about the tour

Catch the newest music performed by some outstanding contemporary music performers in the 3rd Cutting Edge Tour which runs from March 2003 – January 2004. The British Music Information Centre is delighted to continue its relationship with promoters in Durham, Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham, Huddersfield and York. The tour will for the first time travel south-west to Hereford and expand beyond the English border into Wales at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. There will also be first-time concerts at the Guildford, Cheltenham and Leamington Festivals and a collaboration with the Bath Film Festival.

Who can you expect to hear?

As in the Cutting Edge Series, the emphasis is on recent music from British composers. We are now in the second half of the Tour which runs from September to January. Isabel Ettenauer returns to the UK with her toy pianos at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, to be joined later in the week by O K E A N O S. Dynamic String group Opus 20 makes two appearances, at the Bath Film Festival and Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts.

Later on, O K E A N O S heads to the National Centre for Early Music and York University’s concert series, and we stay in the area to hear Jonathan Powell and Ensemble Exposé in the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Exposé continues northwards to Durham’s Musicon series, where finally Sound Intermedia and Clive Williamson close the Tour with a performance in January.

See the calendar page for programme details.

The BMIC is grateful to the Arts Council of England’s
National Touring Programme for funding
which makes the Cutting Edge Tour possible.