London premiere of GOLD SATURDAY

Thursday 2 May

Recital Hall

Birmingham Record Company Day
Birmingham Record Company Day launches an exciting partnership between BRC and the internationally acclaimed NMC Records with this special one day festival featuring performances and works from many of the artists associated with the label.

NEXT MUSICIANS AND THALLEIN ENSEMBLE WITH ERROLLYN WALLEN (PIANO)
Errollyn Wallen piano
Thallein Ensemble
NEXT Musicians

Andrew Toovey Music for the painter Jack Smith
Andrew Hamilton Waldo
Genevieve Murphy Your Blue, my Purple
Kirsty Devaney Root
Fumiko Miyachi Hedge
Errollyn Wallen Greenwich Variations
Joe Cutler Slippery Music

As part of this special day of events, the inaugural cohort of NEXT musicians join our Thallein Ensemble for a programme of new and recent works from composers, who are either tutors or graduates of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. This event will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now.

Thursday 2 May
Birmingham Record Company Day
Birmingham Record Company Day launches an exciting partnership between BRC and the internationally acclaimed NMC Records with this special one day festival featuring performances and works from many of the artists associated with the label.

£5 individual event, £20 day ticket

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BRC Late
An all-star line-up brings today’s one day festival celebrating Birmingham Record Company to a close. This event features sets from Conservatoire tutors and graduates including Khyam Allami, Luke Deane, Anna Palmer, Howard Skempton and Errollyn Wallen.

In Wigmore "Lates" series
More details TBC

Part of The Last Word, a festival where words come alive.

HUH /hʌ,hə/ exclamation
used in questions to invite agreement
used in anger or surprise

Seamlessly crossing R&B, classical music, poetry and song, HUH brings together some of today’s most powerful voices and artists from the UK’s contemporary music and spoken word scenes.

Errollyn Wallen’s haunting song In Our Lifetime, inspired by Nelson Mandela’s prison release, and poet Salena Godden’s unflinching essay Shade from The Good Immigrant, set the evening’s themes of movement and identity.

Next up, Sophia Thakur and Kieron Rennie with spoken word as you’ve never heard, or seen, before. From Lyrix Organix’s UnFold EP2, influences from jazz and contemporary classical come together with the UK’s most exciting young poets, strings, percussion and emerging visual artists.

Completing the show, new collaborations featuring the mesmerising Ayanna Witter-Johnson & Solomon O.B, and composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman & Salena Godden, combine rap, soulful vocals, classical music and electronica.

Produced by Jasmin Kent Rodgman Created with initial support from the London Symphony Orchestra and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

World premiere of a new work in homage to the painter Howard Hodgkin (1932 - 2017)

World premiere of a setting of ROUNDEL by Vera Brittain

performed by J'nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Roderick Williams, baritone
Shannonn McGinnis, piano