New Music 20x12
PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 has brought twenty composers together with arts organisations to create exciting new music, which will be performed across the length and breadth of the UK, including a weekend celebration at London’s Southbank Centre, where you can hear their works, meet composers and take part in workshops.
There’s an eclectic mix on offer – from contemporary classical, folk and opera created in Scotland and Northern Ireland to bell ringing, beatboxing, jazz and music for brass band in England and Wales. Each composer was commissioned to create a 12 minute piece inspired by London 2012.
All performances will be broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and available to buy through NMC Recordings.
Five Rings Triple
Howard Skempton and Central Council of Church Bell Ringers chime in the New Year.
31 December 2011 – 1 January 2012 All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames. Free 6 May 2012 @AE Harris, Birmingham
Beyond This
A group of prisoners creating an exciting piece of music, working with Mark-Anthony Turnage and the Irene Taylor Trust 'Music in Prisons' .
5 July 2012 St Marylebone Church, London. Over 18s only. Free - Ticket required
Pure Gold: A 4x4 Relay Race
Luke Carver Goss and Black Dyke Band are joined by the Yorkshire Youth Brass Band and the Halifax Choral Society to weave a tale of triumph over adversity, team work and sporting pride.
27 January 2012 Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester Bookings
12 Feb Symphony Hall, Birmingham
13 May The Great Northern Spring Brass Arts Festival, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Ping!
Joe Cutler and Coull String Quartet explore the intricate rhythms between table tennis players in this collaboration with Tom Dale, Fusion Table Tennis Club, English Table Tennis Association, Ping London, Warwick Arts Centre and Birmingham Conservatoire.
3 March 2012 Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Bookings
6 May 2012 @AE Harris, Birmingham
Track to Track
Graham Fitkin, Mark Prescott and the London Chamber Orchestra Trust present a new work inspired by the rhythm of a train journey.
22 March 2012 Cadogan Hall, London. Tickets £10, £20, £25. Book now
Fire
David Bruce and the Opera Group present an outdoor spectacle of visual and musical fireworks, featuring youth choruses from local communities.
26 May 2012 Salisbury International Arts Festival, Salisbury.
27 May 2012 Brighton Festival, Brighton
TAT-1
Top Scottish musician Aidan O'Rourke presents a new piece inspired by the first transatlantic phone cable.
8 June 2012 An Tobar, Tobermory
Zatopek
Emily Howard and Second Movement, in partnership with Liverpool Philharmonic, pay musical tribute to the life of legendary Czech Olympic athlete Emil Zatopek.
15 June 2012 The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool
Our Day
NI Opera presents a new opera by Conor Mitchell, featuring librettist Mark Ravenhill, set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland in 1972 - the bloodiest year of the Troubles and the year that local girl Mary Peters won an Olympic gold medal.
28–30 June MAC, Belfast
New Music 20x12 Weekend Celebration
This event will offer you a chance to experience all of the New Music 20x12 pieces in more depth, to meet the composers and organisations they are collaborating with and to get involved in workshops and seminars which explore the art of creating music.
13–15 July 2012, Southbank Centre, London
PRS for Music Foundation's New Music 20x12 is an independent commissioning programme consisting of 20 new pieces of music, each of 12 minutes in length, celebrating the talent and imagingation of the UK's musical community. New Music 20x12 is supported by Arts Council England.
New Music 20x12 will be at London’s Southbank Centre as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
