Maurice Ravel - Noctuelles; Oiseaux tristes (from Miroirs) Olivier Messiaen - Le Loriot (from Catalogue d'oiseaux) Michael Spencer - Ravelations (UnRavelling) Niki Zohdi - New Work [world premiere] Michael Finnissy - Third Political Agenda Michael Finnissy - Midsummer Morn (from English Country Tunes) Rolf Hind - Pakshina/Vrka/Matsya/Shatpadi/Khaga (Bird/Wolf/Fish/Bee/Bird) from Bhutani Alejandra Garcés - "Beauty is action, not contemplation." (I see the Pavilion and I see myself. As long as it exists intact and eternal, I can never truly exist. I have to destroy it so that the world can move again...) [world premiere] Olivier Messiaen - Regard du silence (from Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus) Unsuk Chin - Etudes nos. 1, 2 and 6 (In C, Sequences, Grains)
Rolf Hind studied piano and composition at the Royal College of Music in London and in Los Angeles. For fifteen years he worked principally as a pianist, collaborating with composers including Messiaen, Berio, Ligeti, Kurtág, Tan Dun, John Adams, Thomas Adès and George Benjamin, and premiering hundreds of new works worldwide. He returned to composition in 2000, inspired particularly by India, whose languages, philosophy, landscapes and culture inform much of his music. His works include the piano concerto Maya-Sesha, Lost in Thought, a four-hour ‘mindfulness opera’, The Secret Names, and Sky In A Small Cage, his opera about the poet Sufi Rumi.
