Performances of Mists

Beyond Xenakis

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

13:00, Friday 25 November 2011
St Paul’s Hall
Queensgate
HD1 2RD Huddersfield Yorkshire
United Kingdom

Xenakis produced four mature works for solo piano, three of which feature in this recital: the “symbolic” music of Herma, through the expansive, chaotic Mists, to his brief tribute to Ravel. Prins (external link)’ new work for piano, midi-keyboard and video projection forces a rethink of reality, while Kreidler (external link) fills the hall with multiple transformed instruments and Ablinger (external link)’s transparent lines define their own listening space.

Book via the hcmf// website (external link).

Plus-Minus at City

City University

19:00, Tuesday 29 November 2011
Performance Space, City University (external link)
College Building, St John Street
EC1V 0HB London
United Kingdom

Choral Preludes

Voix à la Maison du Peuple

19:45, Saturday 21 April 2012
Maison du Peuple (external link)
37 Parvis de Saint-Gilles
1060 Brussels
Belgium

Mark Knoop presents an intriguing mix of repertoire, from Xenakis’s arborescences to Ablinger (external link)’s blending of well-known voices with the piano sound and Bryn Harrison (external link)’s mesmeric miniature. A new work by Michael Finnissy (external link) references Bach and Brahms.

Xenakis 90th birthday

Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium

15:30, Sunday 27 May 2012
Basil Jones Orchestral Hall
140 Grey St
South Bank Brisbane Queensland
Australia

A celebration of the 90th anniversary of Iannis Xenakis’s birth with Ben Marks trombone, Tristram Williams trumpet, Graeme Jennings violin, and Mark Knoop piano, alongside students from the Queensland Conservatorium.