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Excavations @ Vaganza New Music Day

My piece for nine strings, Excavations, drawing in­spir­a­tion from 350 year-old Henry Purcell’s fantazias that was work­shopped by the Manchester Camerata in October of last year and has since been heavily re­vised, was given a bril­liant first per­form­ance at Vaganza New Music Day Deserts and Canyons: John McCabe at 70 under the baton of Robert Guy. […]

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Excavations Workshop with Manchester Camerata

A re­cently com­pleted string piece, Excavations, drawing on Purcell’s Fantazia in A minor (Z. 740) was work­shopped by the Manchester Camerata and Clark Rundell on October 2nd as part of the Camerata’s Young Composers’ Project.

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    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.
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