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ELISION in residence at Harvard

Saturday, 10 May 2014

This week, ELISION Ensemble will be in res­id­ence at Harvard University, cul­min­ating on Saturday 17 May in a con­cert of new music by graduate com­posers at Harvard that will also in­clude the US première of Richard Barrett’s Lens, for flu­gel­horn and elec­tric lap-steel guitar. Ensembles that un­der­take their work and per­form with the in­teg­rity and in­tensity of ELISION are rare, so it […]

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Hand Werk Incredulous in Harvard

Saturday, 8 March 2014

On Saturday, 8 March, Cologne-based en­semble hand werk are giving the first of the Harvard Group for New Music’s con­certs for the year. In a mam­moth pro­gramme that in­cludes works by my col­leagues here Sivan Cohen-Elias, Marta Gentilucci, Justin Hoke, Tim McCormack, Manuela Meier, Marek Poliks, Ian Power, and Sabrina Schroeder, they will play my […]

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Colloquium Presentation at Harvard

Monday, 16 September 2013

I have re­cently joined the PhD pro­gramme at Harvard University to study with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku, which is going to take up a sub­stan­tial chunk of my life for the next six or so years. Throughout the year the Harvard Group for New Music or­gan­ises a series of present­a­tions by cur­rent stu­dents, plus oc­ca­sional guests, […]

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  • 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.
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