Rich Mix, London

World premiere of REPLICA by Edward Jessen for the Spitalfields Summer Festival.

Three dialogues. Three moments of spaciousness.

Intimate dialogues from three literary sensations provide the starting point for REPLICA, Edward Jessen’s visually sumptuous experimental music-theatre work for recorder quintet Consortium5 and the voices of tenor John Potter and soprano Peyee Chen. Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain, all of which became international cinematic successes for the late film director Anthony Minghella, each feature delicate, transcendent moments where seemingly simple actions and words expose the complex frailty and emotional resilience of human nature. REPLICA unfurls these theatrically-rich layers in a stunning aural and visual realisation.

Edward Jessen composer
Dominic Murcott sound designer
Peyee Chen soprano
John Potter tenor
Consortium5
Patrick Donohue visualisation

Tickets: £15

Concerts start 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. More information about the program can be found here.

Performance of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire with ensemble Dark Inventions as part of a concert on the York Spring Festival.

Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire was premiered 100 years ago, yet still sounds fresh today. In a theatrical production by new ensemble Dark Inventions, this seminal work is presented in a relaxed cabaret setting and performed with the striking English translation by Roger Marsh. Schoenberg’s three sections are divided and united by new music by the project’s curators, Martin Scheuregger and Christopher Leedham.

Tickets: £10, concessions £8.

Box office: boxoffice@york.ac.uk, +44 (0)1904 322 439

Concert starts at 7:30 p.m. To purchase tickets online, and find more information about the program, please visit the website here.

Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble

Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble

Peyee premieres Jammerwoch, by Harry Whalley, with the Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble.

In common to all [pieces] is a love of the work of György Ligeti, whose lesser known ‘Concert Romanesque’ acts as a lynch-pin to draw together the evening. There will also be a new work in the form of collaboration with ‘Tinderbox’, one of the most exciting young groups of musicians around, anywhere.

Program:
Luke Drummond The First, The Second, The Third, and so on – orchestra
Lewis Forbes new work
György Ligeti Concert Românesc
Simon Smith Stabat Mater – solo cello and orchestra
Harry Whalley Jammerwoch – solo soprano and orchestra

Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble
Peyee Chen soprano
Duncan Strachan cello
James Lowe conductor

Tickets: £10/£5

Concert starts 7:30 p.m.

Eternal Light: A Requiem

Price Hall, Bradford

Peyee joins the Bradford Festival Choral Society and Skipton Building Society Camerata as the soprano soloist for Eternal Light by Howard Goodall.

Program:
Tony Hewitt Jones Seven Sea Poems
Howard Goodall Eternal Light: a requiem

Bradford Festival Choral Society
Skipton Building Society Camerata
Thomas Leech conductor

Tickets: £12 main hall/£14 dress circle/concessions £2 reduction

Concert starts 7:30

Hayward Gallery, London

Hypnotic contemporary music performed live amongst the glowing artworks.

Alvin Lucier Wave Songs for Solo Soprano
Morton Feldman Voices and Cello
Andrew Hamilton New work for cello
Andrew Hamilton The Spirit of Art

Oliver Coates cello
Juliet Fraser soprano
Andrew Hamilton voice, violin
Peyee Chen soprano

Tickets: £11/£5.50 + £1.75 booking fee

To view images of the artworks, please visit this gallery on guardian.co.uk.

Due to the nature of this event, audience members are encouraged to unexpectedly encounter the performances as they move through the exhibition. There will be no fixed performance times and entry into spaces will be on a first come first served basis. More information about the program can be found here.

Talk for undergraduate music students at University of Huddersfield, exploring and demonstrating interesting things a voice can do.

Talk is from 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. Free admission, open to public.

Reading session / workshop of pieces by undergraduates and postgraduates studying composition at University of Huddersfield.

Session runs from 11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m, room G16. Free admission, open to public.

Peyee joins the BBC Singers as an ad hoc member and St. James’s Baroque for a programme of music by J S Bach, including his Brandenburg Concerto No.4 and The Christmas Oratorio.

Program:

Bach Jauchzet, frohlocket
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major
Bach Und es waren
Bach Herrscher des Himmels

St James’s Baroque
Tom Foster continuo organ and harpsichord
David Hill conductor
BBC Singers
Soloists to include:
David Allsopp counter-tenor  

Concert starts at 7:30 p.m.  More information about the program can be found here.

Peyee joins the BBC Singers as an ad hoc member for a concert of Christmas music in the stunning surroundings of Christopher Wren’s Old Royal Naval College Chapel.

Program:

Tavener God is with us
Bax Mater ora filium
Ireland The Holy Boy
Finzi Dies Natalis
Finzi In terra pax
Howells Three Carol-Anthems
Bridge A Christmas Dance: Sir Roger de Coverley
Warlock (arr. David Hill) Bethlehem Down
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols

BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
David Hill conductor
Nicky Spence tenor
Edward Price baritone

All ticket-holders are invited to enjoy a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie in The Queen Mary Undercroft from 6.15pm. Concert starts at 7:30 p.m.  Concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. More information about the program can be found here.

Peyee joins the BBC Singers as an ad hoc member for a performance of the complete incidental music of Peer Gynt.

Program:

Grieg Peer Gynt

Marc Minkowski conductor
Miah Persson Solveig
Ann Hallenberg Anitra
Johannes Weisser Peer Gynt
Actors from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Pre-concert talk at 6:00 p.m. in the Fountain Room. Concert starts at 7:30 p.m.  More information about the program can be found here.