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| 21st |
The Bluecoat, Liverpool |
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Enjoy Liverpool's newest and oldest venue - over 200 years old and yet recently refurbished in time for the Capital of Cutlure 2008 - with a live set from WARP's Alexander's Annexe. The label's only crossover classical/electronica band, the trio of Mira Calix, David Sheppard and Sarah Nicolls use the acoustic grand piano to create complex textures and unusual beats. |
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| JUNE |
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| 8th |
7.30pm - Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Resonance: a portrait of Niccolo Castiglioni
with London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen
Esa-Pekka Salonen Catch & Release (UK premiere)
Silvina Milstein new work (world premiere)
Niccolo Castiglioni Movimento Continuato; Tropi; Quodlibet; Risognanze
Sarah performs Castiglioni as soloist with the London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen in works including Quodlibet. Having recorded all of Castiglioni's piano music, Sarah moves on to these works with ensemble for the first time. |
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| 22nd |
BMIC Cutting Edge Tour: Soundwaves Festival, Brighton
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Sarah returns to Brighton's newest festival to perform her solo piano and live electronics project. Performing works by Larry Goves, Richard Barrett, Jonathan Green and Christopher Fox, Sarah is also joined by dance artist Augusto Corrieri who will illuminate the concert with live performance art. This will be a concert without the usual formalities, replaced by an attempt to re-frame some of this intriguing music with spoken word and movement. |
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| 25th |
Tunisia - Echos Sonores Festival (myspace) with Alexander's Annexe |
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Sister to Les Nuits Sonores in Lyons, Echos Sonoroes provides a deliciously magical setting for the Annexe's first performance in Africa. |
| 28th |
Faster Than Sound - Aldeburgh Festival |
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One of the UK's most experimental and refreshing festivals, Faster than sound is set in the incredible surroundings of Bentwater's airbase in Suffolk. Detached from the outside world, you may experience music from the likes of Stockhausen to Venetian Snares, come across living sculptures, outdoor surround sound pieces, art pop bands and tasty local food in the magical day that is faster than Sound. Alongside artists like Plaid, Vladislav Delay and Stefan Schneider, Sarah performs Jonathan Green's Piece for piano and lamp: theatrics and shadows and interative technology come together. |
| JULY |
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| 5th |
Montreux Jazz Festival with Christophe Fellay |
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9 pm in the
Petit Palais
The percussion and piano pieces by Christophe Fellay
Seated CHF 30.-
The incredibly energetic, yet tender musicianship of astounding drummer Christophe Fellay leads a trio of drums, piano and live virtuosic electronics (from Michael Edwards). Party composed, partly improvised, this promises to be a dazzling display of beats, piano resonances and processing wizardry.
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| SEPTEMBER |
| 17th |
Krakow/ London Sinfonietta/ Kontakte |
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With percussionaist David Hockings and sound diffusionist Ian Dearden of Sound Intermedia, Sarah performs for her first time Stockhausen's masterpiece Kontakte for piano, percussion and tape. Look out for UK dates later in the Autumn/Spring. |
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