Category Archives: Performances

The Incredulity of St Thomas at Northwestern University

Friday, 25 April 2014

This weekend I am trav­el­ling to Chicago to take part in the NUNC! Conference at Northwestern University. There’s a full schedule of con­certs, present­a­tions, and masterclasses, including a per­form­ance of my piece The Incredulity of St Thomas by Ensemble Dal Niente. See the full schedule here.

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Tomorrow I will build a house here… — first reading at Harvard

Wednesday, 9 April 2014

At 11:30 this Saturday morning at Harvard University, my duo for flute and cello, Tomorrow I will build a house here, if I can hold still, will be presented by Jessi Rosinski and David Russell of the Callithumpian Consort as part of my and fellow first-year PhD can­didate Kai Polzhofer’s jury ex­am­in­a­tion. Our pieces will be performed […]

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Hand Werk Incredulous in Harvard

Saturday, 8 March 2014

On Saturday, 8 March, Cologne-based en­semble hand werk are giving the first of the Harvard Group for New Music’s con­certs for the year. In a mam­moth pro­gramme that in­cludes works by my col­leagues here Sivan Cohen-Elias, Marta Gentilucci, Justin Hoke, Tim McCormack, Manuela Meier, Marek Poliks, Ian Power, and Sabrina Schroeder, they will play my […]

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All the time that you have in Venice

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Unfortunately, I’m not get­ting any time at all in Venice, but this Sunday, 6 October, my All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have. will be part of a con­cert at the Biennale di Venezia cur­ated by Italian blogger-composer col­lective /nu/thing. The per­formers are sop­rano Laura Catrani […]

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Icebloom première in New York

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

On Thursday, 12 September, the New York-based string trio Longleash are ap­pearing at Opera America with a pro­gramme that will in­clude the première of my Icebloom along­side works by Haydn, Schubert, Reiko Füting, Younghi Pagh-Paan and Beat Furrer. Maybe see you there! Below you can hear them in the Allegro mod­erato from Haydn’s Trio in E […]

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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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