CoMA Contemporary Music for All 21st Anniversary concerts

CoMA's unique position encouraging participation in contemporary music is celebrated with performances of more than 40 of its commissioned works, reflecting the diverse forms and languages used by composers of today.

Conductors Txemi Etxebarria, Stuart Hazleton, Mark Lawrence, Sarah Leonard, Janet Oates, Simon Prince, Kieran O’ Riordan, Gregory Rose, Adam Swayne

with CoMA Ensembles Bristol, East Midlands, Leeds, London, Maastricht, Singers, Sussex, Voices, West Midlands, and the Oldham Music Centre Contemporary Music Group

12noon and 2pm Hot Blast
CoMA’s flexibly-scored repertoire, represented in this two-part concert, include Open Score works by Eleanor Alberga, Gerald Barry, Elspeth Brooke, Paul Burnell, Joe Cutler, Adam Gorb, Piers Hellawell, Gabriel Jackson, Howard Jones, Joanna Lee, Dominic Murcott, Jesse Passenier, Gregory Rose, Zbigniew Rudzinski, Howard Skempton, John Tavener, Andrew Toovey and James Weeks

7pm Moving On
Presenter Tom Service in discussion with Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir and other guests.
Admittance by evening concert ticket

8pm Plain Harmony
CoMA orchestral works by Michael Finnissy, Michael Nyman, Philip Cashian and James Harrison, specially commissioned fanfares by Diana Burrell, Stephen Montague, Roxanna Panufnik and Judith Weir, and a postlude by the Estonian composer Tatjana Kozlova.

CoMA: building audiences for contemporary music by encouraging and enabling musicians of all abilities to participate actively in the creation and performance of new music