Performers 2018
Pre-concert talks and open rehearsals 2018
Workshops 2018
Composers Competition 2018
Featured Young Performers 2018
Children’s Educational Project 2018
Exhibition 2018
Promoters and Supporters, 2018
LONDON EAR 2018: PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
London Ear Festival returns once again for another celebration of international contemporary classical music. This year features three main themes: music by Japanese composers, music by composers from countries with a Baltic coastline, and a retrospective look at the music of Luciano Berio, including his complete works for piano, several of his Sequenzas for solo instruments, and other pieces. As always there are several world and UK premieres, many by British composers.
The programmes below show the wide range of nationalities of composers featured this year; performers come from the UK, Japan, Finland, Poland, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.
** = World première; * = UK première
Book now: Full Festival Pass, £40
WEDNESDAY 21st March:
6.30 pm CELLO FACTORY: Festival Reception, and a short performance by the
London Ear Featured Young Performers:
Anna Astesano (harp), Hyungi Lee (marimba) & Nathanael Gubler (viola)
Luciano BERIO – Sequenza II for harp
Joseph SCHWANTER – Velocities
Bertram WEE – Lionheart
Nick MORRISH RARITY – Our heads are round, but our thoughts can change direction **
Free admission: Please note this is an invitation only event. Please email James at
assistance@londonearfestival.co.uk to be put on the guest list.
THURSDAY 22nd March:
9.30 am CELLO FACTORY: Harp Workshop with Gabriella dall’Olio
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6.00 pm CELLO FACTORY: Luciano BERIO – Sequenza III, for Voice – Laura Monaghan (soprano)
Free admission
6.15 pm CELLO FACTORY: Pre-concert talk with Christopher Fox
Free admission
7.30 pm WAREHOUSE: [Concert 1] London Sinfonietta with Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano)
Toru TAKEMITSU – Quatrain II
Gabriele COSMI – Musica per cinque strumenti **
Christopher FOX- Caoineadh **
Yûta BANDOH – Bubbles I (2017) for 5 players **
Franco DONATONI – L’Ultima Sera
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9.30 pm CELLO FACTORY: [Concert 2] Uroboros Ensemble and Jonathan Powell (piano)
Nick REDFERN – Swirl **
Luciano BERIO – Six Encores
Gwyn PRITCHARD – Madrigal
Ian MURRAY – Fulcrum **
Franco DONATONI – Small
Andrea CAVALLARI – vice-versa **
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FRIDAY 23rd March:
9.30 am RAMBERT MERCURY STUDIO: Flute workshop with Roberto Fabbriciani
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12.30 pm CELLO FACTORY: [Concert 3] Piano Recital by Jonathan Powell
Dobromiła JASKOT – Atnongara *
Dariusz PRYZBYLSKI – In the Shadow of Emily D *
Arturas BUMšTEINAS – New work **
Gailė GRICIŪTĖ – This Too Will Pass*
Luciano BERIO – Sonata for Piano
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6.00 pm CELLO FACTORY: Luciano BERIO – Sequenza I, for Flute – Roberto Fabbriciani (flute)
Free admission
6.15 pm CELLO FACTORY: Pre-concert talk – Some of this evening’s composers in conversation
with the Festival Directors
Free admission
7.30 pm WAREHOUSE: [Concert 4] Ensemble ö!
Jonathan HARVEY – Lotuses
Roland MOSER – A Poem and a Scene *
Andrea Damiano COTTI – Come Un’Isola, Che Sente L’Arcipelago… **
Asia AHMETJANOVA – New work **
Luciano BERIO – O King
David Sontòn CAFLISCH – Attilas Nacht *
Misato MOCHIZUKI – Voilages *
This concert will be prefaced by a performance given by children participating in the London Ear Educational Project. They will perform a short piece developed in a series of workshops led by Ret Frem Ensemble.