YSFNM: a generic spectator…

I will be involved in a number of the events happening in this year’s York Spring Festival of New Music, 9th-13th May, University of York.

 

On Thursday 10th May I will be running an Instrumental Workshop for local Years 8 and 9 children, as part of the Education Day.

 

On Saturday 12th, at the end of the Discovering Finnish Music Day, Ensemble-in-Residence Octandre are performing an evening concert of Kaija Saariaho, Scelsi, Christian Mason and a world premiere by Sinan Savaskan. I’ll be performing with Octandre, along with other members of York’s Chimera Ensemble, in Saariaho’s Lichtbogen inspired by the Northern Lights.

 

Sunday 13th May is Cage Day. I am pleased to say that I will be performing a new devised piece with American pianist Kate Boyd: generic spectator is a series of improvisations based on the piece just heard and the next one in a concert, to be continued similarly throughout a concert. A performance of this piece should include a setting of the mesostics from Cage’s Composition in Retrospect (1981-8). The title alludes to the process and context of composition of this piece and its performance/s, as well as being an anagram of ‘cage in retrospect’. Kate and I will perform this piece in between the other performances of visiting student composers and performers.

 

Tickets to festival events are FREE to music students; £3 for all other students for all concerts; concession rates are available; a day pass for Cage Day is £5.