Mark-Anthony Turnage Concertino | Kent

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Sunday 26 September 6pm - 7.30pm

St.Mary's Church, West Malling, Kent

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group visits Music@Malling with new works by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Eleanor Alberga and Rebecca Saunders, including a performance of Turnage – Concertino – written and dedicated to the brilliant clarinettist, Jon Carnac.

Join us in the serene St. Mary's church for a celebration of Mark-Anthony Turnage's 60th Birthday, a composer who has shaped contemporary music with his confronting yet beautiful orchestral music. Surrounded by the English countryside sit in a soundscape of atmospheric music

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Thomas Kemp - Conductor
Jon Carnac - Clarinet

Mark-Anthony Turnage – This Silence, 10'
Eleanor Alberga – On a Bat’s Back I do Fly, 12'
Rebecca Saunders – Stirrings, 16'
Mark-Anthony Turnage – Concertino for Clarinet and Ensemble, 17'

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