Events
2025
25th February | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
New clarinet quintet
Jonathan Leibovitz | Quatuor Agate
24th February | Hoylake Chamber Concert Society
New clarinet quintet
Jonathan Leibovitz | Quatuor Agate
22nd February | Ipswich Chamber Music Society 100th Anniversary Concert
New clarinet quintet (world premiere)
Jonathan Leibovitz | Quatuor Agate
2024
3rd December | Ensemble Modern | Frankfurt, Germany
To Quiver, To Shimmer, To Shake (German premiere)
Ensemble Modern | Raimonda Skabeikaitė
31st August | Lucerne Festival, Switzerland | KKL, Lucerne
To Quiver, To Shimmer, To Shake (world premiere)
International Ensemble Modern Academy | Josephine Korda
3rd August | Pimlott Foundation | Colchester, UK
Hugo Herman-Wilson, baritone | Sebastian Black, piano
Robert Schumann 6 Gedichte und Requiem Op. 9 | Charles Ives Selections from 114 Songs | Henry Purcell Let The Dreadful Engines of Immortal Will | Dmitri Shostakovich Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti Op. 145
22nd June | Oxford, UK
Smorgaschord Festival 2024
Péter Eötvös Erdenklavier-Himmelklavier
Festival featuring Mark Simpson as Artist in Focus
1st May | WDR Funkhaus | Cologne, Germany
These Harmonious Colonies for choir and ensemble (world premiere)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Chor- und Ochesterakademie | Gabriel Hollander, conductor
6th February | Stoller Hall | Manchester, UK
Smorgaschord Collective recital | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Vivier Pièce pour violoncello et piano | Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 | Elisabeth Lutyens Bagatelles Op. 10 | Frederick Delius Romance for cello and piano | Iannis Xenakis Paille in the Wind | Leoš Janáček Pohádka
5th February | Chetham's School of Music | Manchester, UK
Smorgaschord workshops
24th January | St George's Hanover Sq | London, UK
Smorgaschord Collective recital | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Vivier Pièce pour violoncello et piano | Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 | Elisabeth Lutyens Bagatelles Op. 10 | Frederick Delius Romance for cello and piano | Iannis Xenakis Paille in the Wind | Leoš Janáček Pohádka
17th February | Christ Church Cathedral | Oxford, UK
Smorgaschord Collective recital | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Vivier Pièce pour violoncello et piano | Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 | Elisabeth Lutyens Bagatelles Op. 10 | Frederick Delius Romance for cello and piano | Iannis Xenakis Paille in the Wind | Leoš Janáček Pohádka
6th January | Pimlott Foundation | Colchester, UK
Smorgaschord Collective recital | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Vivier Pièce pour violoncello et piano | Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 | Elisabeth Lutyens Bagatelles Op. 10 | Frederick Delius Romance for cello and piano | Iannis Xenakis Paille in the Wind | Leoš Janáček Pohádka
2023
6th October | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary
Like the Nightingale (world premiere)
Danubia Orchestra Obuda | Sebastian Black, conductor
18th August | Eglise Sainte Bernadette | Annecy, France
Bunte Blätter (world premiere)
Ensemble ARS NOVA
17th June | Oxford, UK
Smorgaschord Festival 2023: Ligeti Day!
Featuring Danny Driver, Ben Goldscheider, Kleio String Quartet, György Kurtág Jr, Stephen Waarts
Music by Ligeti, Kurtág, George Enescu, Debussy, Joshua Uzoigwe
Premieres from Deidre McKay, Laurence Osborn, Thomas Adès and Martin Suckling
17th June | Hollywell Music Room | Oxford, UK
Stephen Waarts, violin | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Debussy Violin Sonata
5-7th June | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary
Smorgaschord coachings with György Kurtág
Kurtág's Zwiegespräch @ Smorgaschord Festival 2023: Ligeti Day!
18th February | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary
What Does The Harp Suggest? (world premiere)
Ensemble ARS NOVA | Gabriel Hollander, conductor
11th February | Devon, UK
World premiere of Upon The Starry Sky, a madrigal for five voices
16th January | Pimlott Foundation | Colchester, UK
Smorgaschord Collective: In The Silence of Rain | Julitte Roos, violin | Edgar Francis, viola | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Shades of Silence | Helmut Lachenmann Ein Kinderspiel | Ernest Bloch 'Prayer' from From Jewish Life | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Quartet K. 493