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25 Jul 2015, Cadogan Hall
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Proms 2015 Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Proms Saturday Matinee 1
Proms Saturday Matinee 1: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
15:00 Sat 25 Jul 2015 Cadogan Hall
The world-famous contemporary music ensemble celebrates the 90th-birthday year of one of the most important figures in contemporary music, Pierre Boulez.
The world-famous contemporary music ensemble celebrates the 90th-birthday year of one of the most important figures in contemporary music, Pierre Boulez.

Programme

      • Notations 2, 11 & 10 (arr. J. Schöllhorn)(3 mins)UK premiere
      • La treizième (after Boulez)(1 mins)UK premiere
      • Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l.(7 mins)Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú commission: world premiere
      • Wanderlied(12 mins)UK premiere
      • Hammer of Solitude(7 mins)Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú commission: world premiere
      • Dérive 2(45 mins)

Performers

About this event

French conductor Franck Ollu makes his Proms debut, directing the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in the first of two concerts celebrating composer Pierre Boulez’s 90th-birthday year. Boulez’s own Notations – written while he was still a student – sits alongside his Dérive 2, both works embedded in the ‘family tree’ of a composer whose works interconnect in ever-evolving ways.

The concert also features Wanderlied for cello and ensemble by Boulez’s French-American contemporary Betsy Jolas, as well as music by two young composers new to the Proms: Shiori Usui and Joanna Lee.

There will be no interval