London Sinfonietta is a contemporary music ensemble resident at London's Southbank Centre. It commissions and promotes new work at home and abroad. Our funding subsidises concerts and commissions and supports core costs.
A trailer for the London Sinfonietta's 'Conlon Nancarrow:Impossible Brilliance' concert, curated by Andrew Burke and Dominic Murcott.
London Sinfonietta, conducted by Baldur Brönnimann (Assistant Conductor Ben Gernon)
Rex Lawson - pianola
Netia Jones/Lightmap - video projection design
Video created by Wash Media.
London Sinfonietta's Blue Touch Paper programme nurtures and promotes the next generation of composers and inter-disciplinary collaborators. The Blue Touch Paper preview event on 16 May 2012 at Village Underground showcased the culmination of a year-long collaboration between 3 groups of composers and multi-disciplinary artists.
This film features a work in progress preview of The Revenge of Miguel Cotto by Steven J Fowler & Philip Venables exploring the violence, sanctioned by society, that is boxing, through music and poetry.
The Revenge of Miguel Cotto:
Graham Lee trombone
Tony Boorer trombone
Simon Baker trombone
Laurent Quenelle violin
Joan Atherton violin *
Miranda Fulleylove violin
Oliver Lowe percussion
Serge Vuille percussion
Ian Watson accordion
Richard Baker conductor
Leigh Melrose vocalist
Alexander Robin Baker vocalist
Sound Intermedia sound projection *
* London Sinfonietta Principal player
Video produced by De Novo Arts.
Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
London Sinfonietta's Blue Touch Paper programme nurtures and promotes the next generation of composers and inter-disciplinary collaborators. The Blue Touch Paper preview event on 16 May 2012 at Village Underground showcased the culmination of a year-long collaboration between 3 groups of composers and multi-disciplinary artists.
This film features a work in progress preview of Half of Me, a re-imagining of the Greek myth of Persephone, experimenting how effects from early animated film could transfer to the art of puppetry, integrated with live musical performance by Elspeth Brooke, Seonaid Goody & Anna Jones.
100 Combat Troupes:
Simon Haram saxophone *
Torbjorn Hultmark trumpet
Joely Koos cello
Enno Senft double bass *
David Hockings percussion *
Oliver Lowe percussion
Cara Curran singer
Adam de la Cour actor
Jüri Nael actor
James Scott actor
Kirstin Smith actor
Sound Intermedia sound projection *
* London Sinfonietta Principal player
Video produced by De Novo Arts.
Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
London Sinfonietta's Blue Touch Paper programme nurtures and promotes the next generation of composers and inter-disciplinary collaborators. The Blue Touch Paper preview event on 16 May 2012 at Village Underground showcased the culmination of a year-long collaboration between 3 groups of composers and multi-disciplinary artists.
This film features a work in progress preview of 100 Combat Troupes, by Kélina Gotman & Steve Potter which stages the urgency and ambivalence of dreaming other possible worlds, from the technicolor fantasies of Disney to the anarchist trenches.
Video produced by De Novo Arts
Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
London Sinfonietta's Blue Touch Paper programme nurtures and promotes the next generation of composers and inter-disciplinary collaborators. The Blue Touch Paper preview event on 16 May 2012 at Village Underground showcased the culmination of a year-long collaboration between 3 groups of composers and multi-disciplinary artists.
This short film features 100 Combat Troupes, by Kélina Gotman & Steve Potter, including performance footage and interviews with the collaborators.
100 Combat Troupes stages the urgency and ambivalence of dreaming other possible worlds, from the technicolor fantasies of Disney to the anarchist trenches.
Video produced by De Novo Arts
Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
London Sinfonietta's Blue Touch Paper programme nurtures and promotes the next generation of composers and inter-disciplinary collaborators. The Blue Touch Paper preview event on 16 May 2012 at Village Underground showcased the culmination of a year-long collaboration between 3 groups of composers and multi-disciplinary artists.
This short film features The Revenge of Miguel Cotto, by Steven J Fowler & Philip Venables, including performance footage and interviews with the collaborators.
The Revenge of Miguel Cotto is a work exploring the violence, sanctioned by society, that is boxing, through music and poetry.
Video produced by De Novo Arts
Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
London Sinfonietta's Blue Touch Paper programme nurtures and promotes the next generation of composers and inter-disciplinary collaborators. The Blue Touch Paper preview event on 16 May 2012 at Village Underground showcased the culmination of a year-long collaboration between 3 groups of composers and multi-disciplinary artists.
This short film features Half of Me, by Elspeth Brooke, Seonaid Goody & Anna Jones including performance footage and interviews with the collaborators.
Half of Me is a re-imagining of the Greek myth of Persephone, experimenting how effects from early animated film could transfer to the art of puppetry, integrated with live musical performance
Video produced by De Novo Arts
Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation with support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
A short documentary, shot in July 2011, following 28 young musicians and 3 conductors as they attended the London Sinfonietta Academy 2011. An intensive course taught by London Sinfonietta Principal Players and conductor Pierre-André Valade, the students focussed on György Ligeti's Chamber Concerto. Contents: I: Extreme staccato and multiple tuplet hemiolas [01:02] II: The art of balancea dn control playing one-to-a-part [02:57] III: Layered sound, texture and density in Ligeti's music [04:25] IV: The fine line between rhythmic precision and aural effect [07:12] video producer De Novo Arts Special thanks to Pierre-André Valade, the London Sinfonietta Principal Players and all of the Academy students.
A short film summarising the work of London Sinfonietta's KX Collective during 2010/11.
All audio and video created by the KX Collective.
Photography by Briony Campbell.
Video editing by Emmi Tingey.
The London Sinfonietta introduces the work of composer Iris ter Schiphorst. The interview was filmed for Pavilions: New Music Show 2 and first shown in the concert.
Produced by De Novo Arts
Watch the film programme note for Charlie Piper's Insomniac. It was produced for Pavilions: New Music Show 2 and first shown in the concert.
Charlie Piper's Insomniac was commissioned by the London Sinfonietta, with support from Susan Costello.
Film by Charlie Piper
Insomniac drawing by Tony Comley
The London Sinfonietta introduces the work of composer Francisco Coll. The interview was filmed for Pavilions: New Music Show 2 and first shown in the concert.
Produced by De Novo Arts
Extract of a DVD extra included as part of the London Sinfoneitta's latest recording: Thomas Ades's In Seven Days.
Available to buy from iTunes and all good record stores on 5 December
The Creation of In Seven Days
Thomas Adès and Tal Rosner in conversation
Filmed at Southbank Centre on 3 August 2012 and edited by Kieran Morris of De Novo Arts
In Seven Days excerpts conducted by Thomas Adès and performed by Nicolas Hodges (piano) with the London Sinfonietta
Watch a documentary of the London Sinfonietta's performance of Frank Zappa's The Adventures of Greggery Peccary at London's Roundhouse in November 2010.
Watch an interview with Steve Reich in which the iconic composer talks about his music and the inspiration behind his iconic Music for 18 Musicians. The film also includes behind-the-scenes footage of the London Sinfonietta and Synergy Vocals in rehearsal for a performance of Music for 18 Musicians in 2009.
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians (c) Copyright 1978 by Hendon Music Inc.
Used by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.
www.robertworby.com
A London Sinfonietta production in association with Sound and Music.
Please note that Steve Reich will not be performing with London Sinfonietta in 2011.
London Sinfonietta continues to nurture emerging talent as part of its innovative Blue Touch Paper scheme, which allows young composers the chance to develop their music with the LS players and collaborators without the immediate pressure of a public performance. Bold experiments and risk-taking in workshops and rehearsals allow composers to make big steps in developing their style and technique.
Following in the footsteps of previous BTP composers Anna Meredith, Larry Goves and Dai Fujikura, Naomi Pinnock has been working with the ensemble and her mentor Beat Furrer to develop her new piece 'words'. This footage was recorded at her last workshop session prior to the premiere of 'words' at Southbank Centre, London, as part of the London Sinfonietta's 'In Portrait: Beat Furrer' event on 18 January 2011.
From 4 -- 8 July 2010, 22 young instrumentalists, 3 young conductors and 20 London Sinfonietta principal players battled with some of the most exciting new music from the last 40 years. The course was an intensive week of rehearsals, workshops and masterclasses culminating in a performance from the young players led by Elgar Howarth.
Conlon Nancarrow: Impossible Brilliance
Blue Touch Paper work-in-progress preview: The Revenge of Miguel Cotto
Blue Touch Paper work-in-progress preview: Half of Me
Blue Touch Paper work-in-progress preview: 100 Combat Troupes
Blue Touch Paper: 100 Combat Troupes
Blue Touch Paper: The Revenge of Miguel Cotto
London Sinfonietta Academy: Online Performance Guide
London Sinfonietta's KX Collective 2010/11
London Sinfonietta & Dai Fujikura
London Sinfonietta & Iris ter Schiphorst
London Sinfonietta & Francisco Coll
The Creation of Thomas Adès's In Seven Days
London Sinfonietta's Written/Unwritten
Steve Reich and Music for 18 Musicians
Naomi Pinnock and London Sinfonietta
LS at the Kings Place Festival 2010
London Sinfonietta Academy 2010
