Events

Mar

2015

Two performances of Jonathan Harvey’s Tombeau de Messiaen in Belgium

Pianist 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...

Feb

2015

Harvey’s ‘From Silence’ to be performed In March by the Thallein Ensemble in Birmingham

The 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...

Feb

2015

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group to perfrom Harvey’s ‘You’ at Wigmore Hall Concert in Febuary

Jonathan 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,...

Jan

2015

Latvian Radio Choir perfrom Harvey’s Mortuos Plango as part of ‘Cage-Inspired Happening’

Jonathan 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...

Jan

2015

Eliza McCarthy to perform Harvey’s Tombeau de Messiaen at the Cafe Oto, London

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...

Jan

2015

The Riot Ensemble are performing Harvey’s Riot

The Riot ensemble's first concert of 2015 is a program with Jonathan Harvey's The Riot, for Flute, Clarinet and Piano (rather appropriately) at it's heart. The event will take place on the 30th of January at 7.30pm at the MeWe360 in London, and early bird tickets are still available for purchase here for £5, including...

Jan

2015

New Music Players: Night Music Tour 2015

Pianist Richard Casey, of the New Music Players ensemble, will be embarking upon a tour with Ed Hughes in the opening months of the year. The program will include Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen, as well as a selection of pieces from Ligeti's Deuxième Livre of Études. Martyn Harry's Restraint for handcuffed pianist and pre-recorded...

Dec

2014

An Interview with Sam Hayden

We caught up with Sam Hayden ahead of the premiere of his new composition, Transience, which will be performed alongside Harvey’s String Quartet No. 3 by the Quatuor Diotima as part of the Spitalfields festival on the 14th. Sam, in your interview with Spitalfields, you described an affinity you felt with Jonathan’s...

Nov

2014

2015’s first perfomance of Harvey’s work will take place in Vienna

The Wiener Konzerthaus will be hosting the Quatuor Diotima, who will once again be performing Harvey's Quartet No. 3 on the 16th of February. Beginning at 7.30pm in this beautiful and historic concert hall, the Quatuor Diotima's performance will also contain an interpretation of Pierre Boulez's Livre pour quatuor. Details...

Nov

2014

Harvey’s Quartet No. 3 at the Spitalfields Winter Festival

Jonathan Harvey's String Quartet no. 3 will be performed by the Quatuor Diotima quartet on the 14th of December as part of the Spitalfields Winter Festival. Sam Hayden, reader in music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and formerly a student of Harvey, will giving the world premiere of his new composition...