Frontiers Festival 2016

DEMOLISHING PRECONCEPTIONS THROUGH EARTH-SHAKING NEW MUSIC

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SAT 5 MAR

ERROLLYN WALLEN: FRAMES AND RUNWAYS 7pm Recital Hall £11 (£9) advance £12 (£10) on the door

HELLO Welcome to Frontiers Festival, a two week frenzy of groundbreaking, window-shattering and earth-shaking new music.

FRI 4 & SAT 5 MAR

This year we’ve expanded the festival to give you even more events, including the prolifically brilliant Gavin Bryars, Ivor Novello award-winning composer Errollyn Wallen and the dynamic Hans Koller Quartet with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in an exclusive collaboration.

OUT AT SEA

Look out for our Progressions series which features four emerging artists producing new work focusing on the past, present and future from Christine Cornwell, Kirsty Devaney, Anna Palmer and Emily Wright.

To ensure you get the most music for your money, take advantage of our Frontiers Festival Pass for just £60 (£40 concession), saving you over 50% on individual tickets. Festival Passes are available from www.eventbrite.com.

Prepare to have your preconceptions obliterated as Birmingham Conservatoire embarks on a transformative voyage of regeneration.

We look forward to welcoming you on our adventure!

Rosie Clements Artistic Director

7.30pm (Fri) 2.30pm & 7.30pm (Sat) The Crescent Theatre £9.50 (£5.50) Tickets available from www.crescent-theatre.co.uk Composer/Director/Producer Blanka Barbara Stachelek Director James Oldham, Musical Director Daniel Galbreath Producer Ignatius Sokol Vocalists Alison Gormley, Lucy Morton, James Gribble, Andrew Wilson, Grzegorz Hardej In Birmingham this weekend? Why not check out Contemporary Music For All Festival: Birmingham, Sat 5 & Sun 6 Mar. Visit www.coma.org for more details.

Errollyn Wallen and Ensemble X

“We don’t break down barriers in music... we don’t see any” Three men starving on a life raft employ a hilariously logical application of democratic and bureaucratic procedures to determine which one of them is to become dinner for the other two.

Ivor Novello Award-winning composer-pianist Errollyn Wallen and her string quintet present a concert of her critically acclaimed works, plus pieces by special guests including Joe Cutler and Jeremy Peyton Jones.

The music and libretto based on Sławomir Mrożek’s absurdist play, Out at Sea is written by, composer Blanka Barbara Stachelek.

This performance precedes the release of PHOTOGRAPHY, a new album of Errollyn’s orchestral works, available on NMC.

Out at Sea gathers some of Birmingham’s most creative artists to highlight burning issues in our society, in a modern opera context.

Please note that entry to this show is not included in the Frontiers Festival pass and is not free to BCU staff and students. © Hugo Glendinning

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SUN 6 MAR

SUN 6 MAR

TEASERS 2pm-5pm Birmingham Conservatoire £10 (£8) advance day ticket £15 (£12) on the door

TEASERS This is your chance to hear bite-size chunks of adventurous music to whet your appetite for what lies ahead in this year’s festival.

With exclusive performances and surprises along the way, this is the perfect introduction to Frontiers.

£4 on the door

BRASS FRONTIERS 2pm

FLATPACK PRESENTS 2.30pm

PAS DE DEUX 3pm

£4 on the door

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Conservatoire Brass directed

by Chris Houlding

Enjoy a short taster screening for Flatpack 2016, featuring a handpicked selection of short films from their Optical Sound programme.

This piano duet is influenced by Béla Bartók’s piano works. There are four continuously performed movements drawing upon elements taken from Chinese folk music. Considering the two pianos as two ballet dancers, composer Fang Fang explores music derived from rural regions of China.

Tom Harrold Icebreaker Chris Houlding Masque Mark Anthony Turnage Set To Experience the resonant sounds of brass instruments with a Frontiers twist. Hear three very exciting and contrasting works for brass dectet and percussion.

Opener Icebreaker, by young Scottish composer Tom Harrold, will raise the roof of the Adrian Boult Hall followed

by Masque, composed by Head of Brass Chris Houlding, loosely based on themes from Purcell’s Dioclesian.

To conclude, experience Mark Anthony Turnage’s iconic Set To, a Bacchanal written for London Brass in 1992.

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US: A CHAMBER OPERA 3.40pm

See early kaleidoscopic visual music films, a short documentary on David Bowie’s Let’s Dance video, and some of the most weird and wonderful music promos from the last twelve months.

For the full Flatpack programme visit www.flatpackfestival.org.uk.

Edmund Hunt The Difference Between Us Three people, from three different communities, speaking three different languages, find themselves caught up in a war in which their lives become inextricably linked.

When the conflict is over, they must find a way to cope with the trauma of war. As they contemplate their situation, they are each moved to speak to one another in their mother tongue; words that cannot be understood by the person to whom they are addressed.

This opera uses text in modern English, with poetry in Old Irish, early Welsh and Old English, relating to events between 500 - 700 AD.

SOUNDING STONES PROJECT 4.10pm £4 on the door Andrea Granitzio Octaedron

ADRIAN BOULT HALL IST KAPUTT; BY BRASS 4.40pm

The daily practice routine of a string and a woodwind quartet, respectively exploring possible combinations of C and G Lydian scale notes, is abruptly interrupted by the unexpected appearance of an uncommon instrument, destabilising the previous established balance.

Composer Paul Norman Featuring four brass choirs from the Conservatoire Trumpet choir Trombone choir French horn choir Tuba/Euphonium choir

Sound of the stone is like a magnetic field and the quartets’ compass needle suddenly goes mad. A new ‘North’ prevails and both quartets are slowly and irreversibly attracted by the stones’ ancestral recall.

£4 on the door

The Adrian Boult Hall is scheduled for demolition in Summer 2016. Here we give it a worthy send off and shake it down ahead of time using the resonant frequencies of the hall, played by the four brass choirs of Birmingham Conservatoire.

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MON 7 MAR

MON 7 MAR

IDEA(L)

BETWEEN PLACES

A new electroacoustic opera

by Tolis Alysandratos

9pm Quarter Horse

7pm Recital Hall £4 (£2) advance £5 (£3) door Music/Libretto/Director Tolis Alysandratos Director James Oldham Aimee Fisk soprano Christina Jones soprano Charles St John tenor Robert Tilson tenor Harvey Seale baritone David John Phillips baritone In this world première the notion of an ‘ideal music’ is explored as it enters the daily routine of a music group, radically transforming the way they view themselves and others.

Free entry Rupture Eileen Smith viola Lucy Fox saxophone Max Gibson accordion Ethel Composer James Alexandropoulos-McEwan Arjun Jethwa flute Tamara Haynes clarinet Rob Jones saxophone Christos Stylianides flugelhorn/ trumpet Beetung Goo horn Martynas Baltutis electric guitar James Alexandropoulos–McEwan electric guitar Aisling Ní Raghallaigh double bass Ben Muirhead double bass Nathan England-Jones drum kit

Rupture explore the relationship between visual and sonic art forms. Exploring shapes, images, lines, textures and structure, they bring the visual into sonic life.

Following this, Ethel, a 10-piece ensemble of classical and jazz players, perform a work that draws from contemporary classical composition, as well as aspects of jazz and rock. It is a piece, written by a composer yet shaped by the players who hail from diverse musical backgrounds.

TUE 8 MAR

WED 9 MAR

TUE 8 MAR

SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS

GAMELAN CONCERT

ALMA GUITAR QUARTET PRESENT: FEAST

8.30pm Spotted Dog

9.30am Arena Foyer

Free entry

Pay what you like. Limited capacity, advance booking advised.

7.30pm Recital Hall £7 (£5) £4 students Tickets available from www.almagqfeast.eventbrite.co.uk Programme includes premières of works by Blanka Barbara Stachelek, Ignatius Sokol, Daniel Blanco Albert, Sabino de-Bari and Ryan Probert.

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Alma Guitar Quartet warmly invite you to witness an evening of musical delicacies. They will be performing a veritable feast of new compositions that take inspiration from the diverse world of food.

There is a limited capacity for this event, book early to avoid disappointment.

Please note that entry to this show is not included in the Frontiers Festival pass and is not free to BCU staff and students.

A double bill of saxophone giants.

Saxophone supremos Iain Ballamy and John O’Gallagher meet for an informal jam with the Spotted Dog’s resident rhythm section, led by star Conservatoire alumnus Jonathan Silk. Join us for a great social event as well as an inspiring musical experience.

Start your day with the sounds of the Jasmine Isle interpreted by the composers of today. Hear brand new works for Birmingham Conservatoire’s Gamelan Mardi Rahayu by students and postgraduate composers written especially for Frontiers.

Featuring: Samuel Leith Taylor, Robert Crehan, Patrick Ellis, Wilson Leywantono, Cam Athanasiades, Chris Cresswell and Seán Clancy.

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THU 10 MAR

GUITAR, ELECTRONICS, FILM 5pm Six Eight Kafé Pay what you like Solo Shannon-Latoyah Simon classical guitar Ensemble Shannon-Latoyah Simon classical guitar Arjun Jethwa flute Deirdre McCabe soprano Samuel Leith Taylor percussion

WED 9 MAR

WED 9 MAR

PROJECT INSTRUMENTAL

CROSSING BORDERS

7pm Eastside Projects

8.30pm The Crossing, South & City College Birmingham

£6 (£4) advance £7 (£5) on the door Lauded for its skill, boldness and innovation, Project Instrumental have received awards from the Britten-Pears Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation and the Arts Council, and have collaborated across the fields of art, electronica, light, cymatics, projection mapping and sound analysis technology. Tonight, hear them perform eight specially written works by emerging composers in this inspiring gallery.

Featuring work by: Patrick Giguère, Yfat Soul Zisso, Chloe Knibbs, Anthony Leung, Murray Ashdown, Emily Abdy, Emily Levy, Chris Cresswell, Andrew Toovey.

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£4 (£3) advance £5 (£4) on the door Free to South & City College students Welcome to a special edition of our established Composers’ Platform with special guests from the Popular Music course at South and City College, Birmingham. In this state-of-the-art venue, you will hear fresh new music from a wide range of styles in this unique collaboration.

Ryan Probert Travel Journal Samuel Leith Taylor Shannon Maya Verlaak Birds and Thirds Rob Jones Autumn Wind Patrick Ellis Olly Wilson Leywantono Shannon and her trains An evening of newly commissioned pieces for classical guitar featuring electronics and film, written by the exceptionally talented composers from Birmingham Conservatoire.

THU 10 MAR

THU 10 MAR

JAZZ IN BIRMINGHAM PROMOTERS LAUNCH

CRIES, BELLS, CHANTS AND WHISPERS

6.30pm Birmingham Conservatoire

7.30pm Recital Hall

Free entry

£6 (£4) advance £6.50 (£4.50) on the door

Jazz fans are very welcome to join us for the launch of a new publicity initiative for the jazz scene in Birmingham and the immediate regions. As a pre-concert party before the Stan Sulzmann Jazz Orchestra concert, have a drink, meet fellow jazz lovers and celebrate the fantastic jazz scene here in this city.

Directors Naomi Sullivan and Andy Tweed Birmingham Conservatoire Saxophone Ensemble Enjoy music for large and small saxophone ensembles with a varied programme of new music that explores this expressive instrument and its ability to offer such an extreme range of sounds, colours and voices. Featuring a new work by Rob Jones.

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THU 10 MAR

FRI 11 MAR

FRI 11 MAR

SAT 12 MAR

SAT 12 MAR

SUN 13 MAR

STAN SULZMANN WITH BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE JAZZ ORCHESTRA

PROGRESSIONS: TREADING WATER with Anna Palmer

TORD GUSTAVSEN: HYMNS AND VISIONS with Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad

SONGS AND STORIES

HANS KOLLER WITH BCMG

PROGRESSIONS: OUT WITH A BANG

6pm Six Eight Kafé

8pm CBSO Centre

Free entry

£15, £5 for 16-25 year-olds via THSH Soundbite scheme+

7pm Old Print Works 8pm Adrian Boult Hall £11 (£9) advance £12 (£10) on the door Stan Sulzmann is one of Britain’s most important jazz musicians, having a wide impact on the scene for over 40 years as a composer and saxophonist. We are delighted and honoured that Stan is to direct the Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Orchestra formed from a selection of the very best young players.

£6 (£4) advance £7 (£5) on the door

8pm CBSO Centre

Treading Water is an interdisciplinary collaboration in music, movement and visual art curated by local composer Anna Palmer. Using Moseley Baths as its subject; the piece will not only aim to provide a celebratory performance of the building’s Gothic wonder, but will set out to raise questions about the concept of future and how the present can be used to alter or disrupt it.

Norwegian jazz pioneer Tord Gustavsen presents an exciting new project featuring Tord (piano, electronics), Simin Tander (vocals), Jarle Vespestad (drums) and Daniel Wold (sound design).

The beautiful but endangered historic baths will become an instrument, a score and a vehicle to explore the uncertainty of what is to come.

Progressions is kindly funded

by Arts Council England.

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£15 plus transaction fee+

Hear new compositions by Tord based on English translations of Sufi poetry as well as instrumental music.

For the first time on stage, Tord will use subtle live electronics to add depth and new layers to the sensual minimalism of his work alongside Simin’s warm and vibrant vocal art. +£3 transaction fee, plus £1 (optional) postage, will be charged on all bookings except purchases made in person at the Town Hall or Symphony Hall Box Office Please note that entry to this show is not included in the Frontiers Festival pass and is not free to BCU staff and students.

Chloe Knibbs Emily Levy Chris Cresswell Emily Abdy Rosie Tee Join five singer-songwriters for a relaxed early evening concert where they will share songs and the stories or influences behind them.

Tickets available from 0121 780 3333 or www.thsh.co.uk John O’Gallagher* alto saxophone Hans Koller* piano Jeff Williams drums Percy Pursglove double bass Melinda Maxwell oboe / cor anglais BCMG Players Hans Koller Twelve Re-inventions for George Russell (World première/ commissioned by Town Hall & Symphony Hall as part of the Jazzlines programme)* Hans Koller Quartet set There will be a free pre-concert talk from 7-7.30pm with Hans Koller and John O’Gallagher. Open to all ticket holders.

Please stay after the concert for a post-event Album release party until 11pm in the CBSO Centre foyer.

Please note that entry to this show is not included in the Frontiers Festival pass and is not free to BCU staff and students.

Pianist and composer Hans Koller draws together the worlds of contemporary classical and jazz for the première of his new Jazzlines commission written for an ensemble combining his stunning jazz quartet with six virtuosic players from Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

Twelve Re-inventions for George Russell combines two theories from two different traditions, realising Koller’s developments in the use of George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Theory supported by an approach developed by saxophonist John O’Gallagher, for the use of Twelve-tone theory and the music of Webern in improvisational music.

‘I couldn’t believe how his music could be so intensely chromatic, and at the same time so groovy...

Russell has a great way of making a whole bunch of wrong notes sound wonderful… only when I viewed Russell’s concept through the lens of a non-jazz theory [Webern]… that things fell into place. Nothing really ever happens in isolation.’

Hans Koller

5pm Birmingham Conservatoire Free A special video tribute to the iconic brutalist building that was Birmingham Central Library.

“The old central library was such a big part of the landscape when I was at the Conservatoire.

Seeing it knocked down seems so wrong. This video is my own small-scale demolition to commemorate the loss of the beautiful building.” Emily Wright Following the launch, the installation will be open from 14 to 18 March between the hours of 10am and 10pm.

Progressions is kindly funded

by Arts Council England.

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SUN 13 MAR

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SUN 13 MAR

MON 14 MAR

MON 14 MAR

PROGRESSIONS: EVOLUTION

YOUNG COMPOSERS’ PROJECT

PROGRESSIONS: A SELECTIVE MEMORY

RICHARD LEIGH HARRIS AT 60

LA OBISPARRA a Winter Pagan Masquerade in Two Acts

5.30pm Recital Hall

6pm Recital Hall

8pm Birmingham Conservatoire

1pm Recital Hall

Free entry

£6 (£4) advance £6.50 (£4.50) on the door Free entry for under 16s

£6 (£4) advance £7 (£5) on the door

Free entry

Hear new pieces by educationalist and inventive composer Kirsty Devaney written alongside promising young music makers. This is the product of workshops exploring destruction and rebuilding as inspiration for new music.

Progressions is kindly funded

by Arts Council England.

The Young Composers’ Project breaks down barriers to creative music making by encouraging young people to experiment in a safe and supportive environment.

This concert showcases the huge range of music produced over a six month period and reflects the diversity of styles and openness of the group.

Also, hear a world première written especially for the group by the multitalented Jack McNeill, kindly funded by the PRS for Music Foundation.

Producer Christine Cornwell An immersive evening unearthing a collection of musical rarities in a compelling audio-visual experience.

Featuring works and performers, past and present, A Selective Memory resurrects beautiful works once forgotten.

Progressions is kindly funded

by Arts Council England.

Richard Leigh Harris My Shade Will Comfort You for Trumpet & Piano Richard Leigh Harris Brahmsblatt for Piano Richard Leigh Harris Blue Bumble for Grainger for Piano Join us as we celebrate the 60th birthday of composer and conservatoire tutor, Richard Leigh Harris. Richard and colleagues including Howard Skempton play several of his small-scale chamber pieces, some of which will be receiving their first performance.

5.30pm The Old Library, Custard Factory Pay what you like Sandra Horne conductor La Obisparra Chamber Orchestra Daniel Blanco Albert A Winter Pagan Masquerade in two acts The beginning of the New Year awakes the old shepherd satyrlike demigods of the forest.

Every year they visit the people who pray for them. However, the arrival of foreigners to the village will change their fate.

Pagan rites and ancient traditions merge in this play involving theatre and live music, inspired by the folk masquerade Los Carochos de Riofrío.

Please note this performance will involve interaction with the audience.

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MON 14 MAR

GAVIN BRYARS 7.30pm St Martin’s in the Bullring Free entry Featuring Ronald Woodley, Jack McNeill and students from Birmingham Conservatoire Programme includes: Alaric 1 or 2 A Family Likeness Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets A Time and a Place The Black River A selection of Laude Cortonese Explore the depths of one of modern music’s enigmas. Gavin Bryars, famed for The Sinking of The Titanic and Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, joins us for a journey through some of his rarer works in the stunning Gothic surroundings of St Martin’s.

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MON 14 MAR

TUE 15 MAR

TUE 15 MAR

WED 16 MAR

WED 16 MAR

BRYARS, BAIN, KOLLER, PURSGLOVE

CREATIVE ENSEMBLE

DECIBEL

BCMG WORKSHOP

JEFF BALLARD SOLO DRUM CONCERT

9.30am -12.30pm & 1.30pm -4.30pm CBSO Centre

1.05pm Recital Hall

Free entry

£5 (£3) on the door

Birmingham Conservatoire in association with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s Learning Department present the latest ensemble works from promising young composers workshopped by the world renowned BCMG, conducted by Richard Baker.

Extraordinary musician and drummer, Jeff Ballard performs this very special solo concert.

6.30pm Arena Foyer

7.30pm Recital Hall

10pm Arena Foyer

Pay what you like

£11 (£9) advance £12 (£10) on the door

Peter Bell Fanfares/Phases Rob Roberts Lines 3 Samuel Leith Taylor Isn’t this Paper Nice Patrick Ellis Riaan’s Rant Emily Abdy Clockwork Cam Athanasiades I am...

Alvin Curran Open City 6.1

£11 (£9) advance £12 (£10) on the door

Gavin Bryars double bass Percy Pursglove trumpet Hans Koller piano Andrew Bain drums Free improv meets minimal as Gavin Bryars, returning to his roots as an improvising bass player, is joined by three heavyweights of the jazz/improvised scene.

TUE 15 MAR

FUMIKO MIYACHI & KATE HALSALL 1.05pm Adrian Boult Hall £6 (£3) advance £6.50 (£4.50) on the door Fumiko Miyachi piano Kate Halsall piano Kerry Andrew Birdsong for Two Voices Leo Chadburn Vapour descriptors Duncan MacLeod Cut, Strike, Throw, Grip Anton Lukoszevieze Sutra (World Premiere) Gavin Bryars My First Homage Laurence Crane Piano Duets No.s 1-4

Fumiko Miyachi Cobalt (World Premiere) Since their debut at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 2014, Fumiko Miyachi and Kate Halsall have been recording specially commissioned works.

Today’s programme includes pieces from their latest album, as well as the world première of Fumiko’s latest work from her Transitional Metal Series Cobalt.

Hear this lively ensemble headed by composer and bassist Riaan Vosloo, whose work fuses elements of jazz and classical.

Creative Ensemble works along the broadest possible musical outlines, and encompass everything from the completely notated to the wholly improvised and everything in between.

Including pieces by Dan Cippico, Sayyid Shafiee, Patrick Ellis, Max Gibson, Blanka Barbara Stachelek, Ignatius Sokol, Cam Athanasiades and Sabino de-Bari The virtuosic and energetic Decibel present brand new compositions for large amplified ensemble by the inventive and expressive students of Birmingham Conservatoire Composition Department.

See how the music of today comes together in a professional context.

Please note that this is an open rehearsal/workshop, rather than a performance.

Jeff works regularly with Larry Grenadier and Mark Turner in the famous Fly Trio and is also first call for jazz heavy weights Pat Metheney and Brad Meldau. He is also leader of his own projects including recent album Times Tales. Come and hear percussion, incantation, sonority, time, feel, narrative, freedom and control all held in blissful balance.

Please note this performance takes place instead of the Live Jazz Broadcast as previously advertised.

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WED 16 MAR

WED 16 MAR

THU 17 MAR

THU 17 MAR

MIXD SYMPOSIUM

RECORDER FUTURES

JEFF BALLARD PRESENTS

10am - 5pm Birmingham Conservatoire

7.30pm Arena Foyer

VIA NOVA: NEW CHORAL SCORES USING IMPROVISATION

£15 Please register at www.eventbrite.com.

£6.50 (£4.50) on the door

MIXD is the first national symposium on the emerging field of Music Interaction Design.

Gavin Bryars A Family Likeness for Recorder Sextet Arvo Pärt Pari Intervallo Works by Berio, Buck, Tedde, plus new works for recorders by Conservatoire student composers

The event features a range of presentations from industry and academia across a range of topics including music and audio software interfaces, hardware systems, game audio and sound, all through the lens of interaction design (IxD). Demo stations will run throughout the day giving delegates the opportunity to try out interactive technologies first hand.

For full programme information, go to www.integra.io/mixd2016.

Please note that entry to this event is not included in the Frontiers Festival pass and BCU staff and students will need to register.

Take this opportunity to hear brand new works alongside modern classics for recorder solo and ensemble.

10am - 7pm Eastside Projects Free entry Conductor Daniel Galbreath and composer Percy Pursglove lead a day of workshops introducing choral composition and ideas of choral improvisation. Students will work directly with Daniel and Percy, as well as singers from Via Nova.

8pm Eastside Projects Free entry

WED 16 MAR

MIXD CONCERT 7pm Recital Hall £5 (£3) on the door MiXD Symposium’s interactive, multi-media finale event will showcase a plethora of experimental, genre-demolishing works, exploring a variety of approaches to performing with technology.

You will be immersed in a kaleidoscopic soundscape of sonic performance including improvised music, spatialised sound, live video manipulation and 3D interactivity. This will be interspersed with atmospheric DJ sets from the Conservatoire’s Richard Cornock. A ground-breaking event not to be missed!

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Following the day’s workshop, brand new pieces will be performed alongside a new work by Percy Pursglove and Chloe Knibb’s haiku settings, Basho’s Journey which inspired the short-text format of the programme.

6.45pm Recital Hall £6 (£4) advance £7 (£5) on the door Following on from his beautiful solo display, Jeff Ballard, guest artist in residence presents three up and coming bands that he has worked with intimately this week. As well as coaching the players, Jeff will be performing with each band.

FRI 18 MAR

PARADISE LOST 1 12pm Adrian Boult Hall Pay what you like Edwin Roxburgh Prelude Toccata Richard Leigh Harris Nocturnette on the letters of Haydn’s name with Esterhazy Disco Andy Hamilton O.A.I.R Andrew Toovey a selection of his piano music Errollyn Wallen Louis Loops Your chance to hear a wide range of piano music from the eclectic mix of esteemed composers working at the Conservatoire.

This concert is one of two inspired by a public reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost in Paradise Forum by Samuel Leith Taylor and Paul Zaba in 2015.

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FRI 18 MAR

FRI 18 MAR

NEW WORKS FOR SAXOPHONE AND TOY PIANO

CROSSCURRENTS FOLKSONGS FOR TODAY

HOW TO BOOK

5pm Recital Hall 1.30pm Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Free entry Dan Milverton saxophone Vicky Bonham toy piano Exploring new works for saxophone and toy piano; an unusual ensemble.

Pay what you like Students perform a new set of specially commissioned songs by eleven composers, including compositional staff at University of Birmingham and Birmingham Conservatoire.

Along with Charlotte Bray, Judith Weir, Richard Baker and postgraduates from each institution, these composers have been invited to write their own ‘folk songs’ inspired

by Berio’s 1964 original of the same name.

Commissioned by CrossCurrents Festival, University of Bimingham, including funds kindly provided by the Hinrichsen Foundation.

PARADISE LOST 2 7pm Adrian Boult Hall £11 (£9) advance £12 (£10) on the door Conductor Richard Baker Thallein Ensemble Joe Cutler Without Fear of Vertigo Seán Clancy Five Lines of Music Slow Down and Eventually Stop Ed Bennett new piece Howard Skempton Gemini Dances Michael Wolters Emmaus Pages Samuel Leith Taylor new piece Fumiko Miyachi Cl2 Yannis Kyriakides Words and Song Without Words A rare opportunity to hear works by these accomplished composers in one concert including three world premières. A fitting finale for the last Frontiers Festival to ever take place in the Adrian Boult Hall!

This is the second of two concerts inspired by a public reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost in Paradise Forum by Samuel Leith Taylor and Paul Zaba in 2015.

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VENUES

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£60 (£40 concessions)* – saving more than 50% on tickets if purchased individually to all events.* Excludes Hans Koller and BCMG, Out at Sea, FEAST and Tord Gustaven Hymns and Visions. Please note that entry to all events is subject to availability. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Adrian Boult Hall, Recital Hall, Arena Foyer Birmingham Conservatoire Paradise Place, B3 3HG

Entry to all Frontiers events is free to Birmingham City University staff and students except where indicated.

CBSO Centre Berkley Street B1 2LF

CONCESSIONS

The Cresent Theatre 20 Sheepcote Street B16 8AE

ON THE DOOR

FRI 18 MAR

VENUES

Tickets are available to purchase at the venue up to 30 minutes prior to the event start time.

BY PHONE You can guarantee your ticket by telephoning the Conservatoire’s Venues, Concerts and Events Office on 0121 331 5909 to reserve your ticket in advance. Telephone lines are open Monday to Friday 10am-4pm.

Your ticket will then be available for you to purchase or collect at the box office of the venue in question from up to 30 minutes prior to the event start time.

Please note that an event photographer and film crew will be at the festival and photographs and footage taken may be used for future publicity.

Unless otherwise stated, concessionary prices apply to children (16 and under), students, 60 plus, registered disabled and the unemployed.

Identification may be requested for those carrying concessionary tickets.

PLEASE NOTE: Frontiers Festival cannot guarantee refunds or exchange tickets after purchase.

All details in the printed programme were correct at the time of going to print, however the festival reserve the right to change the programme or replace artists due to unforeseen circumstances.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Chamberlain Square B3 3DH

The Crossing South & City College High Street Deritend B5 5SU Eastside Projects 86 Heath Mill Lane B9 4AR The Old Library The Custard Factory Gibb Street B9 4AA The Old Print Works 506 Moseley Rd B12 9AH

Quarter Horse 88-90 Bristol Street B5 7AH Six Eight Kafé 6/8 Temple Row B2 5HG The Spotted Dog 104 Warwick St B12 0NH St Martin’s in the Bullring Edgbaston Street B5 5BB PARADISE CIRCUS REDEVELOPMENT Open for business as usual We are pleased to confirm that during the Paradise Circus Redevelopment, Birmingham Conservatoire is open for business as usual.

For more information on how surrounding areas may be affected, or for advice on your journey to the city centre, please visit www.birmingham.gov. uk/connected or contact the Conservatoire on 0121 331 5909 where a member of staff will be pleased to help you.

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THANK YOU Birmingham Conservatoire would sincerely like to thank the following for their generous support, without which Frontiers Festival would not be able to take place: Funders Arts Council England Hinrichsen Foundation PRS for Music Foundation RVW Trust Partners BCMG Creative Triangle Flatpack Festival South and City College, Birmingham Town Hall and Symphony Hall’s Jazzlines programme University of Birmingham Frontiers Festival would like to thank the many musicians, composers and artists that feature in the programme and the volunteers that have given their time so generously.

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