EXAUDI

Date:

Tuesday 7th February, 2012

Time:

19:00 pm

Category:

Concert Season - Contemporary

The Recital Room
Tickets: £8/£5
*20% discount for Friends
Box Office: 0113 222 343
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Tickets FREE to Leeds College of Music students.

Since its debut in 2002 EXAUDI has emerged as one of Britain’s leading contemporary music ensembles. Founded by James Weeks (director) and Juliet Fraser (soprano), EXAUDI is based in London and draws its singers from among the UK’s brightest vocal talents. The ensemble typically works as a consort rather than a choir – usually one voice to a part, ranging from three to eighteen voices – and draws inspiration for its sound from that of early music ensembles, a strong but focused tone that is ideal for the performance of harmonically intricate contemporary music. Many EXAUDI programmes combine the new with the old, and the ensemble is equally in demand for its performances of music of the High Renaissance and early Baroque.

The newest new music is at the heart of EXAUDI’s repertoire, and it has given national and world premières of Sciarrino, Rihm, Finnissy, Skempton, Richard Ayres, Gérard Pesson, Enno Poppe, Christopher Fox and James Saunders among many others. Through its new commissioning scheme, EXAUDI is particularly committed to the younger generation of composers currently in their twenties and thirties, and is proud to champion the work of major emerging voices including Evan Johnson, Amber Priestley, Matthew Shlomowitz, Joanna Bailie, Stephen Chase, James Weeks and Claudia Molitor.

John Cage (1912-92)                   Story from Living Room Music (1940)                 
Stephen Chase (b.1973)             from Jandl Songs (2007-)    
                                                             why can i not
                                                             trost im wolken
                                                             suchen wissen
                                                             im park [szene]                    
                                                             lied / song
                                                             mein

Morton Feldman (1926-87)          Intermission 6 (1953)   

Georges Aperghis (b.1945)         from récitations (1977-8)             

Morton Feldman                             Intermission 4 (1952)     

Morton Feldman                             Only (1976)   

John Cage                                      The Year begins to be ripe (1970)   

Christopher Fox (b.1955)             from Catalogue Irraisoné (1999-2001)    
                                                            Patrol                     
                                                            Hanging Line                    
                                                            Babel                     
                                                            Urtext                     
                                                            Dialodia                     
                                                            Outsider  

Howard Skempton (b.1947)        A Humming Song (1967)                
                                                             Music (2003)
                                                             Eirenicon 2 (1977)
                                                             Four by the clock (2001)
                                                             Ring in the Valiant (1993)      
                                                             Music, when soft voices die (1992)