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Backwards through a telescope

Brian Ferneyhough at the RNCM In the last week and a half it has been in­ter­esting to ob­serve from a dis­tance the build-up and fall-out from the Ferneyhough day in London. Thankfully, the Radio 3 broad­cast meant I could hear the music as well as the sur­rounding re­ac­tion. Radio 4 ran an item on the Total […]

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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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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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  • Microbiography

    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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