The London Sinfonietta’s first live Facebook Chat with conductor Nicholas Collon

Posted on May 4, 2012 by elsieburke

Last week, the London Sinfonietta hosted their very first live Facebook Chat with conductor Nicholas Collon, who answered a range of questions on George Benjamin, conducting, and audiences. Nicholas Collon joins the ensemble on Saturday 12 May, 7.30pm at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, for a programme of  George Benjamin and Ligeti, as part of Jubilation: [...]

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Listen to our Classical music blog for May Highlights

Posted on May 2, 2012 by elsieburke

In this month’s podcast members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment discuss working with Sir Simon Rattle, and Vladimir Ashkenazy gives his personal perspective on Shostakovich’s Babi Yar Symphony. Plus a member of Spira mirabilis talks about the ensemble’s unique approach to Beethoven’s music.

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Listen to our classical music podcast for April highlights

Posted on April 4, 2012 by elsieburke

Colin Currie premieres a powerful and imaginative new Percussion Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a performance Gilbert & Sulivan’s finest operetta The Yeomen of the Guard, and meet a player-piano who is the star of this year’s Nancarrow festival.

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Read an interview with countertenor Andrew Watts about Olga Neuwirth’s music

Posted on February 8, 2012 by elsieburke

London Sinfonietta talks to countertenor Andrew Watts ahead of his performance of Neuwirth’s music with the ensemble this Saturday at Southbank Centre. On Saturday 11 February, you’ll be performing as soloist in Olga Neuwirth’s Hommage à Klaus Nomi.  Can you tell us a little about Nomi’s character and how this influences your approach to the [...]

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Ether 2011: Louis Andriessen on his Ether premiere

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Alison Fraser

London Sinfonietta’s Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits composer Louis Andriessen in his Amsterdam studio to discuss his work to be performed tonight at Ether 2011, including the UK premiere of Anaïs Nin a new work for singer, ensemble and film and De Staat (The Republic) his 1976 work of jazz-infused politically charged minimalism.   Hear London Sinfonietta [...]

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Ether 2011: Young Xenarchitects – Painting with Sound

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Alison Fraser

Ether 2011 sees a focus on one of the 20th century’s most important composers, Iannis Xenakis with performances and interactive workshops . Here composer Aleks Kolkowski tells us about his experiences with the Ether project ‘Young Xenarchitects’ at Southbank Centre. Iannis Xenakis‘ dual career as architect and composer is beautifully illustrated by his 1953 masterpiece Metasastis, whose graphic [...]

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Ether 2011: Win Exclusive Promo of Micachu & The Shapes and London Sinfonietta

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Alison Fraser

As part of Ether 2011, Micachu & The Shapes and Southbank Centre Resident Orchestra London Sinfonietta are teaming up once more for a night of 21st-century experimentalism. To celebrate another of Ether’s ground-breaking collaborations, we have 10 exclusive promo copies of Micachu & The Shapes and London Sinfonietta’s new release Chopped & Screwed to give away. Discussing [...]

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London Sinfonietta with Beat Furrer and Naomi Pinnock

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Liz White

On Tuesday 18 January 2011 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Sinfonietta presents the world premiere of Naomi Pinnock’s Words as part of the ensemble’s first concert of 2011, In Portrait: Beat Furrer. Furrer mentored Pinnock on the London Sinfonietta’s Blue Touch Paper scheme for emerging composers, and Words is the resulting piece – an enigmatic [...]

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Matthew Herbert and London Sinfonietta: Podcast

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Liz White

In preparation for One Day, the London Sinfonietta have recorded a podcast with experimental maverik Matthew Herbert as part of our collaboration for 20 November at Southbank Centre. One Day is your chance to experience a different perspective on recent news and Matthew Herbert has created a new concert experience inspired by, and using, a [...]

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London Sinfonietta: Alpine Adventures

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Liz White

This Wednesday London Sinfonietta, Resident at Southbank Centre, perform a programme of two unconventional tales of long distance love from Gerald Barry and Richard Ayres. This concert is the Saturday Time’s Pick Of The Week, and below the Guardian comment on Ayres’ music: ‘His surreal amalgam of styles, plundering the whole of western music, is [...]

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