Tanya Tagaq's Sivunittinni was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet as part of their Fifty For The Future initiative, a library of 50 new works for string quartet by 50 different composers. Scores, recordings and educational information on the works are all published free of charge via the Kronos Quartet's website.
Sivunittinni
Events for this work
Music Mondays: Mimicry & Games
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this performance has been cancelled.
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.
Classical Sheffield
Ligeti Quartet perform a programme for International Women’s Day, featuring three pieces composed for them: Singing Strings (commissioned with the support of the RVW Trust), Mento Mood (commissioned by Cheltenham Festival) and Venus/Zohreh (commissioned by Live Music Sculpture &
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Music in the Round
The Ligeti Quartet present a gripping picture of modern classical music at The Leadmill. Two 20th century classics - Steve Reich’s Grammy award-winning Different Trains and George Crumb’s iconic Black Angels for electric string quartet - feature alongside the rock-riff influenced minimalism of John Adams; John Zorn’s explosive collage of jazz, American folk, punk, modernist and classical music; and Tanya Tagaq’s Sivunittinni - inspired by Inuit throat singing.
Inaugural Concert - Goldsmiths Residency
Join us for our inaugural concert as resident ensemble at Goldsmiths, University of London! In this one-hour programme, we present some of our favourite works.
University of Hull - Songbooks
Cafe Diwan
Redcliffe Caves
A performance arranged at the last minute (as a stand-in) as part of the Bristol New Music weekend
Nonclassical
Take a peek behind the bookcase at The Victoria, Dalston and enjoy a night of contemporary music performed by the Ligeti Quartet and pianist/composer John Kameel Farah, featuring the European premiere of Tuggemo by Anna Meredith.
Nonclassical DJs will open and close the night.
Morphs and Magpies (Birmingham)
A programme of music which borrows, steals and transforms.
Free entry (unticketed).
Morphs and Magpies (Steiner Hall, London)
A programme of music which borrows, steals and transforms...