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All the time that you have in Venice

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Unfortunately, I’m not getting any time at all in Venice, but this Sunday, 6 October, my All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have. will be part of a concert at the Biennale di Venezia curated by Italian blogger-composer collective /nu/thing.

The performers are soprano Laura Catrani and violinists Georgia Privitera & Laura Bertolino of Quartetto Maurice. The programme also includes works by Kristian Ireland, Emanuele Casale, Valerio Murat, Simon Steen-Andersen, Aurélio Edler-Copes and Mario Diaz de León. Wish I could be there!1

  1. I’m happy to be included, but I should note that it’s always disappointing to be involved in a concert of only male composers organised by a collective of only male composers. ↩

Colloquium Presentation at Harvard

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Harvard ‘Veritas’ Crest

I have recently joined the PhD programme at Harvard University to study with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku, which is going to take up a substantial chunk of my life for the next six or so years.

Throughout the year the Harvard Group for New Music organises a series of presentations by current students, plus occasional guests, to open up opportunities for discussion and group critique. In order to introduce myself to the community, I am presenting today at 12pm and will talk about and play my recent music, and discuss problems I am currently facing in my work.

Icebloom première in New York

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Longleash Trio (L-R: Pala Garcia, John Popham, Renate Rohlfing)

On Thursday, 12 September, the New York-based string trio Longleash are appearing at Opera America with a programme that will include the première of my Icebloom alongside works by Haydn, Schubert, Reiko Füting, Younghi Pagh-Paan and Beat Furrer. Maybe see you there!

Below you can hear them in the Allegro moderato from Haydn’s Trio in E Major and a short excerpt of Icebloom as played in a workshop in February by the Curious Chamber Players.

still point at Wigmore Hall

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Orfea Duo: The Mobile Project

On Wednesday, 4 September, the Orfea Duo — Mea Wade (oboe) & Olivia Jageurs (harp) — will present a curious programme at London’s Wigmore Hall built around Heinz Holliger’s 1962 open-form work Mobile. This modular and reconfigurable work comes in 12 bits and it will be presented intermingled with 12 new matching miniatures, including my (tiny) still point.

The concert is private, but I have two invitations to give away. Leave me a tweet @swithinbank or a comment below, and on Monday evening I’ll pick someone at random to go along.

March Music: Stockholm & Brussels

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Caravaggio’s Incredulity of St Thomas

I’m lucky enough to be finishing this month with two concerts. On 22 March, the Curious Chamber Players will perform The Incredulity of St Thomas as part of Samtida Musik’s Vårflod Festival in Stockholm. The rest of the programme features recent works by Swedish composers and the concert is followed by a recital given by Garth Knox.

Listings: Vårflod Festival

soundinitiative

Two days later, soundinitiative will give their second performance of my most recent piece, All that is solid melts into air, at the What’s Next Festival in Brussels. The concert will also include the second performance of Joanna Bailie’s Artificial Environment Nos. 9a–d and Rebecca Saunders’s Molly’s Song #3 — shades of crimson, which they played with intensity and subtlety in February, so don’t miss it!

Listings: Ars Musica | soundinitiative

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