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Wednesday 17 March, 2010
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Sunday 21 March, 2010
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Monday 22 March, 2010
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Wednesday 31 March, 2010
Alpine Adventures
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 7:30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall Two quirky love stories from composers who enjoy challenging musical conventions. Irish composer Gerald Barry’s work Beethoven is based around the only surviving love letter Beethoven wrote, which Barry describes as ‘amusing, dramatic, cinematic and poignant.’ Then take an eccentric journey into the mountains with Richard Ayres’ lyrical Alpine melodrama. |
Festival Nous Sons
Sunday, 21 March 2010 8:30pm
The Chamber Hall, L'Auditori de Barcelona The London Sinfonietta perform music at the Nous Sons Festival in Barcelona. |
London Sinfonietta at CDMC, Madrid
Monday, 22 March 2010 7:30pm
Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea The London Sinfonietta continues its tour of Spain performing several short works by as part of the CDMC season in Madrid. |
Castiglioni Revisited
Wednesday, 31 March 2010 7:30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall It is only in the thirteen years since his death that the importance of Niccolò Castiglioni’s work has begun to be properly appreciated, and it is now becoming widely recognised as some of the finest Italian music of the last century. Oliver Knussen continues his survey of this neglected master. |
Varèse 360° (1)
Friday, 16 April 2010 7:30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall This concert shows Varèse as a bold sonic explorer whose music still sounds uncompromisingly futuristic today. |
Varèse 360° (2)
Sunday, 18 April 2010 5:30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall These powerful short works each pack a huge world of expression into the space of just a few minutes. Deep, cavernous chords, huge batteries of percussion and vast sonic spaces create powerful and thrilling musical episodes. |
London Sinfonietta in Southampton
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 8:00pm
Turner Sims Concert Hall Tonight in an event specially created for Turner Sims the London Sinfonietta presents some of Edgard Varèse's key works alongside music by composers who influenced him and music that places his work in context. |
London Sinfonietta In TimeFriday, 23 April 2010 7:00pm Friday, 23 April 2010 8:30pm Saturday, 24 April 2010 7:00pm Saturday, 24 April 2010 8:30pm
Midlands Good Shed, KIngs Cross Freight Depo, York Way Sound designer David Sheppard (part of Sound Intermedia, London Sinfonietta Principal Players) with visual artist Tony Comley explore the architecture and heritage of the Midland Goods Shed through sound, image and live performance. |
Pedro Amaral: O Sonho
Sunday, 25 April 2010 7:30pm
Robin Howard Dance Theatre The world premiere of O Sonho (The Dream), stages an original re-telling of the biblical myth of Salome, a powerful seductress who causes the beheading of St John the Baptist. |
Surf and Turf
Sunday, 30 May 2010 4:30pm
Museum of East Anglian Life Composer Fraser Trainer, poet Dean Parkin and London Sinfonietta musicians will work with young people from Stowmarket in Suffolk to create brand new work. The work will be showcased in an event at the Museum of East Anglian Life as part of the Stowmarket Festival. |
London Sinfonietta Collective Night
Thursday, 3 June 2010 7:30pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall A new kind of evening in which the London Sinfonietta will perform in an event planned by young people from music colleges, art colleges and schools. |






