Tue 18 Jun

The Kraken Harp

“Below the thunders of the upper deep…The Kraken sleepeth”
(The Kraken, Alfred Tennyson)

Performers:
Trinity Laban Contemporary Music Group
Trinity Laban Harp Department
Gregory Rose Conductor
Gabriella dall’Olio Kraken Harp

Trinity Laban student composers Seven new works for electric harp and ensemble (Final of the Daryl Runswick Competition for Composers)
Amir Konjani New work for Kraken harp and ensemble

Trinity Laban Contemporary Music Group presents the final of the Daryl Runswick Composition Competition alongside a new work by Trinity Laban composition professor, Dr Amir Konjani. The unusual and yet beautiful sea monster-like Kraken harp designed by Konjani will take centre stage at the Cutty Sark for the premiere of his new work for Kraken Harp and ensemble, with esteemed harp soloist Gabriella dall’Olio.

Dry Berth, Cutty Sark
Tickets: £15/£10 Under 25s & RMG members
available from: rmg.co.uk New Lights Festival 2024 Kraken Harp

Wed 19 Jun

String Fingers And Friends

13.00, Peacock Room, King Charles Court

The Music of Arnold Griller
A celebration of the British/Canadian composer Arnold Griller featuring a selection of solo and chamber works, including four first performances.

Bobby Chen, Douglas Finch, Michaella Livadiotis, Milda Vitartaite and Haoe Zi Yoh, piano
Alex Lyon, Clarinet
Rebecca Burden and Miguel Villeda Ceron, cello
Trinity Laban Contemporary Music Group
Alexander Walker, conductor

Piano Scenes

15.00, Mackerras Room, King Charles Court

Programme:
Trois Morceaux Pour Piano
Lily Boulanger and Anna Hoangova
Duo Ye
Chen Yi and Xinyi Shen
Gustave Le Gray
Caroline Shaw and Lucas Cunha (Plus short improvisation preceding this, based on a Chopin Nocturne)
Semi-structured and improvised work of piano and voice
Emily Linane and Rachele Howes explore contemporary themes of spatialisation, rhythm and extended piano and vocal techniques.
Pieces tbc
Peter Seabourne and Mikhail Shilyaev

Happiest When Most Away

18.30 Loggia, King Charles Court

Cori Smith Happiest When Most Away

Performers: Cori Smith, Owen Spafford, Phoebe Harty, Rebecka Edlund, Barney Anderson

Celestial Mechanics

19.00 Peacock Room, King Charles Court

The music of Ligeti, Nancarrow and Uzoigwe

Dominic Murcott, narrator and co-curator

Programme to include:
Ligeti Three Pieces for Two Pianos
1. Monument
2. Selbstportrait
3. Bewegung
Mikaela Livadiotis and Evi Wang

Sonatina for piano four-hands (transcribed by Yvar Mikashoff)
Mikaela Livadiotis and Evi Wang

Ligeti Piano Etudes, including No. 4 ‘Fanfares’ played by Felix Ottaway O’Mahony and no. 8 ‘Fém’ played by Carolina Cury

Thu 20 Jun

Salsa Nueva

13.00 Peacock Room, King Charles Court

A concert coached and curated by Elena Riu with pieces from: ‘Elena Riu’s Salsa Nueva and R&B Collection

Tumbáo Tanya Leon(Salsa Nueva)Mary Yik Man Chen
Fur Elena Diana Arismendi (SN) Yifang Xu
Toccata Montuna Douglas Finch (SN) Thanawut Lex Oudakron

An Afternoon Of Film

15.00 Carne Room, King Charles Court

Film students at University of Greenwich and TL composers selected from a project led by Ed Jessen, happening in May, followed by film director Tony Palmer introducing and showing one of his popular music documentaries from the 1980s.

Jamboree

19.00 Peacock Room, King Charles Court

Gabriele Baldocci performing from his recent Sony album Ageless including his composition In loving memory of Ezio Bosso

BAMPI students perform a selection of original songs

Pietro Iacopini and friends from WBP and Jazz Salsa arrangement of pieces from Elena Riu‘s Salsa Nueva

Carolina Cury performs her songs for voice and piano with Konstantinos Damianakis on electronics

Douglas Finch Ode to Sun Ra
an extended version of Elena Riu‘s R&B Collection, in collaboration with Carolina Cury and Konstantinos Damianakis

Rachele Howes piano / Hannah Garty violin / Diego Coral violin / Dominic Wolfendale viola / Lily Hope cello / Eloise Macdonald violin perform the world premiere of Isabella Gellis You’re a Piano Quintet
i. When the world is crumbling under the weight of your misery (study by candlelight)
ii. You’re a bear dancing for the Tudor Court
iii. You’re moss on a road sign falling in love with someone you can’t have [it’s raining]

The premiere of this work is supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation

Fri 21 Jun

Electroacoustic Music

13.00 Peacock Room, King Charles Court

A programme of Electroacoustic music coached and curated by Carolina Cury with Konstantinos Damianakis (electronics) .

Participants:
Oliver Cunningham
Sui Chu
Catriona Bourne Swinton Hunter
Ben Harlan
Michaella Livadiotis
Evi Wang
Giacomo Tora
Roxanna Shini Mehrabzadeh
Celia Margalef Boquera
Xinyi Shen
Barbara Dudek
Yuri Inoshita
Polina Savicka
Ana Geoghegan

Nobody Here

15.00 Mackerras Room, King Charles Court

A programme featuring piano/composer collaborations from the 2024 John Halford Competition for Piano and Composition, plus pieces by Grazyna Baciewicz and Fazil Say.

Programme includes:

Nobody Here Charlotte Jackson
Alique Khambatta, piano

Purple Skies Zsolt Balint
Dan Xing, piano

Little Triptich for Piano Grazyna Bacewicz
Aida Rodriguez Ramos, piano

Modern Day Powdered Wig Isaac Tobenna Onyirioha
Aida Rodriguez Ramos, piano

Song to the North Wind Oskar Österling
Evi Wang, piano

Piano Puzzle Emilie Speaight
Michaella Livadiotis, piano

Apotropaic Marks Chris Kirkham
Yifang Xu, piano

Paganini Jazz Fazil Say
Alique Khambatta, piano

Improv Opera

19.00 King Charles Court

Directors Douglas Finch, Roxanna Albayati & Linda Hirst

Promenade through King Charles Court and watch various improvised and partially curated opera scenes, including an interpretation of Alwynne Pritchard’s Loser for piano, voice and objects.