Events
2024
31st August | Lucerne Festival, Switzerland
International Ensemble Modern Academy
World premiere of new work for Lucerne Festival Academy
Smorgaschord Festival 2024
Further details to be announced soon!
1st May | Karl von Bismark Saal im WDR Funkhaus | Cologne, Germany
WDR Sinfonieorchester Chor- und Orchesterakademie | Gabriel Hollander, conductor
World premiere of new work for choir and ensemble
6th February | Stoller Hall | Manchester, UK
Smorgaschord Collective recital | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Vivier Pièce pour violoncello et piano | Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 | Elisabeth Lutyens Bagatelles Op. 10 | Frederick Delius Romance for cello and piano | Iannis Xenakis Paille in the Wind | Leoš Janáček Pohádka
5th February | Chetham's School of Music | Manchester, UK
Smorgaschord workshops
24th January | St George's Hanover Sq | London, UK
Smorgaschord Collective recital | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Vivier Pièce pour violoncello et piano | Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 | Elisabeth Lutyens Bagatelles Op. 10 | Frederick Delius Romance for cello and piano | Iannis Xenakis Paille in the Wind | Leoš Janáček Pohádka
17th February | Christ Church Cathedral | Oxford, UK
Smorgaschord Collective recital | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Vivier Pièce pour violoncello et piano | Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 | Elisabeth Lutyens Bagatelles Op. 10 | Frederick Delius Romance for cello and piano | Iannis Xenakis Paille in the Wind | Leoš Janáček Pohádka
6th January | Pimlott Foundation | Colchester, UK
Smorgaschord Collective recital | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Vivier Pièce pour violoncello et piano | Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke Op. 73 | Elisabeth Lutyens Bagatelles Op. 10 | Frederick Delius Romance for cello and piano | Iannis Xenakis Paille in the Wind | Leoš Janáček Pohádka
2023
6th October | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary
Danubia Orchestra Obuda | Sebastian Black, conductor
World premiere of Like the Nightingale
18th August | Eglise Sainte Bernadette | Annecy, France
Ensemble ARS NOVA
World premiere of Bunte Blätter
17th June | Oxford, UK
Smorgaschord Festival 2023: Ligeti Day!
Featuring Danny Driver, Ben Goldscheider, Kleio String Quartet, György Kurtág Jr, Stephen Waarts
Music by Ligeti, Kurtág, George Enescu, Debussy, Joshua Uzoigwe
Premieres from Deidre McKay, Laurence Osborn, Thomas Adès and Martin Suckling
17th June | Hollywell Music Room | Oxford, UK
Stephen Waarts, violin | Sebastian Black, piano
Claude Debussy Violin Sonata
5-7th June | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary
Smorgaschord coachings with György Kurtág
Kurtág's Zwiegespräch @ Smorgaschord Festival 2023: Ligeti Day!
18th February | Budapest Music Center | Budapest, Hungary
Ensemble ARS NOVA | Gabriel Hollander, conductor
World premiere of What Does The Harp Suggest?
11th February | Devon, UK
World premiere of Upon The Starry Sky, a madrigal for five voices
16th January | Pimlott Foundation | Colchester, UK
Smorgaschord Collective: In The Silence of Rain | Julitte Roos, violin | Edgar Francis, viola | Eliza Millett, cello | Sebastian Black, piano
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Shades of Silence | Helmut Lachenmann Ein Kinderspiel | Ernest Bloch 'Prayer' from From Jewish Life | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Quartet K. 493