CENTRE FOR RUSSIAN MUSIC, GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRESENTS:
A Day of Sofia Gubaidulina
Purcell Room, South Bank Centre
25 February 2001 from 1pm to 9:30 pm
Goldsmiths' prestigious Centre for Russian Music is organising a
celebration of the life and work of Sofia Gubaidulina, the greatest living
Russian composer who will be 70 years old in 2001.
The celebration will be the only London tribute to Gubaidulina - festivals
of her music will also take place on Stockholm, Melbourne, New York, Moscow.
The day will include three concerts (at 1.00pm, 4.00 pm and 7.30 pm)
featuring best of Gubaidulina's chamber music, together with a round table
discussion with the performers and composers, and a film on the composer
and her music.
THE DAY WILL BE COMPLEMENTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 'MAGIC WORLD
PF SOFIA GUBAIDULINA' AT THE GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE ON 26 FEBRUARY, 3- 6 PM.
SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE VELERIA TSENOVA (RUSSIA), MICHAEL KURTZ (GERMANY),
ALEXANDER IVASHKIN (GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE), GERARD MCBURNEY (RAM), RAZIA
SULTANOVA (GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE), CAROLINE ASKEW (UNIVERSITY OF
HUDDERSFIELD). PRESENTATION OF TWO NEW BOOKS ON GUBAIDULINA BY M.KURTZ AND
V.TSENOVA.
Performers include:
Moscow String Quartet ,
Daniel Hope, violin,
Elsbeth Moser (bayan),
Alexander Ivashkin (cello).
Natalia Pavlutskaya (cello),
Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano)
The programme includes:
Complete String Quartets
Complete Piano Music
String Trio
'Quaternion'
'In Croce'
'Rejoice!'
'De Profundis'
'Silenzio'
'Preludes'
'Dancer on a rope'.
The Gubaidulina celebration is organised by the Centre for Russian Music,
Goldsmiths College, University of London and Lisa Peacock Concert
Management
Tickets: price L15 whole day ticket, morning session L 5, afternoon
session L 6, evening session L 6 are available from the Box Office,
South Bank Centre ( 020 7960 4242, 9 :30 am - 9 pm, book online :
www.sbc.org.uk)
Other enquiries: 020 7919 7646 (Centre for Russian Music), 020 7602 1416
(Lisa Peacock Management)
Notes for Editors
The Centre for Russian Music (CRM) Centre was established at Goldsmiths
College, University of London , to house a unique archive of materials
dedicated to Russian music, to organise concerts, festivals, conferences
and seminars, and to co-ordinate international research programmes. It
works under the auspices of an International Board of Patrons, including
musicians of world renown: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Krzysztof Penderecki,
Lames MacMillan, Alexander Lazarev, Rodion Shchedrin, Irina Schnittke and
others.
Director of the Centre: Professor Alexander Ivashkin
Press enquiries
External Communications, tel 020 7919 7970, fax 020 7919 7975, e-mail
ext-comms@gold.ac.uk
Professor Alexander Ivashkin
Goldsmiths College Music Department
University of London
New Cross SE14 6 NW
London
Tel. +44 (0)20 7919 7646
Fax +44 (0)20 7919 7644
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