“Now! America”

30 November 2011, 8 pm
Alfred Krupp Saal
Philharmonie
Essen

Edgar Varèse Ionisation (1929-1931) for percussion ensemble

(also works by Cage, Zappa)

Ensemble musikFabrik/Carl Rosman

CONSTRUCTION

19 November 2011, 10:30 pm
Huddersfield Town Hall

Richard Barrett CONSTRUCTION (2005-11) for voices, instruments and electronics (first performance)

ELISION:
Deborah Kayser, voice
Ute Wassermann, voice
Eugene Ughetti, conductor
Paula Rae, flutes/recorder
Genevieve Lacey, recorders
Peter Veale, oboes
Carl Rosman, clarinets/saxophones/chalumeaus/recorders/voice
Richard Haynes, clarinets/saxophones/recorder
Timothy O’Dwyer, saxophones/bass clarinet
Dafne Vincente-Sandoval, bassoon
Tristram Williams, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
Benjamin Marks, alto and tenor trombones
Daryl Buckley, electric guitar
Marshall McGuire, baroque triple harp
Domenico Melchiorre, percussion
Graeme Jennings, violin
Erkki Veltheim, viola
Séverine Ballon, cello
Joan Wright, double bass
Richard Barrett, live electronics
Michael Hewes, sound projection
Steve Adams, sound projection
Lawrence Harvey, sound projection

A General Interrupter

14 November 2011, 8 pm
Hall Two, Kings Place,
London

Evan Johnson A general interrupter to ongoing activity (2011) for voice (first performance in the UK)
Timothy O’Dwyer
transbraxton 2 (2011) for bass clarinet
Rebecca Saunders
Caerulean (2011) for bass clarinet

(also O’Dwyer: transbraxton 3 and Kourliandski: voice-off)

ELISION soloists
Deborah Kayser, voice
Genevieve Lacey, recorder
Carl Rosman, voice/bass clarinet

ELISION at the Villa Elisabeth

23 & 24 October 2011, 8 pm
Villa Elisabeth
Berlin

Richard Barrett On (2011) for improvising ensemble
Evan Johnson A general interrupter to ongoing activity (2011) for voice (first performance in Germany)
Richard Barrett knospend-gespaltener/CHARON (1992-5) for clarinet in C and bass clarinet
Richard Barrett Hypnerotomachia (2009) for two clarinets in A (first performance in Germany)

(also works by Hübler, McCormack, Cassidy, Barden, Lim, Dench, Steen-Andersen, Clementi, Tsao)

ELISION:
Séverine Ballon, cello
Richard Barrett, electronics
Daryl Buckley, electric guitar
Richard Haynes, clarinets
Nenad Markovic, trumpet
Paula Rae, flutes
Carl Rosman, clarinets/voice
Peter Veale, oboes

TRANSIT Festival

22 October 2011, 8:30 pm
Soetezaal, STUK
Leuven

Evan Johnson A general interrupter to ongoing activity (2011) for voice (first performance)
Richard Barrett Hypnerotomachia (2009) for two clarinets in A (first performance in Belgium)
Richard Barrett On (2011) for improvising ensemble

(also works by Einarsson, Craenen, Franzson, McCormack)

ELISION:
Séverine Ballon, cello
Richard Barrett, electronics
Daryl Buckley, electric guitar
Richard Haynes, clarinets
Nenad Markovic, trumpet
Paula Rae, flutes
Carl Rosman, clarinets/voice

TRANSIT Festival

Warsaw Autumn 2011

23 September 2011, 7:30 pm
Witold Lutoslawski Polish Radio Concert Studio
Warsaw

Richard Barrett Interference (1996-2000) for contrabass clarinet, voice and pedal bass drum (first performance in Poland)
Sven-Ingo Koch
Der Durchbohrte (2004) for solo drum set, ensemble and samples
Paweł Hendrich
  Emergon αβ (2011) for ensemble and electronics (first performance)
Gerhard Stäbler
Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco (1989/90) for ensemble

also Rihm: Stück

Carl Rosman, contrabass clarinet/voice/pedal bass drum
Dirk Rothbrust drum set
Ensemble musikFabrik/Diego Masson

Warsaw Autumn

Les Amplitudes 2011

4 May 2011, 8 pm
Usine Électrique
La Chaux-de-Fonds
Switzerland

Rebecca Saunders Caerulean (2011) for bass clarinet (commissioned by Les Amplitudes – first performance)
Rebecca Saunders Chroma XVI (2003-11)

(also Saunders: blaauw and Tara: Chiral)

Carl Rosman, bass clarinet
Marco Blaauw, double-bell trumpet
Aleksandar Taraskovic, accordion
musikFabrik

Les Amplitudes
Marco Blaauw