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Sinfonietta, with Elizabeth Atherton, Richard Burkard, Frances Gregor and Andrew Mackenzie Wicks,
in a production directed by Jude Christian. Other Tom Coult works at the festival include I Find
Planets, setting tweets from a social media account which every hour announces the discovery of a
new planet, performed by the Hermes Experiment, and Coult's piano trio, The
Chronophage performed by Trio Mazzolini.

Other contemporary composers at the festival include Bushra El-Turk. Her new work for percussion is
given its UK premiere by Vivi Vassileva and the Britten Sinfonia, the Adelphi Quartet performs two of
El-Turk's quartets, and Ostina-bush-to for solo piano receives its first UK performance played by Clare
Hammond. Vivi Vassileva is also the soloist in Gregor A Mayrhofer's Recycling Concerto with the
Britten Sinfonia, conducted by the composer.

Ryan Wigglesworth will be conducting the Knussen Chamber Orchestra in a programme that includes
the first public performance of Wigglesworth's Five Waltzes, with Lawrence Power (viola), and
Britten's Phaedra with Sophie Bevan (soprano). Oliver Knussen would have been 70 in 2022 and
Wigglesworth’s tribute to Oliver Knussen for solo cello will be given its first performance by Anssi
Karttunnen, and Wigglesworth also conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of
Knussen’s Cleveland Pictures as well as music by Respighi and Mussorgsky and Knussen's Horn
Concerto with soloist Martin Owen.

Composer and clarinettist Mark Simpson is joining forces with the Solem Quartet for Simpson's and
Mozart's Clarinet Quintets, and Simpson will be joined by friends for his own Geysir and
Mozart's Gran Partita. Simpson will join pianist Tom Poster for Simpson's Echoes and Embers, and
will feature as clarinettist in Bartok's Contrasts, and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time with
Nicola Benedetti (violin), Laura van der Heijden (cello) and Tom Poster (piano).

Gavin Higgins' new cantata The Faerie Bride is premiered by Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo-
soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Martyn
Brabbins, and Higgins' string sextet, Ekstasis is premiered by the Piatti Quartet with Sara Roberts
(viola) and David Cohen (cello).

Other new music at the festival includes Laura Bowler’s Houses Slide, for soprano Jessica Aszodi
and the London Sinfonietta, and the Riot Ensemble in Liza Lim's Extinction events and dawn
chorus. Other performers at the festival include Anna Lapwood whose organ recital features her own
arrangements of Britten’s Four Sea Interludes and Messiaen’s Vocalise-Etude as well as works by
Elgar, Owain Park and Cheryl Frances Hoad. And Lapwood directs the choir of Pembroke College,
Cambridge in in performances of music based on plainchant, from composers including Bach, Britten
and Dobrinka Tabakova,

The festival is marking HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a visit to Bury St Edmunds Cathedral
for a performance by the ORA Singers directed by Suzi Digby, in music from the 16th and 21st
centuries including a new piece by Aine Mallon. The BBC Singers conducted by Owain Park perform
a collection of short choral pieces by English composers created to celebrate HM The Queen's
coronation in 1953, and also sing Britten’s Sacred and Profane, an anthem by Judith Weir, and world
premieres by Hilary Campbell and Britten Pears Young Artist, Omri Kochavi,

Full details from the Britten Pears Arts website.