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Some new sounds to listen to

You can now hear re­cord­ings of Tuesday’s per­form­ance by Vaganza of Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling and Psappha’s premiere of Wege & Waldstille back in April over on my Bandcamp page.

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Mikrokonzert @ Royal Northern College of Music

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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Mikrokonzert @ York Spring Festival of New Music

My mini cello con­certo Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling re­ceived its premiere at York Spring Festival of New Music on Sunday 16 May. Scored for solo cello, en­semble and elec­tronics, this is a piece I wrote last year for friend and fant­astic cel­list Alice Purton and it was great to have her […]

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Weekly Roundup

The Quatuor Danel were back in Manchester last week with two com­posers, Henry Fourès and Catherine Seba, in tow. Their two con­certs in­cluded Bruno Mantovani’s piano quintet, Blue girl with red wagon (with Richard Whalley on piano), Seba’s string quartet with tape, Quivering, Fourès playing Luc Ferrari’s À la recherche du rhythme perdu, for solo […]

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Work in Progress & Upcoming Performances

I am cur­rently working on a new work for cla­rinet, cello, piano and hand­held per­cus­sion to be premiered on Friday 30th April at 17:30 by players from Psappha new music en­semble. Mikrokonzert: I Swear I Saw the Sun Falling, written last year, will be per­formed by new music en­semble Vaganza on 16th May at the […]

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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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