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Oct
8
2015
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Check out Jonathan Harvey's innovative and pioneering 'Toccata' for organ and tape in this video. Performed here by Rupert Gough in the Chapel of Royal Holloway College back in June 2014, the piece demonstrates Harvey's ability to construct interesting sound-worlds, exploring contrasting timbres and wide-ranging...
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Sep
27
2015
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Harvey's pioneering and exciting music will again be at the centre stage of the Festival Musica 2015. Pre-echo for Jean-Guihen is the opener in Jean Guihen Queyras's recital this morning at the Salle de la Bourse, Strasbourg.
The pioneering and adventurous work for solo cello will take to the stage at 11am.
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Sep
24
2015
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This evening Strasbourg played host to Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen, as Wilhem Latchoumia excited audiences with a performance of the composer's iconic and pioneering work for solo piano and electronics. Harvey's homage to the French composer has been described as "remarkable" developing on "Messiaen's...
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Sep
21
2015
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As the Festival Musica 2015 gets underway, audiences eagerly await performances of Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen and Pre-echo for Jean-Guihen.
On the 24th September, Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen will take to the stage in an evening performance by Wilhem Lacthoumia. The concert, which will feature works...
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Sep
1
2015
0Jonathan Harvey’s “remarkable” ‘Tombeau de Messiaen’ will be performed by Wilhem Latchoumia, as part of the Festival Musica in Strasbourg on the 24th September. Audiences at this year’s festival will also be eager to hear Harvey’s work for solo cello, ‘Pre-echo for Jean-Guihen’, which is to performed by Jean-Guihen...
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Mar
12
2015
0Pianist Stephane Ginsburgh will be performing Tombeau de Messiaen at two concerts in Belgium over the coming months. The first will take place at arts² in Mons, on the 27th of March at 7pm, where Ginsburgh will be performing pieces by Stefan Prins and Newton Armstrong as well as Harvey's work. The second concert will...
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Feb
24
2015
0The Birmingham-based Thallein Ensemble will be performing Jonathan Harvey's 'From Silence' at the Birmingham Conservatoire on the 27th of March. The performance will be conducted by Daniele Rosina and will take place in the Adrian Boult Hall.
'Thallein Ensemble’s programme celebrates some of the wonderful compositions...
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Feb
17
2015
0Jonathan Harvey's You will be amongst works performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at London's Wigmore Hall. The concert, which will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, will take place on the 24th of February.
Works composed by Milton Byron Babbitt, Thomas Adès, Kurt Schwertsik, Harrison Birtwistle,...
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Jan
26
2015
0Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco was featured in a cultural program devised to mark the start of Latvia's presidency of the council of the European Union. Harvey's piece featured alongside works by John Cage, as well as Anders Hillborg, Juris Ābols, Kristaps Pētersons, Juris Boiko and Hardijs Lediņš, in a performance...
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Jan
26
2015
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Following up her performances in York and Manchester at the end of 2014, award winning pianist Eliza McCarthy will be performing Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen at the Cafe Oto in London on February the third.
As well as Harvey's piece, Eliza will be performing new solo piano works by the recently BAFTA nominated composer...
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