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Forthcoming Events
OUT SOON: Changing the System: The Music of Christian Wolff, to be published by Ashgate Publishing in July 2010.
The first major study of Wolff's music, co-edited by Philip with Stephen Chase. Philip has contributed two chapters relating to the piano music and performing Wolff's music. The book is available for order on-line. Click here for full details
Wednesday 22nd September, 2010 five40five, Sheffield City Hall
A programme of classic and new works for toy piano. Music by Pat Allison, Mick Beck, John Cage, Philip Corner, Alvin Curran, Michael Finnissy, Kyle Gann, Helmut Lachenmann, John Lely and Nick Williams
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2010 John Cage: Every Day Is A Good Day
Philip curates a series of concerts during the course of hcmf 2010 to go alongside the exhibition of John Cage's visual art (see here and here for more information). To include a 12-hour solo version of Electronic Music for Piano and a performance of Winter Music and Atlas Eclipticalis with Apartment House
Two other concerts with Apartment House over the Autumn:
October 23rd, Transit Festival, Leuven, Belgium.
featuring premieres of new works by Christopher Fox and Stefan Van Eycken.
November, Cut and Splice Festival, London.
including Stockhausen's Kurzwellen
January 23rd 2011, IGNM Concerts, Basel
Three works by Christian Wolff alonside music by Laurence Crane, Michael Finnissy and Bryn Harrison.
Recent Concerts
Sol LeWitt: Artists Books, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Philip curated a series of performances in conjunction with the wonderful exhibition of Sol LeWitt's books.
Over the course of three weekends Philip was joined by the edges ensemble, Stephen Chase, John Lely, Anton Lukoszevieze, Ross Parfitt, Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Staebler and Manfred Werder.
For full programme details see Past Concerts
Performances and exhibition were produced in association with Research Group for Artists Publications, Site Gallery and Sheffield Hallam University.
Thursday November 5th, 2009 The Cutting Edge
New pieces by Laurence Crane and Markus Trunk alongside music by Michael Finnissy, Bryn Harrison, Chris Newman, James Saunders and Howard Skempton.
Read the full programme book here
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009
Philip featured in three events this year.
Sunday 22nd November Apartment House with Frank Gratkowski plays music by Anthony Braxton, Christian Wolff, and a new work by Gratkowski. See also 15th November at the November Music festival, Holland.
Monday - Friday, 23rd-27th November Philip performs sections of Michael Pisaro's pi (1-2594) daily at 11.00am. Each day a piece or pieces will be chosen for performance using chance methods, resulting in a performance which will last anywhere between five minutes and one hour.
Tuesday 24th November Small Preludes, aytoods and other new music from America World and UK premieres of solo piano music from Douglas Barrett, Travis Just, Joseph Kudirka, Michael Pisaro, Larry Polansky, Craig Shephard, Michael Winter and Christian Wolff.
CDs
piano piece piano piece
A CD of piano music by Tim Parkinson released on edition wandelweiser
the isolde scores
limited edition high-quality cdr as part of Jez Riley French's engraved glass label. Includes performances of French's photo scores by Michael Pisaro, Philip Thomas, Jez riley French & Daniel Jones, Anastasia Chrysanthakopoulou, Maile Colbert, Greg Stuart, Barry Chabala and Coastguard All stars
the middle distance
CD of improvisations with pianist Chris Burn and bassist Simon H Fell
Comprovisation
Featuring pieces by Beck, Burn, Cage, Fell, Finnissy and Obermayer
For reviews of all the above, see recordings
Out Soon:
A CD of piano music by Michael Pisaro to be released on another timbre
CD of music by James Saunders also released on another timbre
The first volumes of the complete solo piano music of Christian Wolff, for release on sub rosa
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Other News
The Ashgate Companion to Experimental Music, edited by James Saunders and to which Philip has contributed a chapter concerning performance, 'A Prescription for Action', is now available for sale. Click here for more details.
Over the summer, Philip appeared at this year's Ostrava Days 2009 Institute as a guest lecturer, alongside other guests such as Christian Wolff, Petr Kotik, Bernhard Lang, Rebecca Saunders, Richard Ayres, Michael Schumacher and Elliot Sharp. He also gave a lecture recital at the Sixth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, at Keele University, Friday 3rd July, entitled 'Abstruse indeterminacy: Christian Wolff's For Pianist as extreme performance practice'
Since January 2010 Philip is heading up both the performance programme and the Masters programme at the University of Huddersfield Music Department. He is also pioneering the Music Department as a centre for the study of the performance of experimental music and welcomes proposals at doctorate and post-doctorate levels. See CeReNeM for related information and here for Philip's research page.
