2015
Thursday 30th April - 7.30pm Queen Anne's school, Caversham
Workshops and performance with the Alluna Ensemble - Programme to include 'Pierrot Lunaire' by Arnold Schoenberg.
5th-6th April - Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, Ireland
Workshops and performance with the Alluna Ensemble - Programme to include 'Pierrot Lunaire' by Arnold Schoenberg.
Wednesday 6th April - 8.30pm Odessa Club, Dublin
Performance with the Alluna Ensemble - Programme to include excerpts of 'Pierrot Lunaire' by Arnold Schoenberg as part of Kaleidoscope, Dublin.
Thursday 7th April - 7.30pm Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, Ireland
Performance with the Alluna Ensemble - Programme to include Schoenberg and Schubert as part of a Kaleidoscope Night.
Wednesday 13th May - 7.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
Concert with Mantras (two-piano duo) - Programme:
-Study no. 6 (arr. Adès) by Nancarrow
-Three pieces for two pianos by Ligeti
-Mantra by Stockhausen
(with Alex Wilson, piano)
Sunday 17th May - 4pm St Johns, Waterloo
Concerto performance with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Fardell. Programme:
-Festival Overture by Shostakovich
-Piano Concerto No. 1 by Tchaikovsky
-Symphony No. 5 by Prokofiev
Friday 12th June - 7.45pm Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
Solo performance of John McCabe's 'Evening Harmonies' and 'Scrunch'. As part of the PLG memorial concert for the composer-pianist. Concert will be broadcast by BBC Radio 3.
28th September - 2nd October Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium
Residency with Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) at the Orpheus Research Festival 2015. Working with Christian Wolff on a new violin/piano piece.
Thursday 8th October - 7pm Pianodrom Festival, Tirana, Albania
Solo recital - works by Thomas Simaku, Christian Mason, Xenakis, Bartók, and Debussy
Monday 12th October - 7.45pm Luton Music Club
Solo recital featuring Katherine Birtles (flute) - Programme to include works by Debussy, Feldman, Messiaen, Bartók, Roxburgh, and Liszt.
Saturday 17th October - 7.30pm Ripley Recitals, Bromley
Solo recital - Bartók/Debussy/Beethoven/Chopin
Monday 9th November - 7pm Mansfield Street, London
Violin/piano recital with Aisha Orazbayeva - Programme to include Sonata in A major by César Franck
Thursday 10th December - 1pm St John's Smith Square
Solo recital - works by Debussy, Bartók, Liszt, Matthews, Feldman, and 'Darling Eve in the Evil Garden' by Simon Holt (world premiere). Supported by the Britten-Pears Foundation.
Monday 14th December - 7pm Travellers Club, Pall Mall
Private violin/piano recital with Aisha Orazbayeva (violin)
2016
Friday 8th January - 6.30pm National Gallery, Trafalgar Square
Solo performance - Goyescas (book II) by Grenados. As part of a new Goya exhibition.
Friday 29th January - 1pm University of Kent
Performance with the Octandre Ensemble - To include works by Xenakis, Messiaen, Berg, and Simaku.
4th-5th February Bristol University
Composition workshops and a performance of Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' - with the Octandre Ensemble.
Thursday 11th February Queen Mary University, London
Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with ALLUNA plus a workshop with student composers. More info here.
Tuesday 16th February - 5pm University of Birmingham
Performance with Aisha Orazbayeva (violin) for CrossCurrents Festival - Programme: For John Cage by Morton Feldman. More info here.
Thursday 18th February - 1pm University of Sussex
Solo recital - Xenakis/Stringer/Hughes/Holt
Friday 19th February - 7.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
Solo recital - Debussy/Feldman/Xenakis/Bartók/Holt/Stringer. More info here.
Tuesday 15th March - 6pm University of Birmingham
Lecture recital - 'On Memory' by Michael Zev Gordon
21st-22nd March - Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
Recording - Thomas Simaku potrait CD to be released on Naxos.
Sunday 3rd April - 7.30pm St John's Smith Square, London
Performance with the Octandre Ensemble - Programme to include works by Feldman, Mason, Tenney, Denyer, and Webern
Sunday 17th April - 3pm CODA music club
Solo recital - Chopin Ballade No. 4; Beethoven Op. 2 No. 2; Debussy 'Images II'; Messiaen Île de feu 1; Liszt 'Les cloches de Genève
Wednesday 27th April - 7.30pm Wigmore Hall, London
Performance of 'Rerendered' by Simon Steen-Andersen for piano + 2 assistants. Assisting Rolf Hind (with Siwan Rhys)
Tuesday 3rd May - 8pm Kammer Klang, Cafe Oto
violin/piano music by Christian Wolff - For 1, 2, or 3 People; Wade in the Water (world premiere). With Aisha Orazbayeva (violin). More details here.
Monday 23rd May - 1pm University of Arts, Kent
Workshop and performance of student works with the Octandre Ensemble.
Monday 13th June - Potsdam, Berlin
Workshop and performance - to include works by Michael Zev Gordon.
Thursday 16th June - 7.30pm Association of Irish Composers, Dublin
Solo and violin/piano performance - To include works by Cage, Webern, Schoenberg, Ligeti, Dennehy, Volans, Wolff. With Aisha Orazbayeva (violin).
Saturday 18th June Listen At Arthur's, Dublin
Piano/violin performance - Improv set. With Aisha Orazbayeva (violin). More details here.
Thursday 7th July - Tuesday 12th July Cheltenham Festival Composer Academy
Residency with Alex Wilson (2-piano duo) - Giving workshops and performances of new works at the Cheltenham Festival Composer Academy.
Saturday 3rd September - 12pm and 3pm BBC Proms At Multi-Storey Car Park, Peckham
Performance with the Multi-Storey Orchestra
Monday 10th October - 8pm Little Missenden Festival
Schumann/Kurtág/Simpson/Schoenberg - with the Octandre Ensemble and Lore Lixenberg
Sunday 16th October - 8.30pm The Shoe Factory, Nicosia (Cyprus)
Ives/Scarlatti/Mason/Xenakis/Liszt/Simaku/Messiaen
Solo performance at the International Pharos Contemporary Music Festival
More details here
Thursday 27th October - 1pm University of Manchester
Lunchtime concert - Xenakis/Debussy/Barden/Holt
Followed by workshop with student composers
Details here
Sunday 30th October - 8pm Studio 8, Berlin
Michael Winter - Preliminary Thoughts