Chroma CANCELLED
Sunday 26 September : 3pm
£6.00 : £4.00 concessions : seated
This event has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Please contact the box office on 01603 660352 for refunds.
Norwich Contemporary Music Series presents…
One of the UK’s foremost chamber music ensembles playing music by Dai Fujikura and the best British contemporary composers.
Featuring musicians:
Alexandra Wood – violin
Clare O’Connell – cello
Roderick Chadwick – piano
Stuart King – clarinets
Performing contemporary works commissioned by this innovative collective of musicians including:
Philip Cashian – Caprichos
Per Nørgård – Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
Gabriel Jackson – Cythera
Founded in 1997, CHROMA is a dynamic, critically acclaimed chamber ensemble featuring some of Britain’s most outstanding musicians, known for the passion it brings to contemporary works, its vivid renderings of classic pieces and its diverse participation/learning activity.
Following its debut at the Purcell Room CHROMA has become most closely associated with the performance of contemporary music and has forged close links with many prominent British composers through many premières and collaborations.
Recent world premières include CHROMA commissions from Julian Grant – Strike Opponent’s Ears With Both Fists, Arlene Sierra – Surrounded Ground, David Bruce Suadades and Dominic Shovelton El Ingles – it will premiere its latest commission from Philip Cashian at Kings Place in November 2010. Premières also include pieces written for CHROMA by John Cooney – Songlines, (commissioned by Spitalfields Festival), Mark Bowden The Root of The Wind, Andrew Hamilton Product #2 and Charlie Piper Bordello (commissioned by C3/Kettle’s Yard). Recent EU premieres include David Bruce’s Piosenki and Gumboots, and Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking by Per Nørgård.
With Tête à Tête, for whom CHROMA is Associate Ensemble, premieres include Julian Grant’s “knitting opera” Odysseus Unwound, the six opera shorts Blind Date, The Cumnor Affair, composer Philip Cashian, libretto Iain Pears – and several works in development through The Opera Festival. Other opera collaborations include Iford Festival and Co-Opera Co. CHROMA also works with the integrated contemporary dance company Lantern, based in Ely.
In 2010 CHROMA is also working with post-grad composers at RHUL collaborating with post-grad choreographers at The Place; post-grad composers at Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
CHROMA has an active participation and learning programme, including collaborations with Kings Place and Tête à Tête, primary school programmes in Norwich, Amersham and Wiltshire, and is resident at Cardiff University and Royal Holloway University of London.
Recent Press Reviews:
“the exemplary CHROMA” Rian Evans The Guardian 2009
“the top-notch chamber ensemble CHROMA” Erica Jeal, The Guardian
“CHROMA played with an unabashed and infectious passion…..a huge standing ovation came as no great surprise.” The Brighton and Hove Argus
