Voiceworks 2012 free concert performance @ Wigmore Hall (Wednesday 23 May 2012)
Voiceworks 2012 Performance
The culmination of the Voiceworks 2012 programme will be performed live at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 23 May 2012 at 17.30.
The performance lasts 45 minutes and is free to attend – do come, listen and support.
This is the sixth year of this unique collaboration between poets from the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, and composers, singers and instrumentalists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama. New works for voice are created from a long process of exchange, improvisation and practice between October-May, and the resulting songs are a sign of the vibrancy and creative potential of a new generation of work. Many previous participants have gone on to collaborate on projects in Britain and internationally, or have developed their practice in new directions because of their Voiceworks experience, and it’s a chance to encounter their work first, here.
Voiceworks 2012 participants are:
Group 1: DANIEL BARROW & PATRICK BRENNAN & ROSEMARY CLIFFORD
Group 2: IRUM FAZAL & HELGI INGVARSSON & MATTHEW MCGUIGAN & CLAIRE CANDY
Group 3: NELL STEVENS & BENJAMIN GRAVES & ANTHONY BIRNIE
Group 4: OLLIE EVANS & MARTA LOZANO MOLANO & MEGAN QUICK & ADAM GILBERT
Group 5: STEVEN FOWLER & THEODOROS CHATZIDIS & CLARE GHIGO
Group 6: BECKY CREMIN & MARK SIMPSON & GINA WALTER
Group 7: EDMUND HARDY & LOUIS CHIAPPETTA & OSKAR PALMBLAD
The performance is free to attend, but tickets need to be booked in advance (this is very simple to do, and costs nothing).
See the Wigmore Hall website here for more information.
A recording of the Voiceworks 2012 concert will be subsequently published on the voiceworks.org.uk website.
This digital project, led from the CPRC Birkbeck with Guildhall colleagues and partners Wigmore Learning is funded by the AHRC. It is allowing us to: archive materials and make new work available from the last five years of the project; document the ongoing collaborative process as it thinks through the practice and languages of diverse and complex traditions of voice, music composition, and text; record new work as it happens; create a major resource in the field for free access; and generate new kinds of practice, exchange and debate which might find a home on the site.
Contact Carol Watts on c.watts@bbk.ac.uk for more information or check out our www.voiceworks.org.uk website.
