New Music Takes Centre Stage at Wigmore Hall this Autumn
A new work for solo piano by the Canadian pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear receives its world première at London’s Wigmore Hall on Saturday 23 September 2023. Performed by Goodyear himself, making his Wigmore Hall debut, it is the first of 16 new ‘Voices of Today’ works commissioned to support composers during the coronavirus pandemic.
Seeking as diverse a group as possible, Wigmore Hall invited applications from composers all over the world, aged 18 and up, never commissioned by the Hall before. From 700 submissions, 16 winning ‘Voices of Today’ composers, aged between 24 and 63, were selected by a panel of fellow composers across two rounds. Three more 'Voices of Today' works will be premièred in the new year, and the remaining dozen can be heard, four a season, until 2027.
Goodyear’s world première comes during an autumn with an abundance of new music at Wigmore Hall, including 20 world & UK premières.
World, UK and London Premières at Wigmore Hall this Autumn
- Andreia Pinto Correia Aere senza stelle (UK, 13 Sep)
- Colin Jacobsen A Short While To Be Here (UK, 13 Sep)
- Akshaya Tucker Hollow Flame (UK, 13 Sep)
- Oliver Leith Non Voglio Mai Vedere Il Sole Tramontare from Last Days (16 Sep)
- Brad Mehldau 14 Reveries for Piano (UK, 20 Sep)
- Stewart Goodyear Mending Wall (world, 23 Sep)
- Joseph Phibbs New work for string quintet (world, 7 Oct)
- Louise Drewett How I Heard (world, 9 Nov)
- Louise Drewett Lament (world, 9 Nov)
- Joseph Howard So they gave me opium; Wax and Wail (world, 9 Nov)
- Thea Musgrave Orlando's return to London..as a WOMAN from ORLANDO, an Escapade (9 Nov)
- Raymond Yiu Chinese Whispers (world, 9 Nov)
- Jannik Giger Uraufführung (world, 11 Nov)
- David Matthews Kingsdown Suite (world, 20 Nov)
- Laurence Osborn New work for string quintet (world, 25 Nov)
- Laurence Osborn New work (world, 25 Nov)
- Laurence Osborn Coin Op Automata (London, 25 Nov)
- Jake Heggie Fantasy Suite 1803 (UK, 27 Nov)
- Dai Fujikura Piano Sonata (UK, 16 Dec)
- Brian Elias I saw a peacock (world, 28 Dec)
- David Ludwig Swan Song (UK, 30 Dec)
Further Information: 2023/24 Season September - December (wigmore-hall.org.uk)