Category Archives: Performances

The Incredulity of St Thomas at Harvard

The Incredulity of St Thomas’ for bass cla­ri­net­tist, cel­list and per­cus­sionist will be premiered by Talea Ensemble at Harvard University.

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Sky Studies in Paris

This Thursday, co­in­ciding with the Fête de la Musique and the summer sol­stice, Trami Nguyen is giving a piano re­cital at Paris’s Cité des Arts (Métro Pont Marie), which will in­clude the second and third of my Sky Studies from 2009 along­side music by Adam Maor, Vittorio Montalti and Alex Mincek. There will also be […]

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Schattenspiel at the Scandinavian Saxophone Festival

Performance of Schattenspiel for sop­rano sax­o­phone and elec­tronics given by Joshua Hyde at the Scandinavian Saxophone Festival 2012.

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Schattenspiel at IRCAM

My newest piece, Schattenspiel [Update, 12/4: now titled some­thing golden in the night] for sop­rano sax­o­phone and elec­tronics, a pre­view of which you can hear above, will be premiered on Saturday 31 March at 4 p.m. by Haruka Inoue (on the right in the pic­ture above) in IRCAM’s Espace de pro­jec­tion. The con­cert will also feature […]

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June Unfolding on BBC Radio 3

During the in­terval of BBC Radio 3’s live con­cert broad­cast on Friday 2 March, you can hear me talking to King Edward Musical Society chairman Tim Ward about my or­ches­tral work June Unfolding, which they premiered last summer as part of the cel­eb­ra­tions for the 750th an­niversary of the royal charter of Macclesfield. The piece was […]

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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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