EB 9254 – Mason, ... just as the sun is always ...

Christian Mason …just as the sun is always… for

Piano

Christian Mason

…just

as the sun is always…

for Piano

...just as the sun is always... was commissioned by David and Sally Beer in memory of their daughter Heidi (1973–2003)

Performing Time approx. 7 minutes

Introspective,

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Christian Mason (b.1984)

defines composition as “searching in sound for fleeting solidifications of intangible experiences”; his music combines an emotional aspiration to radiance with a sensitivity to natural resonance.

2015 saw the premieres of Open to Infinity: a Grain of Sand, co­commissioned for Pierre Boulez‘s 90th birthday by Lucerne Festival and the BBC Proms, Layers of Love recorded by Klangforum Wien and premiered in Japan by Tokyo Sinfonietta, and Sympathetic Resonance, recorded by the Orchestre National de France for broadcast on Radio France’s “Alla Breve” programme. Current commissions include In the Midst of the Sonorous Islands for ensemble with audience participation co­produced by the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern, Asko/Schonberg and Remix Ensemble as part of the “Connect Project”; and a piece for the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

Christian was previously a Resident­Composer at the Lucerne Festival Academy where his orchestral work Isolarion: Rituals of Resonance was premiered in 2013. The same year, The Years of Light was given its premiere as part of the Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, USA. In 2014 Unseen Seasons was commissioned by the Shizuoka Concert Hall for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, while his first operatic work Reunion, part of Opera Erratica’s production “Triptych” was performed in London. His piece Learning Self-Modulation, for violin and piano, was performed in Paris, Fribourg, London, Amsterdam and Madrid, by Carolin Widmann and Simon Lepper, subsequently receiving a British Composer Award in 2012. Previous works have been performed by Midori, Jean­Guihen Queyras, the London Symphony and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestras, to name a few.

A Composer in Residence at Eton College in 2014/15, Christian previously worked as Composition Assistant to Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and continues to teach on the LSO Panufnik Young Composers Project. He read

Music at the University of York before pursuing a Ph.D at King‘s College London with George Benjamin. Christian is the founding co­Artistic Director of the Octandre Ensemble.

In 2015, Christian Mason received the Advancement Award of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

Works at Breitkopf

...just as the sun is always... for Piano (2006/09)

In Time Entwined – in Space Enlaced for Nine Players (Three Trios) and 36 Audience Harmonicas (2008)

Trio: In Space Enlaced for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet (2008/12)

Learning Self-Modulation for Violin and Piano (2011)

Isolarion: Rituals of Resonance for Orchestra (2012/13)

Ortha Graidh for Violin and Viola (2013)

Layers of Love for Ensemble (2015)

Sympathetic Resonance for Orchestra (2015)

Lahara for Percussion Sextet (2015)

Tuvan Songbook for String Quartet (2016)

Isolarion III for Two Pianos (2016)

In a World of Invisible Waves: a Butterfly for Piano (2016)

In the Midst of the Sonorous Islands for Ensemble with Audience Participation (2016)

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