Jack Sheen - Solo for cello Luciano Berio - Les mots sont alles Linda Catlin-Smith - Ricercar New compositions by School of Music students
Cellist Anton Lukoszevieze presents a concert of new and older works, exploring the intricacies of the cello as an instrument of poetic soundings and hidden paths.
Anton Lukoszevieze is both a musician and an artist. His practice moves between these areas, through performance, composition, graphic work, photography, film and video. As a cellist he has commissioned over 70 new works and performed concerti with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Contemporary Music Festival Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has also devised programmes and given broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, Danish Radio, SR2, Sweden, Deutschland Rundfunk, WDR, Germany and ORT, Austria. He has worked with many contemporary composers and performers, notably Christian Wolff, David Behrman, Amnon Wolman, Elaine Mitchener, Klaus Lang, Philip Corner, Helmut Oehring, Jennifer Walshe, Rytis Mažulis, Angharad Davies, Jem Finer, Christopher Fox, Richard Ayres, Phill Niblock, Christian Marclay and Laurence Crane. He has worked with a vast array of performers and conductors such as Thomas Adés, Peter Eötvös, Sakari Oramo, Diego Masson, Jerome Noetinger, Ilan Volkov, Pierre Strauch, Linda Hirst, John Tilbury, Carsten Nicolai, Zbigniew Karkowski, Keiji Heino, William Bennett (Whitehouse), Sasha Waltz Dance Company and as a dancer with the Vincent Dance Company. He is the subject of 8 films by the renowned artist filmmaker Jayne Parker, commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is notable for his use of the curved bow (BACH-Bogen), which he is using to develop new repertoire, with 14 new works commissioned. He is also the founder and director of the ensemble Apartment House, one of Europe’s leading ensembles for the performance of contemporary and experimental music. He has also performed with many new music ensembles, including Zeitkratzer, Musikfabrik and Kammer Ensemble Neue Musik, Berlin.
