Icebloom in Graz

snowing
This morning, Stockholm’s Curious Chamber Players will read my mini­ature Icebloom, a piano trio with music box drawing on Schubert’s Winterreise, as part of the Impuls Academy in Graz, Austria. While here, I am also en­joying lec­tures on and per­form­ances of new music, meeting plenty of fellow com­posers and per­formers, and taking les­sons with Georges Aperghis, Chaya Czernowin and Georg Friedrich Haas. I am grateful for the schol­ar­ship from Fondation Royaumont which is en­abling this trip.

Update, 9/3: Here’s an ex­tract of Icebloom re­corded in the reading ses­sion last month:

This entry was written by Chris, posted on Friday, 15 February 2013 at 5:19 am, filed under News, Workshops and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
  • Microbiography

    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
    Full Biography »

  • Hear