Monday 20 May 2019, 7.30pm
PROGRAMME
1- Joseph Kudirka ‘Wyoming Snow’ (6 mins)
2- Linda Catlin Smith ‘Among the Tarnished Stars’ (27 mins)
3- Olivier Messiaen ‘Quatuor pour la fin du temps’ (50 mins)
The group, created by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze has been captivating audiences for nearly 30 years, with performances of avant-garde and experimental music from all over the World.
The ensemble has been a firm fixture on the British concert scene, with regular performances at Café Oto and as an associate ensemble of the Wigmore Hall.
Apartment House has released over 40 albums, many on the UK label Another Timbre. Current releases include Pauline Oliveros - Sound Pieces, Magnus Granberg - Evening Star, Vesper Bell and Morton Feldman’s epic and mesmerising Violin and String Quartet.
Linda Catlin Smith is a Toronto-based composer who studied with Morton Feldman and Rudolf Komorous. Her music is at once gentle and steely. As Jack Sheen says: ‘Smith’s music encapsulates the beautiful paradox within all economic music: by stripping back the music to its pure essentials, one’s listening experience is totally heightened, resulting in an awareness of the sounds and a receptiveness to them which is if anything maximal rather than minimal.”