Festivals

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...

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...

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...

The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester "commemorates the 75th anniversary of one of the UK’s most extraordinary composers, Jonathan Harvey," this week through a 2-day festival entitled, "In Memoriam Harvey". There will be a variety of performances throughout Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th October 2014 celebrating...

Jonathan Harvey's 'Plainsongs for Peace and Light' will be performed at a concert entitled 'Peace & Light - songs for the Centennial Year of Peace 2014' in Germany this Friday, 24th October 2014. The evening forms part of the festival 'Utopia Now'. Petrikirche (St. Peter's Church) in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Nordrhein-Westfalen,...

Scotland's festival of vocal and choral music, St Andrews Voices, will feature two of Jonathan Harvey's pieces at one of its concerts this year. On Friday 24th October 2014 at 10pm, a late-night, candlelit concert entitled 'Candlelit Angels' will take place at St Leonard's Chapel at the University of St Andrews. The...