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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