| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 14-Jun-2013 Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre | Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest staged at the ROH Linbury Studio |
 STEPHEN CUMMISKEY.jpg) Interviewed at the Barbican Centre last year, Stephen Fry described Gerald Barry’s score for The Importance of Being Earnest (2010) rather unfavourably as “taking a machete to a soufflé”. However, this zany opera based on Oscar Wilde’s classic play of 1895 has already emerged victorious from concert premières in Los Angeles and London. It has had audiences guffawing with abandon at its array of Second Viennese School parodies, plate-smashing at the tea table, and musical mash-ups of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Auld Lang Syne.Read full review... | |
| 19-May-2013 Sage: Northern Rock Foundation Hall | Exciting contemporary music for the North East: Ensemble 7Bridges' debut concert |
 Ensemble 7Bridges, directed by Richard Rijnvos, Head of Composition at Durham University, and conducted by James Weeks, brings together some of the North East’s specialist professional performers of contemporary music, supported by Durham University, with the aim of contributing to the development of new music in the North East.Read full review... | |
| 2-Dec-2012 Southbank Centre: Queen Elizabeth Hall | New music galore from the London Sinfonietta at the Southbank Centre |
 Anyone who worries for the health of contemporary composition obviously wasn’t at the Southbank Centre this Sunday, where the London Sinfonietta presented a whole afternoon and evening’s worth of new music in and around the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Their New Music Show 3 comprised four shortish concerts, a series of miniature recitals strategically placed around the hall’s backstage area, two discussion sessions with composers, and stacks of innovative, interesting, new music.Read full review... | |
| 9-Jun-2012 Southbank Centre: Purcell Room | London Sinfonietta meets Martin Creed |
 During the first half of this London Sinfonietta concert, I scribbled the phrase 'Lightly anarchic streak' in my notes, referring to the formal daring and the conspicuous rock music influence evident in various pieces.Read full review... | |
