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British ex-pat New Music composer based in Germany
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- Neue Musik, 21st-century classical music
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Deadly Sins in New York and Silver Lion in Venice: Ensemble Modern
Wallis Giunta (Photo: Dario Accosta)Ensemble Modern is currently on a small tour of the USA with concerts in Houston and New York including Carnegie Hall. Under conductor HK Gruber the ensemble with mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta and a-cappella ensemble amarcord, will be presenting Kurt Weill's Die Sieben Todsünden, in a new version for chamber ensemble, plus music by Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Arnold Schoenberg. A second programme in New York will focus on Cuban-American composer Tania León alongside transcriptions of Conlon Nancarrow's player-piano studies.In September, Ensemble Modern will be at the Biennale Musica di Venezia 2024 and will be receiving the festival's Silver Lion whilst Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement has been awarded to the composer Rebecca Saunders. On September 26, Ensemble Modern opens the festival at the Teatro la Fenice together with the Orchestra del Teatro under the baton of Tito Ceccherini, performing Rebecca Saunders' Wound. On September 28, Ensemble Modern appears […]
2024-03-19 10:29:00
Venice's Golden Lion: composer Rebecca Saunders receives Lifetime Achievement award from the Biennale Musica
Rebecca Saunders (Photo: Johannes List)Berlin-based British composer Rebecca Saunders has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Musica 2024 (the musical arm of the Biennale di Venezia). The award ceremony will be on 27 September 2024 in the Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian, the headquarters of La Biennale, during the 68th International Festival of Contemporary Music (26 September - 11 October 2024).Saunders received the award for "the refined sophistication of her research and her compositional intentions, for the attention she dedicates to the sonic microcosm, for her capacity to create a private listening area within the listener, an intimate inner acoustic space that evolves and amplifies the sonic imaginary. The composer conceives a specific temporality for each work which becomes an investigation into and experimentation with the experience of listening. Her elaboration of the sonic material is profoundly speculative and at the same time powerfully empirical and […]
2023-11-20 17:24:28
Premieres by Jennifer Walshe, Laura Bowler and Rebecca Saunders were variously full of energy and extraordinary moments at the opening weekend of this thriving festival of new musicNew music organisations have been just as harshly treated as opera by funding bodies over the past year. In the last week alone, following the confirmation that Manchester-based new-music group Psappha had been disbanded, news emerged that neither the
2023-05-02 18:41:00
[…] inspired the making of this work. Through the interplay of particular and abstract, dialogue and narrative, dance and music, Stranger Loveendeavors to tell a new kind of story that is also deeply familiar and that invites the audience to dwell within it and, in the end, to complete it with us,” he said. Performed by the ensemble Contemporaneous and conductor David Bloom, the creative team also includes director Lileana Blain-Cruz and choreographer Chris Emile, scenic designer Matt Saunders, costume designer Kaye Voyce, projection designer Hannah Wasileski and lighting designer Yi Zhao.Tickets are available for purchase online at laphil.com or by phone at 323 850 2000. Programs, artists, dates, prices and availability are subject to change. This performance is generously supported by the Bernice and Wendell Jeffrey Fund.# # # Saturday, May 20, 2023, 4:00PMWalt Disney Concert HallDylan MATTINGLY/Thomas BARTSCHERER Stranger Love (world premiere, LA Phil commission) Act IPart 1:SpringSummerIntermissionPart 2:AutumnWinterSecond SpringDinner IntermissionAct IISpringSummerWinterSecond SpringAct III Creative team and Cast:Contemporaneous David […]
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