S i w a n R h y s
pianist
2020
22 January
Composition workshop with GBSR Duo
City University London
14 February - Bangor Music Festival
Six new works by CoDI Sound composers
with UPROAR new music ensemble
White Box, Pontio Bangor
15 February - Bangor Music Festival
Solo recital - music for piano, electronics and video
Joanna Bailie - Roll Call
Tom Sissons - Notes on Absence #1 (world premiere)
Siwan Rhys - dwylo
Michel van der Aa - Transit
Stiwido, Pontio Bangor
28 February
with UPROAR new music ensemble
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
12 March
with London Sinfonietta
Royal Festival Hall
10-17 March
with Clod Ensemble
13 March
with UPROAR new music ensemble
Canolfan y Celfyddydau Aberystwyth Arts Centre
21 March - POSTPONED
with UPROAR new music ensemble
Galeri Caernarfon
22-23 March
Recording with GBSR Duo
Oliver Leith - good day good day bad day bad day
Real World Studios
Release Summer 2020 - details tba
25 April - POSTPONED
with UPROAR new music ensemble
Bristol New Music Festival
2-3 May - POSTPONED
Wales International Piano Festival
Adjudicating panel
15 May - Vale of Glamorgan Festival - CANCELLED
Composer workshop with GBSR Duo
Peter Reynolds Composers Studio
17 May - Vale of Glamorgan Festival - CANCELLED
'Breakfast Beats' - recital with GBSR Duo
John Luther Adams - Dream of the Hermit Thrush
John Luther Adams - Tukiliit (solo piano)
John Luther Adams - Four Thousand Holes
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
17 May - Vale of Glamorgan Festival - CANCELLED
John Luther Adams - Inuksuit
22 May - Vale of Glamorgan Festival vidcast
John Luther Adams - Four Canticles of the Birds
performance and interview with GBSR Duo
27 May - album release
Tim Parkinson - Here Comes a Monster
recorded in lockdown with GBSR Duo
released on Takuroku
30 May - POSTPONED
with Apartment House
Spectacle festival, Copenhagen
3 June - POSTPONED
'Professor Bad Trip'
with UPROAR new music ensemble
Festival KLANG!, Montpelier
18 June - CANCELLED
GBSR Duo concert
St Mary-le-Bow, London
27 June - POSTPONED
with Miller-Porfiris Duo
Spitalfields Music Festival, London
3 July - album release
I hope this finds you well in these strange times, Vol. 1
CHAINES - so smol (hewwo)
recorded in lockdown with GBSR Duo
released on Nonclassical
19 August - album release
Oliver Leith - good day good day bad day bad day
released on Another Timbre
with London Sinfonietta
Royal Albert Hall (BBC Radio 3 broadcast or iPlayer streaming only)
with BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Hoddinott Hall (BBC Radio 3 broadcast or iPlayer streaming only)
17 September
CoDI Experimental composer workshop
with Angharad Davies and Rhodri Davies
30 October
recording session with Explore Ensemble
details tba
10-11 October - CANCELLED
selection of John Cage Sonatas and Interludes
performed on new digital instruments by Mira Calix and David Toop
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
28 October
with London Sinfonietta
Royal Festival Hall (BBC Radio 3 broadcast only)
19 November - CoDI Arbrofol/CoDI Experimental
Experimental music workshop at Ty Cerdd
with Angharad Davies and Rhodri Davies
Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru/Wales Millennium Centre
21 November - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
with GBSR Duo
Arne Gieshoff - Spillikins (world premiere)
Angharad Davies - Rydal Mount (with Angharad Davies)
BBC Maida Vale Studios (BBC Radio 3 broadcast only)
24-25 November
Recording session with Explore Ensemble
music by James Weeks
details tba
5 December - Spitalfields Festival: At Home
with the Miller-Porfiris Duo
music by Joy N Effiong, Sarah Rodgers, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, and Susannah Self
18 December - NEW RELEASE
John Cage Remixed - Mira Calix/Siwan Rhys
John Cage - selection from 'Sonatas and Interludes' re-voiced by Mira Calix
released on Classical Remix
29 December
Session on extended piano techniques for NYO pianists
NYO Winter Digital Residency