News
New CD recordings with Apartment House out now, both on on HCR:
CC, featuring John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra and the premiere recording of Christian Wolff's Resistance
- "Trust is the making of indeterminate music and Apartment House’s new recording is all trust. Philip Thomas makes the piano part magnetic, like the centrifugal planet in an erratic constellation." (The Guardian)
Patterns of Connection, a double disc of music by Michael Parsons for ensemble and solo piano.
- "Parsons is viewed as a pioneer of experimental music, but Modestly Ingenious would be a synonym." (The Sunday Times)
Also out now on Another timbre is a recording of John Cage's Winter Music, for four pianos, featuring Philip playing alongside Mark Knoop, Catherine Laws and John Tilbury.
Apartment House have also recorded an album of Exercises by Christian Wolff for future release. And Philip is involved with more recordings as part of the another timbre Canadian music series will be forthcoming over the next 12 months, including music by Linda Catlin Smith and Cassandra Miller.
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Philip gives the world premiere of Rozalie Hirs' new work for piano and electronics, Meditations, at the Sounds of Music festival in Groningen on Tuesday November 7th.
The following day he performs John Cage's Music for Piano at the Frank Mohr Institut
A few days later, Philip gives three further performances Rozalie Hirs Meditations alongside the world premiere of senza misura by Christopher Fox at NovemberMusic on November 12th.
The 2017 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival includes four concerts involving Philip:
November 19th - Linda Smith's Piano Quintet with Quatuor Bozzini
November 20th - a concert of Michael Parsons' music, with edges ensemble and Parsons himself
November 21st - UK premiere of piano quintets by Mary Bellamy and Bryn Harrison
November 26th - Philip performs with Ensemble Grizzana in the premieres of works by Magnus Granberg and Jürg Frey
Philip performs with Apartment House in three concerts at the 2017 London Contemporary Music Festival:
4th December - music by Robert Ashley, with the composer's son Sam Ashley performing as vocalist
5th December - music by Anton Lukoszevieze, Jack Sheen and Sarah Hughes, as well as a solo performance of Galina Ustvolskaya's Sixth Piano Sonata
10th December - songs by and with Chris Newman
Next Spring, Philip joins forces with Richard Craig and Damien Harron for a selection of performances of Morton Feldman's Crippled Symmetry.
Performances include:
- Monday, April 16th, University of Huddersfield
- Monday, April 23rd, Birmingham Conservatoire
- Wednesday, April 25th, University of York
- Friday, April 27th, University of Sheffield
Philip gives the premiere performance of Lawrence Dunn's For Piano (Dancing) at the University of Huddersfield, Thursday January 25th, 1.15pm.