Concert Series: New Futures

As the cultural sector recovers from the impact of COVID-19, it must adapt to a world defined by new rules and new realities. London Sinfonietta’s New Futures concert series is a response to this new environment in which we must ensure more democratic access to and participation in the arts. The climate crisis is already triggering mass movements of peoples; and the Black Lives Matter movement has reinforced the need for equality of opportunity.

New Futures is a twelve-event series championing outstanding composers and new music, reflecting this new world and showing how radical social change has positively impacted the London Sinfonietta. This project demonstrates the range of styles and settings that new music can can and should embrace in order to engage with – and make itself relevant to – the wider public who will be inspired by encountering it.

The project includes a concert celebrating the impact of one of the greatest composers of modern times, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and a new work by Nwando Ebizie which addresses how hearing and deaf audiences can experience the same music together. Events range from concerts in the palaces of the arts for ticket-buying audiences (Royal Festival Hall) to a week-long new music residency in a school in a socially deprived London borough (St Ignatius School Residency). All concerts will be performed by a diverse and inclusive roster of renowned artists who have long-standing and new relationships with the London Sinfonietta, as well as a wide range of composers representing both the white Western tradition (Birtwistle, Reich, Wolfe) and the global majority (Ebizie, Fujikura, León, Lewis). The New Futures concert series is made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

Further information:
londonsinfonietta.org.uk

Dates

March 5; May 21, 25 and 31, 2023.
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London

March 10, 2023
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London (and online)

April 6, 2023
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre

April 30, 2023
Village Underground, London

May 22, 2023
St Ignatius College, Enfield, London

June 24 and July 10, 2023
Kings Place, London