Category Archives: Performances

Para cruzar el sueño @ MANTIS Festival

Sunday, 21 February 2010

Tape piece Para cruzar el sueño, which I wrote last au­tumn at the NOVARS Research Centre, was premiered as part of the Spring 2010 MANTIS Festival at the University of Manchester on Sunday 21st February at 2:00 pm. I also played cello on the Saturday night in the First MANTIS Battle of Improvised Music: Voice, acoustic […]

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Notturno/Abschiedslied I @ New Music North West

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Written in June Notturno/Abschiedslied I, for solo piano, was premiered by Olivia Jageurs on 26 November as part of the New Music North West Festival (23−27 November) in a Vaganza con­cert cel­eb­rating Peter Maxwell Davies’s new role as patron of Manchester University Music Society. Listings: Facebook / Official page / Full fest­ival schedule Poster (PDF, 124kb)

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Books of Moses @ MANTIS Festival

Saturday, 31 October 2009

Books of Moses, a stereo acous­matic work written last year at the NOVARS Research Centre, re­ceived its public premiere at the MANTIS Festival this au­tumn in a con­cert in­cluding works by Alexis Guneratne, Richard Scott, Mark Pilkington and Diana Simpson. The weekend fest­ival fea­tured cur­ated con­certs from guest com­posers Denis Smalley and Theodore Lotis alongside […]

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Gaza Cantos

Thursday, 28 May 2009

Robert Guy’s final re­cital as an un­der­graduate at the University of Manchester took place at 14:00 on Thursday 28 May in the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, re­peating the pro­gramme he gave in Wrexham two weeks pre­vi­ously: Max Bruch’s Romanze, Op. 85, and Paul Hindemith’s Viola Sonata in F, Op. 11 No. 4, […]

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Gaza Cantos @ Wrexham Arts Festival

Saturday, 9 May 2009

Friend and fre­quent mu­sical col­lab­or­ator Robert Guy gave a viola re­cital as part of the Wrexham Arts Festival on Saturday 9th May, 2009. The pro­gramme in­cluded Hindemith, Bruch and a new work, Gaza Cantos, that I wrote for him.

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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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