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12 October 2021

Catalonia, Poland, Canada and more: London Sinfonietta's new season
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London Sinfonietta (Photo Kevin Leighton)

The London Sinfonietta's new season is brimful of new works, and of works exploring new territories
whether geographical or metaphysical.

The Autumn season includes two major works by Catalan composer Roberto Gerhard, Libra and Leo,
both of which were premiered in 1968. Edmon Colomer conducts a programme which includes the
Gerhard pieces alongside works by Catalan composers Joan Magrané Figuera and Raquel García
Tomás (Huddersfield, 22/11/21, Southbank, 1/12/21). Poland is the focus for Jessica Cottis' concert
which includes Krzysztof Penderecki’s Sinfonietta per archi (1992) alongside two world premieres
from Wojciech Błażejczyk and Paweł Mykietyn, both commissions from the newly launched
International Centre for Contemporary Music (27/4/2022). Canada is the next country, as Ilan Volkov
conducts Lonely Child the master work of Canadian composer Claude Vivier, with soprano Clare
Booth, alongside a new work by contemporary Canadian composer Nicole Lizée. The concert is also
a training event as the London Sinfonietta will be playing side-by-side with players from the Royal
Academy of Music (6/5/2022).

Opera performances include a new chamber version of Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle being performed
at Stone Nest as the inaugural production of Theatre of Sound, with Susan Bullock, Gweneth Ann
Rand, Gerald Finley and Michael Hayes. The director is Daisy Evans and music director is Stephen
Higgins, both of whom have been prime movers in Silent Opera (November 2021). And the orchestra
will be in the pit when Tom Coult's opera Violet (much anticipated and much delayed by pandemic