A gig on Wednesday 4th May. The event starts at 18:30.
Thierry Pécou - Sonata for piano solo (UK premiere) 10’
François-Bernard Mâche - Sopiana for flute, piano and tape 12’ (Bristol Premiere)
Stevie Wishart – Gardez la distance for clarinet, piano and pre-recorded blackbird sounds 18’ (UK premiere)
Thierry Pécou - Sikus for cello solo and electronics 20’ (UK Premiere)
Made possible by the support of Diaphonique
Pre-concert discussion with composers Stevie Wishart and Thierry Pécou (with Michael Ellison) at 18.30.
“We believe the creatures of the animal kingdom to be our brethren because in ancient times our two spirits were connected.”
A free Bristol New Music preview concert, this programme explores the idea of humanity’s sharing of the planet with animals, birds, plants and the nature around us in an interspecies collaboration inspired by ancient cultures for whom the above quote was an unquestioned way of life.
Beginning with Thierry Pécou’s Sikus, which re-imagines the harmony of pre-Columbian music and the intertwining of visible and invisible time and space, called ‘Pacha’ in the Andes, we continue with the bright harmonies of Sonata, by the same composer, which are another variation of time, space, the visible and the invisible.
Music inspired by the vast expanses of nature and life that surrounds humankind on earth: this is what composer Stevie Wishart invites us to explore in the songs of the blackbird in her work Gardez la distance. In turn, but in a different way, François-Bernard Mâche brings birdsong, flute and piano into dialogue in Sopiana, with writing of phenomenal virtuosity.
ENSEMBLE VARIANCES
Anne Cartel flute
Carjez Gerretsen clarinet
Marie Vermeulin piano
Thierry Pécou piano
GUEST ARTIST
Stéphane André cello, from the Conservatoire & Orchestre de Caen
Performance lasts approximately 70 minutes
#BristolNewMusic
Entry requirements:
François-Bernard Mâche - Sopiana for flute, piano and tape 12’ (Bristol Premiere)
Stevie Wishart – Gardez la distance for clarinet, piano and pre-recorded blackbird sounds 18’ (UK premiere)
Thierry Pécou - Sikus for cello solo and electronics 20’ (UK Premiere)
Made possible by the support of Diaphonique
Pre-concert discussion with composers Stevie Wishart and Thierry Pécou (with Michael Ellison) at 18.30.
“We believe the creatures of the animal kingdom to be our brethren because in ancient times our two spirits were connected.”
A free Bristol New Music preview concert, this programme explores the idea of humanity’s sharing of the planet with animals, birds, plants and the nature around us in an interspecies collaboration inspired by ancient cultures for whom the above quote was an unquestioned way of life.
Beginning with Thierry Pécou’s Sikus, which re-imagines the harmony of pre-Columbian music and the intertwining of visible and invisible time and space, called ‘Pacha’ in the Andes, we continue with the bright harmonies of Sonata, by the same composer, which are another variation of time, space, the visible and the invisible.
Music inspired by the vast expanses of nature and life that surrounds humankind on earth: this is what composer Stevie Wishart invites us to explore in the songs of the blackbird in her work Gardez la distance. In turn, but in a different way, François-Bernard Mâche brings birdsong, flute and piano into dialogue in Sopiana, with writing of phenomenal virtuosity.
ENSEMBLE VARIANCES
Anne Cartel flute
Carjez Gerretsen clarinet
Marie Vermeulin piano
Thierry Pécou piano
GUEST ARTIST
Stéphane André cello, from the Conservatoire & Orchestre de Caen
Performance lasts approximately 70 minutes
#BristolNewMusic
Entry requirements: