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2025​​​​​

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17 May | Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam | Mahler Festival 2025

The Mosaique of the Aire (world premiere)

Keren Motseri, soprano | New European Ensemble | John Warner, conductor

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25 February | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire 

Clarinet Quintet

Jonathan Leibovitz | Quatuor Agate

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24 February | Hoylake Chamber Concert Society 

Clarinet Quintet

Jonathan Leibovitz | Quatuor Agate

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22 February | Ipswich Chamber Music Society 100th Anniversary Concert

Clarinet Quintet (world premiere)

Jonathan Leibovitz | Quatuor Agate

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2024

 

3 December | Ensemble Modern | Frankfurt, Germany

To Quiver, To Shimmer, To Shake (German premiere)

Ensemble Modern | Raimonda Skabeikaitė

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31 August | Lucerne Festival, Switzerland | KKL, Lucerne

To Quiver, To Shimmer, To Shake (world premiere)

International Ensemble Modern Academy  |  Josephine Korda

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3 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​

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22 June | Oxford, UK

Smorgaschord Festival 2024

Péter Eötvös Erdenklavier-Himmelklavier ​

Festival featuring Mark Simpson as Artist in Focus

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1 May | WDR Funkhaus | Cologne, Germany 

These Harmonious Colonies for choir and ensemble (world premiere)

WDR Sinfonieorchester Chor- und Ochesterakademie | Gabriel Hollander, conductor

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6 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

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5 February | Chetham's School of Music | Manchester, UK

Smorgaschord workshops​

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24 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

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17 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

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6 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

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2023

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6 October | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary

Like the Nightingale (world premiere)

Danubia Orchestra Obuda | Sebastian Black, conductor​

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18 August | Eglise Sainte Bernadette | Annecy, France

Bunte Blätter (world premiere)

Ensemble ARS NOVA

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17 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

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17 June | Hollywell Music Room | Oxford, UK

Stephen Waarts, violin | Sebastian Black, piano

Claude Debussy: Violin Sonata

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5-7 June | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary 

Smorgaschord coachings with György Kurtág

Kurtág's Zwiegespräch @ Smorgaschord Festival 2023: Ligeti Day!

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18 February | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary 

What Does The Harp Suggest? (world premiere)

Ensemble ARS NOVA | Gabriel Hollander, conductor 

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11 February | Devon, UK

World premiere of Upon The Starry Sky, a madrigal for five voices​

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16 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

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