Symphony Hall Announces 25th Anniversary
To celebrate, Symphony Hall is presenting an unmissable concert performed by its resident orchestra, the world-renowned City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and joined by three artists who all celebrate their 25ths this year, The Next 25, on 15 April 2016.

The concert is a story of 25s and the programme will comprise of:

Stravinsky’s Firebird, performed 25 years ago in the hall’s opening concert in 1991
Grieg’s Piano Concerto, written when the composer was 25 years old
A new commission by 25-year-old Ryan Latimer

BBC Symphony Orchestra at Maida Vale
7:30pm, Maida Vale Studios, London

Join the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pierre-André Valadefor music by Messiaen, and exciting new music at the BBC Maida Vale Studios.

The concert features works by two great French composers Olivier Messiaen and Édith Canat de Chizy, and world premieres by composers from Sound and Music’s prestigious Embedded artistic development programme.

Ryan Latimer Antiarkie (World Premiere)
Olivier Messiaen Les Offrandes oubliées
David Coonan Vain Prayer (World Premiere)
Édith Canat de Chizy Pierre d’éclair
Edward Nesbit In Spite of the Mere Objectiveness of Things (World Premiere)

Picking up the Pieces: Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea
7:30pm, The Forge, Camden, London

Described by BBC Music Magazine as ‘agile, incisive and impassioned’ violinist Darragh Morgan and pianist Mary Dullea are renowned soloists of new music as well as members of The Fidelio Trio, one of the UK’s leading chamber ensembles. Picking up the Pieces explores new and recent repertoire, much of it written for this duo, by a diverse selection of composers.

Programme:

Charlotte Bray – Here Everything Shines (world premiere violin and piano version)
Michael Hersch – The Wreckage of Flowers (UK premiere)
Emily Howard – …under the circumstances… (world premiere)
James Weeks – A Toy (World Premiere)
Ryan Latimer – Chloe
Tom Coult – LIMP (London Premiere)

Supported by Holst Foundation.

BBC Symphony Orchestra Embedded Residency

I am delighted to have been accepted onto the BBC Symphony Orchestra Embedded Programme, supported by Sound and Music. The residency will last approximately one year, where I will be involved in various day-to-day runnings of the BBCSO, from workshops and concerts to educational and community projects, culminating in a final performance and BBC Radio 3 broadcast of my new 12-minute composition for the orchestra.

Zelkova Quartet
7:30pm, St. John Smith’s Square, London

Tonight the Zelkova Quartet present two of the greatest and most loved pieces of French chamber music, the quartets of Debussy and Ravel. Debussy was a rare champion of Ravel’s youthful quartet when it was completed in 1903, ordering him to ‘not touch a single note’ in the face of harsh treatment from critics and teachers. The quartet are very excited to give the premiere of a new piece by Ryan Latimer, who has already amassed an impressive body of inventive and individual work for orchestras and ensembles across the country.

Oliver Knussen conducts Academy Manson Ensemble
7:30pm, Dukes Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London

Oliver Knussen conductor

Oliver Knussen Two Organa, op.27
Richard Rodney Bennett Dream Dancing
Philip Cashian Skein
Ryan Latimer Mills Mess (world premiere)
Peter Maxwell Davies A Mirror of Whitening Light

On and Off and To and Fro – 2015 Tour

The Workers Union Ensemble (WUE) present a programme of five new works developed in response to Simon Steen-Andersen’s On And Off And To And Fro, for soprano saxophone, double bass, vibraphone and three players with megaphones.

The composers featured will include three twentysomething emerging stars, Ryan Latimer (WUE Composer ­In ­Association), Kate Whitley and Jay Capperauld (winner of the WUE Heidi Cupp Award 2013) as well as two slightly older heads Benjamin Oliver (conductor of the WUE) and Scottish composer Mic Spencer.