Soundings II

Presented with the Austrian Cultural Forum
Celebrating the 70th birthday of Kurt Schwertsik

6.00pm
Joe Cutler - Buckley's Hot Licks
Tansy Davies - Loure
Tansy Davies - Trio
Johannes Maria Staud - Black Moon
Marcel Reuter - Infra la neve
Reinhard Fuchs - wo Lippen die Blätter zu Zeichen bewegen
Nick Shardlow - Aria
Johanna Doderer - Orchestra Airs Orchester Lieder
Bryn Harrison - Piano Set (Six Miniatures) (WP)
 
8.00pm
Joe Cutler - Without Fear of Vertigo
Johannes Maria Staud - Am Rande Alter Bücher (Aria on the Edge of Old Books)
David Horne - Spike
Kurt Schwertsik - Twilight Music - A Celtic Serenade for Octet
Kurt Schwertsik - Seven Viennese Songs to texts by H.C. Artmann
 
(WP = World Première)

Soundings is a platform for contemporary music, founded by the Austrian Cultural Forum in 2004, to promote creative exchange between young composers and musicians from Austria and the UK. In this weekend appendix to the Cutting Edge series, the Bmic and ACF join forces to present a programme which will include pieces by Tansy Davies, Joe Cutler and Johannes Maria Staud. Also, students from the RNCM and Konservatorium Wien will perform works by Kurt Schwertsik who celebrates his 70th birthday this year.