Premiere and family work to be staged at Symphony Hall date.
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is preparing to present two concerts on Sunday 5th March, Familes@4 and Oliver Knussen Conducts Grime, both at CBSO Centre.
Families with children aged 7+ are invited to get close to the BCMG musicians and listen to beautiful music in the Families@4 concert. A relaxed, hour-long, late-afternoon concert created especially for families, Families@4 includes a sparkling collection of short pieces of by composers Elliott Carter, Helen Grime and Pierre Boulez.
Nancy Evans, Director of Learning and Participation at BCMG, commented, “Families@4 is an opportunity for all the family to experience the best classical music of our time. Audiences can learn about how music can be composed by starting with a short fragment of music and then playing it backwards or upside down, or how the letters of someone’s name can be turned into sound. Each piece is composed for a different colourful combination of instruments – meet the musicians and learn about the instruments they play.”
Later in the evening, BCMG present a concert centred on the music of Helen Grime. Virtuosic pianist Huw Watkins performs the world premiere of Grime’s Piano Concerto – a BCMG Sound Investment co-commission with the Wigmore Hall. The programme also includes Grime’s first BCMG co-commission, A Cold Spring (2009) and works by Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez and Peter Maxwell Davies.
BCMG’s relationship with Helen Grime stretches back to the 2009 premiere of her three-movement work A Cold Spring. One of the UK’s leading young composers, Grime’s music was performed at the BBC Proms and Aldeburgh Music Festival in 2015.
To book call the Box Office on
0121 780 3333 or online at bcmg.org.uk