Event overview
Composing 1 minute pieces; extracts from the 10th Piano Concert (2012)
This event is part of the Graduate Forum series.
Dave Smith talks about composition strategies in writing seventy five 1 minute pieces for his 10th Piano Concert, with a performance of a selection of pieces, followed by a drinks reception.
During the 1970s, Dave Smith was a member of the London-based Scratch Orchestra and various composer-performer ensembles (principally with John Lewis, Michael Parsons, Howard Skempton, John White, Gavin Bryars and Ben Mason) and later was a founder member of the English Gamelan Orchestra and Liria, the first English groups to specialise in, respectively, Javanese classical and Albanian folk musics. He has been a member of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble since its inception and has been involved in many other professional performances as pianist, brass-player, percussionist or conductor including British or world premieres of works by Carla Bley, Harold Budd, Howard Burrell, Cornelius Cardew, Ornette Coleman, Philip Glass, Ladislav Kupkovic, Michael Nyman and Christian Wolff. His musical activities have led him to many different countries and types of venue ranging from Macclesfield shopping centre and the Hall of the North Korean Ministry of Railways to an Albanian taverna and a swimming pool in Brussels.
Since 1983 he has written over 100 piano pieces assembled into a series of recital-length “Piano Concerts”. As of Summer 2012, ten of these have been completed and others are in preparation. Other works have adopted quite different compositional approaches: these have ranged from the “wall-of-sound” minimalism of Diabolus maximus (5 pianos - 1976) to the collage of Alban Lament (8 voices + 8 instruments - 1996/8) and, most recently, the quarter-tones of Natural Selections (string quartet - 2009).
Photo: NMC
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 29 Jan 2013 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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