Category Archives: Performances

Revolution/Reformation

Tuesday, 18 January 2011

A Talk About Helmut Lachenmann’s Gran Torso For those of you in Manchester, I am giving a talk with the won­derful Quatuor Danel this Thursday on Lachenmann’s first string quartet, Gran Torso. The talk runs from 14:30 to 16:00 at the University of Manchester (map), but is pre­ceded at 13:10 by a free lunch­time concert […]

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Gaza Cantos @ Hexham Abbey Festival

Friday, 24 September 2010

Fantastic vi­olist Emma Richards will be per­forming my short piece Gaza Cantos at a lunch­time con­cert on Thursday 30 September as part of Hexham Abbey Festival of Music & Arts. The pro­gramme also in­cludes Robert Schumann’s Märchenbilder, Johannes Brahms’s F minor Sonata and move­ments from a tran­scrip­tion of the first Bach cello suite. Listings: Facebook / […]

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Encuentros Cuenca

Thursday, 9 September 2010

I have ar­rived home from a won­derful trip to premiere my tape piece La leggerezza delle città at Encuentros Cuenca. The fest­ival was fant­astic, the dance in par­tic­ular standing out, and the cloister of the Fundación Antonio Pérez with a view across the valley proved a beau­tiful set­ting for the con­cert of elec­troacoustic music, which […]

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Tape Pieces @ Encuentros Cuenca

Monday, 30 August 2010

Two of my tape pieces Para cruzar el sueño and the brand-new La leggerezza delle città will be per­formed on the 4th of September at the Encuentros Cuenca fest­ival in Spain. I’m very grateful to Irma Catalina Álvarez and the rest of the fest­ival or­gan­isers for com­mis­sioning La leggerezza delle città and flying me over […]

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Mikrokonzert @ Royal Northern College of Music

Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Alice Purton with new music en­semble Vaganza will give the second per­form­ance of my micro cello con­certo Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling at the Royal Northern College of Music on the evening of Tuesday 8th June. The con­cert is part of a two-day fest­ival cel­eb­rating the music of Alexander Goehr and also […]

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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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