Conductor – Nic Pendlebury
Composer – Gavin Bryars
Orchestra - Trinity Laban String Ensemble
Trinity Laban's String Ensemble perform Gavin Bryars' Piece 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Inspired by the story that the band on the Titanic continued to perform as the ship sank, it recreates how the music performed by the band would reverberate through the water some time after they ceased performing. Composed between 1969 and 1972, the work is now considered one of the classics of British experimental music.
Conductor – Nic Pendlebury
Composer – Gavin Bryars
Orchestra - Trinity Laban String Ensemble
Trinity Laban's String Ensemble perform Gavin Bryars' Piece 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Inspired by the story that the band on the Titanic continued to perform as the ship sank, it recreates how the music performed by the band would reverberate through the water some time after they ceased performing. Composed between 1969 and 1972, the work is now considered one of the classics of British experimental music.
Conductor – Nic Pendlebury
Composer – Gavin Bryars
Orchestra - Trinity Laban String Ensemble
Trinity Laban's String Ensemble perform Gavin Bryars' Piece 'The Sinking of the Titanic'. Inspired by the story that the band on the Titanic continued to perform as the ship sank, it recreates how the music performed by the band would reverberate through the water some time after they ceased performing. Composed between 1969 and 1972, the work is now considered one of the classics of British experimental music.
NIC PENDLEBURY
ELECTRIC VIOLA
PAST
CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL:
Beyond Our World
This cosmic performance features George Morton’s stunning chamber arrangement of Holst’s iconic The Planets, as well as Eliana Echeverry’s new work The Lost Planetfor electric viola and ensemble. Nic Pendelbury’s own transcription of Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collectorarranged for solo electric viola and sonic delaycompletes our astrological journey transporting you from this world into a wider astronomical realm.
SATURDAY 10 JUNE 2023 | 19:30
FIRST LIGHT FESTIVAL:
Beyond Our World
Split across three separate performances over the First Light Weekend, the programme features George Morton’s stunning chamber arrangement of Holst’s iconic work The Planets and also includes Nic Pendlebury’s own transcription of Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector, arranged for solo electric viola and sonic delay. Eliana Echeverry’s new work The Lost Planet for electric viola and ensemble completes our astrological journey, with the work imagining the sounds and atmosphere of our once ninth planet, Pluto.
SATURDAY 17 JUNE 2023 | 22:00
SUNDAY 18 JUNE 2023 | 03:30
SUNDAY 18 JUNE 2023 | 10:00
Eliana Echeverry’s The Lost Planet part of Moonlit Soundscapes, St Peter + St John Church
Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector, part of Dawn on the beach
Holst’s The Planets, Sunlight Stage
COLAB 2023 PRESENTATION:
Beyond Our World
SATURDAY 25 MARCH 2023 | 14:30 - 16:30
Join electric violist and conductor Nic Pendlebury and his ensemble on a musical voyage Beyond Our World.
Featuring George Morton’s stunning chamber arrangement of Holst’s iconic The Planets, the programme will also include Pendlebury’s own transcription of Terry Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector for solo electric viola and sonic delay. Eliana Echeverry’s new work, created in collaboration with the ensemble, The Lost Planet for electric viola and ensemble completes our astrological journey, with the work imagining the sounds and atmosphere of our once ninth planet, Pluto.
This performance will take place in the extraordinary historical setting of the Queen's House, Greenwich, fittingly situated a short walk from the Royal Observatory where you can visit one of the UK's largest telescopes and get to know the stars in the Peter Harrison Planetarium.
Queen's House, Royal Museums Greenwich
Tickets: £8 | £5 concessions
MASTERCLASS
Ambleside Parish Church
FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 2022 | 11:00
Mendelssohn String Quartet in E flat Op.12 (Finale)
Ravel String Quartet in F (Mvt.II)
Nicola Benedetti, Jennifer Pike and the Heath Quartet are just a few of LDSM’s star masterclass alumni. Catch a glimpse of the next generation of aspiring young musicians as pianist Pavel Kolesnikov and tenor Robert Murray continue this tradition. This year we are delighted to welcome the Waldstein and Heartwood String Quartets; two exciting young ensembles who will be resident throughout the festival. Go behind the scenes with them as they take a deep dive into the String Quartet repertoire with our visiting artists.
Masterclasses kindly supported by Martin & Miriam Rayner
Masterclasses streamed live and available on-demand
Masterclass duration: 70 mins (approx)
THURSDAY 4 AUGUST 2022 | 15:00
MUSIC AT THE DOCK
The Dock Museum, Barrow
NIC PENDLEBURY – ELECTRIC VIOLA
Local children Fantasia on local birdsong
Terry Riley Dorian Reeds
Eliana Echeverry Fénix (world premiere)
Colin Riley Fallen Angel
Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint
Break out of the concert hall and forget everything you know about classical music. Join Nic Pendlebury (Smith Quartet) and push the boundaries with his incredible transcriptions for electric viola, including the world premiere of inspired young composer Eliana Echeverry’s reimagining of the Lark Ascending and a fantasia on local birdsong by Cumbrian school children.
Duration: 70 mins (approx)
A CHANGE OF SEASON
Latitude Festival
FRIDAY 22 JULY 2022
Anna Morrissey Director
Nic Pendlebury Music Director and Electric Viola Soloist
Hollie Harding Composer (Melting, Shifting, Liquid World)
Carla Goodman Production Design (Vivaldi)
In response to the climate emergency, Trinity Laban String Ensemble reimagines Vivaldi’s iconic masterpiece The Four Seasons and revives Hollie Harding’s immersive and eco-political Melting, Shifting, Liquid World
ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT
First Light Festival, Sunlight Stage
SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2022 | 15:15
Nic has been at the forefront of the contemporary music scene for over thirty years and is the founder and violist of the Internationally acclaimed Smith Quartet. The group has pioneered the development of the string quartet genre commissioning over 300 new works collaborating with such composers as Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Michael Nyman and Django Bates. They have performed in many of the world’s most prestigious festivals and recorded albums for BMG, Sony, Decca and Signum and as well as featuring in various TV and Radio broadcasts. They were also featured in two BBC documentaries, Classic Quartets at the BBC and Holocaust; A Music Memorial Film from Auschwitz which won a Grammy and a BAFTA.
In more recent years Nic’s pioneering and creative spirit has seen him create a new repertoire for the electric viola an instrument he believes has an exciting future in the ever developing world of classical music. His stunning transcriptions of Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint and Terry Riley’s Dorian Reeds have not only received critical acclaim from audiences around the world but from the composers themselves.
“The idea that Electric Counterpoint would be bowed had never occurred to me. I want to thank Nic for a beautiful surprise. I was moved to tears.” Steve Reich
A CHANGE OF SEASON
Shipley Arts Festival
SATURDAY 26 MARCH 2022 | 18:00 21:00
Trinity Laban’s String Ensemble presents a reimagined, choreographed performances of Vivaldi’s masterpiece ‘The Four Seasons’ alongside Hollie Hardings immersive Melting, Shifting Liquid World, for electric viola and string ensemble.
From the bird song of Spring to the cracking of ice in Winter, Vivaldi captures the extraordinary sounds of the changing seasons in his iconic work. In this new interpretation, which combines music, sound and movement, the score is brought to life; hear the Seasons as they should be.
Hollie Harding’s Melting, Shifting, Liquid World looks at the fragility of our modern world. Where melting ice caps and the pollution of the sea threaten our very existence; the Seasons as they may become. As an audience, you will be able to move through the orchestra, wearing bone conduction headphones that enable you to hear the score on three levels.
There will be two performances and purchase of a ticket will get you entrance to one or both performances.