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Upcoming events

9 January 2025

Pierre Boulez - Éclat pour quinze instruments

with London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle

Barbican Hall, London

13 January 2025

Pierre Boulez - Éclat pour quinze instruments

with London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle

Philharmonie de Paris

15 January 2025

Pierre Boulez - Éclat pour quinze instruments

with London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle

Philharmonie Luxembourg

8 February 2025

GBSR Duo + Angharad Davies

all Angharad Davies programme with Angharad Davies

Arnolfini Arts, Bristol

22 February 2025

EXAUDI + GBSR Duo

new pieces by Alex Tay, Cassie Kinoshi, Joe Bates, and Linda Catlin Smith

Wigmore Hall, London

Recent events

23 November 2024 - Rainy Days Festival

Okkyung Lee - Signals

with Explore Ensemble & Okkyung Lee

Salle de Musique de Chambre, Philharmonie Luxembourg

17 November 2024 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Okkyung Lee - Signals

with Explore Ensemble & Okkyung Lee

Town Hall, Huddersfield

16 November 2024 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

GBSR Duo + Twenty Fingers Duo

new works by Lawrence Dunn and Julius Aglinskas

Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield

12 November 2024

GBSR Duo + Twenty Fingers Duo

music by the Hobbs/White duo, Tim Parkinson, and Angharad Davies

Cafe Oto, London

11 November 2024 - Iš ARTI festival

Twenty Fingers Duo x GBSR Duo

new works by Lawrence Dunn and Julius Aglinskas

Kaunas State Philharmonic, Kaunas

26 October 2024 - soundfestival

'Northern Connection'

with Red Note Ensemble

The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen

25 October 2024 - soundfestival

Laura Bowler - Deconstructing Pierrot (world premiere)

with Red Note Ensemble

The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen

18 October 2024 - TRANSIT festival

Okkyung Lee - Signals (world premiere)

with Explore Ensemble & Okkyung Lee

STUK, Leuven

11 October 2024 - Muzikos Ruduo festival

'Hyphen' - Twenty Fingers Duo x GBSR Duo

World premieres by Lawrence Dunn and Julius Aglinskas

Sapieha Palace, Vilnius

1-10 October 2024

In Between Silence residency

with GBSR Duo & Twenty Fingers Duo

Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius

10 August 2024

GBSR Duo: Music for a Summer Evening

music by George Crumb, Steve Martland, and Steve Reich

with GBSR Duo & Joseph Havlat and Sam Wilson

Bold Tendencies, London

29 July 2024 - Three Choirs Festival

Heath Quartet & GBSR Duo

music by Luke Lewis, Steve Martland, Joe Duddell (WP), Tippett

St Martin's Church, Worcester

28 July 2024 - Three Choirs Festival

GBSR Duo late night concert

music by Andriessen, Barbara Monk Feldman, Emahoy, Luke Lewis (WP), Lucio Tasca, Cassandra Miller, Steve Martland

College Hall, Worcester

7 July 2024 - Spitalfields Music Festival

Autopsy of an Aberration

with GBSR Duo and CHAINES

state51 Factory, London

6 July 2024 - Sound Within Sound festival

Siwan Rhys: Ustvolskaya Solo Piano Works

Ustvolskaya: Piano Sonata No.4, Piano Sonata No.5, Piano Sonata No.6

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre London

29 June 2024

James McVinnie Ensemble: American Minimalism

music by Gabriella Smith, Philip Glass, inti figgis-vizueta, and John Adams

with James McVinnie Ensemble

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre London

28 June 2024

Oliver Leith - good day good day bad day bad day

with GBSR Duo

Wigmore Hall, London

28 June 2024

Sean Shibe, GBSR Duo, & 12 Ensemble

music by Ligeti, Brian Eno/Harold Budd, Pratten, John White, and Oliver Leith (WP)

Wigmore Hall, London

18 May 2024 - Schlossmediale festival

Christian Mason - Hölderlin's Madness (Swiss premiere)

with Explore Ensemble, Thorwald Jørgensen (theremin), Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano), and SWR Experimentalstudio

Schloss Werdenberg, Switzerland

5 May 2024

BBC SO Total Immersion: Italian Radicals

music by Dallapiccola, Nono, Maderna, and Berio

with BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers

Barbican Hall, London

2 April 2024 - City University concert series

Solo recital

music by Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru, Ben Nobuto, Laurence Crane, and Barbara Monk Feldman

City University Performance Space, London

14 March 2024

Beethoven and Unsuk Chin

with London Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Hall, London

1 March 2024 - CrossCurrents Festival

Solo recital

music by Luigi Nono, Laurence Crane (world premiere), Ben Nobuto (world premiere), and Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru

Elgar Concert Hall, Birmingham

22 February 2024

New Traditions

music by Sky Macklay, George Lewis, Katherine Balch, and Michel van der Aa

with London Sinfonietta

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre London

6 February 2024

Oliver Leith - Last Days

with GBSR Duo and LA Phil New Music Group

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles

7 December 2023 - Giga-Hertz-Festival

"Radical Polytronics"

music by Beatrice Dillon, John Croft, and Christian Mason

with Explore Ensemble and SWR Experimentalstudio

Medientheater, Karlsruhe

3 December 2023 - Sound Unwrapped

Stockhausen: Cosmic Pulses

Stockhausen - SYNTHI-FOU, STRAHLEN, and COSMIC PULSES

with GBSR Duo and Ian Dearden (Sound Intermedia)

Kings Place, London

24 November 2023 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

London Sinfonietta: Voices

music by Henze, Anna Korsun, Charles Uzor, Riikka Talvitie, Tyshawn Sorey, Tanya Auclair, and Mariam Rezaei

with London Sinfonietta

Town Hall, Huddersfield

20 November 2023 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Lisa Illean - Tiding II (silentium) [UK premiere]

with GBSR Duo, David Zucchi (saxophone), and Michael Acker (SWR Experimentalstudio)

St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield

18 November 2023 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Angharad Davies - Empty Spaces II [world premiere]

with GBSR Duo

Bates Mill Photographic Studio, Huddersfield

3 November 2023

Beyond Borders/Beyond Barriers

New works for piano by Sarah Lianne Lewis, Sonia Allori, Sorcha Pringle, Jo-anne Cox, Elinor Rowlands, and Leon Clowes

Dora Stoutzker Hall, Cardiff

28 October 2023 - soundfestival

Earth and Sea

music by Barbara Monk Feldman, Tim Parkinson, and a world premiere by Christopher Fox

with GBSR Duo

St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen

21 September 2023 - Warsaw Autumn festival

RIOT ENSEMBLE: Bosnić / Nepelski / Gísladóttir / Macklay / Iannotta

with Riot Ensemble

Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall

16 September 2023

BBC Radio 3: New Music Show concert

with GBSR Duo

Theatr Mwldan, Aberteifi

19 August 2023

GBSR Duo: Galina Ustvolskaya and Oliver Leith

Oliver Leith - good day good day bad day bad day

Galina Ustvolskaya - Composition No 2, Dies Irae

Bold Tendencies, London

19 July 2023 - Sound Unrwapped

LOVE LETTERS [WITH AI]

music by Benjamin Oliver, Anna Appleby, Rob Laidlow, Zakiya Leeming, Oliver Sellwood, Megan Steinberg

with Riot Ensemble

Kings Place, London

14 July 2023 - Cheltenham Music Festival

12 Ensemble & GBSR Duo

music by Mica Levi, Fausto Romitelli, Laurence Osborn, and Harold Budd/Brian Eno

Town Hall, Cheltenham

6 July 2023

Kate Molleson - Sound Within Sound

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbru - Mother's Love, The Garden of Gethsemane, and Ballad of the Spirits

Galina Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonata No 6

Purcell Room, Southbank Centre London

4-5 July 2023 - Time of Music festival, Viitasaari

Henze - Voices

with London Sinfonietta

Time of Music, Viitasaari Finland

16 June - Meltdown Festival

Sigur Rós & London Contemporary Orchestra

Royal Festival Hall, London

8 June 2023

GBSR Duo concert

music by Barbara Monk Feldman, Tim Parkinson, Aldo Clementi and University of Huddersfield composition students

Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield

26 May 2023 - Sound Unwrapped

12 Ensemble & GBSR Duo

music by Mica Levi, Fausto Romitelli, Laurence Osborn, and Harold Budd/Brian Eno

Kings Place, London

19 May 2023 - Norfolk & Norwich Festival

Mirrors: 12 Ensemble & GBSR Duo

music by Mica Levi, Fausto Romitelli, Laurence Osborn, and Harold Budd/Brian Eno

St Andrew's & Blackfriars' Hall, Norwich

11 May 2023

Contact: Intervals - Tim Parkinson w/ GBSR Duo, Simon Payne & More

Tim Parkinson - Project 9000 (world premiere) for piano, percussion, and electronics

with GBSR Duo

IKLECTIK, London

26 April 2023

Steve Reich - Music for Pieces of Wood, Piano Phase, Mallet Quartet, Drumming Part 1, Sextet

with Colin Currie Group

Nagakute Cultural Center, Nagoya

22 April 2023

Steve Reich - Double Sextet, Traveler's Prayer, Music for 18 Musicians

with Colin Currie Group

Tokyo Opera City

21 April 2023

Steve Reich - Double Sextet, Traveler's Prayer, Music for 18 Musicians

with Colin Currie Group

Tokyo Opera City

14 April 2023 - Sound Unwrapped

'murmurs'

music by Rebecca Saunders, Catherine Lamb, Cassandra Miller, and Beatrice Dillon

with Explore Ensemble

Kings Place, London

25 March 2023 - MaerzMusik festival

Riot Ensemble: Gísladóttir / Thurley / Morgan-Williams / Paxton

music by Bára Gísladóttir, Bethan Morgan-Williams, Alex Paxton and Oliver Thurley

with Riot Ensemble

Radialsystem, Berlin

2 March 2023 - University of Leeds International Concert Series

Solo recital

music by Joanna Bailie, Tim Parkinson, Ryoko Akama, and Oliver Leith

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds

10 February 2023

James McVinnie Ensemble: Glassworks

music by Philip Glass, Chris P. Thompson, and Meredith Monk

Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden

19 January 2023 - Kettle's Yard New Music Concert Series

GBSR Duo & Mira Benjamin

music by Eva-Maria Houben, Tim Parkinson, and Barbara Monk Feldman

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

9 January 2023

American Songbook II with Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano

music by Gloria Coates, Charles Ives, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Elliott Carter, Elisabet Dijkstra, Aaron Copland, George Crumb

Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton

27 November 2022 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Mark Fell - Every non-empty ultra-connected compact space has a largest proper open subset (UK premiere)

with Explore Ensemble

Bates Mill Blending Shed, Huddersfield

24 November 2022

Mark Fell - Every non-empty ultra-connected compact space has a largest proper open subset (world premiere)

with Explore Ensemble

Centro Pecci, Florence

21 November 2022 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Claudia Molitor - Polymer Hauntings

with Katherine Tinker (piano)

Town Hall, Huddersfield

3 November 2022

'A Steve Reich Celebration'

Tehillim, Traveler's Prayer (US West Coast premiere), Music for 18 Musicians

with Colin Currie Group

Cal Performances, Berkeley

1 November 2022

'A Steve Reich Celebration'

Tehillim, Traveler's Prayer (US premiere), Music for 18 Musicians

with Colin Currie Group

Carnegie Hall, New York

16 October 2022 - No Bounds Festival

'Zero as a Limit'

Morton Feldman Crippled Symmetry and new works by Beatrice Dillon and Nakul Krishnamurthy

with GBSR Duo and Explore Ensemble

Sheffield Cathedral

7-11 October 2022

Last Days - new opera by Oliver Leith, Matt Copson, and Anna Morrissey

with GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble

Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House

29 September 2022 - Glasgow Cathedral Festival

'Infinite Murmurs' - music by Cassandra Miller, Rebecca Saunders, and Oliver Leith

with Explore Ensemble

Glasgow Cathedral

13-19 September 2022 - Klangspuren Schwaz

Klangspuren Schwaz Composers Lab

with Riot Ensemble

Schwaz, Tyrol

10 September 2022 - Festival of New, Britten Pears Arts

music by Joanna Bailie, Neil Luck, and Lawrence Dunn

with Explore Ensemble

Snape Maltings Concert Hall

27 August 2022

Stockhausen KONTAKTE and Aphex Twin Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2

with GBSR Duo, Joseph Havlat (piano), Sam Wilson (percussion), and Sound Intermedia

Bold Tendencies, Peckham

12 August 2022

James McVinnie Ensemble at Bold Tendencies

with James McVinnie Ensemble

Bold Tendencies, Peckham

22 July 2022

Kate Molleson 'Sound Within Sound' book launch

Ustvolskaya - Piano sonata no 6

Cafe Oto, London

9 July 2022 - Spitalfields Festival

Enchanted Vistas: The Music of Barbara Monk Feldman

with GBSR Duo and Mira Benjamin

Voces8 Centre, London

8 July 2022

Explore Ensemble at Wigmore Hall

music by Enno Poppe, Cassandra Miller, James Dillon, and Lawrence Dunn

Wigmore Hall, London

22 June 2022

James Weeks - Plain Air (world premiere)

with Lucy Goddard, mezzo-soprano

Musicon concert series, Durham University

17 June 2022 - London Contemporary Music Festival

'Ruined and Exhausted'

Arvo Pärt - My Heart's in the Highlands

Fireworks Factory, Woolwich

4 June 2022 - Aldeburgh Festival

Laura Bowler - Houses Slide

with London Sinfonietta

Britten Studio, Snape Maltings

25-29 April 2022

Britten Pears artist residency with Explore Ensemble

Snape Maltings

3 April 2022 - SoundState Festival

Eva-Maria Houben - together on the way

with GBSR Duo and Eva-Maria Houben

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre London

16-22 March 2022

Living Room Music project

with Clod Ensemble

8 March 2022

WOMENS WORK with Elaine Mitchener

Wigmore Hall, London

26 February 2022

'Simon med vänner - kammarmusik'

John Adams - Hallelujah Junction (with Simon Crawford-Phillips)

Steve Reich - Quartet (with Colin Currie, Owen Gunnell, Simon Crawford-Phillips)

Västerås Konserthus

16 February 2022

Talk on approaching contemporary repertoire

Cardiff University Music Department

1 December 2021

Another Timbre CD launch concert

music by Ryoko Akama, Martin Iddon, and Linda Catlin Smith

IKLEKTIC, London

23 November 2021

'Glassworks' - music by Philip Glass and Chris P. Thompson

with James McVinnie Ensemble

Barbican Hall

18 November 2021 - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Eva-Maria Houben - together on the way (world premiere)

with GBSR Duo and Eva-Maria Houben

St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield

8 November 2021 - November Music festival

Explore Ensemble & Juliet Fraser

music by Lisa Illean, Nicoline Soeter, Joanna Bailie, and Oliver Leith

Willem Twee Toonzaal, Den Bosch

6 November 2021

Steve Reich - Tehillim, Traveler's Prayer (French premiere), Music for 18 Musicians

with Colin Currie Group

Philharmonie de Paris

26 October 2021

Steve Reich - Runner, Traveler's Prayer (German premiere), Tehillim

with Colin Currie Group

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

24 October 2021 - TRANSIT Festival

Illean, Soeter, Bailie, Leith

with Explore Ensemble and Juliet Fraser

music by Lisa Illean, Nicoline Soeter, Joanna Bailie, and Oliver Leith

STUK, Leuven

19 October 2021

Steve Reich - Runner, Traveler's Prayer (UK premiere), Quartet, Tehillim

with Colin Currie Group

Royal Festival Hall, London

16 October 2021

Steve Reich - Tehillim, Traveler's Prayer (world premiere), Music for 18 Musicians

with Colin Currie Group

Concertgebouw Amsterdam

23 September-2 October 2021 - Voice of the Whale tour

Voice of the Whale with Manchester Collective

music by Molly Joyce, Alex Groves, Andrew Hamilton, and George Crumb

Lancaster, Bristol, Manchester, Stockport, Leeds, Birkenhead, London

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