Past events
Radio 3 New Music Show
The Ligeti Quartet will be in Glasgow during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop26) to take part in BBC Radio 3's New Music Show, joining Xenia Pestova-Bennett in her Atomic Legacies, and performing John Luther Adams's The Wind in High Places.
Recording:
5th November 2021, 19:00-21:00
Doors open 18:00
Studio B, BBC Scotland, Glasgow G51 1DA
New Canons (American Composers Orchestra)
We usually try to ignore latency (the delay between live sound and transmitted sound) in virtual concerts…but what if it’s an integral part of the music?
Lovro Peretić & Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble
Luton Music Club
A ‘mixtape’ format intersperses movements from Christian Mason’s Tuvan Songbook with other types of ‘song’ - the translucent modernism of Ruth Crawford Seeger, the electronic and pop aesthetic of Tanya Tagaq, and Beethoven's Cavatina, the highly original 5th movement of his Op 130 quartet.
Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble & La Leona, women and the guitar
The first half of the concert features Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble playing premieres of new IGF commissions: Léo Brouwer: La Sonrisa del Griot and Laura Snowden: Into the Light and work by Anna Meredith and Max Richter.
The second half of this concert features guitarists Laura Snowden and Eleanor Kelly playing works by women composers, including Laura Snowden’s own works and a new IGF commission, Finding The Way by Florence Anna Maunders.
Sounds of Sudan
Sounds of Sudan is an exciting, brand new collaboration between the Bristol based oud duo Nabra and one of the UK’s leading contemporary ensembles the Ligeti Quartet. They’ll be journeying through the different regions of Sudan – Khartoum, Omdurman, Darfur – weaving new arrangements inspired by the rich musical culture of the country: traditional Sufi music, popular artists such as Abdel Gadir Salim and Nour Al Jilani, the evocative rhythms and scales of the region.
Concert at York University
Centred around music by Christian Mason and Tanya Tagaq from their recently released album Songbooks Vol. 1, Ligeti Quartet explores the sonic possibilities of string techniques inspired by throat singing traditions from around the world. York composers, past and present, make up the rest of the programme, taking inspiration from howling dogs, and the entire history of the string quartet itself.
This is an online concert from the Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York.
PRS for Music concert
Simmy Singh – guest violin 1
Patrick Dawkins – violin 2
Richard Jones – viola
Val Welbanks – cello
Climbing to Heights Hitherto Unknown
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
Komponistworkshopkoncert
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.
Modern Monday
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.
Music at Port Milford - E-camp
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.
Music Mondays: Mimicry & Games
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this performance has been cancelled.
BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show
Concert in Sheffield
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this concert has been cancelled or postponed.
Dinosaur in Leuven
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.
Composition Workshop - Undergraduate Works
A workshop with undergraduate composition students at Leeds College of Music.
Composers:
- Shaun Rafferty
- Sean Bailey
- Sam Longbottom
- Eranan Thirumagan
- Frankie Clarke
- James Gerrard
- Ruben Maric
- Holly Chapman
- Wil Edwards
- Tanguy Pocquet
Composition Workshop - Open Call
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.
Sounds like THIS Festival
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.
LQ, Laura Jurd & Soosan Lolavar
Featuring music by John Adams, Anna Meredith, Tanya Tagaq, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Soosan Lolavar and Laura Jurd.
Xenia Pestova-Bennett: Atomic Legacies
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.