| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 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... | |
| 5-Mar-2013 Konzerthaus: Mozart Saal | In Europe series, Klangforum Wien surveys Greece |
 Give the Austrian body politic a victim complex to nurse, and it will gladly let off xenophobic steam. By now this well-oiled masquerade is possessed with Pavlovian inevitability. So nothing unusual then, when populist indignation about perceived Austrian vulnerability to the ongoing Greek crisis rapidly descended into ugly national stereotyping.
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| 18-Feb-2013 Jack NY | "It's about chickens who want to go to outer space": Composers Now Festival at JackNY |
 Here’s a secret: on any given night in New York City and Brooklyn, groups of regular-looking people perform exceedingly difficult music in front of other regular-looking people, sometimes for one hour, sometimes for twelve. Often this music is being performed for the first time, and since much of it is aleatoric, or indeterminate, the audience witnesses a one-of-a-kind experience: completely unique, never to be repeated.Read full review... | |
| 15-Nov-2012 The Jam House | Hebrides Ensemble: Eight Songs for a Mad King |
 The Jam House is a jazz and blues club occupying the BBC’s former Queen Street Studios in Edinburgh. Now owned by Jools Holland and designer Neil Tabbitt, its spacious Georgian interior is occasionally given over to theatrical and musical events. Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) qualifies as both music and theatre, and this production, which was directed by Ben Twist, designed by Fiona Watt and lit by Martin Palmer, was certainly theatrical.
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