Students perform at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

BA Music students, Neil Balfour and Dominic Mountain, have been named as two of the fifty pianists playing on 25 pianos for the UK Premiere of Kristoffer Zergers' Piano Phasing, at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. From the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival website: Piano Phasing is based on a vision of the work's composer, Kristoffer Zegers. As a child, Zegers was fascinated by the rhythmic phases of church-bells, which never ring in time. When he began to compose, he noticed that even pieces of music with minimal rhythmical differences are sometimes subject to these phases. It is this ‘weakness' (which often appears just by playing) that is the strongest element of Piano Phasing, making rhythmical variations possible despite the piece being fully composed and notated. The concert will take place at 6.30pm at Huddersfield's Town Hall. Tickets for the event are free. View further information here. The performance is produced by HCMF supported by Muziek Centrum Nederland, NFPK+ and Besbrode Pianos.