Selected UK Performances 2008 London 9 January Edwin Roxburgh: Partita for solo cello (UMP) James Barralet, cello Purcell Room, London 10 January André Jolivet: Mana (Jobert) Amandine Savary, piano Purcell Room, London 10 January Edwin Roxburgh: Stardrift (UMP) Lucy McIntyre, flute Purcell Room, London 13 January Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit (Heugel) Elias String Quartet Wigmore Hall, London 17 January Edward Cowie: Nyphaeas (UMP) World Premiere Four Girls Four Harps The Warehouse, London 22 January In Memoriam Petr Eben Petr Eben: movements from Job (UMP) Petr Eben: Laudes (UMP) David Titterington, Susan Landale and Royal Academy Students, organs St Marylebone Church, London 25 January Qigang Chen: L’Eloignement for String Orchestra (Billaudot) UK Premiere BBC Symphony Orchestra; Muhai Tang, conductor Maida Vale Studio 1, London 31 January Stephen Montague: Tigida Pipa (UMP) BBC Radio 3, Classical Collection 1 February Michael Finnissy: English Country Tunes (UMP) Ian Pace, Piano King’s College, London 4 February Jaques Ibert: Trois Pièces (Heugel) Christ’s Hospital, The Annual Bluecoat Concert; Bruce Grindlay, director St John’s, Smith Square, London 7 February Stephen Montague: Snowscape: St Pölten (UMP) Trinity College of Music String Orchestra; Nicolas Pendlebury, conductor Blackheath Halls, London 10 February Henri Dutilleux: 3 Preludes (Leduc) Amandine Savary, piano Wigmore Hall, London 16 February Roger Redgate: String Quartet No. 3 (UMP) World Premiere, BBC Radio 3 Commission Arditti String Quartet LSO St. Luke’s, London 17 February Olivier Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (Leduc) London Sinfonietta, Peter Eötvös, conductor Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 17 February Georges Enesco: Rhapsodie Roumaine No. 1 (Enoch) London Gay Symphony Orchestra; Simon Bowler, conductor St John’s, Waterloo, London 19 February Diana Burrell: Umbra (UMP) World Premiere Olivier Messiaen: Livre d'orgue (Leduc) Ilya Kudryavtsev, organ Royal Academy of Music Students St Marylebone Parish Church Part of the South Bank Messiaen Festival: From The Canyons to The Stars 19 February Stephen Montague: Wild Nights (UMP) Trinity College of Music Contemporary Music Ensemble; Gregory Rose, conductor London Chapel Royale, Old Royal Naval College, London 23 February Concert including work by Pierre Villette Holst Singers; Stephen Layton, conductor St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 29 February Henriette Renié: Concerto in C Minor (Leduc) Emmanuel Ceysson, harp; Anna Petron, piano David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London 5 March Joseph Canteloube: Six Songs from Chants d’Auvergne (Heugel) Ailish Tynan, Soprano; Iain Burnside, piano St John’s, Smith Square, London 9 March Stephen Montague: Behold a Pale Horse (UMP) Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ Orchestra of St. Johns (J. Lubbock, cond.) BBC Radio 3 10 March Alexander Glazunov: Alto Saxophone Concerto (Leduc) Samuel Corkin, saxophone; Kings College London Symphony Orchestra St John’s, Smith Square, London 15 March Edward Cowie: INhabitAT (UMP) World Premiere BBC Singers; Psappha; Nicholas Kok, conductor BBC Maida Vale Studios, London, UK 22 March Diana Burrell: New Work World Premiere Mobius Ensemble Wigmore Hall, London 28 March Jerome Ducros: Trio for Two Cellos and Piano (Billaudot) UK Premiere Jermone Pernoo, Aleksei Kisaliov, cellos; Jerome Ducros, piano St John’s, Smith Square, London 2 April Henri Dutilleux: Mystère de l’Instant (revised for 18 strings) (Leduc) World Premiere Henri Dutilleux: Diptyque – Les citations (Leduc) Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit for string quartet (Heugel) Olivier Messiaen: Le Merle noir (Leduc) Nash Ensemble Wigmore Hall, London 9 April Arthur Honegger: Saluste de Bartas (Lemoine) Lisa Milne, soprano; John Mark Ainsley, tenor; Malcolm Martineau, piano Wigmore Hall, London 9 – 12 April Stephen Montague: Paramell Va (UMP) Music choreographed for new ballet, Breach Ballet Black Linbury Theatre Studios, Royal Opera House, London, UK and 20 April, Cambridge Arts Theatre, UK 16 April Michael Finnissy: Contretänze (UMP) Michael Jarrell: Droben Schmettert (Lemoine) London Sinfonietta; Enno Senft, double bass; Pierre-Andre Valade, conductor Queen Elizabeth Hall 17 April Stephen Montgaue: Southern Lament (UMP) Wakako Kamiyama, piano Royal College of Music, London 24 April Jean Michel Damase: Sonate en concert (Lemoine) The Hilser Trio:Rachel Smith, flute; Rachel Firmager, cello; Rachel Fryer, piano St John’s, Smith Square 7 May Henri Dutilleux: Blackbird (Billaudot) Olivier Messiaen: Petites esquisses d’oiseaux (Leduc) Matthew Schellhorn, piano Wigmore Hall, London 11 May Francis Pott: Empyrean (UMP) London Festival of Contemporary Church Music St Pancras Church, London 13 May Georges Enescu: Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor (Eschig) Valeriy Sokolov, violin; Eric Ferrand N’Kaoua, piano Wigmore Hall, London 16 May Lunchtime concert celebrating Diana Burrell’s 60^th birthday, with pre-concert talk. Diana Burrell: Come, holy Ghost, our Souls inspire (UMP) Diana Burrell: Ave Verum Corpus (UMP) Diana Burrell: Christo paremus Cantica (UMP) Diana Burrell: Hymn to Wisdom (UMP) Diana Burrell: St Pancras Canticles (UMP) Diana Burrell: Benedicam Dominum (UMP) Choir of St Pancras Church; Chris Batchelor, conductor London Festival of ContemporaryChurch Music St Pancras Church, London 17 May Philippe Leroux: Voi(Rex) (Billaudot) UK Premiere Donatienne Michel-Dansac, soprano; Sound Intermedia, live electronics; Pascal Rophé, conductor Royal Festival Hall, London 5 June Olivier Messiaen: L’Ascension (Leduc) Gary Sieling, organ St John’s, Smith Square 7 June Diana Burrell: One Man Band Rational Rec Spitalfields Festival Wilton’s Music Hall, London 11 June Diana Burrell: Lauds (UMP) World Premiere James O’Donnell, James Gough, Matthew Martin, Ilia Kuduyavtsev, organs Spitalfields Festival Dutch Church, London 19 June Diana Burrell: Gold (UMP) Guildhall New Music Ensemble; Richard Baker, conductor Spitalfields Church, London 7 July Reynaldo Hahn: Infidélité (Heugel) Dame Felicity Lott, soprano; Graham Johnson, piano Wigmore Hall, London 3 August Naji Hakim: Pange lingua (UMP) Olivier Messiaen: Verset pour la Fête de la Dédicace (Leduc) Olivier Messiaen: Prelude (Leduc) Wayne Marshall, organ BBC Prom 22 Royal Albert Hall, London 8 August Chen Yi: Olympic Fire (Presser) World Premiere Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor BBC Prom 29 Royal Albert Hall, London 28 August Steven Stucky: Rhapsodies (Presser) World Premiere New York Philharmonic; Lorin Maazel, conductor BBC Prom 57 Royal Albert Hall, London 17 October Stephen Montgue: Piano Concerto, Prologue, The Creatures Indoors, Snakebite, Intrada 1631 (UMP) BBC Symphony Orchestra; Grant Llewlyn, cond. BBC Maida Vale Studios, London 15 November Diana Burrell: Flute Concerto for Chamber Orchestra (UMP) The Alvarez Chamber Orchestra; Geoffrey Alvarez, conductor St John’s, Smith Square, London 16 November Diana Burrell: Black. Starlight. Bright. Cinnamon. Earth (UMP) The Alvarez Chamber Orchestra; Geoffrey Alvarez, conductor St John’s, Smith Square, London 9 February 2008 Thierry Eschaich: Lettres Mêlées (Billaudot) Trio Wanderer BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert

Rest of UK 25 January Charles Ives: Three Page Sonata (Presser) Philip Thomas, piano Persistence Works, Sheffield 2 February Steven Stucky: Whispers (Presser) Kokoro; Bournemouth Symphony Chorus; Dorset Youth Orchestra; Canticum; Mark Forkgen, Greg Beardsell, conductors Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset 9 February Jean Françaix: L’Horloge de Flore (Transatlantiques) Tayside Symphony Orchestra; Ron Walker, conductor Reid Hall, Fortar, Scotland 10 February Joseph Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne (Heugel) West Forest Sinfonia; Natalie Clifton-Griffin, soloist; Phil Ellis, conductor St Paul’s Church, Wokingham, Berkshire 15 February Henri Dutilleux: Tout un Monde lointain (Heugel) Henri Dutilleux: Symphonie No. 2 (Heugel) BBC National Orchestra of Wales; Jac Van Steen, conductor St David’s Hall, Cardiff, Wales 8 March Edward Cowie: Psappha Portraits (UMP) World Premiere Psappha; Nicholas Kok, conductor The Great Hall, Lancaster University, Lancaster Webcast available from 31^st March, 12 noon 8 March Lowell Liebermann: Trio No. 1 Op. 83 (Presser) Emanuel Ensemble Dr. Challoner’s High School for Girls, Amersham, Buckinghamshire 7 March Naji Hakim: Ouverture Libanaise (Leduc) Paul Carr, organ St Philip’s Cathedral, Birmingham 15 March Jean Francaix: L’Horloge de Flore (Transatlantiques) Hertfordshire Philharmonia; Anthony Weeden, conductor St Mary’s Church, Hitchin, Hertfordshire 15 March Stephen Montague: Thule Ultima (UMP) New London Chamber Ensemble Campus West Theatre, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire 11 April Henri Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit (Heugel) Quatuor Diatima Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland 7 May Edward Cowie: Psappha Portraits (UMP) Psappha; Nicholas Kok, conductor Elvet Methodist Church, Durham 17 May Olivier Messiaen: Offrande au Saint Sacrement (Leduc) Naji Hakim: Le Tombeau d’’Olivier Messiaen (UMP) Naji Hakim: Sakskøbing Præludier (Combre) Naji Hakim, organ Uppingham School Chapel, Opening recital of the Nicholson organ, Rutland 20 June Naji Hakim: Ouverture Libanaise (Leduc) Paul Carr, organ Truro Cathedral, Cornwall 2 July Olivier Messiaen: Messe de la Pentecote (Leduc) Naji Hakim: Le Tombeau d’Olivier Messiaen (UMP) Naju Hakim, organ Derby Cathedral, Derby 3 August Naji Hakim: Ouverture Libanaise (Leduc) Paul Carr, organ Wordsley Parish Church, West Midlands 9 August Olivier Messiaen: Messe de la Pentecôte (Leduc) Naji Hakim: Le Tombeau d’Olivier Messiaen (UMP) Naji Hakim, organ Edinburgh International Festival St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland 11 August Olivier Messiaen: Dieu Parmi Nous (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Leduc) Olivier Messiaen: Offrande au Saint-Sacrement (Leduc) Naji Hakim: Sakskøbing Præludier (Combre) Naji Hakim: Glenalmond Suite (UMP) Naji Hakim, organ Edinburgh International Festival St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh

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