We are currently working on The Cutting
Edge 2004, which will start in September. Updates will follow…
An overview of the 2003 series
The Cutting Edge 2003 was the sixth of the series, and as previous
years, it was a great success! Perhaps the first thing to note is
the extremely healthy attendance to the concerts. Aided by the PRSF
scheme for audience development, this year saw the highest number
of students in the audience and also people from the most diverse
professions such as architects, nurses and gardeners, as well as
musicians.
The continued collaboration with BBC Radio 3 gave further exposure
to the series- RNCM with Philip Mead, Ensemble Expose and Plus-Minus
were all recorded for and broadcast on the Radio 3’s Hear
& Now programme.
The successful year was reflected in the fact that Cutting Edge
2003 is nominated in the Concert Series and Festival category of
the Royal Philharmonic Society Annual Music Awards which will be
held in May.
The series would not have been possible without the kind financial
support of the Holst, Hinrichsen, PRS and Britten Pears Foundations,
who have generously supported Cutting Edge participants for a number
of years.
Dobrinka Tabakova
Cutting Edge Co-ordinator
to view details of the 2003 series click
here
to view details of the 2004 series click
here
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Evening Standard
- Benjafield/ Gutman, The Arts 12/1203
'… The Bmic’s annual Autumn series The Cutting
Edge is one of London’s best kept musical secrets…all
the performances were masterly.'
The Guardian
- Sarah Nicolls, Reviews 20/12/03
'The technical demands [Berio’s Piano Sonata] make
on the performer are immense, yet Nicolls’s performance
seemed a model of clarity an accuracy…'
Sunday Times
- Philip Mead/ RNCM- Culture 16/11/03
'The Bmic has made a marked success of its Cutting Edge
Thursdays…'
- Gutman/ Benjafield, Sarah Nicolls &
Ensemble Expose- Culture 21/12/03
Stephen Gutman- 'one of the best younger exponents of
modern repertoire… I cant’ believe the Bmic series
has seen a more invigorating performance than Gutman and Benjafield’s
of the Birtwistle…'
Classical Music articles
- Sarah Nicolls
Premiere of the Fortnight- 'the first British hearing
of Berio’s Sonata for Piano comes courtesy of Sarah
Nicolls, who plays the sonata at Cutting Edge’s home,
The Warehouse'
- Abigail James
‘If you work together there is no limit to what
you can create’- Guitarist Abigail James is adding an
extra dimension to her performances of contemporary repertoire
by commissioning dancer Sarah Warsop to choreograph and perform
new pieces to go with them'
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