Stevie Wishart and La Chambre Blanche
02 February 2008
STEVIE WISHART premieres news work for for education programmes with Britten Sinfonia and Wayne McGregor's Random Dance
GARY COOPER directs B'Rock in Venus and Adonis at Bruges Early Music Festival
GARY COOPER & RACHEL PODGER appear at the Bruges Early Music Festival
RACHEL PODGER in BBC Radio 3 Early Music show form the 2008 York Early Music Festival
ALEXANDER JANICZEK in sell-out East Neuk Festival with Llŷr Williams and David Watkins in Mendelssohn's d minor trio
ALEXANDER JANICZEK performs Bartok's Sonata for Solo Violin at the 2008 St.Magnus Festival
STEVIE WISHART in the studio at ZKM for cd/dvd recording of The Sound of Gesture
RACHEL PODGER on BBC Radio 3 In-Tune Tues 1 July
MATTHEW WADSWORTH appears with 14 Silver Strings at the Warwick International Festival
GARY COOPER gives concert performance of Handel's Orlando at London's Wigmore Hall with Independent Opera
The Lion of St.Mark : HIS MAJESTYS SAGBUTTS AND CORNETTS bring the music of Venice's Garbieli and Gillo to London's Spitalfields Festival
ALEXANDER JANICZEK directs the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Mozart on a Highlands Tours and in the studio for Linn Records
HIS MAJESTYS SAGBUTTS AND CORNETTS 'premiere' Alessandro Striggio great mass in 60 parts at the University of California, Berkeley
ALEXANDER JANICZEK with the Hebrides Ensemble launch Messiaen CD at London's Wigmore Hall including premiere recording
LoganArts Management is pleased to announce the worldwide representation of the baroque violin and keyboard duo of GARY COOPER & RACHEL PODGER
RACHEL PODGER artist profile on BBC Radio 3's Early Music Show
ALEXANDER GOEHR's new Clarinet Quintet : ... work of mellifluous expressivity verging on hedonism

Stevie Wishart with Machine for Making Sense new CD explores relations between linguistics, poetry, speech, music, and notions of sound, science and politic.

Austrian violinist Alexander Janiczek at the head of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is a sleek, radiant account of Mozart's Salzburg years.

Gary Cooper and Rachel Podger release Vol 5 in Mozart Cycle for Channel Classics - "Volume five of the complete Mozart piano-violin sonatas, and neither musician seems remotely bored." The Times

His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts mark the launch of the sfz label with premiere recordings of Giovanni Battista Grillo

Alexander Goehr ... composer & teacher ... one of Europe's leading figures in music - a 75th Birthday concert at London's Wigmore Hall
02 February 2008
Stevie's music for Michele Noiret’s La chambre blanche uses new live studio recordings of her violin, hurdy gurdy & voice ("Quatuor"), as well as re-working pieces for her ensembles Sinfonye ("Transients"), studio compositions she composed using breath and skin ("Breathsong"), and extracts from her orchestral piece Iced for electronics, theremin and orchestra for originally composed for Art Zoyd and Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.
Her interests in dance with musical improvisation and composition were influenced by informal studies with David Tudor, Merce Cunningham and John Cage and her music has been used by a number of choreographers in Europe and Australia including Pina Bausch, Yolanda Snaith, Tess de Quincy and Michele Noiret.

Conception and choreography: Michèle Noiret. Created and interpreted by Dominique Godderis, Michèle Noiret, Sarah Piccinelli, Lise Vachon. Choreographical assistant : Pascale Gigon, Music: Stevie Wishart and Todor Todoroff, Lighting: Xavier Lauwers, Scenography: Wim Vermeylen, Costumes: Patricia Eggerickx, Hairstyle and make-up: Michelle Lemaire, Artistic research: Pascal Chabot.
With bare hands, we are walking toward the being we are.
(Joseph Noiret)
A white room, as an indefinable place, impossible to reach. It is the Open, as says Rilke, « a nowhere without negation ». A place out of reach, and it is nevertheless toward it that we have to go. A room where everything may happen, above all the unexepected. It becomes the scenery in wich bodies reinvent the world, the place in wich space is sculpted by gesture.
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