Thursday 10 May

12:00 – 1:00
2:00 – 4:45

Registration: Lg48 (Laud Building)

1:15 – 2:15

Lunchtime concert at St Gregory’s Centre for Music
In Praise of Dreams
Rhona Mckail (soprano) and Yshani Perinpanayagam (pianist) (in association with Park Lane Group)

Sally Beamish - Kyle Song for solo piano
Peter Dickinson - 4 Auden Songs
Judith Weir - King Harald’s Saga
Thea Musgrave - The Suite O Bairn Songs
Joe Cutler - In Praise of Dreams
Matthew Brown - Sounds New Commission (world premiere)

2:30

Welcome: Lg16 (Laud Building)

2:30 ­– 5:00

Room: Lg16

Session 1 – British Opera in perspective
Chair: Roderick Watkins

2:45 – 3:20

Edward Venn: Turnage, Britten and the ‘Dynamics of Lament’

3:20 – 4:00

Paul Max Edlin: Symbolism and Architecture in Bayon and Five Arabian Nights

4:00 – 4:40

Robert Saxton: Wandering and Return

5:00 –10:30

Turner Contemporary, Margate

6:00

An Opera in the Making: John Croft and Loré Lixenberg in discussion
(in association with Sounds New and ROH2)

7:00

The Gallery visit, wine reception and poetry readings by Sounds New poets from the Creative Writing Department at the University of Kent (in association with Sounds New)

8:00

John Croft, A Fury’s Curses – A chamber opera (world premiere)
Loré Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano)
(in association with Sounds New and Brunel University)

9:00

Dinner at Turner Contemporary (prior reservation is strictly required)

 Friday 11 May

8:30 – 12:00
2:15 – 4:00

Registration: Lg48

Room: Lg16

9:00 – 10:30

Session 2 – The New Complexity
Chair: Richard McGregor

9:00 – 9:30

Roddy Hawkins: One complexity, two complexity, more: exploring the role of Suoraan in the emergence of ‘New Complexity’ in Britain (1977–82)

9:30 – 10:00

Fabrice Fitch: Polyphony of Polyphonies: Ferneyhough and the Prima Prattica

10:00 – 10:30

Tyler Cassidy-Heacock: A Complex Way to Gesture: Expressive Communication in James Dillon’s Evening Rain

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break in Lg48

11:00 – 12:00

Room: Lg16

Session 3 – Electronic Music
Chair: Rhiannon Mathias

11:00 – 11:30

Christopher Hayne: Structural Depth: Jonathan Harvey’s Madonna of Winter and Spring

11:30 – 12:00

Settimio Fiorenzo Palermo: Hugh Davies’s Shozygs: Experimental, Conceptual, and Electronic Musical Instruments

12:00

Lunch in the Food Court

1:15 – 2:15

Lunchtime concert at St Gregory’s Centre for Music
Jonathan Harvey, BHAKTI
New Perspectives from the Royal College of Music
Leader: Timothy Lines

2:30 – 3:20

Room: Lg16

Session 4 – Keynote address 1
Chair: Philip Rupprecht

2:30 – 3:20

Jonathan Cross: A Green and Pleasant Land? Constructions of England and Englishness in Music Since 1945

3:20 – 3:40

Coffee break in Lg48

3:40 – 5:45

Room: Lg16

Session 5 – British Modernism in Perspective
Chair: Julie Brown

3:40 – 4:10

Petra Philipsen: ‘New Music in Britain’ – with or without Britten?: Britten's historical position in relation to modernism

4:10 – 4:40

Annika Forkert: Early twentieth-century British modernism and its signifiers

4:40 – 5:10

Christopher Dromey: Prospects for a British ‘Second Modernity’ in the Music of Matthew Taylor and Peter Fribbins

5:10 – 5:40

Christopher Dingle & Laura Hamer: A Varied and Diverse Landscape: Criticism of New Music at The Times Pre and Post the Appointment of Glock

5:45 – 7:00

Drinks reception at St Gregory’s Centre for Music, in honour of Sir John Tavener (sponsored by the Vice Chancellor)

7:30

Evening concert at Canterbury Cathedral Nave
John Tavener: The Veil of the Temple
Tenebrae, Canterbury Cathedral Choir, English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Nigel Short

Saturday 12 May

8:30 – 12:00

Registration: Lg48

9:00 – 10:30

Room: Lg16

Session 6 – British individualists and performance perspectives
Chair: Nicholas Jones

9:00 – 9:30

Rhiannon Mathias: Lutyens, Maconchy, Williams and twentieth-century British music

9:30 – 10:00

Sam Bailey: Developing a vocabulary for solo piano improvisation

10:00 – 10:30

Amanda Bayley: Mapping a composer’s intentions from composition to performance

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee break in Lg48

11:00 – 12:00

Room: Lg16

Session 7 – Film Music
Chair:  Amanda Bayley

11:00 – 11:30

Julie Brown: 'Unusual film fare' in 1925 London: Finding the modern in Frederick Laurence's score for Morozko'

11:30 – 12:00

Ben Curry: Representations of Class in the Music for Ken Loach’s Riff Raff

12:00

Lunch in the Food Court

1:15–2:15

Lunchtime concert at St Gregory’s Centre for Music
Exploding Stars!
Darragh Morgan (violin)

Donnacha Dennehy - Overstrung
Linda Buckley - Exploding Stars
Michael Alcorn - Crossing the Threshold
Frank Lyons - Rush
Simon Emmerson - Stringscape
Jonty Harrison - New work (world premiere)

2:30 – 3:20

Room: Lg16

Session 8 – Keynote address 2
Chair: Jonathan Cross

2:30 – 3:20

Philip Rupprecht: The Style of the New: British Music Between Avant-Garde and Pop

3:20 – 3:40

Coffee break in Lg48

3:40 – 5:45

Room: Lg16

Session  9 – The Manchester School
Chair: Edward Venn

3:40 – 4:10

Benjamin Davies: Grasping the nettle: Birtwistle’s pitch procedures

4:10 – 4:40

Nicholas Jones: Interlacings: reflections on issues of autobiography in two works by Peter Maxwell Davies

4:40 – 5:10

Jo Wilhelm Siebert: Multidimensional Openness. Peter Maxwell Davies’s Way with the Musical Tradition in the Late 60s

5:10 – 5:40

Richard McGregor: The Victim and the Referential Source

6:00

Drinks Reception at St Gregory’s Centre for Music   

7:30

Evening concert at Canterbury Cathedral
The New Planets!
Grimethorpe Colliery Band with Cantata, St. Edmund’s and King’s School girls’ choirs

Harrison Birtwistle - Grimethorpe Aria
John McCabe - Cloudcatcher Fells
Joseph Horovitz - Euphonium Concerto – Michael Dodd (soloist)
Gustav Holst - The Planets (arr. Stephen Roberts)