GETTING TO KNOW DAVID BRAID

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Gemma

On 2nd July Southbank Centre welcomes David Braid to the Purcell Room to present his new album of chamber and instrumental music. The evening will include performances from The Erato Piano Trio, pianist Sergei Podobedov and clarinettist Peter Cigleris. Steve Reich said of David’s work: “ ‘Morning’. Integration of voice with string quartet beautifully done [...]

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Southbank Centre Artist in Residence Oliver Coates wins RPS Music Award

Posted on May 9, 2012 by elsieburke

The winners of this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards were announced at the Dorchester Hotel yesterday. Conductor Claudio Abbado and pianist Maurizio Pollini were the big name winners on a night that celebrated revelatory live music making. Pianist Mitsuko Uchida was presented with the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, the society’s (and one of classical [...]

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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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JUBILATION: THE MUSIC OF GEORGE BENJAMIN

Posted on April 27, 2012 by katepennington

Celebrate the pioneering music of George Benjamin, one of the greatest British composers of the 20th century, during a weekend festival exploring his remarkable career on 12 & 13 May. Described as one of “the most formidable composers of his generation” (New York Times), George Benjamin is renowned for his diverse repertoire of music rooted [...]

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SOUTHBANK CENTRE CELEBRATES CONLON NANCARROW’S GROUND-BREAKING MUSIC

Posted on April 20, 2012 by katepennington

To celebrate the centenary of Conlon Nancarrow’s birth, Southbank Centre is hosting Impossible Brilliance: The Music of Conlon Nancarrow, a two-day festival taking place on 21 & 22 April in Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room. Described as “one of the most singular musical minds in history” (The Daily Telegraph), Conlon Nancarrow is remembered for creating some of [...]

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Colin Currie and Kalevi Aho in conversation

Posted on April 17, 2012 by elsieburke

Read an interview with Colin Currie (CC) and Kalevi Aho (KA) about the new percussion concerto written for him by Aho in what is one of the most eagerly-anticipated premieres of the season . CC Kalevi Aho – your new “Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra”, entitled  “Sieidi”, represents a colossal milestone within the Solo Percussion with [...]

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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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LISTEN TO OUR CLASSICAL MUSIC PODCAST FOR MARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Posted on March 2, 2012 by elsieburke

Esa-Pekka Salonen on the delights of performing Beethoven with the Philharmonia Orchestra, new music from composer Julian Anderson, commissioned by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Laurence Cummings talks about Bach, as uncovered in a series of concerts by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. The Philharmonia Orchestra perform Beethoven’s First and Third Symphonies under [...]

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Win a copy of Heiner Goebbels’ ‘Surrogate Cities’ Suite for Sampler and Orchestra

Posted on March 1, 2012 by elsieburke

Commissioned to mark the 20th anniversary of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt, ‘Surrogate Cities’ is one of Heiner Goebbels’ most far-reaching projects. The work is an examination of the concrete jungle in all its complexity, its positive and negative ramifications, its past and present. It is about the [...]

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Our Music Nation Podcast! All music, all ages, all weekend

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Liz White

If you thought you knew what orchestras were about, think again. Come and experience an amazing variety of music, spanning Baroque to sampled sounds in the Music Nation weekend. Hear interviews with Trinity Laban students and Lawrence Cummings Directot of OAE’s The Night Shift. During the Music Nation weekend, a pulsing urban jungle, created live [...]

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