Joyce Lam

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  • Des Oliver: UN / CONSCIOUS INFLUENCE

    Des Oliver My Secret Garden
    Dominique le Gendre Songs and Dances of the Islands – Suite No 2 for piano and clarinet in three movements
    Des Oliver “Iconoclast”
    Julius Eastman (trans Des Oliver) Piano Piece I-IV
    Julius Eastman Joy Boy
    Des Oliver American Phoenix (world premiere)

    Des Oliver explores the influences and provocateurs that have shaped his music, from the radical artistry of Julius Eastman to the mentorship of composers Steve Martland and Dominique Le Gendre.

    Julius Eastman, a pioneer of the Fluxus movement, seamlessly fused uptown and downtown contemporary music to create sonic landscapes reminiscent of free-form jazz. Eastman’s unapologetic and radical approach to the concert hall, coupled with his vibrant persona, exuded a sense of urgency that was reflected in his compositions. While many of Eastman’s scores have been lost over time, Des Oliver’s transcription of some of Eastman’s rarest works will allow you to experience the music of an influential artist. 

    Plus hear Des Oliver’s original compositions, including the world premiere of his latest piece, a playful and rhythmic composition for piano, bass clarinet, marimba, and accordion.

    Oliver also transports us to the Caribbean Islands with his mentor, Dominique Le Gendre’s piece that spans centuries of culture through music, art, and dance.

    Scott Lygate clarinet
    Matthew Farthing percussion
    Eliza McCarthy piano
    Miloš Milivojević accordion
    Kennedy Junior Mutanga dancer

  • LSO Soundhub 2023

    All world premieres

    Tonia Ko Held
    Liam Dougherty Hymn to God…In My Sickness 

    Interval

    Kate Milligan Visions | Vestiges
    John Aulich in hollows spilled thin 

    Fragility is uncertain, but it contains all the possibility of the unknown. At the same time fragility is beautiful, in the way that we resist and appreciate it. To have faith in fragility means that the boundaries between things are tenuous at best. The passing of time is uncontrollable, but music can provide a pathway to mark the moment. With every fracture, a new idea emerges.

    Enjoy sounds from the cutting-edge of contemporary as Kate Milligan blends time and temporality with an active sculptural work. Feel sound course through your bones with John Aulich’s intense piece of music that exists at the edges of human experience. Discover a desert love story as Tonia Ko explores the dichotomy of intimacy and distance. And feel the magnitude of Liam Dougherty’s abstract and psychoacoustic phenomena on destruction.

    Miya Väisänen violin
    Mira Benjamin violin
    Louise McMonagle cello
    Heather Roche clarinet
    Sam Walton percussion
    Jacob Brown percussion
    Matthew Farthing percussion
    Helen Tunstall harp
    Darren Bloom conductor

  • Hollie Harding: Theories of Forgetting

    Playing on Arrival Pauline Oliveros Mnemonic III

    Christophe Bertrand Dikha (UK premiere)
    Laurence Crane Riis
    Joanna Bailie Trains

    Playing in Interval James Saunders Overlay (with Transience)

    Johan Svensson Double Dubbing (Firefly Suite)
    Bent Sørensen Looking on Darkness
    Hollie Harding Theories of Forgetting (world premiere)

    Memories of places are transcribed into music in Pauline Oliveros’ Mnemonic III and Bent Sørensen’s Looking on Darkness. A performer tests his memory across a three-month process of recording and re-recording in James Saunders’ overlay (with transience). And Joanna Bailie’s Trains makes use of field recording as a preserved memory, capturing a moment in time. Plus there are UK and London premieres by Christophe Bertrand and Johan Svensson alongside Laurence Crane’s mesmeric Riis.

    Hollie Harding shares her new work Theories of Forgetting, a multi-movement piece exploring personal memories involving sound. She revisits moments and musical objects from her past, using found materials unearthed from forgotten Dictaphone cassette tapes, past pieces, captured places in field recordings, and faded and transformed childhood memories.

    Heather Roche clarinet
    Colin Alexander cello
    Eva Zöllner accordion

  • LSO Soundhub 2022

    All world premieres

    Marilyn Herman 100 Full Moons of Autumn
    Arthur Keegan Dorian Suite

    Interval

    Alex Groves Four Forms (Horizon)
    Joe Bates Straight Line Through A Landscape

    Come with curiosity and an open ear. Plunge into the smoothly altering pitches of Joe Bates’ composition, exploring the sounds of water through siphon-based percussion instruments. Meander through a sonic sculpture garden produced by Alex Groves, zooming in on individual voices and out to reveal the full picture.

    Meanwhile Marilyn Herman crosses genres, fusing folk music and classical styles, and Arthur Keegan-Bole crosses artforms, taking inspiration from Oscar Wilde’s infamous character Dorian Gray while exploring the role of dance in music.

    Colin Alexander cello
    Pasha Mansurov flute
    Heather Roche clarinet
    Jacob Brown percussion
    Angle Wai-Nok Hui percussion
    Lucy Knight soprano
    Juliet Kelly jazz singer
    Daniel Bloom conductor

  • Hollie Harding: FERAL

    Playing on Arrival Hildegard Westerkamp Cricket Voice

    Carola Bauckholt Doppelbelichtung (UK premiere)
    Leo Chadburn Five Loops for the Bathyscaphe
    Matthew Burtner Fragments from the Cold

    Playing in Interval Alwynne Pritchard   Oslo-Emmaus

    John Luther Adams Three High Places
    Joanna Bailie Artificial Environment No. 8
    Hollie Harding (composer)/ Joshua Ben-tovim (director) FERAL (world premiere)

    Descend through the deep sea to the Mariana Trench in Leo Chadburn’s Five Loops for the Bathyscaphe. Explore the interplay between piano and environmental sound in Joanna Bailie’s Artificial Environments. Experience the twin worlds of violins and birds, brought together in the UK premiere of Carola Bauckholt’s Doppelbelichtung (Double Exposure), and be transported to Alaskan landscapes evoked by the works of eco-political composers Matthew Burtner and John Luther Adams.

    Composer and curator Hollie Harding will also present the world premiere of FERAL, an audio-visual piece based on the book Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea, and Human Life by George Monbiot, and created in collaboration with choreographer and director Josh Ben-Tovim. The piece explores themes of rewilding, ecological crisis and human connection with the natural world.

    David Alberman violin
    Laure Le Dantec cello
    Eliza McCarthy piano

  • Des Oliver: The Diasporic Quartets

    Film excerpts from ‘Identity and the Anxiety of Influence   What Does It Mean To Be A Black Composer?’ (re-edited)
    Des Oliver Movements 2 & 1 from ‘The Diasporic Quartets (portraits in four movements)’ (world premiere)

    Interval  

    Philip Herbert In Contemplation (world premiere)
    Daniel Kidane Foreign Tongues
    Dominique Le Gendre Le Génie Humain
    Tunde Jegede Quartet No 2 – Reflecting on Beethoven Opus 18 No 2

    Beginning with excerpts from the documentary that inspired this concert, then follows Des Oliver’s musical response,The Diasporic Quartets. Consisting of four portrait movements, of which two will be performed today, the piece takes inspiration from the music of each composer and their interactions during filming.

    More works for string quartet express each composer’s relationship with heritage and tradition. Tunde Jegede’s second quartet is an authentic synthesis of West African and classical musical traditions. French Caribbean music combined with French classical music and pop suffuse Dominique Le Gendre’s soundworld. Drawing on his Russian and Eritrean heritage, Daniel Kidane brings elements of grime and urban music to his work, while Philip Herbert finds inspiration in African-American spirituals and English pastoral music.

    Darragh Morgan violin
    Sarah Quinn violin
    Anna Bastow viola
    Ève-Marie Caravassilis cello