Migrating Sounds

Sunday 15 December 2019, 6pm
Pre-concert talk 5pm

CBSO Centre, Birmingham, B1 2LF

Online booking is now closed; tickets will be available on the door from 4.30pm

NEXT Musicians Side-by-Side
Michael Wendeberg Conductor

Rebecca Saunders (b. 1967) Scar (2018/19), 18′ ^{SI UK}
Richard Causton (b. 1971) Transients (2019),^{WP SI}
Shiori Usui (b. 1981) Deep (2014), 15′ ^BCMG 
Vito Žuraj (b. 1979) Tension (2018/19), 12′ ^R

^BCMG BCMG Commission ^SI Sound Investment Commission ^WP World Premiere ^UK UK Premiere ^R Revised for this performance

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The narratives of music history are continuously informed by music’s placement, and displacement throughout the world. Four different composers examine our relationship with moving sounds and the role of music in the imaginative reconstructions of place; from the bottom of the ocean in Shiori Usui’s BCMG commission Deep, to the dreamcast of left to right movement in the UK Premiere of Scar. Scar, a Sound Investment co-commission, is the culmination to date of a growing relationship between BCMG and Rebecca Saunders.

The performance of Shiori Usui’s Deep is supported by Resonate, a PRS Foundation initiative in partnership with Association of British Orchestras, BBC Radio 3 and Boltini Trust. Deep was written as part of our Apprentice Composer-in-Residence Scheme run in partnership with Sound and Music.

We don’t send out tickets

Once you’ve booked, we will add your name to our guestlist – simply come and find us at the main desk and we will issue your ticket and complimentary programme for the evening. We will email final details a few days before the concert as a friendly reminder too.