Saturday 11th June. 19:00.
dai hall, Unit 29/30 The Piazza, Huddersfield, HD1 2RS (across the green field from the Huddersfield Library)
£6 concession/ advanced. Tickets on sale in our online shop. Go to shop.
This is the first of ame’s piano concert series in collaboration with Another Timbre. Following BECKstein Piano residency #01 (9th – 11th June) with Lawrence Dunn, Dunn and Yong will present piano works that they are currently working.
Lawrence Dunn
Performance: The Answer
First performance of a new work for piano solo and fixed media audio. Exploring the interaction of the piano’s acoustics with artificial resonance, synthesised tones and noise.
Lawrence Dunn (*1991) was born in Walthamstow, London. Composing and improvising from an early age, he attended Trinity College of Music, training as a pianist and percussionist, later studying at Cambridge and Huddersfield. His music has been performed by Apartment House, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Quatuor Bozzini, Plus-Minus, Slagwerk Den Haag, Philip Thomas, and Sarah Saviet. Recent music includes a new piece for Ensemble Modern, premiered in March 2020. A work for Juliet Fraser, titled While we are both, was recently released on Huddersfield Contemporary Records. A new extended chamber project is planned for Explore Ensemble. He is based in Manchester.
http://www.lawrencedunn.co.uk/
Kerry Yong
Performance: Flax (work in progress)
A work-in-progress performance of a new extended piano piece by Canadian composer Martin Arnold. Originally commissioned by Philip Thomas and Another Timbre, this hour-long work has been taken on by Kerry Yong, and when finished, it will be performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Martin Arnold is something of a counter-culture figure within Canadian music. “All the music I make is in some way melodic. I also think of it as being slack, meandering, psychedelic, and, even at its most ponderously enervated, dance music…My ideal is that my music should sound like it was recorded underwater at a Methadone clinic.
Kerry is a musician who lives in east London. From Sydney, he trained as a pianist and came to London to complete DMus at the Royal College of Music. He now also performs on keyboards and live electronics. As a solo pianist and a member of the experimental ensemble Apartment House, he has performed at the Bishopsgate Institute, Café OTO, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Kings Place, Music We’d Like To Hear and Wigmore Hall.
