Venue: St John's Wood Church, NW8 7NE

The Knack Singers perform a movement from The Dalliance of Eagles by Graham Ross, a ten-movement song cycle developed as part of the Adopt-a-Composer scheme funded by the PRS Foundation for New Music and run by spnm in association with Making Music . 

The full work will be performed for the first time on 30 October. 

Venue: CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF

BCMG at Birmingham's Artsfest featuring spnm shortlisted composer Richard Glover

Richard Glover new work

Peter Wiegold That man's talking nonsense

BCMG presents the world premiere of a new work specially composed for ArtsFest by its Apprentice Composer-in-Residence (in association with spnm) Richard Glover. Also in this FREE performance is the intriguingly titled That man's talking nonsense - a fun and fascinating whirl of a piece incorporating all sorts of noisy toys by maverick composer/conductor Peter Wiegold. There might be some audience participation...!

FREE ADMISSION

For more information phone: 0121 616 6500

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For a map of the venue location, click here  

Venue: CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF

BCMG at Birmingham's Artsfest featuring spnm shortlisted composer Richard Glover

Richard Glover new work

Peter Wiegold That man's talking nonsense

BCMG presents the world premiere of a new work specially composed for ArtsFest by its Apprentice Composer-in-Residence (in association with spnm) Richard Glover. Also in this FREE performance is the intriguingly titled That man's talking nonsense - a fun and fascinating whirl of a piece incorporating all sorts of noisy toys by maverick composer/conductor Peter Wiegold. There might be some audience participation...!

FREE ADMISSION

For more information phone: 0121 616 6500

Click here to go to the BCMG website  

For more information on Artsfest, click here

For a map of the venue location, click here 

Venue: Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall

BHANGRA LATINA
featuring Kuljit Bhamra and Alex Wilson
 
Two hugely influential musicians forge an infectious new style of music drawing on the celebratory and hugely popular dance forms of Salsa and Bhangra, in an event produced by spnm – promoting new music. Featuring new music created by spnm composers, and dancers with a new hybrid choreography who will teach you the steps...

Including works by Nico Bentley, Paul Buckley, Chris Gander and Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian.
Composer mentor: Alwynne Pritchard.

Soundclips:
Extract 1
Extract 2
Extract 3
Extract 4

Photos:
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Kuljit Bhamra - tabla, dhol, tom, cymbals, snare, keyboards, harmonium
Alex Wilson – piano, Rhodes & Hammond keyboards
Shahid Abbas Khan – vocals
Dudley Phillips – acoustic bass
Shanti Paul Jayasinha – trumpet, flugelhorn, hand percussion
Davide Giovannini – drum kit, timbale, vocals
Emeris Solis – congas
Dilraj Bhamra - dhol
Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian - vocals

Tickets, priced £14, are now on sale through the Southbank Centre website. Click here to access it.
Box Office phone number: 0871 663 2500

Venue: venue tbc

The Knack Singers perform a movement from The Dalliance of the Eagles by Graham Ross, a song cycle developed as part of the Adopt-a-Composer scheme funded by the PRS Foundation for New Music and run by spnm in association with Making Music. 

The full work will be performed for the first time on 30 October. 

Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

Hall 2
2.15-3pm

Toy play - designed for children and the young at heart aged 2+ 

Isabel Ettanauer toy pianos

Rachel Leach composer

Including new pieces for 'baby' grand and opportunities for you to participate.

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Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

Hall 2
Until 4.45pm

Three Strange Angels - family-friendly programme

Richard Benjafield percussion

Chris Brannick percussion

Programme to include Steve Reich's Clapping Music and Stephen Montague's tongue-in-cheek Philup Glass, as well as a new work by Jamie Telford.

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Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

Hall 2
5.15-6pm

Kuljit Bhamra and Zoe Rahman

Stylish and virtuosic combination of tabla and jazz piano by two of the UK's leading players.

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Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

Hall 2 & outdoors
2.45-3.30pm

King's Cross Sound Walk

Tony Whitehead sonic artist

Matthew Samson composer

Listen afresh, from the unexpected calm of Battlebridge Basin and Regent's Canal, to the unmistakeable presence of King's Cross and St Pancras stations.

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Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

15:30-16.15     Hall 1

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and The Brodsky Quartet

An exploration and performance of two new compositions by spnm shortlisted composers Liz Johnson and Oliver Waespi

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Venue: Kings Place

Hall 2

Songs of King's Cross and beyond

Loré Lixenberg soprano

Featuring new material by Jerry Springer The Opera composer Richard Thomas, a new work by Paul Fretwell based on texts from the Kings Cross Voices oral history project and a work by Paul Ramshaw in which movements of the FTSE100 index affect the processing of the singer’s voice

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Venue: Kings Place

Hall 2
5.15-6pm

King's Cross in sound and on film

Featuring Steve Reich's action-packed City Life performed with new film of London by the 18-piece Contemporary Music Group from Trinity College of Music, alongside new pieces about King's Cross devised for this event by four dynamic young film-makers and composers: Tian Tian Zhu & Ann Xiao and Mark Atkinson & Leslie Deere.

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Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

Hall 2 

DINNER MUSIC FOR A PACK OF HUNGRY CANNIBALS: A TRIBUTE TO RAYMOND SCOTT

For its 2008/2009 series, The Sound Source moves to Kings Place, a brand new music venue opening near Kings Cross at the beginning of October 2008. The 3 events that make up the Autumn series will kick off firstly with the Stu Brown Sextet’s tribute to Raymond Scott.

You may not have heard of Raymond Scott, but you've heard his merry melodies underscoring the antics of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd etc since your childhood. The music of his 'Quintette' was used by Carl Stallings, Music Director at Warner Brothers, to give their cartoons that unique madcap sound, influencing artists from John Zorn to DJ Spooky. Yet Scott led a double life as a maverick inventor and experimentalist, also developing the first musical sequencers (developed by Robert Moog), an early pioneer of electronic music that pre-dates the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Brian Eno and Kraftwerk by a decade. This event features both sides of Scott's music, led by the brilliant Stu Brown Sextet, and includes a new short documentary by Scott's son along with other pioneering film from the ‘60s.

Stu Brown – drums
Tom MacNiven – trumpet
Martin Kershaw – clarinet
Brian Molley – tenor sax
Tom Gibbs – piano
Roy Percy – double bass
DJ tbc

Booking opens on 9th August.

Click here to go to the Kings Place website.

Venue: St John's Wood Church, NW8 7NE

Graham Ross - The Dalliance of the Eagles, a ten-movement song cycle.

Performed by the Knack Singers. 

This piece was developed as part of the Adopt-a-Composer scheme funded by the PRS Foundation for New Music and run by spnm in association with Making Music.

Venue: The Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden

The Hampton Singers will be re-performing a work written for the 2006 Adopt-a-Composer scheme in their Autumn concert:

Jerry Wigens Peace Triptych  

along with Fauré's Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine and Pavanne

Click here to go to the Hampton Singers website or phone Di de Woolfson on 01675 442 422 for more information.

This piece was developed as part of the Adopt-a-Composer scheme funded by the PRS Foundation for New Music and run by spnm in association with Making Music.