Friday October 12th, Montpellier, France
with Apartment House
Michael Parsons Pentachordal Melody
John White PT Machine
Paul Whitty Score Collection
Paul Newland Husk
James Saunders What you must do, rather than must not do
Monday October 15th, Purcell Room, London
with Apartment House as part of the SouthBank Ether Festival
John Cage Hymnkus
John Cage 45' for a speaker, 26'1.1499" for a string player, 31'57.9864" for a pianist
Tuesday, October 30th, Firth Hall, Sheffield
Christopher Fox Thermogenesis
Marc Sabat Nocturnes
Eldritch Priest ...soot?aporia
Martin Arnold Vines and Tubers (Nightshades)
Bryn Harrison Vessels WORLD PREMIERE
Thursday November 22nd, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Christopher Fox L'ascenseur WORLD PREMIERE
Martin Arnold Points and Waltzes WORLD PREMIERE
Cassandra Miller Philip the wanderer WORLD PREMIERE
Tuesday, December 4th, Firth Hall, Sheffield
Christopher Fox L'ascenseur
Michael Oesterle Luke
Richard Glover Logical Harmonies (1)
Linda Smith Thought and Desire
Martin Arnold Points and Waltzes
Cassandra Miller Philip the wanderer
solo
2012
Monday June 11th, Kings Place, London
with Apartment House
including Morton Feldman Durations II
Walter Zimmerman When I'm Eighty-Four
David Mahler La Ciudad de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles
Michael Pisaro Harmony Series
Christian Wolff Exercises
2011
Wednesday October 5th, Barbican, London
with Merce Cunningham Dance Company
John Cage Concert for piano and orchestra
Thursday September 29th, St.Paul's Hall, University of Huddersfield
with David Milsom (violin)
Bryn Harrison Listenings I
Anton Webern Four Pieces
Christian Wolff Pebbles
Tuesday September 13th, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
with Apartment House
A programme of music by John Cage including 4'33"; Radio Music; Concert for piano and orchestra; Music for nine
Thursday 8th September, Cafe Oto, London
with Apartment House
including Johannes Kreidler In Hyper Intervals
Sunday January 23rd 2011, Basel, IGNM Concerts
Laurence Crane Birthday Piece for Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy First Political Agenda
Christian Wolff Bread and Roses
Christian Wolff For Pianist
Bryn Harrison I-V
Christian Wolff Pianist: Pieces
Thursday February 17th 2011, University of Huddersfield
Morton Feldman For Bunita Marcus
2010
Wednesday 24th November, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
John Cage Winter Music with Apartment House performing Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis
Saturday 20th November, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
John Cage Electronic Music for Piano (12 hour version)
Wednesday 17th November, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Clermont-Ferrand
John Cage Concert for piano and orchestra
Thursday 28th October, University of Huddersfield
Morton Feldman Piano '77, Piano Piece 1964 and Palais de mari
Thursday 7th October, University of Huddersfield
Morton Feldman Triadic Memories
Music for Toy Piano, Wednesday 22nd September 2010
part of Sheffield City Hall's five40five series
Pat Allison occasionally,; Re-tudes
Mick Beck Not just a load of balls
John Cage Suite for Toy Piano and Bacchanale
Philip Corner Event; Concerto for Housekeeper; A Reverence to the Piano
Alvin Curran Light Flowers Dark Flowers II
Michael Finnissy Sonata for toy piano
Helmut Lachenmann Ein Kinderspiel
John lely Toy pianos
Nick Williams Klavierhammer
May 6th-22nd Sol LeWitt Books exhibition, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Solo performances included Kunsu Shim 33 things, UK premiere of Tom Johnson's The Chord Catalogue and John Lely's All About The Piano
For full programme of works, click here
2009
Saturday December 12th, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
part of Seeds and Bridges
John Cage Solo for piano
Cornelius Cardew Treatise
Christian Wolff For pianist
Earle Brown Four Systems
Jez Riley French Postcard Piece
Wednesday December 2nd, Bath Spa University
Christian Wolff For Pianist
Chris Newman High Blood B
James Saunders PART OF IT MAY ALSO BE PART OF SOMETHING ELSE
Christian Wolff Small Preludes
Monday - Friday, November 23rd - 27th 2009, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Michael Pisaro pi (1-2594)
Tuesday November 24th 2009, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Joseph Kudirka fidelity WORLD PREMIERE
Christian Wolff Small Preludes WORLD PREMIERE
Larry Polansky tooaytoods 1-14 UK PREMIERE
Douglas Barrett Derivation IIIa-c UK PREMIERE
Craig Shephard Weehawken WORLD PREMIERE
Travis Just And I am not being frivolous now, either. WORLD PREMIERE
Michael Winter A Chance Happening UK PREMIERE
Michael Pisaro fields have ears UK PREMIERE
Thursday November 5th 2009, The Warehouse, London
part of The Cutting Edge series
Laurence Crane Birthday Piece for Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy First Political Agenda
Laurence Crane Chorale for Howard Skempton
Howard Skempton senza licensa
Bryn Harrison I-V
Laurence Crane Piano Piece No.23 'Ethiopian Distance Runners'
Chris Newman High Blood B
Markus Trunk Boeotische Riten
James Saunders PART OF IT MAY ALSO BE PART OF SOMETHING ELSEWORLD PREMIERE
Markus Trunk ah, he likes to write, likes to get writing done, likes to get things on paper WORLD PREMIERE
Wednesday July 15th 2009, Sheffield City Hall (Ballroom)
part of the five40five series
Laurence Crane Chorale for Howard Skempton
Howard Skempton senza licensa
Laurence Crane Derridas
Laurence Crane Birthday Piece for Michael Finnissy
Michael Finnissy First Political Agenda FIRST COMPLETE PERFORMANCE
John White Piano Sonatas 162, 156, 166
Howard Skempton Second Gentle Melody
Bryn Harrison I-V
Laurence Crane Piano Piece No.23 'Ethiopian Distance Runners' WORLD PREMIERE
Wednesday May 6th, Sheffield City Hall (Ballroom)
part of the five40five series
Markus Trunk Boeotische Riten
James Saunders relative distanceUK PREMIERE
Martin Arnold Rat-Drifting
Chris Newman High Blood 3
John Cage Two Pieces 1946
Juerg Frey In memoriam Cornelius Cardew
Markus Trunk ah, he likes to write, likes to get writing done, likes to get things on paper WORLD PREMIERE
Sunday April 12th 2009, CalARTS, Los Angeles
Tim Parkinson piano piece 2006
James Saunders relative distance
Laurence Crane Chorale for Howard Skempton
Bryn Harrison Quietly Rising (Piano Piece 2008)
Christian Wolff Long Piano (Peace March 11)
Wednesday April 8th 2009, Dartmouth College, Hanover
Christian Wolff Long Piano (Peace March 11)
Thursday 26th March 2009, St.Mark's Church, New York 10.00pm
(part of the Ontological Theater's Experimental Music series
Tim Parkinson piano piece 2006
James Saunders relative distanceWORLD PREMIERE
Laurence Crane Chorale for Howard Skempton
Bryn Harrison Quietly Rising (Piano Piece 2008)
Christian Wolff Long Piano (Peace March 11)
Thursday February 26th, 2009 University of Huddersfield
Philip Thomas and the Moog bar
New pieces written especially for the Moog piano bar, composed by postgraduate and staff composers at the University of Huddersfield
Michael Clarke Tu(r)ning
Scott McLaughlin Marionettes
Geoffrey Cox Outtake
Liza Lim Autumn (from 'The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly)')
Bryn Harrison Quietly Rising (Piano Piece 2008)
Ben Isaacs Splendid
Joseph Kudirka Star of the North
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay Quelques courtes contemplations I. craquer une allumette dans le noir, puis regarder la flamme danser
Stewart Worthy Building 18
Nick Williams Hallelujahs (hobo4)
Thursday February 25th, Alsager Arts centre, Manchester Metropolitan University
Laurence Crane Twentieth Century Music
Michael Parsons Oblique Pieces 8 & 9
Martin Blain Six Dance Fragments
Howard Skempton Whispers
Stephen Chase Piano Dances
Christian Wolff Long Piano (Peace March 11)
2008
Thursday 16th October, 2008, University of Huddersfield
Christopher Fox at the edge of time
Michael Parsons Oblique Pieces No.s 8 & 9
Tim Parkinson piano piece 2006
Howard Skempton Whispers
Stephen Chase Piano Dances
Tuesday April 29th 5.45pm Sheffield City Hall (Ballroom)
John Cage Prelude for Meditation; Spontaneous Earth
Laurence Crane Twentieth Century Music
Alvin Curran Inner Cities 2
Christopher Fox Republican Bagatelles
John Lely All About The Piano
Alvin Lucier Music for magnetic strings
Wednesday April 23rd, University of Leeds
Christian Wolff For Piano (I)
John Cage Seven Haiku
Tim Parkinson piano piece (2006)
Michael Parsons Oblique Pieces 8 and 9
Eric Satie Air; Essai; Notes (1); Notes (2); Exercices; Notes(3); Harmonies; Choral (from 'Carnet d'esquisses et de croquis')
Christian Wolff Bread and Roses
Stephen Chase Piano Dances
Howard Skempton Whispers
Christian Wolff Touch
For Pianist: the piano music of Christian Wolff
Sheffield Persistence Works ALSO London The Warehouse
For concert flyer, see here
multi-concert portrait of the solo piano music of Christian Wolff, including UK premieres of recent works, and the world premieres of
Stephen Chase Piano Dances
Tim Parkinson piano piece 2006
Michael Parsons Oblique Pieces 8 and 9
2007
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007
Christian Wolff Long Piano(Peace March 11) EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Christian Wolff For piano with preparations
2006
AVP2 festival, Melbourne, Derby
Cage Two Pieces 1946
Feldman Intermission 5
feldman Vertical Thoughts IV
Cardew Treatise
Finnissy Jazz
Wolff Keyboard Miscellany
Burn as if as
burn And only the snow can begin to explain
Obermayer Coil
Frakture festival, Liverpool
Cardew Treatise
Finnissy Jazz
Burn and only the snow can begin to explain
Wolff Eight Days a week variations
Cage Music for Marcel Duchamp
Improvisations
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Cage Music for Marcel Duchamp
Satie Nocturnes
Lely From the English
Ades Still Sorrowing
Lucier Music for magnetic strings
Harrison être temps
Skempton of late
2005
Persistence Works, Sheffield: ‘Comprovisation’
Cardew Treatise
Burn from ten, two and three WORLD PREMIERE
burn Pressings and screenings WORLD PREMIERE
Wolff Keyboard Miscellany
Finnissy Jazz
Cage Variations II
Obermayer Coil
Beck Not Just A Load Of Balls WORLD PREMIERE
Fell Composition No.73: Thirteen New Inventions WORLD PREMIERE
2004
The Warehouse, London
Richard Emsley for piano 13
Christopher Fox Prime Site
Christopher Fox Republican Bagatelles
Firth Hall Sheffield: ‘Something new something old something else’
Beethoven Five Variations on Rule Britannia
Sharman Opera Transcriptions (bk1)
Wolff Bread and Roses
Ives Varied Air and Variations
Webern Variations
Smith A Nocturne EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Christopher Fox Prime Site
Christopher Fox Republican Bagatelles
2003
Firth hall Sheffield: ‘Something new something old something else’
Bach Prelude and Fugues in C (bk1) and F minor (bk2)
A. Clementi Variazioni su B.A.C.H
Finnissy Ives
finnissy My Bonny Boy
Ives Three Page Sonata
Emsley flow form
Emsley For piano 13 WORLD PREMIERE
2002
Firth Hall, Sheffield & Kings College, London
Croft …du second infini
Lachenmann Serynade
Taylor Patterns 1
taylor Failure
Zimmerman Wustenwanderung
‘The Art of Touch’
Complete music for solo piano by Morton Feldman plus:
Harrison être temps WORLD PREMIERE
Parsons Piano Piece August 2002 WORLD PREMIERE
Saunders #261002 WORLD PREMIERE
Cochrane Theatre, London (dal niente projects)
Feldman Vertical Thoughts IV
Feldman Piano Piece 1952
Feldman Last Pieces
Feldman For Bunita Marcus
2001
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield: ‘John Cage and Twenty First Century Britain’
Cage Sonatas and Interludes
cage Waiting
cage Music of Changes 1
cage 4’33”
cage Music for piano 4-19
cage One
cage The Perilous Night
cage Two Pieces (1946)
cage Tossed as it is Untroubled
cage Two Pieces (1935)
cage One5
Chase Noise is kinder WORLD PREMIERE
Burn and only the snow can begin to explain WORLD PREMIERE
burn …as if as… WORLD PREMIERE
Skempton A Humming Song
skempton Quavers 3
skempton Of Late
Emsley for piano 3
emsley For piano 4
emsley For piano 13 WORLD PREMIERE
Parsons Krapp Music UK PREMIERE
parsons Fourths and Fifths
parsons Piano Piece December 2000 WORLD PREMIERE
parsons Four Oblique Pieces
Fox More things in the air than are visible
Ayres No.16 UK PREMIERE
1999
Firth Hall, Sheffield & BMIC, London
Cardew Charge
cardew Song and Dance
cardew Sailing the Seas depends upon the Helmsman
Wolff Bread and Roses
Grieg Slåtter
Finnissy Folklore
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apartment house
2010
Saturday 6th November, Cut & Splice festival, London
with Apartment House
Karlheinz Stockhausen Kurzwellen
John Cage Radio Music
October 23rd, Transit Festival, Leeuven
with Apartment house
Christopher Fox something to do with belief
Stefan van Eycken far as we go
2009
Sunday November 22nd 2009, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
with Apartment House
Anthony Braxton Compositions 50, 139, 322
Christian Wolff Exercises 3 and 18
Frank Gratkowski new piece
Sunday November 15th 2009, November Music festival, Holland.
with Apartment House
Anthony Braxton Compositions 50, 139, 322
Christian Wolff Exercises 3 and 18
Frank Gratkowski new piece
Monday February 16th, 2009 Conway Hall, London
(part of the Eccles Centre for Amercian Studies (British Library) series of events)
John Cage Music for Marcel Duchamp
Robert Ashley Quartet
David Behrman Music for cello with melody driven electronics
Alvin Lucier Music for magnetic strings
David Behrman Wavetrain
Gordon Mumma Medium Size Mograph 1962 and 5 from the Sushi Box
Wallingford Riegger Whimsey for cello and piano
David Behrman Longthrow for cello, clarinet, violin and prepared piano
2008
Sunday November 30th 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008
Philip directs John Cage: Concert Reclaimed, a recreation of the infamous 1958 New York Town Hall retrospective of John Cage's works, culminating in a performance of the Concert for piano and orchestra
Programme includes:
Imaginary Landscape No.1 (with Mathew Adkins, electronics)
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (with Lore Lixenberg, voice)
She Is Asleep (with the University of Huddersfield Percussion Orchestra and Lore Lixenberg)
Concert for piano and orchestra (with full instrumentation played by 'Apartment House')
Wednesday 5th November 2008, ISCM World Music Days 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania
'Apartment House' concert including:
Rytis Mazulis Canon fluxus WORLD PREMIERE
George Maciunas Piano Piece No.13; In Memoriam Adriano Olivetti; Music for three mouths
Rytis Mazulis Non in commotione
WDR live concert broadcast, Cologne
Rytis Mazulis Canon Mensurabilis
John Lely Discovering Counterpoint
Tim Parkinson Septet
Laurence Crane Twentieth Century Music
Claudia Moliter Pink Beads Popping
George Maciunas In memoriam Adriano Olivetti
Hans Koch Alkan Graph
2007
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007
‘Bridging the Borders’ - a concert of music by Lithuanian composers George Maciunas and Rytis Mazulis
Rytis Mazulis Canon Mensurabilis
George Maciunas Music for three mouths; In memoriam Adriano Olivetti; Piano Pieces 1-13
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
John Foulds Six pieces in the modes
Webern Three pieces
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
James Clarke Sonata
James Clarke Trio
James Clarke Verstörung
Høvikodden, Oslo, Norway
Wolff Incidental music
Crane Twentieth Century Music
Wolman Marilyns 93/In Cage
Lucier Music for magnetic strings
Fox Generic compositions
Cage Songbooks
2006
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Cage 31’57.9864”
Conway Hall, London
Wolff Braverman Music
wolff For 5 or 10 people
wolff Eight days a week
wolff MicroExercises
Ives The seen and the unseen
2004
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Jerry Hunt Chimanzi (Olun): double
Laurence Crane John White in Berlin
Tenney Harmonium
BBC Studios, London
Fox Composition mit schwarz, rot und gelb
Bailie Charh
Laurence Crane John White in Berlin
Tenney Harmonium
Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Wolff Exercise 10 and 11
wolff Apartment house Exercises
Ives Three Page Sonata
Satie miscellaneous short pieces
Cardew Autumn 60
2003
De Stedelijke Concertzall, Series Contemporain, Ghent, Belgium
Christian Wolff Exercise 10
Cornelius Cardew Memories of You
Laurence Crane Trio for Ros and Peter
Cornelius Cardew Solo with Accompaniment
John Lely fall in the fresh lap of the cloudy messenger
Christian Wolff Apartment House Exercise
Maerz Musik, Berlin
Jerry Hunt Chimanzi (Olun): double
Philip Corner Punktus cum punktum WORLD PREMIERE
Philip Corner Satie’s rose cross prelude as a revelation
Laurence Crane John White in Berlin WORLD PREMIERE
Laurence Crane 20th Century Music
John Lely E WORLD PREMIERE
John White C major machine
Brecht Water Yam
Ultima Festival, Oslo, Norway
Crane Twentieth Century Music
Wolman Requiem
Cage Radio Music
cage 4’33”
Barlow 1981
Ferrari Trio
2002
Witten Neue Musik Tage, Germany
Cardew Autumn ‘60
Fox An der schattengrenze WORLD PREMIERE
Recorded for WDR CD
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Wolff Apartment house Exercises WORLD PREMIERE
wolff Bread and Roses
wolff Exercise 10
wolff Braverman Music
wolff Edges
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Fox An der schattengrenze
Saunders #271103
Almeida, London
Bussotti Sette Foglie
Ferrari Chansons pour le corps
2001
Hoxton New Music Days, London
Clarence Barlow 1981
Clarence Barlow Beethoven piece
Clarence Barlow Piano pieces
Clarence Barlow Relationships
Broadcast BBC R3
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Other
2010
May 6th-22nd Sol LeWitt Books exhibition, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Marathon three weekends of concerts, curated by Philip Thomas, featuring the edges ensemble with Stephen Chase, John Lely, Anton Lukoszevieze, Ross Parfitt, Kunsu Shim, Gerhard Staebler and Manfred Werder.
For full programme of works, click here
2009
August 2008 International Computer Music Conference, Belfast
Member of 'Roots Ensemble' performing works for ensemble and electronics by various composers
2008
Thursday 13th November, 2008, University of Huddersfield
Joseph Kudirka (guitars and bass) and Philip Thomas play two works by Antoine Beuger, one of the leading figures of the 'Wandelweiser' collective
Antoine Beuger un lieu pour etre deux
Antoine Beuger three drops of rain / east wind / ocean
2007
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007
Fred Frith and edges ensemble, directed by Philip Thomas
Notated and graphic scores by Fred Frith
Screen; Roof; Light at the end of the tunnel;Dry Stone II; Bridge is Bridge; Long Fade
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007
Simon Fell’s composition no.74: positions and descriptions
2006
‘Hung up on the number 64’ International Cage Conference, University of Huddersfield
with Ian Pace & Christopher Fox
Cage 31’57.9864”
‘Hung up on the number 64’ International Cage Conference, University of Huddersfield
Satie Vexations
Cage Empty Words
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: with James Saunders
Cage Electronic Music for Piano
Saunders #211106 WORLD PREMIERE
Lucier still Lives
Lely All about the piano WORLD PREMIERE
2005
Firth Hall, Sheffield: with Ian Pace
Feldman Piano (Four Hands)
Feldman Piano (Three Hands)
Wolff Duo for Pianists 1
wolff Duo for pianists 2
Brown Twenty-Five Pages
Taylor Model-Theoretic WORLD PREMIERE
Fox A Kind of Prayer
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol with Anton Lukoszevieze, Kaffe Matthews, Michael Prime, Akio Suzuki, David Toop, Alvin Curran
Cage Prelude for a meditation
Wolff Keyboard Miscellany
Satie short miscellaneous pieces
Feldman Durations II
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