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Two Pietàs: Bouguereau & Streich

The most re­cent edi­tion of the CeReNeM Journal, run by post­gradu­ates at the University of Huddersfield, con­tains an art­icle I wrote about the painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Swedish com­poser Lisa Streich, ex­ploring the trope of the Pietà in their works. Thanks go to Pedro Alvarez for in­stig­ating the pro­ject and editing this volume, and to […]

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Colloquium Presentation at Harvard

I have re­cently joined the PhD pro­gramme at Harvard University to study with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku, which is going to take up a sub­stan­tial chunk of my life for the next six or so years. Throughout the year the Harvard Group for New Music or­gan­ises a series of present­a­tions by cur­rent stu­dents, plus oc­ca­sional guests, […]

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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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Hear: All the time that you have what we have

Stream ‘All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have’, for sop­rano and two vi­olins, per­formed at Fondation Royaumont in September 2012.

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Hear: The Incredulity of St Thomas

Stream and free down­load of ‘The Incredulity of St Thomas’, for bass cla­ri­net­tist, cel­list and per­cus­sionist, per­formed by Talea Ensemble in August 2012.

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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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