Chris Swithinbank

Sum­mer is draw­ing to a close and I’m fly­ing back to the USA. Be­fore it ends, here we are in Darm­stadt, work­shop­ping ideas for a new work, ru­mour — dis­tant land, with Gwen Rouger, Franco Ven­turini and Simon Steen-An­der­sen. Ex­per­i­ments with the mu­si­cians of soun­dini­tia­tive will in­form the use of cas­sette play­ers in my work being pre­miered by DieOrd­nungDerDinge in No­vem­ber at the Blu­den­zer Tage zeit­gemäßer Musik.

On Thurs­day, 26 June, flautist Paolo Vi­g­naroli and cel­list Karolina Öhman are giv­ing the first per­for­mance of my To­mor­row I will build a house here, if I can hold still in Paris, France. Come along to Stu­dio Le Re­gard du Cygne (Google Maps) at 8pm to hear a con­cert of music for flute, cello and elec­tron­ics that will also in­clude a new work by San­ti­ago Díez-Fis­cher.

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This week, ELI­SION En­sem­ble will be in res­i­dence at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity, cul­mi­nat­ing on Sat­ur­day 17 May in a con­cert of new music by grad­u­ate com­posers at Har­vard that will also in­clude the US première of Richard Bar­rett’s Lens, for flugel­horn and elec­tric lap-steel gui­tar.

En­sem­bles that un­der­take their work and per­form with the in­tegrity and in­ten­sity of ELI­SION are rare, so it will be an eye-open­ing ex­pe­ri­ence hav­ing them here. My short ex­per­i­ment for them is for elec­tric lap-steel gui­tar and a strange quin­tet of oboe, bass clar­inet, con­tra­bass clar­inet, trum­pet and trom­bone. Come along on Sat­ur­day to hear more!

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This week­end I am trav­el­ling to Chicago to take part in the NUNC! Con­fer­ence at North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity. There’s a full sched­ule of con­certs, pre­sen­ta­tions, and mas­ter­classes, in­clud­ing a per­for­mance of my piece The In­credulity of St Thomas by En­sem­ble Dal Niente. See the full sched­ule here.