MONDAY 26 APRIL 1.15PM WHITLA HALL WIRED … · Egberto Gismonti, James Dillon, Emmanuel Nunes and Django Bates. £10 (£6) SARC MONDAY 26 APRIL 7.30PM PEDRO CARNEIRO (MARIMBA & PERCUSSION)

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The Wired Ensemble consists of disabled and able-bodied musicians who work as tutorsand students with the Drake Music Project Northern Ireland. Using live electronics tomanipulate the guitar and violin, Wired will perform a programme that includes musicby project musician Philip Calvert and a new work by Frank Lyons. Darragh Morganreturns to Sonorities to join Wired in their performance at this year’s Festival.

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MONDAY 26 APRIL 1.15PMWIRED ENSEMBLE WITHDARRAGH MORGANBRENDAN McCLOSKEY - CRAZY TRAIN PHILIP CALVERT - TRAFFIC FRANK LYONS - RUSH (WORLD PREMIERE)IRENE KELLY - NEW WORK (WORLD PREMIERE)

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TALKING COMPOSERSMONDAY 26 APRIL 6.30PM NATASHA BARRETT & CORT LIPPE

Pedro Carneiro is one of the very fewpercussion players to have made aninternational career as a soloist, andhas established himself as one of theworld's foremost solo percussionists,performing regularly throughout Europe,the Far East and the USA. Now aged28, Carneiro has performed andconducted the world premiere of over50 works and appears regularly with awide range of acclaimed musicianssuch as the harpsichordist ElisabethChojnacka, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras,pianists Valentina Lisitsa and ArturPizarro, the Chilingirian and Shanghaistring quartets, composers Steve Reich,Egberto Gismonti, James Dillon,Emmanuel Nunes and Django Bates.

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MONDAY 26 APRIL 7.30PMPEDRO CARNEIRO(MARIMBA & PERCUSSION)

BARRY TRUAX - NIGHTWATCH PAUL WILSON - WITHOUT WORDS (UK PREMIERE) CORT LIPPE - NEW WORK (WORLD PREMIERE) (SONORITIES COMMISSION) PEDRO AMARAL - CATHARSIS (WORLD PREMIERE)PEDRO AMARAL - POST SCRIPTUMPEDRO REBELO - MUSIC FOR PROSTHETIC CONGAS (WORLD PREMIERE)RICARDO CLIMENT - A GRAVIDADE LIBERTA (UK PREMIERE)

This year’s featured composers discuss their Sonorities-commissioned pieces.Cort Lippe’s piece will be presented in tonight’s concert; Natasha Barrett’s piececan be heard at 1.15pm tomorrow.

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The Norway-based composer NatashaBarrett comes to this year’s Festival to performworks by a selection of international composers.Among the pieces heard will be her owncompositions, including the premiere ofthe Sonorities commission Abemolpas.

Her compositional output consists of worksfor instruments and live electronics, soundinstallations, dance, theatre and animationprojects, but all activity is rooted in her workwith acousmatic tape composition, whichfeatures most strongly amongst her creations.

Her work has received many awards,including the first prize at Musica Nova(Prague, Czech Republic, 2001), Noroit-Léonce Petitot (Arras, France, 1998),first prize (1998) and a mention (1995)in the Trivium section of the BourgesInternational Electroacoustic MusicCompetition (France), Concurso Internacionalde Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo(IV CIMESP, Brazil, 2001), Concours

Scrime (France, 2000), Festival Internacionalde Nuevas Tecnologías, Arte y ComunicaciónCiber@RT / Ciber@rt International Festivalof New Technologies, Art and Communicaton(Spain, 2000), Concours Luigi Russolo(Italy, 1998, 1995) and Prix ArsElectronica (Linz, Austria, 1998).

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TUESDAY 27 APRIL 1.15PM NATASHA BARRETT

NATASHA BARRETT - ABEMOLPAS (WORLD PREMIERE) (SONORITIES COMMISSION) CHRISTIAN CALON - VERS LES OISEAUXELIO MARTUSCIELLO - PRESENTI SUCCESSIVIRISTO HOLOPAINEN - HIGHLIGHTS FROM PROSITNATASHA BARRETT - EXPLORATION INVISIBILIS

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TALKING COMPOSERSTUESDAY 27 APRIL 6.30PMLUDGER BRÜMMER & DENIS SMALLEY

This year’s featured composers discuss their Sonorities-commissioned pieces.Ludger Brümmer’s piece will be presented in tonight’s concert; Denis Smalley’s piececan be heard at 1.15pm tomorrow.

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spnm - promoting new musicpresents an exploration of thepiano, with a programme ofworks that address the issue oftuning, including classic worksby Bach, Nancarrow, Cowell andCrumb. The concert alsofeatures new works for piano andelectronics by three of the UK’sbest up-and-coming composersfrom the spnm shortlist.

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WAYS OF TUNINGDOMINIC SAUNDERS (PIANO)

NEIL SOPHER - PREPARING THE PREPARED PIANO (WORLD PREMIERE) HENRY COWELL - AEOLIAN HARP J. S. BACH - PRELUDE AND FUGUE IN E FLAT MAJORLUDGER BRÜMMER - LE TEMPS DU MIRROIRE (WORLD PREMIERE) (SONORITIES COMMISSION)SCRIABIN - SONATA NO. 9 “BLACK MASS”, OP.68 GEORGE CRUMB - MAKROKOSMOS, PART 1SEBASTIAN CASTAGNA - PIVOTAL MANNERS (WORLD PREMIERE) DEIRDRE GRIBBIN - DECORATED SKIN ROBERT MACKAY - PHENOMENON 1 (WORLD PREMIERE) CONLON NANCARROW - TWO CANONS FOR URSULA