Events

Solem Quartet in Liverpool
May
8

Solem Quartet in Liverpool

“A brilliant close to the 2023/2024 lunchtime concert series, as the Music Department’s ensemble-in-residence, the Solem Quartet, will be joined by students to showcase achievements of performers and composers across the academic year.”

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Riot Ensemble at Wigmore Hall
Jun
29

Riot Ensemble at Wigmore Hall

“Among the lasting fruits of the lockdown period is a series of works commissioned by the Hall which are now ready for performance, and which will be threaded throughout the next four seasons.


'f o r e v e r 1 9 9 0 is a fluid collage of musical fragments from different pieces and songs written across my life; all heard softly in a lucid dream. One, unbroken, shapeshifting, soft, serpentine, liquid monolith in sound.' - Jocelyn Campbell”

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Solem Quartet
Feb
28

Solem Quartet

University of Liverpool lunchtime concert featuring the world premiere of new work by Amy Bryce commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society

Amy Bryce: Public Speaking

Nadia Boulanger, arr. Amy Tress: Three Pieces for cello and piano, arranged for string quartet


Claude Debussy: Quartet in G Minor, op. 10

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Riot Ensemble at Wigmore Hall
Feb
24

Riot Ensemble at Wigmore Hall

“Mexican composer Hilda Paredes’s new work The Hearing Trumpet is a tribute to the British/Mexican surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. Born in Lancashire in 1917 and eventually moving to Mexico, she was revered for her refined and imaginative work, and the width and depth of her writing. Sadly, this same recognition was lacking in her home country, and she died in Mexico City in 2011.

In the score, Hilda explores several recurring ideas: 'I took the idea from her book The Hearing Trumpet, 'a book about how we hear and how we don’t'. The hearing trumpet being the 'instrument' that can help us hear what cannot be heard. With this concept in mind the score establishes a dramatic interaction between the off-stage horn and the rest of the ensemble exploring the acoustic space at the Wigmore Hall.'

Today we will hear Hilda’s work twice: once as the opening of the concert, and once again to conclude after we journey together across the expanse that is Brian Ferneyhough’s Liber Scintellarum. Brian, too, is an artist who journeyed far from his homeland. Born in Coventry (1943), he first emigrated to Germany (1973-86) and then onward to the United States (where he still lives today).”

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Spotlight Chamber Concerts
Dec
10

Spotlight Chamber Concerts

“Finally, a return to Spotlight Chamber Concerts for the Solem Quartet, known for their ‘immaculate precision and spirit’ (The Strad) and ‘cultured tone’ (Arts Desk). They play Beethoven’s sublime Quartet in A minor, Op. 132 and give the London première of a new quartet based on the Beethoven, Devotions by composer Edmund Finnis, who ‘seems to make the very air shimmer with his music’ (The Times).”

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Max Richter VOICES
Dec
9

Max Richter VOICES

In this double bill charity concert, experience some of the best contemporary composition in the UK, and reflect on the meaning of Human Rights.

Studio Richter Mahr commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in this special charity event raising money for Médecins Sans Frontières.

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