NEXT#1

New music performed by a new cohort of NEXT Musicians

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 8pm
CBSO Centre, Birmingham, B1 2LF

Online booking has now closed - tickets are available on the door from 7.30pm

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) have joined forces to offering NEXT Music - Study Programme in Contemporary Music Performance a new and unique 1-year training programme for music students and professional musicians looking for a career as performers of contemporary music.

Hear our brand-new NEXT Musicians as they come together to perform a selection of works from this and last century performing works by Stockahusen, Ives, Carter and Murail.

Provisional programme (subject to change)

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007) Refrain (1959), 10' - Piano, Celeste, Percussion
Elliott Carter (1908 – 2012) selection from Eight Etudes and a Fantasy (1949), 6' - Woodwind Quartet
Tristan Murail (b. 1947) Unanswered Questions (1995), 4' - Flute
Philippe Schœller (b. 1957) Lamento (1996), 10' - Viola, Bassoon   
Philippe Manoury (b. 1952) Toccata for Piano (1998), 8' 
Charles Ives Unanswered Question (1908), 7' - String Quartet, Wind Quartet, Trumpet