🎉 Happy birthday Georg Friedrich Haas!
📽️ Dive into the fascinating mind of the Austrian composer in our episode of The Composer's Mind. Haas discusses his work Hommage à Bridget Riley and his interest in microtonality
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Happy #WorldCalligraphyDay ✍️
🇯🇵 Japanese calligraphy meets Takemitsu's Rain Coming in our performance film. Calligraphy by KASHUŪ.
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“It is the most satisfactory version that I’ve ever heard and seen” Steve Reich, 2021 watch video on watch page
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🌍 #OnThisDay last year, we premiered Laura Bowler's 'Houses Slide', the first classical music concert to be powered entirely by bicycles . Watch the full performance of this ground-breaking piece that puts the spotlight on the global climate emergency 👇 watch video on watch page
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The great composer Oliver Knussen would have been 70 this year #OnThisDay
🤝 He had worked with us for decades as both a composer writing commissions such as Coursing, and as a conductor premiering other new works including Boulez's Dérive I 👇
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It's World Bicycle Day today 🚴
Re-live the world premiere performance of Houses Slide by Laura Bowler, the first classical music concert in the UK in which the performance area will be completely off-grid, instead powered by 17 onstage stationary bicycles, operated by members of the public.
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👂 Pauline Oliveros, the inventor of the concept Deep Listening was born #OnThisDay in 1932.
Inspired by Oliveros' concept, our Composition Challenge invites you to listen, explore and create with the sounds around you before blending and structuring them to compose your own music 👇
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💬 "Dérive 1 is derived from the material I used for Répons, and I still have a lot of material I wrote for Répons which is unused."
🗣️ Pierre Boulez in an interview with Universal Edition - watch our latest release of his piece Dérive 1 below 👇
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#OnThisDay in 1918 - Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle was premiered in Hungary 🇭🇺
⏩ Fast forward to 2021 - Electra Perivolaris composed a new work alongside Theatre of Sound's production of Bartok's opera, which reimagined the piece as a love story between a long married couple – Duke Bluebeard and Judith – coming to terms with living with dementia. Inspired by the themes of this unique reimagining and in collaboration with Rare Dementia Support, Electra worked with families living with dementia to create new pieces of music drawn from their stories, experiences and musical memories.
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🎷 Jazz pioneer Sun Ra was born #OnThisDay in 1914, the inspiration behind Cassie Kinoshi's 'Solaristic Precepts'
📽️ https://youtu.be/DZIrgqoF-1U
📍 Premiered at the Southbank Centre as part of the 2021 EFG London Jazz Festival
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"The world's top new music ensemble" The Times
The London Sinfonietta makes new music, from cutting edge collaborations to contemporary classics.
Our mission is to place the best contemporary classical music at the heart of today’s culture; engaging and challenging the public through inspiring performances of the highest standard, and taking risks to develop new work and talent. Founded in 1968, our commitment to new music has seen us commission over 450 works, and premiere many hundreds more.
Resident at Southbank Centre and Artistic Associates at Kings Place, with a busy touring schedule across the UK and abroad, its core of Principal Players and guest artists represent some of the best solo and ensemble musicians in the world.
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