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L5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
Conference: Contemporary Music and Spirituality
Friday, 1 February
Exploring why and how composers such as Poulenc and Stockhausen have sought to convey spiritual expression through music.
£7
L5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
Conference: Contemporary Music and Spirituality
Saturday, 2 February
Exploring why and how composers such as Penderecki, Part, Schnittke, John Adams and Tavener have sought to convey spiritual expression through music.
£7
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Saturday, 2 February
This world-leading ensemble with Festival Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard perform From the Canyons to the Stars, Olivier Messiaen's musical vision of the American West.
£22 £17 £13 £8
Purcell Room
Meeting Messiaen: Discussion
Saturday, 2 February
With Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Artistic Director of the festival, and composer George Benjamin.
Admission free
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Messiaen Study Day with Nash Ensemble Performance
Sunday, 3 February
A study day exploring Messiaen's mystical and spiritual piece written when he was interned in a German prison camp.
£7 £9 £11 £14 £15 £18 £22
Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Nash Ensemble - Late
Sunday, 3 February
An atmospheric late night performance of Messiaen’s powerful Quartet for the End of Time.
£7
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music students
Monday, 4 February
Performing Messiaen’s vast and exotic Catalogue d’oiseaux (Catalogue of Birds) for solo piano.
£6 £4 (concessions)
Royal Academy of Music
Soundbox
Tuesday, 5 February
An exploration of Messiaen’s lesser-known chamber music, including the recently published Fantaisie for violin and piano.
Admission free
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music students
Wednesday, 6 February
Two works from the 1930s celebrating Messiaen’s domestic happiness.
£6 £4 (concessions)
Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra
Thursday, 7 February
An eclectic mix of influences from Wagnerian themes of love, bell-like sonorities of Javanese gamelan and jazzy Gershwin-like elements.
£38 £29 £23 £18 £14 £11 £8 Premium seats £45
Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Gamelan Players
Thursday, 7 February
Javanese orchestra of gongs, metallophones and drums.
Admission free
Royal Academy of Music
Research Forum
Friday, 8 February
A discussion on competition pieces written by composers for the Paris Conservatoire, followed by an informal Competition with performers from the Royal Academy of Music.
Admission free
Royal Academy of Music
Symphony Orchestra
Friday, 8 February
A programme featuring works by Messiaen and a piece by Messiaen’s relentlessly self-critical teacher, Paul Dukas
£6 £4 (concessions)
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Sixteen
Saturday, 9 February
Messiaen’s Harawi, is a sequence of love poems inspired by Peruvian texts, woven with echoes of the Tristan myth.
£22 £18 £14 £11 £9
Royal Academy of Music
Open Academy: Family Workshops
Sunday, 10 February
A day of activities for children and their families with musicians performing and bringing Messiaen’s birdsong to life.
Admission free - (Advance booking required, please call 020 7873 7442)
Royal Festival Hall
Philharmonia Orchestra
Sunday, 10 February
Oiseaux exotiques is a colourful and energetic portrait of birdsong which became central to Messiaen’s music in the 1950s.
£38 £29 £23 £18 £14 £11 £8 Premium seats £45
Royal Academy of Music
Birdsong Family Event
Sunday, 10 February
This day of activities for children aged seven and under explored Messiaen's fascination with birdsong.
Free
Purcell Room
Royal Academy of Music students
Tuesday, 12 February
Messiaen’s artistic innovations of the 1950s are marked by a penchant for the exotic, focussing on the piano.
£6
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Pierre Laurent Aimard
Wednesday, 13 February
An unmissable highlight of the festival, Artistic Director Pierre-Laurent Aimard performs Messiaen’s major 20-movement piano work.
£22 £18 £14 £11 £9 Premium seats £30
Royal Festival Hall
Make Origami Birds!
Thursday, 14 February
Help us build our collection of origami birds by adding your own images, videos to our growing flock.
Free
Royal Academy of Music
Workshop: Synaesthesia and Improvisation
Friday, 15 February
A practical afternoon workshop on colour and sound.
Admission free
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music Barbirolli Lecture: Professor Peter Hill
Friday, 15 February
Professor Peter Hill surveys and discusses the evolution of the Catalogue d’oiseaux.
Admission free
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble
Friday, 15 February
Messiaen’s lifelong enthusiasms for stained glass and birdsong are celebrated in the radiant Un vitrail et des oiseaux.
£6 £4 (concessions)
Royal Academy of Music
Synaesthesia and Improvisation
Friday, 15 February
Messiaen's synaesthetic experience of music is the basis for this practical exploration of colour and sound for improvising musicians.
Free
Queen Elizabeth Hall
London Sinfonietta
Sunday, 17 February
Two monumental masterpieces by Messiaen and Boulez are performed for this concert.
£22 £17 £13 £8
Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Pianomations
Sunday, 17 February
The premiere screening of a new film created by animation students from Kingston University, accompanied by the London Sinfonietta performing music from Messiaen's `Quartet for the End of Time'.
Admission Free
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music students
Monday, 18 February
Messiaen’s lifelong interest in birdsong is celebrated along with works from Jonathan Harvey’s hauntingly beautiful settings of texts by Rabindranath Tagore.
Admission free
St Marylebone Parish Church
Royal Academy of Music students
Tuesday, 19 February
Featuring Livre d’orgue, the piece which at it’s premiere in Paris in the 1950s created an almighty and unexpected crush such was the interest aroused.
£6 £4 (concessions)
St Marylebone Parish Church
David Titterington organ
Wednesday, 20 February
Messiaen’s two-panel Diptyque was dedicated to the teachers who had the most direct formative influence upon him, Paul Dukas and Marcel Dupré.
Admission free
St Marylebone Parish Church
Organ masterclasses with Olivier Latry
Thursday, 21 February
A chance to attend masterclasses given by Olivier Latry, organist of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.
Admission free
Westminster Abbey
Olivier Latry
Friday, 22 February
Olivier Latry, hailed as one of the finest interpreters of the music of Messiaen, performs La Nativité du Seigneur.
£15 £10 (concessions)
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