London Sinfonietta: Music Programme 2012/13

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Tyondai Braxton: Central MarketTuesday 9 October 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall

Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of Time Friday 23 November 2012, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

New Music Show 3Sunday 2 December 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall & Purcell Room

Webern and the Second Viennese SchoolTuesday 29 January 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall

Igor Stravinsky: RenardSunday 10 February 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall

Repeating Patterns: the start of U.S. minimalism Tuesday 26 February 2013, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Steve Reich: Radio RewriteTuesday 5 March 2013, Royal Festival Hall

Blue Touch Paper New Work Preview EventTuesday 14 May 2013, Village Underground

In Portrait: Luke BedfordWednesday 22 May 2013, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass RoseSaturday 1 June 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall

London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 Final PerformanceSaturday 13 July 2013, Venue to be announced

Welcome to the London Sinfonietta’s Music Programme 2012/13.We have several strands to our season this year.

We are proud to be part of Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross’ book of the same name, with concerts in January and February exploring the Second Viennese School and Igor Stravinsky. This series, to accompany Alex Ross’ book, will provide compelling events at Southbank Centre across 2013.

Landmarks is our own new way of presenting concerts which will put pieces, composers and musical movements of the past century in context. Artist Netia Jones’ careful and creative use of video will bring the composers to life, and explore their influence far more than any programme note can do.

Steve Reich’s music continues to enthral audiences across the world, and I’m proud that we have co-commissioned Radio Rewrite which receives its world premiere on 5 March 2013. In one of our Landmarks concerts, we will explore how musical minimalism in the U.S. began.

We continue to make new music through our commissions, the New Music Show, the Blue Touch Paper programme and Writing the Future scheme. New work generated on these initiatives last year now forms part of this season.

Our own London Sinfonietta Academy goes from strength to strength and we now feature emerging players and conductors from the course in our season concerts and projects both at home and abroad.

As usual, the London Sinfonietta will be on tour around the UK and overseas to give our first performance in China in October at the Beijing Music Festival. With additional concerts to announce as the season progresses, stay in touch with what we are doing through our website, e-zine, Facebook and Twitter feeds.

We are hugely grateful to Arts Council England, the trust funders and the growing number of individuals who support this organisation and our programme of work.

Andrew BurkeChief Executive

London SinfoniettaResident at Southbank CentreHeadquarters at Kings PlaceAssociate Artists at Turner Sims, SouthamptonProject partners with Central St Martins College of Arts and Design

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Tyondai Braxton: Central MarketTuesday 9 October 2012, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall

Ingram Marshall Fog tropes II for string quartet & tape *

Edgard Varèse Octandre *Toru Takemitsu Rain coming *Bryce Dessner Aheym *Tyondai Braxton Central Market #

Leo Hussain conductor *Caleb Burhans conductor #

Sound Intermedia sound projection

Warp label artist Tyondai Braxton, the former guitarist, keyboardist and singer of Battles, comes together with the London Sinfonietta for a gig laying together a sound world “where Marshall stacks and micro-processing go hand in hand” and a first half of works by composers including Takemitsu and Varèse.

Tickets £25, £20, £15Phone 0844 847 9940Online southbankcentre.co.uk

Presented by the London Sinfonietta and Southbank Centre as part of Ether.

Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of Time Landmarks seriesFriday 23 November 2012, 7.45pmPurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Olivier Messiaen La Colombe; Plainte Calme; Theme and Variations; Quartet for the end of Time

Netia Jones / Lightmap video designJohn Constable piano

The London Sinfonietta launches Landmarks, a new series of chamber concerts, featuring performances of seminal music combined with short video interventions setting a context for the composer, the work, and its impact on the musical and cultural life of the 20th century. The first subject is Olivier Messiaen and his Quartet for the end of Time, premiered in a prisoner of war camp in 1941 where the composer himself was incarcerated.

Tickets £12Phone 0844 847 9940Online southbankcentre.co.uk

Presented by the London Sinfonietta.

This concert is also performed on tour: 22 November, Turner Sims, Southampton.



New Music Show 3Sunday 2 December 2012, 4.00pm – 10.00pmSouthbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall & Purcell Room

Programme includes:Tansy Davies Nature (London premiere)Larry Goves Trends in personal relationships

(first performance)Andrew Norman Try (London premiere)David Fennessy 13 Factories (UK premiere)And music by John Cage and Morton Feldman

The day also includes:Hidden – a series of intimate solo performances in hidden spaces Foyer Films and TalksOliver Coates late set

Martyn Brabbins conductorHuw Watkins pianoSound Intermedia sound projection

The New Music Show is the London Sinfonietta’s platform for new music from the very best composers from the UK and abroad. Enjoy a festival-in-a-day with performances, installations, films, talks and opportunities to participate. Full details at londonsinfonietta.org.uk

Tickets £15 (day ticket)Phone 0844 847 9940Online southbankcentre.co.uk


@sodasinfonie “absolutely loved Dai Fujikura’s new double bass concerto. Enno Senft & the @Ldn_Sinfonietta were simply breathtaking. I’m a fan. #newmusic”

Tim Gill Principal cello

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Webern and the Second Viennese SchoolLandmarks seriesTuesday 29 January 2013, 7.30pmQueen Elizabeth Hall

Anton Webern 3 LiederArnold Schoenberg Five Pieces for

orchestra, Op. 16Anton Webern Six Pieces for orchestra, Op. 6Anton Webern Five Pieces for orchestra,

Op. 10Anton Webern Three Traditional Rhymes,

Op. 17Anton Webern Symphony, Op. 21Alban Berg Four Pieces for clarinet and piano,

Op. 5Anton Webern Three Small Pieces for cello

and piano Op. 11Anton Webern Concerto for nine

instruments, Op. 24

Baldur Brönnimann conductorSarah Gabriel sopranoNetia Jones / Lightmap video design

The composers of the Second Viennese School, and not least Anton Webern, influenced many of the composers of the second half of the 20th century championed by the London Sinfonietta today. The second concert in the Landmarks series looks at these composers in depth, presenting some key works together with video projections about their life and work to create an immersive concert experience.


Presented by the London Sinfonietta as part of Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest Is Noise.

Igor Stravinsky: RenardSunday 10 February 2013, 3.00pm Queen Elizabeth Hall

Erik Satie Socrate #

Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for string quartetIgor Stravinsky Three Pieces for clarinetIgor Stravinsky Concertino for String QuartetIgor Stravinsky Renard - chamber

opera in 1 act *

Barbara Hannigan director /soprano# *Daniel Norman tenor *Edgaras Montvidas tenor *Roderick Williams bass *John Molloy bass *Reinbert de Leeuw piano #

Paris between 1910 and the 1920s was a hotbed of experimentation and creative dialogue between the arts and this concert explores the important works that came out of the city’s salons, hosted by great patrons such as Winnaretta Singer, aka la Princesse Edmond de Polignac. Central to the concert is Stravinsky’s comic chamber opera Renard, in which a fox comes to a sticky end.

Tickets £35, £28, £21, £15, £9Phone 0844 847 9940Online southbankcentre.co.uk

Presented by the London Sinfonietta and Southbank Centre as part of Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise, inspired by Alex Ross’ book The Rest Is Noise.



Jonathan Morton Principal violin 1

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Repeating Patterns: the start of U.S. minimalism Landmarks seriesTuesday 26 February 2013, 7.45pmPurcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

La Monte Young Composition 1960 #7; X for Henry Flynt

Terry Riley In CSteve Reich It’s Gonna Rain; Clapping Music;

Violin PhasePhilip Glass 1+1; Knee Play 2

Sound Intermedia sound projectionNetia Jones / Lightmap video design

An introduction to the world of minimalism, tracing its origins in 1960s New York loft apartments and art-galleries to a cult musical movement in the ‘70s and beyond. This concert continues London Sinfonietta’s new Landmark series, with a video and audio narrative created by Netia Jones of Lightmap.



This concert is also performed on tour: 28 February, Turner Sims, Southampton

Steve Reich: Radio RewriteTuesday 5 March 2013, 7.30pm Royal Festival Hall

Steve Reich Clapping Music;Electric Counterpoint; 2 x 5; Radio Rewrite (world premiere); Double Sextet

Brad Lubman conductorSteve Reich performerSound Intermedia sound projection

The London Sinfonietta gives the world premiere of Radio Rewrite, a new work from master of minimalism Steve Reich, inspired by the music of Radiohead. The programme includes 2 x 5, Reich’s first exploration of rock instrumentation, with electric guitars, bass guitar, keyboard and drum set. The guitar also features in Electric Counterpoint, with its themes derived from Central African horn music, whilst Reich also performs in Clapping Music.

Tickets £28, £22, £16, £12, £9.Premium Seats £35 (sold out)

Phone 0844 847 9940Online southbankcentre.co.uk

Radio Rewrite is co-commissioned by the London Sinfonietta with New York’s Alarm Will Sound and supported by Sir Richard Arnold, Trevor Cook, Susan Grollet in memory of Mark Grollet, Stephen Morris, Richard Thomas, John Wheatley and the London Sinfonietta Pioneers.


This concert is also performed on tour:6 March, Town Hall, Birmingham7 March, Brighton Dome9 March, Glasgow Royal Concert HallJune, Holland Festival, Amsterdam

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“Will Sound More Again was a magnificent whirlwind of sound, performed with tremendous warmth by the Sinfonietta and conductor Thierry Fischer.” Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph, at the London Sinfonietta’s In Portrait: Wolfgang Rihm, January 2012

Michael Thompson Principal horn

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In portrait : Luke BedfordWednesday 22 May 2013, 7.45pm Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Luke Bedford Wonderful No-Headed Nightingale (UK premiere of ensemble version)

Gérard Grisey Périodes from Les Espaces Acoustiques

Luke Bedford New work (world premiere)

Luke Bedford will be interviewed about his new work at the start of the second half of the concert.

Luke Bedford New work (repeated) Luke Bedford has fast become one of the most important composers of his generation, in part on the evidence of past work for the London Sinfonietta. This new ensemble composition is a major 25-minute work, which will be performed for a second time after the interval to give the rare instant second chance for an audience to get to know this brand-new composition. The programme also includes an ensemble arrangement of the 2011 double-soloist and string ensemble composition Wonderful Two-Headed Nightingale, and music by Gérard Grisey, whose music holds a fascination for Bedford.


Luke Bedford’s new work is commissioned by the London Sinfonietta with the generous support of Michael and Patricia McLaren-Turner


Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass RoseSaturday 1 June 2013, 7.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall

Mauricio Kagel The Pieces of theCompass Rose (complete)

Thierry Fischer conductor

“The sound references are never used anecdotally; every one of them is integrated by Kagel’s extraordinary harmonic imagination into a world in which nothing is what it seems, and in which every new vista contains a genuine surprise.” Andrew Clements

Discover Mauricio Kagel’s The Pieces of the Compass Rose, a musical travelogue taking you from the north east of Brazil, to the Gulf of Finland and the South American Andes using instruments from piano and harmonium to a full range of percussion. An Argentinian composer whose cultural and musical outlook embraced a life lived crossing continents, The Pieces of the Compass Rose is Kagel’s response to the diverse soundworlds evoked by geography, language and ethics.



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Mark van de Wiel Principal clarinet

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London Sinfonietta On TourCurrent projects include:

London Sinfonietta in ChinaWednesday 24 October 2012Beijing Music Festival

Harrison Birtwistle Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum

OIiver Knussen Songs without VoicesQigang Chen Extase IIGeorge Benjamin Into the Little Hill

George Benjamin conductorHila Plitmann sopranoKatalin Károlyi mezzo sopranoGareth Hulse oboe

The London Sinfonietta gives its first ever performance in China, as part of the Beijing Music Festival. The programme includes a concert performance of Benjamin’s extraordinary first stage work Into the Little Hill. The ensemble’s visit also includes open rehearsals and masterclasses with students from the Beijing Conservatoire of Music, as an international extension of its own London Sinfonietta Academy programme.

London Sinfonietta in China is part of the UK Now festival, made possible with the support of the British Council.

Friday 5 October, 6.00pmPalladium, Malmö, SwedenOliver Knussen Secret PsalmTansy Davies inside out 2Thomas Adès Catch; Court Studies from

the TempestOliver Knussen Songs without VoicesPelle Gudmundsun-Holmgreen Near Still,

Distant StillEdmund Finnis UnfoldsSimon Bainbridge Concertante in

Moto Perpetuo

Saturday 6 October, 5.00pm Royal Library, Copenhagen, DenmarkPelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Run; Turn II;

Song; Play; Sounds I; Sounds II; CompanySunday 25 November 2012, 3.00pmHuddersfield Contemporary Music FestivalPelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Run; Turn II;

Song; Play; Sounds I; Sounds II; Company (all UK premieres)

March 2013Town Hall, Birmingham (6 March)Brighton Dome (7 March)Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (9 March)Steve Reich Clapping Music; Electric

Counterpoint; 2x5; Radio Rewrite; Double Sextet

May – June 2013UK Festivals / venuesHalf of MeWorld premiere performance tour of new chamber-scale puppetry and music piece created by Elspeth Brooke, Seonaid Goody and Anna Jones on the London Sinfonietta’s 2012 Blue Touch Paper programme.

June 2013Holland FestivalSteve Reich Clapping Music; Electric

Counterpoint; 2x5; Radio Rewrite; Double Sextet

Saturday 3 August 2013Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije, France Programme includes:George Benjamin Into the Little Hill



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Helen Tunstall Principal harp

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Blue Touch Paper New Work Preview Event Tuesday 14 May 2013, 7.30pmVillage Underground

The Blue Touch Paper New Work Preview Event will showcase the culmination of a year-long collaboration between groups of composers and multi-disciplinary artists and London Sinfonietta players. Three works-in-progress, portraying wide ranging themes, will be presented to an audience for the first time against the backdrop of a recently renovated turn-of-the-century warehouse.

Limited tickets on application see londonsinfonietta.org.uk for details

Blue Touch Paper is delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. Participants are supported by a Jerwood Blue Touch Paper bursary.

Image © Briony Campbell

Byron FulcherPrincipal trombone

London Sinfonietta CommissionsThe London Sinfonietta’s mission to commission new music, from emerging talent through to established masters, continues at the heart of the Music Programme 2012/13.

Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite for the London Sinfonietta and New York’s Alarm Will Sound is inspired by the music of Radiohead, while Larry Goves’ Trends in Personal Relationships was written initially for the London Sinfonietta Academy Ensemble in summer 2012. Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s new work Run is a prelude to a special portrait concert. The London Sinfonietta is also proud to perform the world premiere of a major new work for the group by Luke Bedford.

Writing the FutureWriting the Future will continue pairing composers with London Sinfonietta Principal players to develop new chamber compositions which will be performed across the season, as well as being made available online. Projects for the composers also include creative cross artform collaborations with students at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. Work from the last round of Writing the Future has been recorded on the London Sinfonietta’s New Music Show CD, due for release in October 2012.

Writing the Future is generously supported by Michael and Patricia McLaren-Turner, and other anonymous donors.

Blue Touch Paper The London Sinfonietta’s groundbreaking Blue Touch Paper programme continues into another round of developing inventive cross artform work. The new projects that are to be developed over the coming season will be announced in October 2012, following the open call for ideas from composers and collaborators. Photos and film showing the outcomes of the successful 2011/12 Blue Touch Paper programme can be seen at londonsinfonietta.org.uk/blue-touch-paper

making new music now is the London Sinfonietta’s platform for commissioning new work, new ways of working and pioneering new creative partnerships.

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Blue Touch Paper Preview Event 2012 at Village Underground.

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London Sinfonietta Academy playersOver 35 emerging players from the London Sinfonietta Academy project have gone on to perform as part of the London Sinfonietta at Southbank Centre, Kings Place and in partnership with BBC Proms in the past four years. Some of the players to have featured include Scott Lygate (clarinet), Serge Vuille (percussion), Will Oinn (oboe) and Adam Wynter (double bass). In summer 2012 the London Sinfonietta Academy players performed as part of a Kaaija Saariaho BBC Proms Plus Portrait and a late night BBC Prom featuring Louis Andriessen’s De Snelheid as well as recording a series of new commissions inspired by John Cage for the BBC Proms 2012 Music Walk.

London Sinfonietta Academy commissionsThe London Sinfonietta Academy’s focus is also on the development of composing talent.The London Sinfonietta Academy 2012 Final Performance included the premiere of Larry Goves’ Trends in personal relationships. This commissioning policy continues in 2013.

Larry Goves’ Trends in personal relationships is a London Sinfonietta commission for the London Sinfonietta Academy and is generously supported by the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Central Saint Martins College of Arts and DesignThe success of the London Sinfonietta Academy is also helping the ensemble to forge links with a new generation of students from across contemporary arts. The London Sinfonietta Academy 2012 was based at the Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design whose students are also creating design elements as part of Writing the Future for presentation at the New Music Show 3.


London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 Final Performance

Saturday 13 July 2013, 7.30pmVenue to be announced

Programme to include:Olivier Messiaen Oiseaux ExotiquesUnsuk Chin Akrostichon-WortspielSean Shepherd BlurLuke Bedford Or voit tout en aventure The London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 culminates with a showcase performance from participating musicians, led by George Benjamin after a week of rehearsals, workshops and masterclasses.

Limited tickets on application see londonsinfonietta.org.uk for more details



Serge Vuille & Scott LygateLondon Sinfonietta Academy players

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The London Sinfonietta Academy is central to the London Sinfonietta’s commitment to working with young musicians. A week-long summer course enables 30 students and three conductors from across the UK to learn skills specific to performing new music from the ensemble’s Principal players. The London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 will be conducted by world-renowned composer, conductor and performer George Benjamin.

Players rehearse at the London Sinfonietta

Academy 2012.

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Public Participation – Mass Clapping MusicMass Clapping Music is the next initiative from the London Sinfonietta aimed at involving the public in the soundworld of contemporary classical music. Members of the public will have the chance to learn Steve Reich’s seminal Clapping Music and participate in a pre-event performance at the Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite concert on Tuesday 5 March 2013 at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. Keep an eye on facebook.com/londonsinfonietta for the call for participants.

Repeating Patterns – Schools concert by and for young people As part of the Steve Reich: Radio Rewrite tour in March 2013 the London Sinfonietta is presenting a schools concert featuring elements created by a collective of young people from across London and the UK. The concert will include Reich’s Electric Counterpoint which features in the GCSE curriculum, and will be accompanied by specially devised learning resources to be made available to schools.

For further details of this opportunity please contact [email protected] or call 020 7239 9340.

KX Collective The KX Collective is an ongoing dynamic young ensemble who create and perform new music, collaborate with professional musicians and artists, produce projects and events, find out about music being made today and develop leadership skills. Projects in 2012/13 will draw inspiration from the London Sinfonietta’s performances at the BBC Proms as well as the new commission by Steve Reich. If you want to get involved why not join the KX Collective Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/79457908099/

The KX Collective is generously supported by The Corporation of London’s City Bridge Trust, The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Marple Trust and Youth Music.

For more information about joining The KX Collective, please visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/kx-collective or call the Participation and Learning department on 020 7239 9340.

Get closer to the London Sinfonietta and contemporary classical music with projects that give you the opportunity to compose, curate and perform with a world - class ensemble.



Social Media Facebook, Twitter and Wordpress are your channels for the most up-to-date, exclusive and behind the scenes information on the London Sinfonietta. From monthly Live Chats with high profile musicians such as Nicholas Collon to Disk of the Month choices from London Sinfonietta staff and live concert streams this is the place for an exclusive view into the workings of the London Sinfonietta.

On Record Available at londonsinfonietta.org.uk/recordings and facebook.com/londonsinfonietta Music Streams and the London Sinfonietta Label are your journey into new soundworlds. Music Streams are a complete new piece of contemporary music available exclusively from the London Sinfonietta. The London Sinfonietta Label and releases on NMC Recordings and Signum Records present a recordings catalogue of the finest new music performed by the London Sinfonietta. The latest release, New Music Show, features music composed on Writing the Future including tracks by Edmund Finnis, Shiva Feshareki and Duncan MacLeod.

For more information on all recordings visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/recordings


David SheppardSound Intermedia

The KX Collective in rehearsal.

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The London Sinfonietta is a registered charity and relies on the considerable generosity of many trusts, foundations and individuals to continue to create and perform outstanding new music. We need your support to make new music happen.

Pioneers Do you share our passion for new music? Join the London Sinfonietta Pioneers and you will play a crucial role in making new music happen.

Membership starts from just £35 per year (less than £3 per month) and will support all areas of the London Sinfonietta’s new music making and help us to remain at the forefront of contemporary classical music.

You might like to direct your support to a major new commission with an annual gift of £200 and above and gain an insight into the creative commissioning process. Recent Pioneer supported commissions have included In Broken Images by Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Insomnia by Charlie Piper.

A gift of £1000 and above per year will support one of our world-class Principal players for a season and give you a close connection with the performing ensemble.

Your support, at any level, is enormously valuable to the London Sinfonietta and all Pioneers enjoy a close relationship with the ensemble with regular opportunities to meet our players and attend special events.

Help us continue to lead the way, sparking the greatest innovations in music and nurturing the best musical talent as we go. Become a Pioneer today and help us make new music happen.

Find out more by contacting our Development team on 020 7329 9340, by emailing [email protected] or visit londonsinfonietta.org.uk/pioneers

EntrepreneursThe London Sinfonietta is forming a group of individuals who have a passion for new music and the organisation itself. With them, new work has been funded and new schemes for composers, artists, musicians and conductors launched. The work is a vital part of building the ensemble’s future.

For more information contact Claire Barton on [email protected] or call 020 7239 9352

Trusts and FoundationsArts Council EnglandThe Angus Allnatt Charitable FoundationThe Boltini TrustBritish CouncilThe Britten-Pears FoundationThe John S Cohen FoundationThe Columbia FoundationThe Corporation of London’s City Bridge TrustThe D’Oyly Carte Charitable TrustEsmèe Fairbairn FoundationFenton Arts TrustThe Holst FoundationJerwood Charitable FoundationThe Marple Charitable TrustThe Adam Mickiewicz InstituteMusicians Benevolent FundPRS for Music FoundationThe RVW TrustErnst von Siemens Music FoundationHarold Hyam Wingate FoundationYouth Music

Lead Pioneers Sir Richard ArnoldTrevor CookSusan Grollet in memory of Mark GrolletLeo and Regina HepnerPenny JonasAnthony MackintoshBelinda MatthewsAndrew MitchellRobert & Nicola McFarlandMichael & Patricia McLaren-TurnerSir Stephen Oliver QCNick & Claire PrettejohnRichard Thomas & Caroline CowieDavid and Jenni Wake-Walker

Creative Pioneers Ian BakerSir Alan BownessAndrew BurkeRobert Clark & Susan CostelloJeremy & Yvonne ClarkeRachel ColdicuttDennis DavisDeborah GoldenPatrick Hall Nicholas HodgsonAndrew HuntMaurice & Jean JacobsFrank & Linda JeffsTim JossAlana Lowe-PestraskeJane McAuslandStephen MorrisJulie NichollsSimon OsbornePatricia O’SullivanGeoff PeaceRuth RattenburyDennis StevensonIain StewartAnne StoddartSally TaylorBarry TennisonEstela WelldonJohn WheatleyJane WilliamsStephen WilliamsonMichelle WrightPaul & Sybella Zisman

Plus those generous Lead and Creative Pioneers who prefer to remain anonymous

Thanks also to the London Sinfonietta Pioneers.



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London Sinfonietta Principal playersMichael Cox flute (Supported by Michael & Patricia McLaren-Turner)Gareth Hulse oboeMark van de Wiel clarinetJohn Orford bassoonSimon Haram saxophoneMichael Thompson hornAlistair Mackie trumpetByron Fulcher tromboneJonathan Morton violin 1Joan Atherton violin 2Paul Silverthorne viola (Supported by Nick and Claire Prettejohn)Tim Gill cello (Supported by Sir Stephen Oliver QC)Enno Senft double bass (Supported by Anthony Mackintosh)Helen Tunstall harpDavid Hockings percussionJohn Constable piano (Supported by Michael Conroy)Ian Dearden Sound Intermedia (Supported by Penny Jonas)David Sheppard Sound Intermedia (Supported by Penny Jonas)

London Sinfonietta Honorary Patrons John BirdSir Harrison BirtwistleAlfred Brendel KBESir George Christie CH

London Sinfonietta Council Paul Zisman (chairman)Andrew BurkeRachel ColdicuttIan DeardenDavid HockingsPenny JonasAlana Lowe-PetraskeBelinda MatthewsPhilip MeadenSir Stephen Oliver, QCMatthew PikePaul SilverthorneSally TaylorElizabeth Davies (company secretary)

London Sinfonietta Staff Andrew Burke Chief ExecutiveSarah Tennant Head of Concert Production Tina Speed Participation & Learning ManagerClaire Barton Development ManagerAnnabel Marsland Marketing & Development AssistantElizabeth Davies Head of Administration & FinanceEsther Mulholland Administrative AssistantViktoria Mark Finance AssistantSarah Tuppen Projects Intern (Surrey University Professional Training Placement)

Freelance and Consultant Staff André de Ridder Artistic AdvisorNetia Jones Artistic AdvisorDavid Sheppard Artistic AdvisorClaire Stevens Recording Projects ManagerJulie Nicholls Consultant AccountantLesley Wynne Orchestra Personnel ManagerMichelle Wright for Cause4 Fundraising Consultantsounduk Public RelationsFraser Trainer KX Collective workshop leaderPaul Griffiths KX Collective workshop leader

London Sinfonietta is grateful to its accountants: Martin Greene Ravden LLP and its auditors MGR Audit Limited for their ongoing support.

The London Sinfonietta is proud to be supported and broadcast by BBC Radio 3. For full details of programmes and broadcasts visit bbc.co.uk/radio3

Resident at Southbank CentreThe London Sinfonietta is proud of its Residency at Southbank Centre. From the world-class platform of events and festivals at Southbank Centre, the London Sinfonietta takes major performance projects around the UK and the world, creates new work through commissions and collaborations with major composers and artists, and involves the public from across London in contemporary performance events with the ensemble. For full details of Southbank Centre’s events and exhibitions go to southbankcentre.co.uk

Contact us Headquarters at Kings PlaceSince moving into its new administration headquarters at this beautiful office development and arts centre at King’s Cross in 2008, the London Sinfonietta has promoted more work for London audiences, and initiated collaborations with jazz and world musicians, poets, actors, comedians and pop acts. We can be contacted using the details below.

London SinfoniettaKings Place, 90 York WayLondon, N1 9AG

E [email protected] 020 7239 9340F 020 7239 9369

Sinfonietta Productions LtdRegistered in England No. 926551Registered Charity No. 255095

Booking InformationQueen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Festival Hall Ticket OfficesSouthbank CentreBelvedere Road, LondonSE1 8XX

0844 847 9940 (9am – 9pm daily)southbankcentre.co.uk

(Transaction fee applies to both phone and web. Booking in person at Southbank Centre is free of charge)

All information was correct at time of going to press. The London Sinfonietta reserves the right to make changes where necessary.

Michael Cox Principal flute

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Tyondai Braxton: Central MarketTuesday 9 October 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall

Olivier Messiaen : Quartet for the end of TimeFriday 23 November 2012, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

New Music Show 3Sunday 2 December 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall & Purcell Room

Webern and the Second Viennese SchoolTuesday 29 January 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall

Igor Stravinsky: RenardSunday 10 February 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall

Repeating Patterns: the start of U.S. minimalism Tuesday 26 February 2013, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Steve Reich: Radio RewriteTuesday 5 March 2013, Royal Festival Hall

Blue Touch Paper New Work Preview EventTuesday 14 May 2013, Village Underground

In Portrait: Luke BedfordWednesday 22 May 2013, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass RoseSaturday 1 June 2013, Queen Elizabeth Hall

London Sinfonietta Academy 2013 Final PerformanceSaturday 13 July 2013, Venue to be announced

Design & Art Direction harrisonandco.com

Photography All images © Tara Moore taramoore.co.uk (unless stated)




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