted by Dr. Archie Birkner.

Stravinsky – Octet for Wind Instruments

Harris – Dawn Chorus

Poe – Contradanse

Carvalho – Fabric

Rosenberg – Trail Days

Markowski – Machiavelli's Conscience

The Young Nordic music festival puts on a concert of electroacoustic music featuring fixed media and live electronics.

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Aleksandra Slyz’ Synesthesia combines projection, live electronics, dance and motion controllers. The dancer’s bodies become instruments, and arm position, movement speed, rotation and muscle tension become sound.

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the human a subject is is an audiovisual composition based Kobo Abe’s Woman in the Dunes, acting as an experiment in an upcoming larger-scale intermedial work by composer Olga Szymula.

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Lara Poe’s La Rivière et la forêt, in turn, has its roots in the composer’s time in the French village of Aulus-les-Bains, where the Garbet river is a prominent feature in the village’s soundscape. Nature sounds from the river’s ecosystem are combined with sounds from the village itself, creating a sounding portrait of the Occitan commune.

First held in 1946, UNM is one of the oldest festivals for new music in the North. Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland act as alternating hosts. Separate juries in each country selects the young composers. Among the music of these emerging talents the program includes mentoring guest composers Mark Andre, Veli-Matti Puumala, Martin Q Larsson, Antti Auvinen and Matthew Whittall.

The current board chairpersons are composers Dante Thelestam and Lauri Supponen.

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This year's composer representatives from Finland are: 

Tytti Arola, Thinking sounds

Tuomas Kettunen, fall, into the ocean

Leo Lehtinen, Buddies

Teemu Mastovaara, Mit inniger Empfindung

OON: Johanna Tarkkanen ja Sarah Palu, Metsänkellot

Lara Poe, La Rivière et la forêt

Leevi Räsänen, Ajassa

Works by Mendelssohn, Osvaldo Golijov, Lara Poe, Fred Lerdahl, and Brahms.  A Full-length chamber music concert of both standard repertoire and contemporary works, performed by TMC Fellows. Additional chamber and vocal concerts are scheduled throughout.

A program of duets written by the Composition Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center.

A program of short silent films with original scores by the Composition Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center.

Join us for an unconventional, immersive evening of promenade music, theater, and film at the Linde Center for Music and Learning. This site-specific original presentation is curated by soprano Tony Arnold and pianist Stephen Drury and features Tanglewood Music Center Fellows from a variety of disciplines.

“We connect Satie with Thoreau”—evoking freedom, non-violent resistance, and connections to our environment—is the motto that experimental composer John Cage used to create Song Books, a collection of 90 solos for voice, voice with electronics, and theatrical action with and without electronics. Selected songs are combined with film excerpts associated with Cage and his music for an unforgettable Full Tilt/Cinematics evening.

ONMC Concert and Networking Event for Composers and Performers

Music for Accordion and Oboe performed by ONMC musicians Mikey Sluman and Iñigo Mikeleiz Barrade by Sofia Gubaidulina, Melinda Maxwell, Angela Slater, Laurence Mason, Lara Jones, Lara Poe, Caroline Bordignon and Magnus Lindberg.

The Concert will be followed by a drinks reception for composers, performers and audience members to network and plant the seeds for musical collaboration.

km2-duo's concert offers a look into the freshest Finnish and international compositional approaches.  The convergence point of the soundworlds of the accordion and percussion instruments functions provides a consistent anchoring point for this concert, and each composer's aesthetic contributes in various ways to the overall equation.  The five new pieces composed for the duo over 2018-2019 include complexity, music inspired by silence, and flashes of tango and rock music.  

km2-duon konsertti on katsaus tuoreimpaan suomalaiseen ja kansainväliseen säveltaiteeseen. Harmonikan ja lyömäsoitinten mittavien äänimaailmoiden yhdistymiskohta toimii vakiona, ja jokaisen säveltäjän tyylilliset ominaispiirteet antavat yhtälölle erilaisen lopputuleman. Konsertin viisi vuonna 2018–19 duolle sävellettyä teosta sisältävät rinta rinnan kompleksismiä, hiljaisuuden inspiroimaa musiikkia sekä viittauksia muun muassa tangoon ja rockmusiikkiin.

T. Nevanlinna, U. Rojko, E. Møller, M. Yokoyama, L. Poe

Manca Dornik, accordion
Kalle Hakosalo, percussion
Vierailijana Alejandro Tentor, electric guitar

Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra in New York City

New York City premiere of works by Harlafti, Poe, and Martin, as well as Jeremey Rapaport-Stein's prize-winning quartet, Fuzzy Assemblages.

2019 Panufnik Composers Workshop

Workshop sessions with the London Symphony Orchestra, featuring music by the six composers on the 2018 Scheme, plus works by two composers who were awarded the ten-minute and five-minute commissions at the 2017 workshop.
 

Morning session 10am–1.30pm, Afternoon session 2.30pm–6pm

Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra in Boston

World premiere of works by Lara Poe and MSO Composer-in-Residence Niki Harlafti, as well as the world premiere of Frank Martin's Passacaille adapted for saxophone orchestra by Michael Brinzer. This concert will include Jacob Walls prize-winning quartet, Tachygenesis.

Moonlight Symphony Orchestra in Vienna

A varied programme conducted by David Wordsworth, which includes English music, music by Handel and Mozart, as well as two new commissions.

Orchestral Masterworks: Elgar's Cello Concerto

Martin André conductor

Indira Grier cello

RCM Philharmonic 

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Programme:

Brahms Academic Festival Overture

Lara Poe Taivaanranta (world premiere)

Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor op 85

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The RCM Philharmonic, under the direction of Martin André, opens this Orchestral Masterworks programme with a rousing rendition of Brahms' merry medley of student drinking songs: the ever-popular Academic Festival Overture.

Afterwards, we bring you a world premiere of Lara Poe's Taivaanranta before Indira Grier closes the programme with the performance that won her this year’s Concerto Competition, Elgar’s Cello Concerto.

RCM Wind Ensemble: The Happy Workshop

Simon Channing director

RCM Wind Ensemble 

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Programme:

Stravinsky Octet

Lara Poe Contradanse

Zoe Darbyshire Amduat The Coming Forth by Day (world premiere)

R Strauss Symphony for Winds Fröhliche Werkstatt

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Head of Woodwind Simon Channing leads the RCM Wind Ensemble in a colourful programme of both wellknown and contemporary works. 

The varied programme has something for everyone including Stravinsky’s neo-classical Octet, Strauss' technically challenging sonatina, Fröhliche Werkstatt (The Happy Workshop), plus two new pieces from RCM composers Lara Poe and Zoë Darbyshire.

Revontulet / Aurora Borealis

Opening concert of Tulindberg week of Oulu Conservatory.

Timo Kinnunen, accordion, antique accordion, electrocordion

Some works of composers in fotos.

Janos Bali: flesh! for accordion and stereo tape (world premiere)

Lara Poe: Aurora Borealis for solo accordion and mixed-media

Sofia Gubaijdulina: De Profundis

Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377): Ballads

Other composers Georg Muffat, Jean Sibelius, Steve Reich

Ensemble Linea Academy

A selection of solos and duets chosen and interpreted by the Academy students.

First part : Duet km2 – Percussions / Accordion with Kalle Hakosalo and Manca Dornik (Finland - Slovenia).

The programme Composer in Residence was born within the climate of the ICon Arts Sibiu summer school, against the musical background of practicing participants in the Performance and Music sections.  During July 25th-August 1st 2018, up to five students will be invited to Transylvania (Romania) to actively participate to the preparation of the trio concert (accordion and two cellos, between 6-8 minutes each work) with composer Joshua Fineberg https://joshuafineberg.com/ and ICon Arts Trio: performers Fernando Mihalache (accordion) http://cimro.ro/fernando-mihalache/ and Duo Cello Jaya (Ella Bokor and Mircea Marian) http://duocellojaya.ro/en/.

The works will be premièred on July 31st in Sibiu during the ICon Arts Festival, at Thalia State Philharmonic Hall, in Sibiu, and broadcasted through internet live streaming on Enjoytv.Ro.

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A celebration of Oliver Knussen and Colin Matthews’ flagship Contemporary Composition and Performance course at Snape Maltings is a fitting and potent blend of new music by emerging new generation of composers alongside works by musical figureheads.  Seven world premieres are prefaced by Harrison Birtwistle’s playful perpetual motion and enveloped in the velvety stillness and ghostly apparitions conjured by Abrahamsen and Dallapiccola in their night music.

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Jonathan Berman conductor
Instrumentalists from the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme

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Program:

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Harrison Birtwistle: Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum
Dallapiccola: Piccola Musica Notturna
Patrick Friel: A Line Alive (world premiere)
Joseph Howard: Painkiller (world premiere)
Patrick John Jones: Betelgeuse Astral Funicular (world premiere)
Hans Abrahamsen: Winternacht
Berio: Berceuse for György Kurtág
Joel Järventausta: Tumma (world premiere)
Ryan Latimer: tbc (world premiere)
Lara Poe: Mirror Rim (world premiere)
Angela Slater: Soaring in Stasis (world premiere)

(ends approx. 1pm)

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RCM Contemporary Opera Scenes Concert 2

Featuring short operas written by students in the RCM composition faculty, which are performed by RCM instrumental performance and vocal department students.  

RCM Contemporary Opera Scenes Concert 1

Featuring short operas written by students in the RCM composition faculty, which are performed by RCM instrumental performance and vocal department students.  

Featuring pieces from students on the Modern Composition course with Gavin Bryars, including the premiere of La Rivière et le Forêt for fixed media.  La Rivière et le Forêt will be released on the Bomb Shop label.  

RCM Wind Ensemble Concert

The RCM Wind Ensemble performs exciting new works and arrangements, including Bach's "great" Fantasia and Fugue in an arrangement by Kieran Timbrell, as well as pieces for wind ensemble by Lara Poe and Paul Evernden.  

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Program:

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J. S. Bach (arr. Kieran Timbrell) Fantasia and fugue in G minor

Hubert Parry Nonet

Lara Poe Kuje (World Premiere)

Paul Evernden Carving no. 1 for mixed wind quintet

Mozart (arr. Robin O'Neill) Sonata in D minor for two pianos K. 448

RCM: French Chamber Essentials concert: Saxophone

Curated by Mills Williams Junior Fellow and saxophonist Jonathan Radford, this concert concludes the RCM's chamber essentials series with contemporary French works for saxophone alongside new pieces written by RCM composers.  

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Program:

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Caplet Légende

Andrew Chen New Work (world premiere)

Marc Eycinenne Cantilène et Danse

Lara Poe Mirage

Jean-Claude Henry Anche, archet, marteaux... Conte pour un trio

Koechlin Epitaphe de Jean Harlow op. 164

 Guillaume ConnessonTechno Parade

New Year's Concert

A third performance of Kalle Hakosalo and Erica Giacoletto's concert on 16.12.2017.  

Modern Christmas Concert No. 2

A second performance of Kalle Hakosalo and Erica Giacoletto's concert on 16.12.2017.  

Modern Christmas Concert

Students at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, double bassist Erica Giacoletto and percussionist Kalle Hakosalo present a concert series of modern solo - and duo music.  The program, which spans a range of dates from the early 20th century to the modern day, contains both acoustic and electronic pieces, along with some more performative works. A duet by the Finnish-American composer Lara Poe will also have its premiere in the concert. The first concert of the series takes place at the Sibelius-museum in Turku, welcome!

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Program

Schönberg (arr. Hakosalo): "Six little piano pieces", op. 19
Kanding: "Metròpoli"
Henze: "Serenade"
Globokar: "?Corporel"

(short intermission)

Cangelosi: "Bad Touch"
Poe:" Andersen Miniatures" **PREMIERE**
Applebaum: "Aphasia"

A tour through Kalajoki and Oulu with accordionist Timo Kinnunen, violinist Jyotsna Srikanth, bassist Daphna Sadeh, and me on synthesiser.  

Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme final concert

The culminating concert of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme.  This concert featured works by many 20th and 21st century composers, as well as the seven composers on the Composition and Performance course.  

An experimental concert in Taipei, featuring performances by Timo Kinnunen, Antti Myllyoja, Jia-Ling Hsu, Lee Yu-hsuan, and Sandra Wuan-chin Li.  

CMiA Concert No. 2

Featuring students of the RCM, Contemporary Music in Action pairs up performers and composers to encourage collaboration.  This is the second of the two final concerts of the 2017 module.  

CMiA Concert No. 1

Featuring students of the RCM, Contemporary Music in Action pairs up performers and composers to encourage collaboration.  This is the first of the two final concerts of the 2017 module.  

Composers Studio Concert

A concert featuring works by the first year masters composition students of the Royal College of Music, in collaboration with the Composers Studio Ensemble.