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Excavations @ Vaganza New Music Day

My piece for nine strings, Excavations, drawing in­spir­a­tion from 350 year-old Henry Purcell’s fantazias that was work­shopped by the Manchester Camerata in October of last year and has since been heavily re­vised, was given a bril­liant first per­form­ance at Vaganza New Music Day Deserts and Canyons: John McCabe at 70 under the baton of Robert Guy. […]

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3 Sunsets

3 Sunsets, three mini­atures for solo piano was premiered by Sebastian Grand as part of new music en­semble Vaganza’s day of con­certs cel­eb­rating the 50th birthday of com­poser Kevin Malone at the University of Manchester. It fea­tured along­side George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children, Christopher Rouse’s Surma Ritornelli and sev­eral works by stu­dents from the […]

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non vogliono, camminano

non vogliono, cam­minano is an in­stru­mental work for en­semble drawing its in­spir­a­tion from a pas­sage found in Primo Levi’s Se questo è un uomo. It was premiered as part of the University of Manchester’s Student Showcase of new works on May 12th at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester. Programme Notes & […]

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Bodies

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, a new work for oboe and piano, is about […]

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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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