Howard Skempton Portrait Concert

Howard Skempton

BCMG conducted by James Weeks - Howard Skempton Portrait Concert - Featuring EXAUDI

Saturday 27 February 2010

Programme:

 

Howard Skempton	Only the Sound Remains
Charlie Usher	New Work
Howard Skempton	Roundels of the Year
Howard Skempton	Two Cello Interludes
Howard Skempton	The Voice of the Spirits
Howard Skempton	Two Guitar Interludes
Howard Skempton	Rise Up My Love
Howard Skempton	He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Howard Skempton’s Ben Somewhen was one of BCMG’s major recent successes, with several further performances and a recording following its 2005 première. Now comes the chance to hear more from this wonderful composer, whose unaffected and absolutely distinctive simplicity opens into rooms you did not know were there.

Only the Sound Remains is a new piece for the ensemble; James Weeks also conducts his EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble in a range of Skempton’s choral pieces.

There is, too, the exciting prospect of a new piece by Charlie Usher, who won the Guardian/BBC Composer of the Year competition in 2004. Still in his early twenties, Usher is discovering a rare space of his own, of taut calm and fizzing energy.

Before the concert composers Howard Skempton and Charlie Usher will give a free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm and following the concert we are inviting everyone to stay on and enjoy a post-concert party with us.

Contact Details

Sat 27th February 2010, 7:30pm

CBSO Centre

Adv: £14 / £8 / £5 door: £15 / £9 / £6
Berkley Street, Birmingham
B1 2LF [map link]
Tel : 0121 767 4050