Wigmore Hall: Jocelyn Pook premiere


Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/06/2014
1:00 pm

Location
Wigmore Hall


Aurora Orchestra
The Mind and Soul Choir
Loré Lixenberg | soprano
Melanie Pappenheim | mezzo-soprano
Graham Ross | conductor

MICHAEL BERKELEY Three Rilke Sonnets
JOCELYN POOK Anxiety Fanfare and Variations for Voices (world premiere)
SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4

This concert features the world première of Anxiety Fanfare and Variations for Voices, a new work by acclaimed composer Jocelyn Pook commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation for Anxiety 2014.

A unique collaboration between Wigmore Hall, Aurora Orchestra and the Mental Health Foundation; the première will be performed by Aurora Orchestra with the Mind and Soul Choir.

The new work extends Pook’s interest in the experience of mental illness, which she explored in her ground-breaking 2012 work Hearing Voices.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 1pm
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP
http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/aurora-orchestra-loré-lixenberg-soprano-melanie-pappenheim-mezzo-soprano-the-mi