Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
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This October, join BCMG at the acoustically renowned St Georges Bristol, where they will perform composer Daniel Kidane’s new Sound Investment piece for Thando Mjandana, the 2022 winner of the Voice Of Black Opera’s Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Award, under the baton of Vimbayi Kaziboni.
This new piece sits alongside Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s enigmatic, final ensemble work, …when falling asleep, Hannah Kendall’s Between Carnival and Lent and Julian Anderson’s Mitternachtslied in a stirring programme exploring themes of transience and the spaces in between.
BCMG is delighted to be supporting the Black British Classical Foundation in promoting their VOBO Singing Competition for a second year.
Daniel Kidane Primitive Blaze
Julian Anderson Thus – world premiere, with Soprano Mimi Doulton
Mitternachtslied – UK premiere, with Soprano Mimi Doulton, texts by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Friedrich Nietzsche
Daniel Kidane Cradle Song for Tenor and ensemble – world premiere, with Tenor Thando Mjandana, on the poem by William Blake
SI commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Hannah Kendall Tuxedo: Between Carnival and Lent
Harrison Birtwistle Today Too with Tenor Thando Mjandana
From Vanitas with Tenor Thando Mjandana
Harrison Birtwistle … when falling asleep, with Soprano Mimi Doulton, on Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “I’d like to sing someone to sleep” and fragments from Charles Algernon Swinburne
SI commissioned by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
