Category Archives: Performances

Excavations @ Vaganza New Music Day

Friday, 20 March 2009

My piece for nine strings, Excavations, drawing in­spir­a­tion from 350 year-old Henry Purcell’s fantazias that was work­shopped by the Manchester Camerata in October of last year and has since been heavily re­vised, was given a bril­liant first per­form­ance at Vaganza New Music Day Deserts and Canyons: John McCabe at 70 under the baton of Robert Guy. […]

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Detached Thought #100 @ Interdisciplinary Byron Conference

Friday, 5 December 2008

Trio Atem (flute, voice and cello) gave a fant­astic premiere of Detached Thought #100  —  a set­ting of a brief journal entry by Lord Byron  —  as part of the University of Manchester’s Interdisciplinary Byron Conference, 4  –  5 December 2008. The lunch­time con­cert in­cluded various set­tings of Byron’s writ­ings by stu­dents at the University, bringing to an end two days […]

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3 Sunsets

Friday, 21 November 2008

3 Sunsets, three mini­atures for solo piano was premiered by Sebastian Grand as part of new music en­semble Vaganza’s day of con­certs cel­eb­rating the 50th birthday of com­poser Kevin Malone at the University of Manchester. It fea­tured along­side George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children, Christopher Rouse’s Surma Ritornelli and sev­eral works by stu­dents from the […]

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Books of Moses @ NOVARS Research Centre

Tuesday, 3 June 2008

A new tape piece, Books of Moses was com­posed at the University of Manchester’s NOVARS Research Centre for Electroacoustic Composition, Performance and Sound-Art. It is my first work for which I have un­der­taken a ded­ic­ated re­cording ses­sion from which all of the sound-material was drawn and it deals with is­sues of cre­ation and re-creation, methods […]

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non vogliono, camminano

Friday, 2 May 2008

non vogliono, cam­minano is an in­stru­mental work for en­semble drawing its in­spir­a­tion from a pas­sage found in Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo. It was premiered as part of the University of Manchester’s Student Showcase of new works on May 12th at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester. Programme Notes & […]

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    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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