Forthcoming SCA events - all welcome
This page lists future concerts, composer talks, meetings and social events.
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Saturday 1 October 2011
NEWS - David Bedford
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of David Bedford, President of the Severnside Composers Alliance. He died on Saturday 1st October 2011 following a short illness. We send our condolences to his family.
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Thursday 8 March 2012, 8pm
Concert - More Strings Times Four: New Music for String Quartet - A tribute to David Bedford
@ the Arnolfini
Tickets £10 (£7 concs.) Plus intro. talk 7pm.
The Bristol Ensemble String Quartet, Leader Roger Huckle
David Bedford 2nd String Quartet
Steven Kings String Quartet (World Premiere)
David Simmonds 2nd String Quartet (WP)
John Pitts Cerebrations for string quartet (WP)
Following the success of the first SCA concert at Arnolfini in November 2011, the Bristol Ensemble Quartet returns with a concert that pays tribute to David Bedford, leading British composer and former SCA President, who died in October 2011.
Famous for early collaborations with Mike Oldfield and Kevin Ayers, Bedford straddled the worlds of rock and contemporary classical music. His 2nd Quartet, written in 1998 combines lyricism with fast-moving virtuosity rising to a dramatic climax.
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Wednesday 4 April 2012, 8pm
Concert - PIANO TRIETS - THREE is the MAGIC NUMBER
Extraordinary Music for Piano Triet
@ Colston Hall 2
Tickets £10 (£7 Concs.)
Pianists: Daniella Acker, Andre Shlimon, Jolyon Laycock, Geoff Poole, James Drinkwater, Giuseppe Bavetta & Natalie Haupt.
Two’s company, but three’s a riot!
Probably the first concert of its kind in the UK. This music is as stunning as it is rare - extraordinary contemporary music exclusively for three pianists at one piano. SCA’s programme spans the whole gamut of the genre – from simple tunes for beginners to displays of breath-taking virtuosity. Piano-6-hands has the “cool” factor. In recent years it has become a fashionable concert genre attracting large and enthusiastic young audiences.
As well as classics by Schnittke, Castérède and Boutry, we present triets by a younger generation
of composers including SCA members Laycock, Pitts, Shlimon and Harvey, plus the intricate, supersonic music of German composer Armin Fuchs - the aural equivalent of the optical paintings of Bridget Riley.
Don’t miss it!
Programme to include Schnittke's Hommage a Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, the extraordinary ..._oder_etwa_doch__... by Armin Fuchs, the groovy Metrorhythmia 1 by Tomislav Baynov, beautiful Pensees & Montmartre from Maison Satie by Paul Robinson, the playfully polyphonic Are You Going? by John Pitts, the triply Double Vision by Frank Harvey, and music by Roger Boutry, Dionysis Boukouvalas, Mykola Kovalinas, and others, including specially written pieces by SCA's Jolyon Laycock and Andre Shlimon.
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Friday 11 May 2012
Concert - Lore Lixenberg (mezzo), Chris Northam (piano)
www.lorelixenberg.com
Double bill – Featuring Lore Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano
Friday & Saturday 11 & 12 May – Arnolfini.
Double ticket (both concerts) £20
Lore Lixenberg is one of this country’s leading exponents of contemporary
vocal music. Her international operatic career has included the roles of
Peaches and Baby Jane in the controversial Jerry Springer the Opera.
Lixenberg is not just a good singer, she is a deeply theatrical
performer, who constantly transgressed the boundaries of
musical performance… with ease and astonishing results.
( S & H Concert Review, Jean Martin, 2004)
…Lixenberg’s rich powerful voice has an almost
bewildering range of colours and a breathtaking
upper register… (Metro)
Concert 1 – voice and piano
Friday 11 May 8pm Tickets £10 (£7 Concs.)
Plus introductory talk 7pm
Jolyon Laycock Six Sonnets of Edna
St. Vincent Millay (World Premiere)
A selection of vocal works by George Aperghis, John Cage & Berio plus songs by SCA members
including Steven Kings & John Pitts.
Laycock’s Millay Sonnets were written for Lore Lixenberg, exploiting the full range of her remarkable voice. Millay is one of America’s most important national poets. Her six sonnets,
first published in 1917, are an intense expression of love, loss and bereavement. The programme features music from Lixenberg’s contemporary repertoire plus her personal selection of songs by SCA members.
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Saturday 12 May 2012
Concert - Lore Lixenberg & the Bristol Ensemble
www.lorelixenberg.com
Double bill – Featuring Lore Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano
Friday & Saturday 11 & 12 May – Arnolfini.
Double ticket (both concerts) £20
Lore Lixenberg is one of this country’s leading exponents of contemporary
vocal music. Her international operatic career has included the roles of
Peaches and Baby Jane in the controversial Jerry Springer the Opera.
Lixenberg is not just a good singer, she is a deeply theatrical
performer, who constantly transgressed the boundaries of
musical performance… with ease and astonishing results.
( S & H Concert Review, Jean Martin, 2004)
…Lixenberg’s rich powerful voice has an almost
bewildering range of colours and a breathtaking
upper register… (Metro)
Concert 2 – voice and instruments
Saturday 12 May 8pm Tickets £15 (£12 Concs.)
Plus introductory talk 7pm
With members of the Bristol Ensemble, leader Roger Huckle
Raymond Warren Burnt Norton Sketches for violin, cello and piano
Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire
Plus other pieces for voice and ensemble by SCA members.
Raymond Warren, former Professor of Music at Bristol University, is the most distinguished SCA member. The concert features his 1985 piano trio, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”. The concert culminates in Lore Lixenberg’s unique interpretation of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. 2012 marks the centenary of this ground-breaking work first performed in Berlin in October 1912. The soloist, in the guise of the moon-drunk delusional Pierrot, delivers Albert Giraud’s twenty-one surreal poetic fantasies in a kind of histrionic speech-song that Schoenberg called Sprechstimme.
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