New music 20x12 13 – 15 July
Big talent. Bold sounds. Bite-size pieces. Concerts Mixed-media Free events Composer surgeries Workshops
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13 – 15 July
FRIDAY 13 JULY
NEW MUSIC 20x12
1/20x12 Northern Ireland Opera, CONOR MITCHELL & MaRk Ravenhill: OUR DAY
20 bite-size pieces mixing up jazz, folk and experimental music. New Music 20x12 at Southbank Centre is a celebration of composing music. At the heart of the weekend are 20 new compositions, each 12 minutes long, created by some of the UK’s most exciting musical talents and inspired by the dynamism of sport, the passion of human endeavour and a sense of global celebration. Throughout the weekend, there are opportunities to get involved in workshops, individual composing surgeries and debates, all centred around the thrilling process of creating new music.
NEW COMPOSERS NEW MUSIC: SOUND AND MUSIC SUMMER SCHOOL SHOWCASE
Friday Lunch Works by past and present students from the Sound and Music Summer School are premiered by an ensemble of musicians who have taught on the course.
Jude Kelly OBE, Southbank Centre Artistic Director
Giselle Allen
Gillian Moore MBE Southbank Centre Head of Classical Music
Over the past six months, New Music 20x12 commissions have been performed across the length and breadth of the UK: from concert halls in Southampton, Manchester and Liverpool and His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen to a prison in Nottingham, a church in Birmingham and an arts centre on the Isle of Mull. Our weekend celebration of New Music 20x12 at Southbank Centre marks the final stages of this exciting journey. It showcases a fascinating line-up of composers, performers and arts organisations who are making sure that new music is centre stage of the Cultural Olympiad. This is a unique chance to explore all 20 new pieces in one place – we hope you will join us. Vanessa Reed Executive Director, PRS for Music Foundation
New Music 20x12 is delivered by PRS for Music Foundation in partnership with Southbank Centre, BBC Radio 3 and NMC Recordings. New Music 20x12 is part of the Cultural Olympiad, a four-year cultural celebration of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
An international line-up of industry specialists host a day of talks and discussions on commissioning and patronage in a digital age. Music promoters, programmers, producers, funders and composers join together to consider models for commissioning music including finance, rights, joint ventures and commissioning as a creative process. St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 10.30am – 5.15pm £50
The 20 pieces you will hear are the result of a commissioning programme which was initiated by Jillian Barker and David Cohen. Most performances are free, and although many of the commissions have been premiered across different venues, this is the first and only time when all 20 pieces can be encountered in one place over one packed weekend. We’re very proud to champion all of these composers and the depth of inventiveness that has been brought to the commissions.
The UK has never been a more exciting place for musical composition, with creative musicians across all genres working in collaboration with other artists, at the heart of their communities and on the international stage. Our weekend celebrates this richness and gives you, the public, a chance to get involved, and asks questions about the role of composing in education, in concert-giving, in the world of folk music or dance, in the criminal justice system, in the community at large. Come and experience music at the creative frontline.
THIRD EAR SYMPOSIUM 2012
Northern Ireland Opera presents Our Day, a gripping new opera by Conor Mitchell with libretto by Mark Ravenhill and featuring Giselle Allen, set against a backdrop of events in Northern Ireland in 1972. That year – the bloodiest year of the troubles – saw local girl Mary Peters win a gold medal at the Munich Olympics, an event that briefly unified a country at war with itself. The evening also includes performances of four more new short operas: The Girl Who Knew She Could Fly, Jackie’s Taxi, Driven and May Contain Flash Photography. Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm £20 £12
The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1pm – 2pm FREE
COMPOSING NEW MUSIC: TEACHING SESSION Does creativity in schools extend to teaching composition? This event, hosted by Sound and Music, is aimed at teachers and practitioners and explores key issues around new music and composition in secondary schools. The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2.30pm – 5pm £22.50
THE END OF LITERACY? Southbank Centre and Brunel University’s new Institute of Composing present a thought-provoking debate that centres on the value and place of traditional and new-music literacies. Introduced by Southbank Centre’s Head of Classical Music, Gillian Moore and chaired by Peter Wiegold. With contributions by Paul Morley, Richard Causton and Mark Ravenhill. Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 6pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED) 1
SATURDAY 14 JULY 2/20x12 JOE CUTLER: PING! Ping! is a collaboration between composer Joe Cutler, artist Tom Dale, Fusion Table Tennis Club and the Coull String Quartet. Exploring the distinct sonic qualities and tightly controlled rhythms of Table Tennis, Ping! combines intricate cross-rhythms with the sound of the string quartet to create a stunning sporting, musical and visual experience. Hayward Gallery, 12 noon Additional performance at 1.30pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
3/20x12 AARON CASSIDY: A PAINTER OF FIGURES IN ROOMS Aaron Cassidy’s new work, commissioned by EXAUDI, extends his research into physicality, choreography and tablature notation, exploring extended vocal techniques. The work references Cassidy’s continued interest in the work of Francis Bacon, and its tendency to depict bodies and mouths in twisted, distorted states whilst still revealing something fundamentally human. Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
4/20x12 HOWARD SKEMPTON: FIVE RINGS TRIPLES
6/20x12 SALLY BEAMISH: SPINAL CHORDS
Bells proclaim moments of public gathering, of celebration and of important news. Five Rings Triples is a new work by Howard Skempton for eight church bells, to mark the Olympic year. Commissioned by Central Council of Church Bell Ringers and Third Ear. There are also bell ringing workshops throughout the day.
Sally Beamish’s new piece for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is set to a text by Melanie Reid, who broke her neck and back in a horse-riding accident that left her paralysed. See a film of the original performance (presented at Southbank Centre in February) and hear a live discussion with Beamish.
Outside Southbank Square doors, 2pm FREE
5/20x12 GAVIN HIGGINS/RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY: WHAT WILD ECSTAsY To celebrate the centenary of Nijinsky’s iconic ballet L’Après-midi d’un faune, Artistic Director of Rambert Dance Company Mark Baldwin presents his brand new modern-day take. What Wild Ecstasy is performed by the Company’s world-class dancers and the Rambert Orchestra. The Rambert version of L’Après-midi d’un faune is also performed. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
NMC Recordings are releasing all 20 commissions as part of New Music 20x12. They also have a special weekend installation of their Music Map in Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer where you can explore classical music from Harrison Birtwistle to Béla Bartók, Steve Reich to Karlheinz Stockhausen.
ONE-TO-ONE COMPOSER SURGERIES Got a piece of music that you have written or are trying to write, that you’d like to have looked over by a composer-doctor? Book a 25-minute consultation with one of the New Music 20x12 composers to get feedback and an encounter you may well value for the rest of your life. Register at The Soft Space in the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer, to be taken to your consultation room backstage. Limited capacity, early booking advised. Also Sunday 15 May. The Soft Space in the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer, consultations every half hour from 10.30am – 5.30pm £12 2
9/20x12 & 10/20x12 the IMAGINED VILLAGE AND Aidan o’rourke quintet: FOLK DOUBLE BILL
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 4pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
7/20x12 LIZ LIEW AND ANDY LEUNG: XX/XY Witness an exciting musical battle inspired by the competition of life – from the battle of the sexes to the competitive spirit of sport. Five musicians perform mixing Chinese strings with electric luiqin, colliding drums and electronic beats with hip-hop grooves – played to a backdrop of a video. Commissioned by Chinatown Arts Space. Hayward Gallery, 5pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
8/20x12 JASON YARDE: SKIP, DASH, FLOW Jazz composer and hip-hop impresario Jason Yarde has created a composition that goes on a cultural voyage, following the Olympics from its previous venue in Beijing, through London in 2012 and on to the next port of call, Rio de Janeiro. Commissioned and performed by Wonderbrass, Cardiff’s community-led jazz big band. The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7pm FREE
The Imagined Village
Sets from the Aidan O’Rourke Quintet including O’Rourke’s piece for An Tobar, inspired by the first transatlantic telephone cable, TAT-1; and The Imagined Village, who return after last year’s sell out concert to perform Sheema Mukherjee’s new piece Bending The Dark, written from the point of view of a second generation immigrant tracing the path of the Indian diaspora across continents. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm £20 £17.50
11/20x12 DAVID BRUCE: FIRE! A spirited meditation on humankind’s enduring fascination with fire, from composer David Bruce and pyrotechnic artists The World Famous, performed with the horn ensemble Horns Aloud and the Spitalfields Music & Voicelab Fire Choir. Commissioned by The Opera Group and Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival. Outside Southbank Square doors, 10pm FREE Voicelab is a Southbank Centre initiative supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation
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SUNDAY 15 july 12/20x12 RICHARD CAUSTON: TWENTY-SEVEN HEAVENS A screening of Causton working with the European Union Youth Orchestra on TwentySeven Heavens, a concerto for Orchestra, followed by discussion with Causton. Twenty-Seven Heavens explores Blake’s Jerusalem where the poet parallels aspects of his mythological world with various districts in London. Film by Black Swan. The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 10am FREE
13/20x12 MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE: BEYOND THIS A commission by the Irene Taylor Trust ‘Music in Prisons’, written and recorded by Mark-Anthony Turnage and some new composers, comprising a group of adult male prisoners. A 12-minute film has allowed the piece to travel beyond the prison. Followed by ex-prisoner band ‘Sounding Out’ who play a set of original songs in the Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 11am FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
14/20x12 OLIVER SEARLE: TECHNOPHONIA Technophonia is written for a new kind of ensemble. It brings together music interfaces used by Drake Music Scotland – Soundbeam, Brainfingers with Notion software and the newly developed Skoog – played by young disabled musicians with a group of their peers from the City of Edinburgh Music School. This unique 12-minute musical event aims to stimulate the audience to think again about how we define musical instruments and performing musicians. Discover more in a Meet The Project Session at 1.30pm. Hayward Gallery, 12 noon FREE (TICKET REQUIRED) 4
15/20x12 JULIAN JOSEPH: THE BROWN BOMBER Acclaimed jazz artist Julian Joseph and award-winning choreographer Sheron Wray pack a punch, with HMDT Music’s knockout dance suite about African American boxer Joe Louis, performed by young dancers and The Julian Joseph Sextet. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
16/20x12 LUKE CARVER GOSS: PURE GOLD: A 4x4 RELAY RACE Black Dyke Band commissioned composer Luke Carver Goss and performance poet Ian McMillan to write for full brass band (Black Dyke) with percussion, the Manchester Chorale. It uses the theme and structure of a relay race to tell the tale of success through team work and sporting pride. The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm Additional performance outside Southbank Centre Square doors at 12.30pm FREE
17/20x12 ANNA MEREDITH: HANDSFREE Anna Meredith’s HandsFree, commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, lets the talented teenagers of the Orchestra get creative through beat boxing, singing, body percussion and clapping. Accompanied by a workshop inspired by the piece with dance company U.Dance Ensemble. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 4pm. Outdoor performances at Festival Riverside and Queen’s Walk at 2.40pm & 5.30pm FREE
18/20x12 EMILY HOWARD: ZáTOPEK! Commissioned by Second Movement, Zátopek! is a 12-minute opera with music by Emily Howard and libretto by Selma Dimitrijevic, inspired by the life and times of legendary Czech long-distance runner Emil Zátopek. With Second Movement, Ensemble 10/10 and members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir.
20/20x12 GRAHAM FITKIN & london chamber orchestra: TRACK TO TRACK
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
19/20x12 MICHAEL WOLTERS: THE VOYAGE The Voyage is a 12-minute long opera in two acts. A collaboration between the composer Michael Wolters and theatre company Stan’s Cafe, it concerns the constructed nature of nationality in a mobile world and focuses on a mythological figure who travels overseas to face trials in the hope of returning a hero. Hayward Gallery, 6pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)
Graham Fitkin and Glyn Maxwell in front of ‘The Javelin Train’ at St Pancras
Graham Fitkin returns to Southbank Centre with his band for a special concert with the London Chamber Orchestra (LCO). Track to Track celebrates the journey of the Olympic Javelin Train taking passengers from St Pancras Station to Stratford and back. Poet Glyn Maxwell and Graham Fitkin travelled together on the train and recorded the journey. Their material was sent to children participating in LCO’s Music Junction education project, who in turn provided initial motifs to composer and poet. The resulting work is a miraculously literal and hauntingly symbolic musical representation of the train, its journey and the journey of the athletes towards the greatest stage of all. Benjamin Britten’s Night Mail is also performed. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm £20 £12
ONE-TO-ONE COMPOSER SURGERIES Saturday 14 July and Sunday 15 July. See page two. The Soft Space in the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer, consultations every half hour from 10.30am – 5.30pm £12 5
Four workshops led by Brunel’s Institute of Composing and chaired by Peter Wiegold, aimed at aspiring and emerging composers and musicians and exploring in more depth some of the themes of the New Music 20x12 commissions.
SATURDAY 14 JULY Sunday 15 JULY 1: COMPOSING AND FOLK MUSIC
3: COMPOSING AND TEXT
This hands-on workshop investigates ways to create new music in collaboration with and taking inspiration from folk and traditional music. With Sheema Mukherjee and musicians from Imagined Village, and Aidan O’Rourke.
This session examines ways in which composers today can work with text and features composers Emily Howard and Conor Mitchell.
Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 11.30am £12
2: COMPOSING FOR VOICE This workshop explores the broad range of possibilities of vocal production, and the opportunities for composers today to collaborate with and draw inspiration from this exciting terrain. Featuring Aaron Cassidy and Exaudi’s director James Weeks and some of its singers.
Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 11.30am £12
4: COMPOSING FOR DANCE
This workshop explores the relationship between dance and music, and features Gavin Higgins and Hofesh Shechter.
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Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 2.30pm £12
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Trimpin: conloninpurple Hanging in Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer is a MIDI-controlled marimba called Conloninpurple, created by the celebrated German inventor and sound sculptor Trimpin in honour of composer Conlon Nancarrow. It plays specially adapted versions of Nancarrow Studies, plus a host of new compositions by composers from around the world. Trimpin sets up the marimba differently to suit each new location – so it will never sound the same as it does now at Southbank Centre. Dominic Murcott, Head of Composition at Trinity Laban and Artistic Advisor of Southbank Centre’s recent Nancarrow festival, will give a talk and demonstration of Conloninpurple at 4pm on Saturday 14 July. Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer, throughout the weekend.
U.Dance is part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK, from Midsummers Day on 21 June and running until the final day of the Paralympic Games on 9 September 2012. Visit london2012.com/festival to find out more.
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COMPOSING WORKSHOPs
FRIDAY 13 JULY
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SUNDAY 15 july
10.30am – 5.30pm ONE-TO-ONE COMPOSER SURGERIES Also Sunday 15 May. The Soft Space in the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer
3.30pm – 5pm workshop: COMPOSING FOR VOICE Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
10am – 11am RICHARD CAUSTON: TWENTY-SEVEN HEAVENS The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
4pm Trimpin: coloninpurple Installation demo Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer
10.30am – 5.30pm ONE-TO-ONE COMPOSER SURGERIES The Soft Space in the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer
4pm – 5pm SALLY BEAMISH: SPINAL CHORDS Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
11am – 12 noon MARK ANTHONY TURNAGE: BEYOND THIS Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
5pm – 6pm LIZ LIEW AND ANDY LEUNG: XX/XY Hayward Gallery
11.30am – 1pm Workshop: COMPOSING AND TEXT Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
11.30am – 1pm workshop: COMPOSING AND FOLK MUSIC Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 10.30am – 5.15pm THIRD EAR SYMPOSIUM 2012 St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 1pm – 2pm NEW COMPOSERS NEW MUSIC: sOUND AND MUSIC SUMMER SCHOOL SHOWCASE The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
8pm – 10pm Northern Ireland opera, CONOR MITCHELL & mark ravenhill: OUR DAY Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
1pm – 2pm AARON CASSIDY: A PAINTER OF FIGURES IN ROOMS Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall 2pm – 3pm HOWARD SKEMPTON: FIVE RINGS TRIPLES Outside Southbank Square doors 3pm – 4pm GAVIN HIGGINS/ RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY: WHAT WILD ECSTAsY Queen Elizabeth Hall
7pm – 8pm JASON YARDE: SKIP, DASH, FLOW The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall 8pm – 10pm the IMAGINED VILLAGE AND Aidan o’rourke quintet: FOLK DOUBLE BILL Queen Elizabeth Hall 10pm – 10.30pm DAVID BRUCE: FIRE! Outside Southbank Centre Square doors
12 noon – 1pm OLIVER SEARLE: TECHNOPHONIA Hayward Gallery 1pm – 2pm JULIAN JOSEPH: THE BROWN BOMBER Queen Elizabeth Hall 2.30pm – 4pm Workshop: COMPOSING FOR DANCE Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
4pm – 5pm ANNA MEREDITH: HANDSFREE The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Also at 2.40pm and 5.30pm at Festival Riverside and Queen’s Walk. 5pm – 6pm EMILY HOWARD: ZATOPEK! Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall 6pm – 7pm MICHAEL WOLTERS: THE VOYAGE Hayward Gallery 8pm – 10pm GRAHAM FITKIN & london chamber orchestra: TRACK TO TRACK Queen Elizabeth Hall
Julian Joseph: The Brown Bomber
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12 noon – 1pm JOE CUTLER: PING! Hayward Gallery Additional performance at 1.30pm
Gavin Higgins What Wild Ecstasy (c) Eric Richmond
2.30pm – 5pm COMPOSING NEW MUSIC: TEACHers’ SESSION The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
6pm – 7pm THE END OF LITERACY? Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
3pm – 4pm LUKE CARVER GOSS PURE GOLD: A 4x4 RELAY RACE The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Additional performance at 12.30pm outside Southbank Centre Square Doors
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in person Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office 10am – 8pm (daily) Hayward Gallery Ticket Office 10am – 6pm (daily) Riverside Information Point and Ticket Office 10am – 8pm (daily) PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music 20x12 programme initiated by Jillian Barker and David Cohen is generously supported by the following committed funders and patrons: Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, John S. Cohen Foundation, PRS for Music Foundation, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales, Columbia Foundation Fund of the Capital Community Foundation, Incorporated Society of Musicians, Musicians Benevolent Fund, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, RVW Trust, Charlotte and Dennis Stevenson, Tolkien Trust, The Leche Trust, The Bliss Trust, Finzi Trust, The Worshipful Company of Musicians, Lilian Slowe, John and Ann Tusa, John Wates Charitable Trust, Richard Walduck, Honeymead Arts Trust, Sir Anthony Cleaver
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