Award Nomination
Britten Sinfonia is delighted to announce that we have been nominated for a Classical Music Prize 2010 in the category ‘large ensemble or orchestra’ by The Association of Dutch Theatre and Concert Halls (VSCD).
We have been nominated for the award in recognition of our performance with violinst Pekka Kuusisto in January 2010. The jury wishes to express their great appreciation for the contribution Britten Sinfonia made to the quality of performances in the Dutch concert halls this season. The winner of the awards will be announced in Autumn 2010.
Our Britten in America tour was a great success around the Netherlands and across the UK. Pekka Kuusisto directed Britten Sinfonia in works by Purcell, Tippett, Britten, Reich, Adams and a world première of Impossible Things by Nico Muhly written for Pekka Kuusisto and Mark Padmore.
You can read press reviews of the concerts and Nico Muhly’s residency with the orchestra here. Or see a behind the scenes insight into life on tour here with a player’s video diary.
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Next Production
Britten Sinfonia At Lunch October
London, Norwich, Cambridge and Birmingham
06 - 15 October 2010
Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet is an acknowledged masterpiece and at the heart of this opening concert in Britten Sinfonia’s award-winning lunchtime series. Arguable his best known chamber work, it’s a piece hugely admired by two composers also featured in this concert. The celebrated composer James MacMillan is represented by four miniatures each dedicated to important figures in his life, including Brother Walfrid, founder of Celtic football club, and fellow Scottish composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sally Beamish. Maxwell Davies turns the tables with a brand new work in tribute to James MacMillan, co-commissioned by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall.
