Author Archives: Chris

March Music: Stockholm & Brussels

I’m lucky enough to be fin­ishing this month with two con­certs. On 22 March, the Curious Chamber Players will per­form The Incredulity of St Thomas as part of Samtida Musik’s Vårflod Festival in Stockholm. The rest of the pro­gramme fea­tures re­cent works by Swedish com­posers and the con­cert is fol­lowed by a re­cital given by […]

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Icebloom in Graz

Stockholm’s Curious Chamber Players will read Icebloom, a piano trio with music box drawing on Schubert’s Winterreise, as part of Impuls Academy, Graz, Austria.

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All that is solid melts into air in Paris

On Sunday 3 February, soundini­ti­ative will give the first per­form­ance of All that is solid melts into air at the Collège Franco-Britannique (MÉTRO Cité Universitaire) in Paris. The con­cert will also in­clude a new ver­sion of my All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have. for mezzo-soprano and two vi­olas, the […]

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All that is solid melts into air

All fixed, fast-frozen re­la­tions, with their train of an­cient and ven­er­able pre­ju­dices and opin­ions, are swept away, all new-formed ones be­come an­ti­quated be­fore they can os­sify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is pro­faned, and man is at last com­pelled to face with sober senses his real con­di­tions of life, […]

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Things 2012

A se­lec­tion of things from the last twelve months that I have en­joyed and would like to share. Have a happy 2013!

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  • Microbiography

    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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