Chris Swithinbank

I’m in Metz, France, for two weeks for the Cen­tre Acan­thes se­ries of work­shops and lec­tures, which will in­clude work­shops of my new piece for flute, so­prano sax­o­phone, voice and piano, Small Atlas, the first of which is to­mor­row morn­ing. The play­ers are Mario Car­oli (flute), Pierre-Stéphane Meugé (sax­o­phone), Do­na­ti­enne Michel-Dansac (voice) and Vin­cent Leterme (piano). Unsuk Chin, Philippe Hurel and Oscar Strasnoy are on the com­po­si­tion fac­ulty, while Mario Car­oli and An­drew Zolin­sky are giv­ing flute and piano mas­ter­classes re­spec­tively. Tonight, Alexan­dre Tha­raud gives a piano recital of works by Domenico Scar­latti, Thierry Pécou, Oscar Strasnoy, Gérard Pes­son and Mauri­cio Kagel.

My stay in Metz is sup­ported by a bur­sary from ADAMI and SACEM.