Across the Channel

A concert crossing the English Channel, both musically and in-person as we welcome musicians from Paris-based Ensemble Court-circuit to join BCMG and NEXT Musicians on stage at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

Ensemble Court-circuit
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
NEXT Musicians side-by-side
Jean Deroyer Conductor

Hilda Paredes (b.1957, Mexico now UK) Siphonophorae (2016), 13’
François Paris (b.1961, France) À propos de Nice (2005), 20’
Including a screening of the Jean Vigo silent film of the same name
Maël Bailly (b. 1988, France) Six miniatures pour sextuor (2015/2016), 7’
Rebecca Saunders (b.1967, UK) Stirrings Still I (2006), 11’
Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012, UK ) Vajra (2007), 9’