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2023-10-11 09:29:00
One of the 2022 Voices of Black Opera, Thando Mjandana, premieres a Daniel Kidane work with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
South African tenor Thando Mjandana won the Samuel Coleridge Taylor Award at the Voice of Black Opera competition in Birmingham in 2022 [see my article] and there is a chance to hear Mjandana in action back in Birmingham later this month when he joins Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) and conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni for the world premiere of Daniel Kidane's Cradle Song (setting text by Blake) on 18 October 2023 at The Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham, and the programme is repeated in Bristol on 29 October.Entitled Songs at Day, Songs at Night, the concert also features soprano Mimi Doulton, and features Daniel Kidane's Primitive Blaze, the UK premiere of Julian Anderson's Mitternachtslied (setting texts by Nietsche and Longfellow), the world premiere of Anderson's Thus, and music by Harrison Birtwistle.Kidane's Cradle Song is one of BCMG's Sound Investment scheme commissions, as was Harrison Birtwistle's 2018 work, … when falling asleep which is included in the programme.Full details from […]
2022-11-07 12:46:17
CBSO Centre, BirminghamBirmingham Contemporary Music Group’s latest programme featured contrasting works by Edmund Hunt and Richard Baker, with evocative live electronics With works by just two composers, there was an elegant symmetry to Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s latest programme, which was conducted by
2022-05-30 12:22:58
CBSO Centre and The Exchange, BirminghamBirmingham Contemporary Music Group marked the centenary of the Greek-French composer’s birth with a day that revealed why Xenakis’s music and significance endures With other events to mark this year’s centenary of Iannis Xenakis’s birth still thin on the ground in the UK, Birmingham’s day of workshops, talks and concerts, presented on the exact anniversary under the auspices of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, was a worthy tribute. Eight of the Greek-French composer’s works were performed, interspersed with the premieres of specially commissioned pieces. The title of the day, Music & Maths, emphasised the theorising behind his compositions, but what emerged most powerfully – as always with Xenakis – is the sheer visceral intensity of his works, which sets him apart from the other great European figures of his generation. Whether it is in the dense, curdled dissonances of the string writing in Ittidra from 1996, the […]
2022-05-13 06:39:18
Music & Maths: Iannis Xenakis at 100
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) is presenting Music and Maths, a one-day festival at Symphony Hall, CBSO Centre and The Exchange, Birmingham on 29 May 2022, devoted to the beauty of maths within music, marking the centenary of music theorist Iannis Xenakis. The are two concerts from BCMG, a family drop-in workshop and talks from the University of Birmingham and PRiSM (Royal Northern College of Music). Xenakis' music will be performed alongside especially commissioned visuals created by mathematician Marcus de Sautoy and animator Simon Russell. There are also world premiere performances by Emily Howard and Samantha Fernando. The festival marks the centenary of Iannis Xenakis, the music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. In the 1950s, Iannis Xenakis was employed in Le Corbusier’s offices for architecture and was viewed as an outsider by many of his peers for his orchestral, vocal and […]
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