eugene . birman
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jul 2017
10 Klaaspärlimäng Festival. St John’s Church, Tartu, Estonia 10pm. Klaaspärlimäng Sinfonietta premieres Hiroshima (2015), my contribution to Ülo Vihma’s ambitious cycle on the bombing’s seventieth anniversary.
aug 2017
sep 2017
oct 2017
07 Kindred Spirits Arts Programs. Milford Theatre, Milford, PA, USA 7:30pm PUBLIQuartet presents my String Quartet (2013) as part of their Reinventing Baroque program.
16 Camerata, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland 7:30pm. Nils Schweckendiek conducts the spectacular Helsinki Chamber Choir in the world premiere of the full Lamentations (2012-2016) at Finland’s premiere concert concert venue.
nov 2017
23 Trauma&Revival, European National Institutes of Culture. Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland 10:30am. Public presentation of Russia Today (2017-19).
dec 2017
jan 2018
18 Trauma&Revival, European National Institutes of Culture. kim? Contemporary Arts Centre, Riga, Latvia 6pm. Scott Diel and I present a workshop for our next project, Russia Today (2017-19).
12 Organo, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland 2pm. Sirkku Rintamäki reprises the now-infamous middle movement of State of the Union (2015-16) at her end-of-year solo recital at Finland’s Musikkitalo.
feb 2018
07 Bard Music West. Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, CA, USA 7:30pm. A pre-concert talk with yours truly and James Sofranko to discuss our collaboration on the premiere of The sound of your solitude and mine (2018).
07 Bard Music West. Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, CA, USA 8pm. Third Sound and choreographer James Sofranko premiere The sound of your solitude and mine (2018) as part of my term as Composer-in-Residence at Bard Music West.
mar 2018
apr 2018
may 2018
jun 2018
28 University Chapel, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, HKSAR 4:30pm. Illya Filshtinskiy plays the D Major Preludes (2015-17).
05-10 ”A Future of Possibilities”. Cairotronica. Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt 7pm. A new video installation of my Sound and Music commission for Joby Burgess, We are not alone (2015) is presented for the first time.
07 Music of Today. Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK 6pm. Anna-Maria Helsing and the Philharmonia Orchestra premiere my Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize commission: Adagio (2017).