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3 Sunsets

Friday, 21 November 2008

Written for Sebastian Grand, 3 Sunsets is made up of three sharply con­trasting mini­atures aimed at es­tab­lishing at­mo­spheric vign­ettes and ex­amining various as­pects of con­tem­porary piano tech­nique. Each mini­ature ex­am­ines ex­tremes of speed and dy­namic in a some­what ali­en­ated, but hope­fully ghostly land­scape. 3 Sunsets was premiered on November 21 2008 by Sebastian Grand in […]

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Bodies

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

Two things  —  a thou­sand things  —  meet face to face; two planets, the air on either side of a door, Leda and the Swan, Hemlock and Socrates, two hands, a river and the sea. Their or­bits and col­li­sions are his­tory and life, the brushing and breaking of edges. Bodies, for oboe and piano, is about these meet­ings and […]

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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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