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1 Dec 2009

Britten Sinfonia at Lunch waves goodbye to traditionally staid, safe lunchtime concerts, by inviting talented young composers to take the helm, offering intelligent, fresh programming founded on outstanding musicianship.

Winner of this year’s prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Chamber Music, Britten Sinfonia at Lunch returns this month for a new season which now includes performances in Cambridge, Birmingham, Norwich, London’s Wigmore Hall, as well as in Krakow. And in Spring 2010, the concerts will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

The season gets underway this month from 13 - 18 December, with a
tribute to the contemporary British composer Harrison Birtwistle. The music will take in works by Machaut, Ockeghem and JS Bach, as well as Birtwistle’s own work, and will include a new piece by 25 year old composer Christian Mason.

The programming mantle is then handed to three young composers in 2010,
all under 30 years of age, who each also write a new work for the series:

28 year old firebrand New Yorker Nico Muhly’s January 2010 lunchtime concerts mix music by Jacobean composer Orlando Gibbons with Herbert Howells and Aaron Copland. Muhly has built a reputation as one of New York’s most exciting and diverse composing talents. He has worked with artists such as Björk, Sigur Ròs, Antony Heggarty and the cult American band Grizzly Bear. He’s also a composer of film scores including the Oscar-winning The Reader.

In March, German composer Ulrich Kreppein explores the sound of the oboe in a programme of music by Schubert, Mozart and Colin Matthews’ arrangement of Schumann’s Mondnacht.

The final concert of the lunchtime series sees BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Gwilym Simcock, standing at the meeting point between classical and jazz in April/May. He performs in his own new work in that brings together Ravel’s Piano Trio and Messiaen’s Louange à l’éternité de Jésus.

All concerts begin at 1pm and last one hour. Tickets are as low as £7 (£3 concessions) in Cambridge, Norwich and Birmingham, and £12/£10 in London.

Full details of all concerts can be found at:

www.brittensinfonia.com/concerts/events

 

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