This year’s festival is this week, culminating in a day dedicated to John Cage (1912 – 1992). Highlights include a lecture-recital by Kate Boyd on the Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano. Kate and I will be performing a new devised piece of mine, generic spectator, in the Collaboration Day Showcase.
More information on the day can be found here.
York Spring Festival of New Music 2012
Here’s the full schedule of the day. All events take place in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York.
9.30-11.30 – Workshops
12.00-1.00 – Charlotte Pugh: concert (recorder and electronics)
“A colourful programme of new music for recorder and mixed media, including two premieres. Another Place, created collaboratively by Charlotte Pugh and Jon Hughes, is an immersive soundscape for electronics, recorders and video, contrasting with a new work for solo recorder by Mexican composer Claudia Herrerias Guerra. Maki Ishii’s Black Intention is a dark avante-garde classic drawing on influences from Japanese folk music.”
2.00-3.30 – Kate Boyd: Lecture and Recital of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes
4.00-5.15 – Collaboration Day Performance
“Visiting student composers and performers from around the UK will perform miniatures inspired by Cage, the result of an open-ended call for scores nationwide.”