2022
2022
Talk
Contemporary Space
69 Tontine St
Folkestone
19.00-20.30
Thurs 08 December
Ian Dearden talks about creating the electronics for Harrison Birtwistle’s opera The Mask of Orpheus.
Performance
Harrison Birtwistle: Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) and Joseph Halvet (piano)
Mon 14 November
Contemporary Space, 69 Tontine St
Folkestone
19.00-20.00
Harrison Birtwistle: Ookooing Bird, Saraband: The King’s Farewell, Ostinato with Melody, Verses, Harrison’s Clocks, Linoi
Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for clarinet, Chorale from the Symphonies of Wind
Morton Feldman: Piano Piece (to Philip Guston)
Performance
Schumann: Kinderszenen
Huw Watkins: Four Inventions
Ravel: Prelude
John Woolrich: Pianobooks 9 and 10
Ravel: Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn
Helen Grime: Harp of the North
Ravel: A la maniere de Borodine
Ravel: A la maniere de Chabrier
Stravinsky: Tango and Ragtime
Oliver Knussen : Ophelia’s Last Dance
Thurs 03 November
The Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe
Folkestone
19.30-21.00
Talk
Contemporary Space, 62 Tontine St
Folkestone
19.00-21.00
Thurs 23 June
Dominic Muldowney talks about his music.
Performance
Soloists from the Royal Academy of Music perform new works selected from the Academy’s ‘200 Pieces’ – a series of works commissioned for their bicentenary celebrations this year.
Music will include works from the series by Hans Abrahamsen, Luke Bedford, Mary Bellamy, Philip Cashian, Louise Drewett, Morgan Hayes, Peter Maxwell Davies, Gareth Moorcraft, Ruta Vitkauskaite, Jonathan Woolgar and John Woolrich.
Played by Joanne Chiang (bass drum), James Gilbert (clarinet), Jose Cabrita Matias (violin), Joshua Ryan (organ) and Benjamin Hartnell-Booth (horn).
12 of ‘200 pieces’ in Folkestone
Thurs 09 June
The Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe
Folkestone
19.30-21.00
Talk
Thurs 19 May
Contemporary Space, 62 Tontine St
Folkestone
21.00-22.00
The Canadian choreographer Eleesha Drennan talks about the relationship between music and dance.
Performance
John Woolrich. The Night Will Not Draw On
Philip Cashian. Physichromie (first performance)
Tom Coult. The Chromophage
Judith Weir. Piano Trio
The Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe
Folkestone
19.30-21.00
Fri 06 May
Performance
Rosie Middleton and Louise McMonagle perform new music by Luciano Berio, Annika Sokolofsky, Samantha Fernando, Tonia Ko and the world premiere of Philip Cashian’s Madrigali.
Mezzo-soprano Rosie Middleton’s recent performances include ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ at the Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre. Her Southbank Centre performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire was described by the New Statesman as ‘staggeringly good’.
Cellist Louise McMonagle is a member of the Riot Ensemble, described as ‘volcanically creative’, by the New Yorker’s Alex Ross. Louise has played principal cello with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera North, Ulster Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and freelances regularly with the Royal Opera House, Philharmonia Orchestra, English National Opera, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, many other groups, and records regularly for film and TV.
The Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe
Folkestone
19.30-20.00
Fri 15 April
Talk
Philip Cashian talks about his music, particularly his two new pieces to be premiered this year in Folkestone by Rosie Middleton (mezzo) and Louise McMonagle (cello) on Friday 15 April and by Trio Mazzolini on Friday 6 May.
The Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe
Folkestone
19.30-21.00