*** World premiere ** UK premiere * London premiere
23 January 2022
BBC SO Total Immersion: Music for the End of Time
Barbican Hall @7:30pm
Viktor Ullmann - Der Kaiser von Atlantis
Olivier Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
[with Ben Tarlton, Cara Doyle, and Sabine Sergejeva]
14 November 2021
all that dust: lauch party
Cafe OTO @7:30pm
Sandrin arr. Hernando de Cabezón - doulce mémoire
Evan Johnson - mes pleurants*
Josquin arr. Luis de Narváez - milles regretz
18 October 2021
Festival of Laurence Crane: A Tribute Concert
St Giles Cripplegate @7:00pm
Ben Smith - crane ＼ snow***
17 August 2021
Tête à Tête: RUNE
Hackney Round Chapel @7:30pm
Alastair White - RUNE***
[with Patricia Auchterlonie, Joseph Havlet,
Simone Ibbett-Brown, and Siwan Rhys]
07 June 2021
MUSICON: Ben Smith | eternal returns
Durham University @7:30pm
Charlie Usher - So calm and don't want to end
Rebecca Saunders - Withinnan**
Eric Egan - siúil go ciúin***
Sylvia Lim - flare***
Evan Johnson - mes pleurants***
Ben Smith - islands***
Lawrence Dunn - for piano (dancing)
Edward Nesbit - Antigone***
[with East London Music Group]
02 Oct 2020
Kings Place @4:00pm
Amy Hollinrake & Ben Smith - envelope song I***
- envelope song II***
- swallow's tune
[with Amy Hollinrake and Evie Hilyer-Ziegler]
04 Mar 2020
Durham University @7:00pm
Vinko Globokar - notes for a pianist
Evan Johnson - three reversed movements, to bring destroyed objects back to life
Conlon Nancarrow - Three Canons for Ursula
Alvin Lucier - Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators
Galina Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonata No. 5
// interval //
Eva-Maria Houben - three lullabies
Brian Ferneyhough - Lemma-Icon-Epigram
22 Feb 2020
Milton Court Concert Hall @1:30pm
Anders Hillborg - Duo for Cello and Piano**
[with Ben Tarlton - cello]
29 Jan 2020
Silk Street Music Hall @7:30pm
Elliot Carter - Dialogues for Piano and Large Ensemble
[with Ubu Ensemble]
06 Jul 2019
Milton Court Concert Hall @5:00pm
Béla Bartók - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
[with Yundu Wang, Sam Walton, and Aidan Marsden]
02 Jul 2019
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Paul Edlin - Frida***
[with East London Music Group]
06 May 2019
Durham University @7:00pm
Peter Ablinger - Weiss /Weisslich 17m: Klavier und Alles
Iannis Xenakis - Mists
Evan Johnson - qu’en joye on vous demaine
Cassandra Miller - Philip The Wanderer
Aldo Clementi - B.A.C.H.
Joanna Bailie - Artificial Environments No. 8
// interval //
James Weeks - Matsushima
Eva-Maria Houben - lines**
John Adams - Phrygian Gates
04 May 2019
Barbican Hall @6:00pm
John Adams - Phrygian Gates
02 Mar 2019
Milton Court Concert Hall @1:00pm
György Ligeti - Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano: Hommage à Brahms
[with Karen Starkman and Ionel Manciu]
31 Jan 2020
Music is GREAT: British Embassy Concert Series
Villa Wolkonsky @7:00pm
Igor Stravinsky – Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet
Hans Werner Henze – Serenade
Raymond Yiu – Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet
Pierre Boulez – Notations I-V
George Benjamin – Meditation on Haydn’s Name; Relativity Rag
Kaija Saariaho – Oi Kuu
Julian Anderson – Sensation: Nuits; Alba; Coda
//interval//
Igor Stravinsky – Fragment from the Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Olga Neuwirth – SPLEEN
Rebecca Saunders – Song
Salvatore Sciarrino – Melencolia I
Harrison Birtwistle – Verses
Pascal Dusapin – Ohé
Conlon Nancarrow – Three Canons for Ursula
[with Cecilia Bignall and Scott Lygate]
15 Dec 2018
Ambika P3 @ 7:00pm
Chaya Czernowin - Day One: On the Face of the Deep**
Elaine Mitchener - breadthbreath***
Neil Luck - Regretfully Yours, Ongoing***
[Jack Sheen: conductor]
27 Nov 2018
St. George the Martyr Church @ 1:00pm
Hilary Tann - The Cresset Stone
Dobrinka Tabakova - Whispered Lullaby
Sadie Harrison - New Work***
Amanda Harberg - Philadelphia Suite
[with Katherine Clarke]
25 Nov 2018
Redon, Bethnal Green @ 7:30pm
Tristan Perich - qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq
Matt Rogers - Vole Sweeps Up!***
Matt Rogers - Druids vs. the Center for Disease Control***
Thundercat (arr. Joe Bates) - Bowzer's Ballad
Matt Rogers - Small Mammals on the Edge***
Matt Rogers - Working for the Pea Fox***
Matt Rogers - Out With the Badger Corps***
[with Siwan Rhys and Joseph Havlat]
03 Oct 2018
Birmingham: Centrala Cafe @ 7:30pm
Louis D'Heudieres - Laughter Studies 6b
Rowland Hill - New Work***
Charlie Usher - An assembly***
[Conductor: Jack Sheen]
01 Oct 2018
London: City, University of London @ 7.00pm
Louis D'Heudieres - Laughter Studies 6b
Rowland Hill - New Work***
Charlie Usher - An assembly***
[Conductor: Jack Sheen]
30 Sep 2018
Manchester: Anthony Burgess Centre @ 7.30pm
Louis D'Heudieres - Laughter Studies 6b
Rowland Hill - New Work***
Charlie Usher - An assembly***
[Conductor: Jack Sheen]
02 Aug 2018
The Crossing, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross @ 8:00pm
Alastair White - WEAR***
26 Jul 2018
Regent Hall @ 1:00pm
Brian Ferneyhough - Lemma-Icon-Epigram
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
Cassandra Miller - Philip the wanderer
Helmut Lachenmann - Marche Fatale**
04 Jun 2018
The Art of Transcription, Vol. 1
Milton Court Concert Hall @ 3:20pm
Cassandra Miller - Philip the wanderer
Anton Webern - Variatonen für Klavier, Op. 27, II. Sehr schnell
Sergei Zagny - Metamusica, II. Sehr schnell
Richard Beaudoin - nach Webern, nach Pollini, III. Neuordnung nach Lautstärken
Bach-Busoni - Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1004
Michael Finnissy - 'Tu che la vanità conoscesti' (Don Carlo, Act 5), from Verdi Transcriptions
20 Apr 2018
St John's Smith Square @ 4.00pm
Nick Bonadies - (talk and demonstrations)
Ben Smith - you burn me
Michael Finnissy - Really living***
Robert Reid Allen - Four Songs from an interview with Peter Maxwell Davies*
Kate Honey - Defiance
[with Rolf Hind, Andrew Zolinsky, and Nick Bonadies]
19 Apr 2018
St John's Smith Square @ 7.30pm
Frederic Rzewski - Coming Together
Robert Reid Allen - Perfect Lovers (Hommage to Félix González-Torres)
Steve Martland - Mr Anderson's Pavane
Peter Maxwell Davies - Miss Donnithorne's Maggot
18 Apr 2018
GSMD Music Hall @ 7:00pm
Peter Ablinger - Weiss / Weisslich 17m: Klavier und Alles***
Iannis Xenakis - Mists
Aldo Clementi - Loure
Newton Armstrong - making one leaf transparent and then another
Brice Pauset - Three Canons
Conlon Nancarrow - Three Canons for Ursula
Evan Johnson - hwil***
Brian Ferneyhough - Opus Contra Naturam
[with Newton Armstrong]
07 Mar 2018
Masque Plays Martland
GSMD Music Hall @ 7:30pm
Steve Martland - Horses of Instruction
Béla Bartók - Out of Doors - 'With Drums and Pipes'
Steve Martland - Principia
Béla Bartók - Out of Doors - 'Barcarolla'
Tom Gimson - Rawkus
Steve Martland - Mr Anderson's Pavane
Béla Bartók - Out of Doors - 'Musettes'
Aphex Twin (arr. Gimson) - Windowlicker***
Béla Bartók - Out of Doors - 'The Night's Music'
Tom Gimson - new work***
Béla Bartók - Out of Doors - 'The Chase'
Steve Martland - Beat the Retreat
24 Feb 2018
Hackney Showroom @8:30pm
David Bowie/Brian Eno - Warszawa
Claude Vivier - Do You Believe In The Immortality Of The Soul?
Hildegard of Bingen - O Orzchis Ecclesia; O Virga Mediatrix
Iannis Xenakis - Nuits
Laurence Osborn - ELITE***
Hildegard of Bingen - Nunc Apervit Nobis; Quia Ergo Femina
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Talking Heads - Double Groove
The Police - Masoko Tanga
Talking Heads - Crosseyed And Painless
Talking Heads - The Great Curve
Talking Heads - I Zimbra
13 Feb 2018
Viola Elegies
St Bride's Church, Fleet Street @1:15pm
Henri Vieuxtemps - Elegie
Igor Stravinsky - Elegie
Frank Bridge - Elegie
Raymond You - Elegiac Fragments for solo viola***
Paul Patterson - Elegiac Blues
[with Katherine Clarke]
06 Feb 2018
St. George the Martyr Church @1:00pm
Morton Feldman - the viola in my life (3)
Martin Lodge - Pacific Rock
Helmut Lachenmann - Serynade
[with Kirsty Clark]
10 Dec 2017
Milton Court Concert Hall @1:00pm
Esa-Pekka Salonen - Dichotomie (2000)
28 Nov 2017
St. George the Martyr Church @ 1:00pm
Eva-Maria Houben - Haikus for four (I, V, VIII, IX)**
[with Patricia Auchterlonie, Yoanna Prodanova, and Antonia Berg]
21 Nov 2017
St. George the Martyr Church @ 1:00pm
Robert Reid Allan - The Palace of Light*
Conlon Nancarrow - Three Canons for Ursula
Julian Anderson - Sensation
14 Nov 2017
St. George the Martyr Church @ 1:00pm
Kaija Saariaho - Lonh
Georg Friedrich Haas - Ein Schattenspiel
Simon Emmerson - Time Past IV
[with Patricia Auchterlonie and Chris McCormack]
07 Nov 2017
St. George the Martyr Church @ 1:00pm
Salvatore Sciarrino - Due melodie per soprano e pianoforte
Ben Smith - traces of oil (night music)***
Kate Soper - Only the words themselves mean what they say**
Salvatore Sciarrino - Ultime rose (from Vanitas)
[with Patricia Auchterlonie, Yoanna Prodanova, and Antonia Berg]
20 Oct 2017
Milton Court Concert Hall @ 1:00pm
Julian Anderson - The Colour of Pomegranates
Van Gogh Blue
Alhambra Fantasy
[Conductor: Jack Sheen]
17 Sep 2017
Milton Court Concert Hall @ 7:30pm
György Kurtág - Életút (Lebenslauf)
[with Nathan Tinker, Isha Crichlow, and Andrew Farnden]
13 Jul 2017
The Platform Theatre, Central Saint Martins @7:00pm
Tansy Davies - Iris
Magnus Lindberg - Jubilees
Gérard Grisey - Modulations
Simon Steen-Andersen - Chambered Music
Oliver Knussen - Coursing
Rolf Wallin - Appearances
15 Jun 2017
Milton Court Concert Hall @2:00pm
Brian Ferneyhough - Opus Contra Naturam
Beat Furrer - Voicelessness. The Snow Has No Voice
Helmut Lachenmann - Serynade
22 May 2017
Wigmore Hall @ 1:00pm
Ben Smith† - alone; silently***
Rasmus Zwicki - fly little birdie***
† performed by Patricia Auchterlonie, Ionel Manciu, Alex McFarlane, and Yoanna Prodanova
14 May 2017
GSMD: Strings and Piano Project
GSMD Music Hall @ 7:30pm
Ben Smith† - destroyed autumns, talking***
Clare Eaton - Edge***
Rasmus Zwicki - Way, Shape or Form***
† performed by Robert Reid Allan and Lucy French
05 May 2017
St. John's Smith Square @ 4:30pm
Conlon Nancarrow (arr. Thomas Adès) - Study No. 7 for Player Piano
David Lang - orpheus over and under
[with Rolf Hind]
05 May 2017
St. John's Smith Square @ 7:00pm
Christopher Hobbs - Second Doomsday Machine
Julius Eastman - Evil Nigger
[with Rolf Hind, Eliza McCarthy, Siwan Rhys, and Joseph Houston]
09 Feb 2017
Ben Smith: Masters Recital
Milton Court Concert Hall
Salvatore Sciarrino - Due notturni crudeli
Michael Finnissy - 'Midsummer Morn' (from English Country Tunes)
Ben Smith - you burn me (revised version)***
Michael Finnissy - 'Embraceable You' (from Gershwin Arrangements)
28 Jan 2017
Milton Court Concert Hall @ 1:00pm
Philip Glass - Études # 6 and #15
Études #8 and #13†
† performed by Robert Reid Allen
19 Jan 2017
City University Performance Space @1:10pm
Michael Finnissy - Wild Flowers
Fem ukarakteristiske marsjer med tre tilfoyde trioer
Derde symfonische etude**
Deux jeunes se prominent à travers le ciel (1920)
his voice/was then/here waiting
Eighteenth-Century Novels: Fanny Hill
Duet
[with Michael Finnissy and Ian Pace]
19 Jan 2017
City University Performance Space @7:00pm
Michael Finnissy - Stille Thränen
Zortziko***
'Embraceable You' (from Gershwin Arrangements)
28 Oct 2016
Transit: Festival voor nieuwe muziek
STUK - Leuven, Belgium @2:00pm
Patrícia Sucena de Almeida - Vacuum Corporis (piano piece no. 4)***
[with Ian Pace]
21 Sep 2016
GSMD: New Works for Two Pianos
Milton Court Concert Hall @7:00pm
Daniel Davis - Whisper...***
György Ligeti - 'In Zart fliessender Bewegung' (from Three Pieces for Two Pianos)
Phillip Golub - Find An Ending, Here***
[with Robert Reid Allan]
30 May 2016
City University Performance Space @7:00pm
Salvatore Sciarrino - Due notturni crudeli
Michael Finnissy - ‘Midsummer Morn’ (from English Country Tunes)
Ben Smith - you burn me***
Evan Johnson - three reversed movements, to bring destroyed objects back to life
Brian Ferneyhough - Lemma-Icon-Epigram
Jürg Frey - les tréfonds inexplorés des signes pour piano (24-35)
02 Jun 2015
City Summer Sounds: Undergraduate Recital
City University Performance Space @7:00pm
Evan Johnson - three reversed movements, to bring destroyed objects back to life
Ben Smith - the ineluctable modality of the audible (Water Music) (revised version)***
Brian Ferneyhough - Lemma-Icon-Epigram
30 Mar 2015
City University Performance Space @7:00pm
Evan Johnson - "atendant, souffrir", lists, little stars**
Wieland Hoban - Zeitschein
György Ligeti - Three Pieces for Two Pianos
Igor Stravinsky - Le sacre du printemps