An online concert of new works written in response to the annual call for compositions by the Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust (CCCT), in partnership with the Music Department of Morley College.
Live stream: on the Morley College Facebook page
The Ligeti Quartet and DKDM's student composers present the results of a two-day composition workshop (half remote, half in person), with music by DKDM composers Evagoras Solias Apokidis, Philip Clarke, Asger Valentin Petersen, and Jinting Zhang.
In their first concert since March, the Ligeti Quartet perform modern classics for string quartet, including Axel Borup-Jørgensen's Microorganisms miniatures.
Their trip has been generously supported by Snyk, the Danish organization supporting new and experimental music and sound art.
Established in 1987, Music at Port Milford offers an intensive chamber music experience for serious string players, woodwind players and pianists between the ages of 12 and 18.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this performance has been cancelled.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this concert has been cancelled or postponed.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this performance has been cancelled.
Performing Stepping Back, Jumping In with Laura Jurd's Dinosaur, et al., at Leuven Jazz Festival.
A workshop with undergraduate composition students at Leeds College of Music.
Composers:
Ligeti Quartet will be in residence with Sounds Like This Festival on Friday 13 March 2020 to workshop compositions for string quartet. Selected works will be played through followed by discussion. We are accepting submissions of full pieces, movements or excerpts of up to six minutes in duration which are scored for string quartet. You may submit works which include tape parts or electronics, but please bear in mind practical considerations for setting up and rehearsing the work.
To kick off their 10th anniversary year, Ligeti Quartet take a snapshot tour of music by some of the most exciting and genre-defying composers working today in the UK and around the world.
Featuring music by John Adams, Anna Meredith, Tanya Tagaq, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Soosan Lolavar and Laura Jurd.
An unveiling of pianist / composer Xenia Pestova Bennett’s exquisite limited-edition vinyl Atomic Legacies for Piano and String Quartet.
Described by Tempo (UK) as “a powerhouse of contemporary keyboard repertoire,” pianist and improviser Xenia Pestova Bennett launches her new album Atomic Legacies with a unique performance, combining the scintillating sonorities of extended piano technique with the virtuosity of the London-based Ligeti Quartet.
Trinity Laban CoLab Ensemble and special guests revisit the rebellious undercurrents of early ‘80s London and the ‘systems music’ scene, where classical minimalism met post-punk sensibility. Reinterpreting the sounds of Lost Jockey, Soft Jockey, Louis Andriessen and early works of Michael Nyman, Mercury-nominated instrumentalist Laura Jurd (Dinosaur) leads the evening, layering and deconstructing through improvisation and composition.
The Ligeti Quartet perform two pieces written for them in 2019. Firstly a brand new commission by Robin Haigh, his String Quartet which includes a tribute to scat singer Shooby Taylor, recorders (as always), an imitation of singing Samoyed dogs, and "technical death metal through a folk fiddle idiom". And then Tom Green's Solstice Songs, a reimagining of traditional festive tunes.
For our second year as quartet in residence, we'll be working with the PhD composers.
Venue: RHB 163
Alicja Pilarczyk (guest violin 1)
Patrick Dawkins (violin 2)
Richard Jones (viola)
Val Welbanks (cello)
Following their success at Open Circuit in March, the London-based Ligeti Quartet return with a programme that features realizations of video- and digital game-based musical scores including University of Liverpool Lecturer in Composition, Music for Digital Games Paul Turowski’s SQ2 (revised version), Maldonado Alvarez’s Traceurs, Takuto Fukada’s Super Colliders, and Johanna Ruotsalainen’s Hysteria.
Alicja Pilarczyk (guest violin 1)
Patrick Dawkins (violin 2)
Richard Jones (viola)
Val Welbanks (cello)
Erkki-Sven Tüür
The Wanderer's Evening Song
Olivier Messiaen
Cinq rechants
Judith Weir
blue hills beyond blue hills (BBC commission, world première)
A lunchtime concert in the presence of Raymond Warren followed by a drinks reception.
Including:
Warren: String Quartet No.2
Warren: A Star Danced for solo Cello and Chamber Orchestra.
Performed by the Ligeti Quartet & students from St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, Bristol
Pianist, composer and improviser Xenia Pestova Bennett will curate a special afternoon featuring the Magnetic Resonator Piano, an exciting new instrument designed by the radical inventor Andrew McPherson. A grand piano will be completely transformed into a stunning acoustic cyborg with electromagnets suspended above the strings, allowing for control of minute details of shimmering resonance and gorgeous sustained tones.