Night of the Unexpected in London
16 June, 8.00pm - 11.00pm
SPITALFIELDS SUMMER FESTIVAL
Night of the Unexpected in London
Featuring
Monica Germino
Frank van der Weij
Joel Ryan
Evan Parker
Han Bennink
& much more
Bishopsgate Institute
London, UK
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
23 NOVEMBER, 22.00
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Huddersfield, UK
World premieres
Catherine Kontz, Arnoud Noordegraaf
UK premieres David Dramm, Donnacha Dennehy, Julia Wolfe
This program is co-produced by the Gaudeamus Foundation & the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival & made possible with support from: Eduard van Beinum Foundation, Fonds Podiumkunsten (Performing Arts Fund NL) & STEIM
FRONTIERS Plus Festival
In residence at the FRONTIERS Plus Festival, Birmingham, UK
17 March, 19:30
Monica Germino, violin
Michaela Riener, voice
with faculty and students from the Birmingham Conservatoire
Program
A range of Andriessen's solo and chamber works Louis Andriessen: Letter from Cathy, Le Voile du Bonheur, Shopping List of a Poisoner, Xenia, and other works.
Igor Stravinsky: The Owl and the Pussycat
Immediately following the event: informal post-concert discussion with the audience
19 March, 19:00
Monica Germino, violin
Michaela Riener, voice
with Thallein Ensemble
Conductor
Daniele Rosina
Paul Newland: shellac (world premiere)
Louis Andriessen: M is for Mozart, La Passione
Adrian Boult Hall
Birmingham Conservatoire
www.conservatoire.bcu.ac.uk
UK press for plugged & unplugged
Monica Germino's newest solo show plugged & unplugged received rave reviews in the UK press.
Her virtuosity was exhilarating...American-born, Netherlands-based, she is a young, striking presence whose recital was an integrated mixed-media event."
The Sunday Times (UK)
www.entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
...Huddersfield's real stars are its performers, as further demonstrated by the dazzling violinist Monica Germino...
The Observer (UK)
www.guardian.co.uk
Monica Germino, a vividly personable player on the electric and normal violin, works with a sound engineer to transform her violin at one moment into a colossally deep double bass, the next into a wailing electric guitar...
The Daily Telegraph (UK)
www.telegraph.co.uk
(In) the rest of her clever, enjoyable programme (plugged & unplugged), Bach shook hands with gutsy display pieces by Louis Andriessen and Heiner Goebbels and the curdled harmonies and screeches of Michael Gordon’s Industry.
The Times (UK)
www.timesonline.co.uk
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK
Performer
Monica Germino
Creator & composer
Nicholas Brown
The Soul Finds Rest in Unity: a new live installation-performance in a domestic environment with sound, video & micro-performances
Times & location TBA - please check the website:
www.hcmf.andymayer.net
16 November, 21.00
Program
Night of the Unexpected
Curator
Roland Speckle and Graham McKenzie
Featuring Charlemagne Palestine, Alvin Curran, Monica Germino, Edwin van der Heide, Rhodri Davies & Ko Ishikawa, Evan Parker & Joel Ryan, Staalplaat Soundsystem, [rout], Niels Meliefste and many more...
Monica Germino performs Michael Gordon's Industry, for adapted violin and electronics
Bates Mill
The Blending Shed
Huddersfield, UK
The Night of the Unexpected is a one-night festival, an experience, an evening full of surprises...a statement about current developments in new music...showcases cutting edge techniques and international approaches to sound...
17 November, 16.00
Monica Germino, violin / electric violin Frank van der Weij, sound
Solo program
plugged & unplugged
for violin, adapted acoustic violin, electric violin, voice, soundtrack, effects, movement, light and installation
Music
Jacob ter Veldhuis, J.S. Bach, Louis Andriessen, Heiner Goebbels, Nick Williams (WORLD PREMIERE), Nicholas Brown, Michael Gordon
Studio 2, Huddersfield, UK
Produced by HCMF/Supported by Foundation for the Performing Arts in The Netherlands
Tickets
tickets.kirklees.gov.uk
Louis Andriessen: La Passione
22 November, 19.30
Louis Andriessen: La Passione, double concerto for voice & violin
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Clark Rundell
Cristina Zavalloni, vocals
Monica Germino, violin
