September 25, 2010
D'Amico Flight from Byzantium
The new Cantata with LPO
Fuga da Bisanzio (Flight from Byzantium), a joint commission by LPO and Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, is the new cantata for speaker, vocal ensemble and orchestra by Matteo D'Amico with texts by Josif Brodskij, after Flight from Byzantium and Nativity Poems.
Byzantium is the point of contact, the bridge between East and West. In Brodskij's prophetic analysis (his book was published in 1985) this confrontation will decide on the future of mankind.
The cantata will be premiered at Royal Festival Hall by London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hilliard Ensemble on September 25th, conducting Valdimir Jurowski. Further performances in Italy in October 2010.

London Philharmonic Orchestra

September 24, 2010
Oscar Bianchi – Ajna Concerto
World Premiere in Strasbourg "Festival Musica" 24 September 2010
Oscar Bianchi will be guest of the French Festival Musica in Strasbourg with a State commissioned work, Ajna Concerto, performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Pascal Rophé, quite an exceptional artist, notably in contemporary repertoire.

World premiered on September 24, 2010 his first large orchestra piece Ajna Concert is an echo to Oscar Bianchi's works for ensemble Vishudda Concerto and Anahata Concerto, regularly performed by Klangforum and Ensemble Modern.


Strasbourg French Festival Musical

September 18, 2010
New reworking of Liza Lim's "Invisibility"
A premiere in Royaumont
The LINEA Ensemble of Strasbourg will be premiering Liza Lim's latest work, Buwayak, under the direction of Jean-Philippe Wurtz on September 18, 2010, in Royaumont.
In creating the piece, which is scored for flute, clarinet, trumpet, cello and percussion, the composer has reworked material from her solo cello work Invisibility (2009) and successive orchestral work Pearl, Ochre, Hair String (2010), gleaning it for new possibilities.
"Invisibility draws inspiration from Aboriginal art, particularly in its use of 'shimmer' effects to reveal the simultaneity of past, present and future spiritual reality. The piece calls for two bows, one standard, the other a 'guiro' bow of Lim's devising, in which the bow hairs are twisted round the wood of the bow, like a damper spring.
This gives the sound across the string an irregular, serrated effect, rather like the cross-hatchings of Aboriginal art." (Tim Rutherford-Johnson in Kings Place, 8 February 2010)".

September 05, 2010
DAI FUJIKURA
September Performances

5 September

Estonian ensemble Resonabilis perform still sweet... for mezzo soprano, bass flute and cello on for the Vale of Glamorgan

11 September

ICE kicks off the 2010-11 season at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago with Roots and Return, a program tracing the web of connections between recent musical works and the classic pieces that inspired them. The program features works by the US premiere of returning for solo and new work ICE (published by Ricordi Munich).

18 September

The Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, conducted by Pierre-André Valade present the Danish premiere of Fifth Station for ensemble (Danish Premiere) and time unlocked for 6 players on 18 September at the Black Diamond, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www.athelas.dk/en/calendar/japan-og-danmark-fr-og-nu-fujikura-glerup-og-nielsen-1/ The Voice for Bassoon and Cello will be given its US premiere this month performed by Pascal Gallois (bassoon) and Rohan de Saram (cello) at Buffalo University, USA.


Program of ICE at Museum of Contemporary Art

July 08, 2010
György Kurtág
Colinda Balada premiered in Hungary
After the world premiere in Tirgu Mures, Rumania last year the new work of György Kurtág Colinda Balada will be premiered in Hungary during the Bartók Seminar and Festival in Szombathely, 8th of July.
The choral and chamber ensemble composition was written in Rumanian language and will be sung by the choir of the first performance. They will also sing it on the French premiere in Paris, Festival D'Automne.