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London Symphony Orchestra

LSO Discovery

SoundhubShowcaseConcertSat 16 Jun 7pmFri 22 Jun 7.30pm

Jerwood Hall, LSO St LukesUBS and LSO Music Education Centre

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A flexible space for composers to explore, collaborate and experiment

Based at LSO St Lukes, Soundhub provides a flexible space where

composers can explore, collaborate and experiment, with access to

vital resources, support from industry professionals and LSO players

and staff. Soundhub is a composer-led space, responding directly to the

needs of those using it: a supportive environment for artists to try out

new ideas, develop existing work and benefit from peer-to-peer

networking and support.

The programme has been developed in response to a gap in provision

for emerging composers and builds on the LSOs ongoing investment

in emerging talent, in particular through the pioneering Panufnik Young

Composers Scheme.

Soundhub Pilot

Soundhub began with a six-month pilot in January 2012 that culminates

with two showcase events on Saturday 16 and Friday 22 June at LSO St

Lukes.

Since January, the composers have been coming into LSO St Lukes fora wide range of individual projects as well as group sessions such as

workshops with LSO players and presentations from industry

organisations including NMC Recordings. Individual projects have

ranged from rehearsals and workshops to tutorials with industry

members and digital technology sessions. They have also had regular

access to LSO rehearsals and concerts

We are delighted to have worked with the following composers over the

pilot:

Soundhub Members

Ed Baxter | Darren Bloom | Alexander Hawkins | Aaron Holloway-NahumElo Masing | Christian Mason | Mark Simpson | Ayanna Witter-Johnson

Toby Young

Soundhub Associates

Richard Bullen | Rebecca Dale | Alice Jeffreys | Helen Papaioannou

Emma-Ruth Richards | Anjula Semmens | squib-box

We are extremely grateful to the following people for all their support

and advice over the pilot: Colin Matthews, Ed McKeon, Zoe Martlew, Phil

Cashian, Paul Silverthorne, David Alberman, David Worswick, Lorenzo

Iosco and Chris Rogers.

We are now accepting applications for the first full year of Soundhubwhich begins in September 2012. Application forms are available at the

main entrance.

lso.co.uk/soundhub

soundhubblog.wordpress.com

Programme - Sat 16 Jun

Darren Bloom Untitled

Elo Masing Planes

Toby Young Selected scenes from TheDaisyChain

Darren BloomUntitledDavid Worswick violin

Neil Georgeson piano

Elo MasingPlanes

Jean Lee choreographer/dancer

Toki Quartet [Aki Sawa violin | Midori Komachi violin | Steve Doman

viola | Amy Jolly cello]

Planes is not an ordinary dance piece. Music and dance are far too closely

integrated in this work to regard it as yet another dance performance;rather, it could be seen as a piece of chamber music for string quartet

and dancer. Planes challenges the conventions of music and dance

collaborations in quite unprecedented ways by establishing a profound and

tangible interrelation between movement and sound production. Music and

choreography are integrated from a grass-root level and built up together

from the very beginning. A large part in this is played by the unconventional

notation the piece is written in, devised by the composer to be able to

convey the movement-based sonic language that connects closely with the

unique movement material of choreographer Jean Lee and enables her to

work with the score without necessarily hearing the music played by the

performers.

Toby YoungSelected scenes from TheDaisyChainMark Gotham music director | Ruth Mariner director |Jayne OHanlon

set design | Tom Oldham patron | Clara Kanter therapist | Rod Morris

prince | Nick Scott miller | Christina Sampson Daisy | Chloe Morgan

patron | Angus McPhee patron | Mandhira de Saram violin | Richard

Jones viola* | Amanda Truelove cello |Jani Pensola double bass

Audrey Milheres flute* | Michael ODonnell oboe | Adam Slater

clarinet* | Daniel Jemison bassoon |Jonathan Lipton horn |John Alley

piano

* Members of the Octandre Ensemble

When a stoic marriage counselor is tasked with curing the delusions of the

Royal bride Daisy, she discovers a darker side to the nuptials that

challenges the very foundations of her practice. Ruined by the fear that her

first born heir will be abducted by an aberrant cave-dwelling goblin, Daisys

delusions are fantastical, yet firmly rooted in the fissures found when reality

shatters loves great dream: her husband is a bastard. Or at least, this was

the initial interpretation. As the therapist begins to find Daisys tales more

compelling, she becomes trapped in a triangle between guarding the safety

of the Princess, the safety of the baby, and exposing the Prince as a

psychotic tyrant and cause of Daisys pain. However, for some pain is

pleasure, and as the difference between reality and fantasy starts to

become more and more obscure, the therapist has to confront the

possibility of an incredible truth: that Daisys delusions arent as intangibleas they first appear.

Programme Notes

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Programme - Fri 22 Jun

Various Viola Shorts (Part 1)

squib-box Shadow Prophets

Darren Bloom Chaconne

Elo Masing Planes

Ayanna Witter-Johnson A Single Sun

Interval

Ed Baxter Sketch for the Death of Kodak

Aaron Holloway-Nahum Interaction

Various Viola Shorts (Part 2)

Richard Bullen A Garden of Forking Paths

Alexander Hawkins Unknown Baobabs

VariousViola ShortsPaul Silverthorne viola

Adam de la CourBlock

Block came about through a mix of diverse influences over a two week

period. The initial starting point was Freuds quote concerning the death drive

(Todestrieb):

the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life

back into the inanimate state

...which was then mixed in with some experiments with the octatonic scale;

general writing by ear; and many moments of writers block.

Richard Bullen Rite

The viola is seemingly just a big violin but tuned a fifth lower. In reality the

two instruments are worlds apart. They both have three strings in common,the A, D and G string. The high E-string lends the violin a powerful

luminosity and metallic penetrating tone which is missing in the viola. The

violin leads; the viola remains in the shade. In return the low C-string gives

the viola a unique acerbity, compact, somewhat hoarse, with the aftertaste

of wood, earth and tannic acid. Gyorgy Ligeti, preface to Viola Sonata (1994)

Part reflection on Ligetis comment, part exploration of the ceremonial

aspects of musical performance, Rite was written at the request of the

talented young violist Diana Mathews who gave the first performance at St

John the Bapist Church, Wimbledon in February 2012. It is designed to be

performed in a large, resonant space.

Emma-Ruth Richards Hora Spoitorilor

Hora Spoitorilorexplores one variation on the Romanian

folk song of the same name that much of the thematic

material for my new chamber opera is built on; the

opera is a rescue story of one of the thousands of

young Romanian girls that are sex trafficked into

Britain every year. This image is from Vanessa

Beecrofts sculptural performance in Spasimo Palermo,

which Nic, the librettist (http://www.nicchalmers.co.uk) was greatly inspired by.

Mark Simpson, Darren Bloom, Aaron Holloway-Nahum Solo

This piece was written at the beginning of the pilot of the LSOs Soundhub

Scheme. Embedded in the Soundhub scheme is the idea of a community

of collaborating composers. With this in mind, we decided to each write a

short movement of this work, and each based our compositions (in various

ways) upon a piece violist Paul Silverthorne was already playing in the

recital: Brittens Lachrymae.

Programme Notes

Neil LuckClub

Club is a personal expression of my own frustration at having never learnt

to play a stringed instrument.

Toby Young Capriccio

Capriccio was written in 2011 as a virtuosic showpiece for solo viola. It is a

highly playful work, switching between moods very quickly, and explores

some of the many facets of this versatile and multi-faceted instrument

(including flamboyant, delicate, lyrical, expressive, and even seductive!)

squib-box

Shadow ProphetsNeil Luck stage assistant/voice| Adam de la Cour electric guitar

Federico Reuben electronics | Tom Jackson saxophone | Matthew Lee

Knowles libretto/piano | Fiona Bevan voice | Billy Strachan drums

Shadow Prophets is a collaborative opera composed by squib-box, and

featuring a libretto by Matthew Lee Knowles. The work was originally

commissioned by Associazione Culturale Heuristic for the Miniere Sonore

Festival 2011.

...In a galaxy far, far away eastern dictators, western playboys and middle-

class composers conflate in an alarming ejaculation of current affairs,hardcore modernism, slapstick, free jazz, and bad stand-up comedy. Expect

anything

Darren BloomChaconneDavid Worswick violin

Chaconne for solo violin was commissioned by the violinist David Worswick.

While the piece strictly follows a chord progression throughout, it is not

stated in a bare form until the very end of the piece. As a result, the listener

becomes gradually aware of the progression through consistent exposure

to the material. The music begins wild and unfocused, leaping around the

instrument with very aggressive figurations contrasted by short, gentle

fragments played in a much slower tempo. As the piece progresses, the

wild music is lassoed, without losing intensity, into a nearly consistent triple

time and tighter phrases bringing a sense of greater control and directed

energy. In a sense, this work is a tribute to J.S. Bach, as wonderful exponent

of expressivity within a strict form. Chaconne is dedicated to David

Worswick for his tireless championship of new music.

Elo MasingPlanes

Jean Lee choreographer/dancer | Toki Quartet [Aki Sawa violin | MidoriKomachi violin | Steve Doman viola | Amy Jolly cello]

(Please see programme notes from Sat 16 Jun)

Ayanna Witter-Johnson

A Single SunAyanna Witter-Johnson cello

In this evenings performance ofA Single Sun, you will hear both a work in

progress and a culmination of my experience on the LSO Soundhub Pilot

Scheme. I have been exploring the role that recording plays in my music

and how I can use it to extend in particular the range of the cello to createa variety of sonic landscapes in my music. All the sounds in the piece,

besides the voice have been generated by the cello.


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Ed Baxter

Sketch for the Death of KodakElo Masing violin | Dragos Margineanu electric guitar

The score for this work in progress is written onto a digital camera flash

unit. This is flashed into the eyes of the performers who then have

approximately six minutes until the image on their retina fades beyond

recognition. With their eyes shut, they respond to diverse changes in

clarity, colour and stability. The work seeks to bring the score inside the

human body; and to create a pointedly fugitive score which individual

players see once only, fleetingly and within the parameters of their ocularidiosyncrasies. (It transpires that if the performer looks at a blank sheet

of paper, the image appears there as equally well-dened as inside their

head.) My long-term plan is to realise an opera, The Death of Kodak, using

multiple flash units and a large ensemble to portray the symptomatic

dissolution of this pivotal modernist corporation. Composing can happen

anywhere and does not depend on the location you are in at a certain

moment. More important than the places you travel to are the people you

meet. In this sense, I greatly enjoyed my studies in New York and London

because of the opportunities it gave me to meet musicians, teachers and

friends.

Aaron HollowayNahum

InteractionLorenzo Iosco bass clarinet | David Worswick violin

Josef Albers seminal work The Interaction of Colourargues that we never

see a colour as it really is because of the constant interaction between

every colour with its surroundings. This piece came from an exploration of

how the ideas surrounding this argument can be translated into music. A

single pitch (the F above middle C) is established by the violin at the

beginning of the work. The centre of this work is a duet, symmetrically

arranged around the F but is this F a high, middle, or low note? The

surrounding material constantly reinterprets and reevaluates the

centrepoint of the work, such that it begins as a high ceiling and ends as apedal bass note. In this, the composition explicitly echoes the sentiment

of Albers: Pitch is the most relative medium in music.

Richard Bullen

A Garden of Forking PathsKimon Parry Eb clarinet | Elaine Ruby Bb clarinet | George

Sleightholme bass clarinet

The evening was intimate, infinite. The road descended and forked among

the now confused meadows. A high-pitched, almost syllabic music

approached and receded in the shifting of the wind, dimmed by leavesand distance.... I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous

spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in

some way involve the stars...

The Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges

Alexander Hawkins

Unknown BaobabsPaul Silverthorne viola | David Worswick violin | Ayanna Witter-

Johnson cello | Toki Quartet [Aki Sawa violin | Midori Komachi violin |

Steve Doman viola | Amy Jolly cello]

Unknown Baobabs is part of a series of pieces originally inspired by a

structural device I initially encountered in Anthony Braxtons Composition

23C. Other recorded pieces in the series include Baobabs (Alexander

Hawkins Ensemble, no now is so, FMR Records, 2009; The Convergence

Quartet, Song/Dance, Clean Feed, 2010);A Star Explodes 10,00 Years Ago,

Seen By Chinese Astronomers (Alexander Hawkins Ensemble,All There,

Ever Out, Babel, 2012); andScarlet Ibis, Then Constellation, a trumpet

concerto written for Wadada Leo Smith. All the players have the exact same

melodic line, but have discretion as to the rate at which they move through

the materials (amongst other things), and need make no particular effort to

play in phase with anyone else. As a result, the line generates its own

harmony as it proceeds. It also has no real sense of pulse, although

hopefully retains a definite sense of architecture and direction. This

composition was written whilst I was preparing for a concert with master

saxophonist Marshall Allen, most famous for his work in Sun Ras Arkestra;

one particular cell in the melody here recalls a corner from Ras

composition Lights on a Satellite.

I am immensely grateful to Soundhub for providing a platform to

develop my ideas and share them with such a wonderful community

of fellow composers and industry experts. I would strongly recommend

this inspirational scheme to anyone interested in the future of

contemporary music!

Toby Young Soundhub Member

Participation on the Soundhub scheme has been a real privilege for me

in a number of ways. Masterclasses with LSO musicians, and access to

LSO rehearsals and performances have been both practically enormously

educational and creatively stimulating; and access to the wonderful staff

and facilities of St Lukes has been invaluable, especially as a

non-Londoner for whom a London base such as this is so useful. And

of course, the opportunity to get to know, share ideas with, and develop

a community of peers such as the Soundhub cohort has been fantastic.

Alexander Hawkins Soundhub Member

In a short few months, the Soundhub Scheme has opened up a broad

range of possibilities and opportunities for me in a myriad of creativeroles. Ive composed for and conducted musicians from the LSO,

recorded and mixed an EP for a contemporary swing band, programmed

and put-on my own concert in the Jerwood Hall, attended numerous LSO

rehearsals, and have been actively involved in blogging and even been

in a live podcast on the LSO Google Channel. These opportunities were

not just completed as an individual, but took place within a community

of composers and artists who challenged and inspired me with new

styles and methods of creating music that Id never really interacted

with before.

Aaron Holloway-Nahum Soundhub Member

Applications arenow open forSoundhub 2012

Application forms are

available at the mainentrance.


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Soundhub Members

Ed Baxter

Most recently Ed has been commissioned to create (with Chris Weaver) the

sound-art element of NVAs month-long son et lumiere

projectSpeed of Lightat the 2012 Edinburgh

International Festival. He was curator of the sound

art exhibition Gone with the Wind at Raven Row,

London, in 2011. His recent compositions include

The Spiral, commissioned by Sound And Music and BBCRadio 3s Hear & Now for 2010s Cut & Splice: Transmission; Overheard,

for musicians, actors and boxers, commissioned by Arika in 2010 for the

Kill Your Timid Notion festival in Dundee; and Overheard 2, a 48 hour live

radiophonic work for the 2010 Install festival in Glasgow. He was long-listed

for the 2010 PRSF New Music Award; and shortlisted for the 2008 PRSF New

Music Award. In his day job Ed is CEO of Resonance104.4fm. He is also an

Associate Lecturer at the London College of Communication (Sound Arts

and Design).

Darren Bloom

Darren Bloom is a composer, conductor, producer and educator. His

workStrange Attractors, written for the Ossian Ensemble

as Composer-in-Association, was selected to representthe UK at the 2013 World Music Days. Darren

graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with

distinction and held the Manson Fellowship for two

years. He teaches at Junior Trinity and is Composer-in-

Residence at the Forest School.

Alexander Hawkins

Alexander Hawkins is a pianist, Hammond organist, and composer,

described by recent reviews as a young master and

unlike anything else in modern creative music. His

highly individual soundworld is forged through the

search to reconcile both his love of free improvisationand profound fascination with composition and

structure. As a bandleader, his work has been said to

have reached a dazzling new apex (Downbeat, US) with his

most recent Ensemble album,All There, Ever Out(Babel, 2012); whilst as

part of The Convergence Quartet, he has been said to have achieved a

fundamental reassertion of composition within improvised music (Point of

Departure). Besides his leader work, he can be heard regularly onstage and

on recordings alongside a range of established masters such as Louis

Moholo-Moholo, Joe McPhee, and Mulatu Astatke; and has also appeared

with the likes of Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, and Marshall Allen. He has

appeared on festival, club, and concert hall stages throughout Europe, as

well as further afield in countries such as Brazil and Russia.

Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Works by Aaron Holloway-Nahum (b. 1983) have been performed in the UK,

across Europe and in the United States by ensembles

and musicians including the BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Royal Academy Soloists, BBC Singers, Ensemble

Amorpha, the Cappa Ensemble, Painting Music, Paul

Silverthorne, Peter Gregson, Naoko Miyamoto, and has

featured on BBC Radio 3s Hear and Now programme.

Aarons work, Plainer Sailing, was recently premiered buy the

Riot Ensemble (June 2012) and other recent commissions include The

Rivers Daughter, a short-opera written with librettist Sasha Dugdale at

Aldeburgh; and the faultlines of prayerfor Ensemble Konvergence (Berlin& Prague, Nov 2011). A full-length commercial recording of Aarons music

was made at Abbey Road Studios in 2008.Aaron has recently submitted for

a DMus in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he

was supported by a full scholarship from the Leverhulme & Guildhall Trusts.

Elo Masing

Elo Masing is an Estonian composer/free improviser currently based in

London. Elos music has been performed at several festivals throughout

Europe, most recently at the Estonian Young Composers

Festival in Tartu; Spitalelds Festival, Ether Festival and

Birtwistle Festival, London. Her works have been

played by ensembles such as the Tallinn-based Una

Corda, Manson Ensemble, members of the London

Sinfonietta, European Union Chamber Orchestra, and the

ICP Ensemble. After obtaining a masters degree in composition

from the Royal Academy of Music, she is now continuing her doctoral studiesat the same institution, exploring the composer-performer-audience

relationships in chamber music. She is mentored by Simon Bainbridge, and

with support from the Royal Academy of Music, receives private tuition from

Rebecca Saunders. Elo has always been interested in collaboration between

different elds of creativity, having worked with visual artists, choreographers

and animators. Currently she is exploring the connection between music and

dance, working with Korean choreographer Jean Lee. She is also interested in

the use of music in theatre after participating in the workshop Theatre of

Illusion led by Sir Harrison Birtwistle at the Dartington International

Summer School 2010.

Christian MasonChristian Mason was born in London in 1984. He defines composition as

searching in sound for fleeting solidifications of

intangible experiences, and adds to this ambitious

project the mastering of an extraordinary and rare

instrument, the theremin, which he has recently

featured in a piece with a string octet, Looking for

the Land that is Nowhere. The piece was given its

premiere in June 2010 as part of the Music of Today series at the Royal Fes-

tival Hall with Lydia Kavina and members of the Philharmonia

Orchestra. Christian has recently been selected by Pierre Boulez to be com-

missioned for a large-scale orchestral work as part of the Lucerne Festival

Academy Composer Project. The premiere will take place at the 2013

Festival, following a workshop in 2012. From 2005 to 2008 Christian was

shortlisted by the Society for the Promotion of New Music and in 2009 was

awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and

nominated for the British Composer Awards, chamber category. Alongside

pursuing a Ph.D at Kings College London with George Benjamin, Christian

works as composition assistant to Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and composition

support tutor for the LSO Panufnik Young Composers Project. He

previously read music at the University of York and has studied

composition with Sinan Savaskan, Nicola LeFanu, Thomas Simaku, Brian

Ferneyhough and Julian Anderson. Christian has also participated in

summer courses such as the Stockhausen Courses, Dartington,

Royaumont Voix Nouvelles 2007, Acanthes 2008 and Takefu International

Festival 2008

Mark Simpson

Mark Simpson is 22 years old and from Liverpool. In 2006 he became the first

ever winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and

BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year

competitions. As a composer, Mark has worked with

some of the leading orchestras and ensembles in the

country including a long relationship with the RLPOs

Ensemble 10/10. Threads for Orchestra was

commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Great

Britain and performed by Vasily Petrenko in the Sage Gateshead,

the Barbican and Symphony Hall (2008). A mirror-fragment, a 12 minute

orchestral tone-poem based on the poetry of Melanie Challenger was

premiered by the RLPO and Paul Daniel in October 2008 and will be recorded

at the Barbican by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2013. He recently

completed a new work for 10/10,Straw Dogs, which was premiered in June

2011 by Nicholas Collon and was the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic

Societys composition award 2010. He went on to write Lethe under the


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award, a piece for trombone and ensemble, which was premiered in the

Royal Festival Hall June 2011. In 2008, he spent six months in Berlin where

he studied with Unsuk Chin. More recently, he attended the Dartington

International Summer School with Julian Anderson. He read music at St

Catherines College Oxford and graduated with a first class degree. He was

principal conductor of the Oxford University Sinfonietta. He is studying on

the MMus composition course at the Guildhall School with Julian Anderson.

Ayanna Witter-Johnson

Ayanna is a vocalist, cellist, composer and pianist. In 2008 she was a

participant in the LSOs Discovery Panufnik YoungComposers Scheme in addition to becoming an

Emerging Artist in Residence (EAR) at Londons

Southbank Centre and graduated from Trinity College

of Music in London with a First Class Degree in

Classical Composition. In 2009 she was a featured artist

with Courtney Pines Afropeans: Jazz Warriors and in the

following year became the only non-American to win Amateur Night Live at

the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC. In 2011 she was

commissioned by Joanna MacGregor on behalf of Bath Festival to create a

new programme in response to the work of Nina Simone. In 2011, having

won the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund Scholarship, she completed a

Masters of Music in Composition at the Manhattan School of Music.

Last year she released her debut recording, Truthfully, produced by Marc

Mac (4Hero) and has since recorded one of those featured songs with the

Kronos Quartet. Ayanna was recently co-orchestrator alongside Jason

Yarde for Urban Classic 2012 featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Ms. Dynamite, Skepta, Fazer and Devlin and also toured the UK, supporting

Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca.

Toby Young

Toby Young is a composer and singer from London. He studied composition

with Robin Holloway at Cambridge whilst also being a

choral scholar in the prestigious Kings College Chapel

Choir. Since winning numerous competitions, most

notably the International ABRSM CompositionCompetition (2009) and the Guardian/BBC Proms

Young Composer of the Year (2006), Toby has been much

in demand, both in the UK and abroad, with works being performed at

numerous prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Sadlers Wells,

and the Cadogan Hall, by renowned ensembles and orchestras including the

LSO, RPO, Fretwork, Britten Sinfonia and Endymion Ensemble, and the choirs

of Kings, and Sidney Sussex Colleges in Cambridge. Commissions have

included orchestral and ensemble works for the St Petersburg British Music

Festival, the City of Oxford Sinfonia, the London School of Economics, and

the Royal Academy of Music, a new opera for the Fitzwilliam Museum next

year, as well as solo pieces for the 2007 Brighton Festival, the Birmingham

Conservatoire, the Cheltenham Ladies College, Chethams School of Music,and the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts (who commissioned a

collaborative project with the artist Jeremy Millar RA). Many works have also

been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In 2009 Toby was Composer-in-residence at

the University of Perugia.

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Richard Bullen

Richard Bullen (b.1984) is a composer living and working in London. He is

interested in finding innovative ways of using the physical

performance space to heighten the listeners perception

of sound and intensify the theatricality often inherent in

the musical material. He won a British Composer Awardin 2011 for I cant find brumm..., a work written for an

amateur ensemble comprising banjos, mandolins and

guitars: the Midlands Fretted Orchestra. The piece was commissioned

through Making Musics Adopt-a-Composer scheme with funds from the

PRS for Music Foundation, and was twice broadcast on BBC Radio 3. SPNM

short-listed composer from 200710, Richard has studied with Peter Maxwell

Davies at Dartington International Summer School where he wrote Firewire,

a piece that later won the Royal Academy of Music Alan Bush Prize in 2009.

He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Academy with David Sawer

and is an associate member on the LSO Soundhub Pilot Scheme.

Rebecca Dale

Rebeccas interests lie in composing for film, television and theatre.

After studying at Oxford she completed an MA in

Composing for Film & Television at Bristol University,

graduating with distinction and winning the universitycomposition competition. Her current projects range

from film and orchestration work to developing a

televised musical with the Wellcome Trust, and she also

writes regularly for choir. She is passionate about the power

of the orchestra to transform visual experiences.

Alice Jeffreys

Alice first discovered a passion and flare for composing when she was 18

years old. She was awarded a first class honours for

composition throughout her undergraduate degree,

and will be pursuing a masters in composition after a

gap year. Alice is described as having an exceptionally

refined musical ear, particularly for texture and timbre.

Alices most recent work Light and Shadows (2012), a

quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, explores sonority

and timbral colours in two complementary pitch spaces, through a series

of musical states, whose harmonic boundaries are increasingly blurred. A

single sound is gradually expanded and transformed, through exploration of

the colours of the cello and violin string, filtering out the upper partials and

progressively the lower partials. This opening focus upon sonority becomes

the middle-ground state for a linear conceived foreground. Light and

Shadows was premiered by the Plus-Minus Ensemble on 12th June.

Helen Papaioannou

Helen Papaioannou (b.1987) is a composer and saxophonist whose workfocuses on relentlessly transforming streams of motion

which channel players towards hyperactive rhythmic

exchanges and bring physical actions to the fore. She

investigates relationships between rhythm and the

relational dynamics between musicians during

performance, in which she works as composer and

improviser in various combinations. Helen is currently studying for a PhD at

Newcastle University under the guidance of Agustn Fernndez and Will

Edmondes. Performances of her works have involved collaborations with

Northern Sinfonia, Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea, Mr. McFalls Chamber,

Taylor Wilson, Henrik Frisk and Stefan stersj, Momenta Quartet, in ascolto,

Hannabiell Sanders and the Busch Ensemble. Forthcoming projects include anew work for the Notos Ensemble to be performed in Newcastle in July, and

a premier of a piece for Amsterdams The Nieuw Ensemble at Huddersfield

Contemporary Music Festival.

Emma-Ruth Richards

Emma-Ruths music is performed by Heritage Opera, Opera North, London

Philharmonia, BBC NOW Chamber Players, Hkan Hardenberger, Colin Currie,

Rhodes Piano Trio, Ebor Singers, Navarra Quartet, HM

Royal Marines Windband, Camerata Pacifica and The

Absolution Saxophone Quartet amongst others. She

is a Royal Northern Gold Medal composer and has

featured in festivals including Music of Today 2009,

James MacMillan 2009, RNCM Chamberfest 2011,Sounds New Canterbury 2010, HCMF 2011, North West 2012

and IC Hong Kong 2012. Emma-Ruth is an associate member of the LSOs

Soundhub; the composer in residence with Milton Keynes City Orchestra; a

co-director of Collectives and Curiosities; a member of the Chethams

International Faculty; and is completing her PhD at the RNCM studying

privately with Alexander Goehr.


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Anjula Semmens

Anjula Semmens began composing under the guidance of Sir David

Lumsden and went on to study with Dr David Knotts as a Junior

at the Royal Academy of Music for four years. In 2010, she

completed her undergraduate studies in Music at St

Annes College, Oxford, where she was tutored under Dr

Berta Joncus, Dr John Traill and Dr Martyn Harry.

Anjula has had her work performed by artists including

David Worswick and the Kreisler Ensemble, and in 2007 had

her first orchestral piece workshopped by the LSO as part of the Panufnik

scheme. She has also taken part in composition courses at the St MagnusFestival and Dartington, with generous support from the RVW Trust.

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production and dissemination of radical and avant-garde

music, regardless of its genre. Founded in 2010 by Adam

de la Cour, Neil Luck and Federico Reuben, squib-box

has organized and performed at live events around the UK,

with a variety of leading musicians, artists and performers

from a range of disciplines.

Neil Luck

Neil Luck is a composer based in London. His compositional

practice focuses on various approaches to non-standard

notations, in particular those which implicate either the

composers own body/movement in construction, or

directly engage with the physiology of performance

techniques themselves. He is the founder of ARCO

ensemble, and co-founder of squib-box.

Frederico Reuben

Federico Reuben is a composer, sound artist and laptop improviser based in

London. His work challenges the conventional relationships

between composer, performer and audience through

imagined performance practices, collaborations andmodes of sonic representation and production. He

plunders, combines and alters cultural objects

(recordings, live performances, scores, etc.) through digital

technology to produce amorphous and absurd sound worlds. He is

interested in how through sound, affect can be transferred, modulated and

distorted.

Adam de la Cour

Adam de la Cour (b.1979) is a composer and performer living just outside

London. He is predominantly interested in satire. His music

has been performed in ten different countries, and he

has performed in nine, therefore his music has beenperformed internationally, it also has the incredible

ability of being completely invisible to the press.

He is a founding member of squib-box, alongside Federico

Reuben and Neil Luck. squib-box is a co-operative and net-label

dedicated to the production and dissemination of radical and avant-garde

music, regardless of its genre. As part of squib-box, Adam is developing new

work as an associate artist on the LSO Soundhub pilot scheme.

Performers

Fiona Bevan voice

Fresh from supporting Ed Sheeran on tour, singer-songwriter and

multi-instrumentalist Fiona Bevan has an unexpected afro and a sweet, fiery

voice bigger than her hair. Her distinctive hooky songs pry into the dark,

obsessive corners of love via folk, jazz and pop. Likened to Erykah Badu,

Joni Mitchell and Doris Day, Suffolk singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan has been

steadily rising up the London gig circuit, as well as playing at the Big Chill

festival, Secret Garden Party, LoveBox, Late at Tate and World Book Night at

the Southbank Centre. Last year Fiona worked with Adam Ant and supportedEd Sheeran, Jesca Hoop and John Smith on their UK tours. She was also

commissioned by Tate to create and perform a new piece as part of the Tate

Modern Visual Dialogues project.

Neil Georgeson piano

Neil Georgeson read music at Edinburgh University, under the tutelage of

Peter Evans, where he performed frequently in venues throughout the city

and played concertos with several orchestras. During this time, he won

various prizes including the Sir Donald Francis Tovey Prize and also

performed for Her Majesty the Queen. In 2001, he moved to London to study

for his Masters and Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music,

under the tutelage of Ian Fountain and Patsy Toh. He alsobenefited from masterclasses with Irina Zaritzkaya, Victor Rosenbaum

and Joanna MacGregor. Neil has received several awards including the Sir

James Caird Travelling Scholarships Fund, the EMI award and the Scottish

International Educational Trust. He is very much involved in new music,

appearing on the South Bank Show playing the music of Gyorgy Kurtag

and working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies on several occasions Neil is the

Artistic Director of the Ossian Ensemble, which specialises in theatrical

concerts with new music. Also active as a composer, Neil recently gave

the premiere, to great critical acclaim, of his workSimmermill for violin and

piano. Forthcoming performances include a tour of Taiwan.

Mark Gotham music director

In 2008, Mark Gotham graduated from the University of Oxford with theGibbs Prize for the highest-ranking first class degree awarded in music. Since

then, he has gained a masters degree in composition from the Royal

Northern College of Music (with the support of a full scholarship from the

Arts and Humanities Research Council) and pursued a richly varied freelance

career as a composer, conductor, academic, teacher, singer, and

multi-instrumentalist. Highlights from two years of freelancing included

holding the McCann Research Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music

and continued work as a composer assistant for the Royal Opera House,

Covent Garden. This academic year, Mark took up a lay clerkship at Ely

Cathedral to coincide with the start of his PhD at the University of

Cambridge.

Tom Jackson saxophone

Tom Jackson is a musician who uses clarinets and saxophones as tools of,

and for, Ideas. He is a dedicated exponent of newer music and a passionate

proponent of that vast body of work - free improvisation.

Clara Kanter voice

Clara read Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, where she

sang with the choirs of Clare and Trinity colleges. Her operatic roles include

Zita (Gianni Schicchi), La Zelatrice (Suor Angelica), the Sorceress (Dido and

Aeneas) and Queen (Svrsvm Corda, world premiere). Concert performances

include theSt Matthew Passion, Handels Messiah, and Vivaldis Gloria at the

Purcell Room. She performs regularly with the Armonico Consort,

Philharmonia Voices, Blossom Street and London Voices. Choral work for

theatre and television includes Coram Boy(National Theatre), Orlando

Goughs One, Two (Dartington International Summer School) and Dominic

Muldowneys score for War Oratorio (Channel 4). Recent international

ensemble work has included Die Schpfungwith Adam Fischer and the

Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and a tour ofVOCAbuLarieS with Bobby


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McFerrin and the Chamber Choir of Europe. Forthcoming performances

include Stockhausens Michaelion with Birmingham Opera Company in

August, as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Matthew Lee Knowles libretto, piano

Matthew Lee Knowles is a composer, poet, pianist, teacher and events

organiser in London. He also paints and makes videos and is currently

interested in plants and glitter. Heroes include: the Marquis de Sade, Alan

Turing, Muzio Clementi, Morton Feldman and Mark Rothko. He shares the

initials of Martin Luther King and shares a birthday with Patsy Cline.

Jean Lee choreographer

Jean Lee, a choreographer, performance and dance researcher, dance

dramaturge and dance writer. She lectured in Korea National University of

Arts from 2004 to 2008 (2004-2008 at choreography department and 2005-

2007 at traditional arts department). Jean Lee was awarded a Korea National

University of Arts Scholarship (2000-2002), Japan Foundation Fellowship

(2001), Arts Council Korea Grants (2005, 2006, 2007), Roehampton University

Scholarship (20092010) and Bauhaus Kollege Stipendium (2011-2012). Her

academic papers and artistic works have been presented in international

dance conferences (Roehampton Conference 2010, SDHS: Society of Dance

History Scholars 2011 & CORD: The Congress on Research in Dance 2011-12).

Lorenzo Iosco bass clarinet

Lorenzo Iosco is Principal Bass Clarinet of the London Symphony

Orchestra. He was born in Potenza, Italy in 1985 and studied at the Luigi

Cherubini conservatory in Florence. After graduating with honours, Lorenzo

continued his studies with Carlo Failli (principal clarinet, Tuscany Orchestra)

and Dario Goracci (bass clarinet, Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome).He was a

member of the Italian Youth Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra,

Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, Camerata Strumentale di Prato, BBC

National Orchestra of Wales, and Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and

has performed with renowned conductors including Valery Gergiev,

Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Andris

Nelsons, Lorin Maazel, Gianandrea Noseda and Nicola Luisotti.Before

joining the LSO, Lorenzo was Principal Bass Clarinet of the Madrid SymphonyOrchestra at Madrids Royal Opera House for two years.

Ruth Mariner director

Ruth Mariner studied art before she was awarded an excellence scholarship

to study Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, (1st). During her time

there she specialized in cultural theory and composition, directing a number

of musical performances in a multimedia installation format. She is currently

studying for an MPhil in musicology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Ruth is editor of the Classical Music section for Cambridge Universitys

leading online paper, and also writes for other music publications, most

notably, Classical Music Magazine, London Bach Societys

journal Bach Notes and Timeout Hong Kong.

Dragos Margineanu electric guitar

Dragos Margineanu is a performance artist and film-maker currently residing

in London. His works explore the fascinating relationship between sound and

image, using diverse materials ranging from digital audio & video to live

performance, bricolage and found objects. Selected collaborative works

include Openings, a live performance at the Stage Theatre of Central Saint

Martins in Kings Cross, London, Chillaxand Care, films screened at the Bafta

Cinema in London and Think Twice, an art&science exhibition at V22 Summer

Club. Dragos is also an active contributor to ResonanceFM, Londons first arts

radio station.

Angus McPhee baritoneAngus started his career as a chorister in St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle,

where he sung for a number of high profile events. Now a baritone, his solo

career has since blossomed. He has performed bass solos in choral works

including Haydns The Creation, Vaughan-Williams Five Mystical Songs,

BachsSt John Passion and Mozarts Requiem in Kings College Chapel,

whilst also enjoying a burgeoning recital repertoire through works such as

Schumanns Dichterliebe, Berlioz Les nuits dt , Finzis Let Us Garlands

Bring, and Bachs Ich Habe Genug.Equally important to Angus were his

roles in musical theatre (Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance, Matt in The

Fantasticks, and Billy inAnything Goes), and lead singing in the big band,

having toured South Africa in 2008. Angus is a also a composer, and was

fortunate to have his compositionA Prayer of Departure performed at the

meeting of the General Synod. In addition to having lessons at the Royal

Academy of Music with Alex Ashworth, Angus has had tuition with The

Sixteens Eammon Dougan on their new Genesis Sixteen scheme.

Chloe Morgan voice

Since graduating from Trinity College of Music Chloe has had a varied career.

She is in great demand as a choral and session singer with credits including

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Prometheus, Madagascar 3, and the

Titanic Requiem. She recently sang backing vocals for rap artist Labyrinth

on the Jonathan Ross show. Chloe is a regular member of the Monteverdi

Choir, of which she was privileged to be an Apprentice while still at college,

and has worked for conductors including Sir Colin Davis, Richard Egarr and

Andrew Greenwood. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist and sung the role of

the Witch of Endor in HandelsSaul for the Aldeburgh Festival. Recent roles

include Bridesmaid in Webers Le Freischutz(BBC Prom & Opra Comique)

and First lady in Cherubinis Mda with the Chelsea Opera Group. Chloe is

very excited to return to the Wexford festival to sing the role of Papagena in

Mozarts The Magic Flute. Future engagements include Betty Butterworth

in Stephen McNeffs The Secret Garden at the Theatre Arts course in Banff,

Canada.

Roderick Morris voice

Roderick graduated with a Bachelor of Music honors degree from the

University of Cambridge. Since this time, he has performed as a recitalist and

oratorio soloist in the UK and abroad, in countries including South Korea,

Japan, Denmark and North America. He took part in a Britten Pears Young

Artists Program, performing theSt Matthew Passion under Masaaki Suzuki,

and took the role of David in HandelsSaul at the Spitalfields Festival. He

has also performed programmes of Mendelssohn Lieder for the Oxford andChelsea lieder festivals. His operatic credits include Guido, (Flavio), the title

role in Cavallis Il Giasone with Royal Academy Opera, Cupid (Venus and

Adonis) with La Nuova Musica, Athamas (Semele), Satirino (La Calisto), and

The Spirit, (Dido and Aeneas), the latter under Laurence Cummings. Future

operatic performances include The Prince, (Daisy Chain), with Tte Tte

Opera, and Dido and Aeneas with Kiez Oper in Berlin.

Kimon Parry clarinet

Kimon Parry is a young clarinettist of considerable promise whose recent

successes include winning the 2011 Clarinet and Saxophone Society

(CASS) Solo Clarinet Competition, reaching the 2012 finals of the Wind and

Percussion section of the Royal Overseas-League Annual Competition, andbeing awarded Recommended Artist status under Making Musics Philip

& Dorothy Green Award scheme for 2012. Kimon is also a soloist on the

Countess of Munster Recital Scheme 2012/13. Kimon completed his Master

of Arts with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of

Mark Van de Wiel. During his undergraduate years as a Foundation Scholar

at the Royal College of Music, Kimon studied under Richard Hosford and won

the RCM Senior Woodwind Prize in 2008 before graduating with a First Class

Honours in 2009. Kimon has played with the London Chamber Orchestra, the

Philharmonia, the London Sinfonietta and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Orchestra. Kimon is a member of the Davis Clarinet Quartet.

Octandre Ensemble

The Octandre Ensemble is a flexible collective of London-basedmusicians co-founded by composer Christian Mason and conductor

musicians co-founded by composer Christian Mason and conductor

Jonathan Hargreaves. Taking its name from Vareses seminal work, the

ensemble is dedicated to exploring the energy of sounds, and the webs of

ideas that form around them. With a growing reputation for their


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carefully conceived concerts and unified/integrated events, they were

recently featured as ensemble in residence at the York Spring Festival of

New Music in May 2012. Forthcoming projects include an appearance at

Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kiev, Ukraine, in October, and Medieval Modernist, a

concert dedicated to the work of their patron Harrison Birtwistle in

December 2012. With the support of Diaphonique they are launching an

Anglo-French Composers Forum in which six young composers will be

featured during a weekend of workshops, presentations and performances

at LSO St Lukes, London, in November 2012, in association with LSO

Soundhub.

Jayne OHanlon set designer

Jayne OHanlon is a multimedia/performance artist. She graduated with a

first class honours degree from the BA Drawing course at Camberwell

College of Arts in 2010 and is currently based in London. Focusing on the

social and psychological relationships of place, she designs and creates

site-specific objects and costumes, with a heavy emphasis on the absurd.

Her portfolio of work involves animation, film, sculpture and performance.

Working both alone and collaboratively, she has undertaken a number of

artists residencies in association with Spacemakers project in Brixton Village

Market, empty shop project Live at The Apollo, and a commissioned

production for 198 Gallery London. Other site-specific public projects have

taken place in outdoor markets, a cinema and at Zippos travelling circus. She

has also curated several exhibitions and judged on a number of awards and

exhibitions panels across University of the Arts London.

Tom Oldham voice

Tom trained at the RNCM and on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School

with David Pollard. He has performed with many companies including

Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Grange Park Opera. As a consort singer

he performs regularly with the BBC Singers, Polyphony and contemporary

ensemble Exaudi. Tom also works as a set and costume designer. He studied

on the prestigious Motley Theatre Design Course under Alison Chitty and

Ashley Martin Davis and recent designs include Rinaldo for Trinity Laban

College and the British premiere of RameausAcante et Cephise for

UCOpera.

Elaine Ruby clarinet

Elaine is currently completing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music,

where she has studied since winning an entrance scholarship in 2008. At

RAM Elaine has studied with Angela Malsbury and Mark Van de Wiel, and has

played principal in the various RAM orchestras and Wind ensembles. As part

of her degree Elaine spent five months studying at the Paris Conservatoire,

learning clarinet with Pascal Moragues and Leroy Arnauld. This year Elaine

was Highly Commended in the Royal Academy of Music Patrons award

and the Buffet Crampon Clarinet prize. In July 2011 she participated in the

LSO Wind Academy and recently performed Boulezs Domaines for solo

clarinet and ensemble, directed by Susanna Malkki, in the Queen ElizabethHall, on the opening night of the celebratory Boulez festival Exquisite

Labyrinth. Elaine regularly performs chamber music as a guest with the

Aiden Woodcock Charitable Trust, and recently participated as a soloist and

chamber musician in the Schwetzingen chamber music festival with SWR

radio in southern Germany. Elaine will be commencing her Masters at the

Royal College of Music in September, having been awarded full funding

under the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Christina Sampson voice

Christina Birchall-Sampson graduated from the Guildhall School with

distinction following a Music degree at Cambridge University. Prizes include

MBF award, Hampshire Singing Competition (second prize), John Sim Prize

for contemporary song, and Emmy Destinn competition finalist. Christinamade her solo debut at Staatsoper Berlin, Opera du Capitle Toulouse,

Aix-en-Provence and Innsbruck festivals in Handel Belshazzar, conducted by

Ren Jacobs, and released on DVD (Harmonia Mundi). She played Violetta,

La Traviata for Bel Canto Opera, Cheltenham last year. Other complete

roles include Musetta, La Bohme, Juliette Romo et Juliette, Gretel, Hansel

and Gretel, Bastienne, Bastien und Bastienne and Madam Silberklang, Der

Schauspieldirektor. Christina is also a frequent oratorio soloist and recitalist.

Future plans include Tatiana Eugene Onegin (Ryedale Festival Opera, cover),

Clorinda La Cenerentola (Opera Loki), Mendelssohn Elijah (St Johns

Waterloo), and concerts at the Tavistock Festival.

Nicholas Scott voice

Nicholas was awarded a Sir Elton John Scholarship to the Royal Academy of

Music, from where he recently graduated, studying with Mark Wildman and

Iain Ledingham with whom he continues to study. Nicholas is a product of

the Royal Academy of Music / Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series withwhom he continues to perform. He has performed Haydns Creation in

Guildford Cathedral and Haydns Missa Cellensis and Handels Foundling

Hospital Anthem at Lichfield Cathedral. More recently, Nick has performed

in The Victoria International Music Festival in Malta with The Maltese

Philharmonic Orchestra and has sung Mozart Requiem in St Martin-in-the-

Fields with the Brandenburg Sinfonia. Nick has been awarded a Kathleen

Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers; and at the Royal Academy of Music, the

Arthur Burcher Memorial Prize, and the Henry Cummings Prize. He returns to

the Royal Academy of Music in September as the recipient of the prestigious

ABRSM Scholarship.

Paul Silverthorne viola

Paul Silverthorne has been Principal Viola of the LSO since 1991 and Principal

Viola of the London Sinfonietta since 1988, whilst continuing to pursue

a busy solo career. As a soloist, he has performed with such conductors

as Sir Colin Davis, Andr Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner,

Oliver Knussen and John Adams and Kent Nagano, with the LSO and other

major orchestras in the UK, USA and Europe. After a performance at the

Proms, The Times described him as a virtuoso in sensitivity and technique.

This year his solo engagements have taken him to the USA (with a newly

commissioned concerto by Kenneth Fuchs) and the Far East. This August

he was again a soloist at the Proms and in the following week he recorded

Kenneth Fuchs new concerto with the LSO for release next August on the

Naxos label. He is particularly renowned for his interpretation of new music

and his commitment to this field has led to close relationships with leadingcomposers of our time, many of whom have been inspired to write for him.

His recordings cover a wide range of repertoire and appear on EMI, Naxos,

Chandos, Koch International Classics, ASV, Meridian, Albany and other

labels to widespread acclaim. He has just released a new CD, Beethoven

by Arrangement, with pianist David Owen Norris. Paul Silverthorne is a

professor at the Royal Academy of Music, to whom he is indebted for the

loan, from their collection, of the Amati viola of 1620 on which he plays.

George Sleightholme clarinet

George graduated with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music

(MA Performance, 2010), where he received the Paton Award. As an

undergraduate at Kings College, London he was a choral scholar and MusicDepartment President in his final year. Now a busy freelance performer

and teacher, George regularly performs with Live Music Now! ensemble,

The Davis Clarinet Quartet, and is a founding member of the contemporary

performance group, Electric Vesper. His free improvising ensemble,

MOOT, has been playing together for two years. George also tours the UK

with Co-Opera Co. (solo clarinet), with upcoming productions to include

Humperdinks Hansel and Gretel, Mozarts Don Giovanni, and a revival of last

years production of Mozarts The Magic Flute.

Billy Strachan drums

Billy Strachan studied percussion and drum kit at the City of Edinburgh

Music School, with Alan Emslie. After moving to London, he received lessons

in orchestral percussion from Chris Brannick at the Guildhall School of Musicand Drama and studied the music of Brazil and Ghana with Barak Schmool

at City University. Since graduating in 2004 Billy has been working as a

freelance percussionist, percussion teacher, ensemble director and

workshop leader. He currently performs with James Wolff, Fiona Bevan and

Brake Drum Assembly amongst many others.


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LSO St Lukes Principal Donors:

Toki Quartet [Aki Sawa violin | Midori Komachi violin | Steve Doman

viola | Amy Jolly cello]

The Toki Quartet was formed by four prize-winning musicians in 2010 at

the Royal Academy of Music. The group recently won first place in the Sir

Arthur Bliss Prize and were selected by Peter Manning to perform at the

2011MasterPiece Fair in Chelsea. They have also been selected to perform

pieces by the contemporary composers David Lumsdaine and Steve Reich

and are now part of the LSO Soundhub Project with composer Elo Masing.

In 2012, they look forward to working with the Kreutzer Quartet and Nicola

LeFanu; on a world premiere by Rhian Samuel and on a commision by Yuka

Takechi. They have received coaching from members of the Maggini,Endellion and Vanbrugh Quartets as well as workingly closely with several

contemporary composers and musicians. Their experience of performing

alongside the Scottish Ensemble and the Chillingarian Quartet, and

individually with Nobuko Imai and Stephan Picard, has fostered their great

interest to explore the chamber music repertoire further. The Tokis are

dedicated to the promotion of Japanese and British music and are

currently embarking on the Harmony of Cultural Sounds project. The group

are named after the beautiful but endangered Japanese Crested Ivis Toki

in Japanese.

David Worswick violin

David Worswick graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2006 andbecame a member of the London Symphony Orchestra in November 2010.

David was New Music Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music and

Leverhulme Fellow at the Royal College of Music. He worked closely with

many of todays most important young composers, performing hundreds

of new works. He has also worked with composers such as Thomas Ads,

Bent Srensen, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jonathan Harvey, Gunther Schuller

and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. His recent solo appearances have included

concerts in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Leeds

International Concert Series, North Wales International Music Festival and

at Colston Hall, The Sage Gateshead, Wales Millennium Centre and tours of

the UK as a soloist for Live Music Now. Two of his recent chamber music

recordings received great recognition winning the Diapason dOr Award

and the 2010 BBC Music Magazine Award.

Coming soon...

The Riot Ensemble

Sun 17 Jun, 8pm

Jerwood Hall LSO St Lukes

In association with LSO Soundhub, the Riot Ensemble presentSong

Offerings from British composer Jonathan Harvey, Elizabeth Maconchys

Sun, Moon and Stars and a world premiere of Aaron Holloway-Nahums

new work Plainer Sailing. The concert will be followed by a reception with

opportunities to interact with the musicians and composers.

Tickets 10 (5 concessions)

To book tickets call the Barbican Box Office on 020 7638 8891 or visit lso.co.uk

LSO Discovery Celebration Concert

Thu 28 Jun, 7.30pm

Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre

LSO Discovery brings music into the lives of 60,000 Londoners every year,

and the annual summer celebration concert, conducted by Kristjan Jrvi

and including a new comission for local primary school children, brings

together LSO Discovery participants on the Barbican stage.

Tickets 4

To book tickets call the Barbican Box Office on 020 7638 8891 or visit lso.co.uk

Arte Presents: Afro Folk Session

Thu 28 Jun, 7.30pm

Charlie Wrights

The Afro-Folk Sessions will bring together an emerging vein of outstanding

musicians from the UK and beyond who are blurring the boundaries between

folk, jazz, soul and afro-inspired roots music. Featuring Soundhub composer

Ayanna Witter-Johnson.

Tickets 6 in advance (8 on the door)

To book tickets visit www.wegottickets.com

LSO Brass Academy Concert

Sat 7 Jul, 1pm

Jerwood Hall, LSO St Lukes

Join LSO Brass Principals and the UKs most promising young brass

musicians as they showcase works for brass ensemble that have been

prepared as part of the LSO Academy, including the world premiere of

Jubilee Music by Dudley Bright, LSO Principal Trombone.


To book tickets call Laura Sheldon on 0207 382 2566 or [email protected]

Celebration of British Music

Wed 8 Aug, 7pm

St Marks, Maida Vale

Join the Delphian Singers, featuring Soundhub Member Toby Young, in their

concert celebrating the diversity of British choral music.


Tickets available on the door

Alexander Hawkins and Trio

Fri 14 Sep, 9pm & 10.15pm

Kings Place

Two concerts, each featuring brand new compositions, and rare settings for

Hawkins: piano solo, and for the rst time in public, in the classic piano trio

format.

Tickets 4.50

Tickets available on the door or soon online at www.kingsplace.co.uk

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