Tuesday 28 June
19:30 Dome Room – Concert 1
The festival opener features live performances and acousmatic works by BEAST composers and friends from over the decades.
Emma Margetson | Elapsing |
Duncan Forsyth-Forrest | Tenney |
Henry Eady | Rupture |
Christopher Haworth | Proximes |
[INTERVAL]
Hildegard Westerkamp (diffusion: Emma Margetson) | Breathing Room |
Gabriel Montufar | Sounds of Clubbing |
Milad Mardakheh & Simon Smith | Live improvisation |
Natasha Barrett (diffusion: Scott Wilson) | Dream Awake |
Wednesday 29 June
15:00 Elgar Concert Hall – Concert 2
This concert features music by current students and recent graduates of the Electroacoustic Music Studios, alongside music from one of acousmatic music’s pioneers, François Bayle who last visited BEAST in 2014.
Norah Lorway | digitalOceans |
Michael Ryan | Celeste |
François Bayle (diffusion: Jonty Harrison) | Toupie dans le ciel (Erosphère) |
Hector Bravo Benard | Interlude |
Sam Bland | 66 Montclaire, The Fish and Meat Market |
Milad Mardakheh | Immortality |
20:00 Elgar Concert Hall – Concert 3
This concert features the premiere of a new work for tuba ensemble and tape by current BEAST co-director Scott Wilson. We welcome back more members of the BEAST family to perform new works alongside music by BEAST friends Annette Vande Gorne and Christian Eloy.
Scott Wilson | MotorBEAST |
When Tuba Come One Quartet with James Carpenter, Alex Hall – Tubas Sara Caneva – Conductor |
Charlie Lockwood | Everything Comes Around Again |
Nikki Sheth | Windmills of Lapua |
Simon Smith | Synthetic RADI (reactive-affective-defensive-impulsive) |
[INTERVAL]
Andreas Mniestris (diffusion: Michael Gatt) | Stones Bricks Tiles … disorderly |
Christian Eloy (diffusion: Michael Gatt) | Eneyida |
Annette Vande Gorne (diffusion: Hans Tutschku) | Figures d’espace |
Steve Benner (diffusion: Gabriel Montufar) | Sólheimajökull: Ice Movement |
Manfredi Clemente | Oubliez-moi sous ces cèdres |
Thursday 30 June
18:00 Dome Room – Concert 4
A solo concert of multichannel works by guest composer Robert Normandeau.
Robert Normandeau | StrinGDberg |
Robert Normandeau | Raíl |
Robert Normandeau | L’engloutissement |
20:00 Elgar Concert Hall – Concert 5
In this concert we hear works, old and new, by BEAST composers who were students here in the 2000s.
Helena Gough (diffusion: Simon Smith) | Yolk |
Robert Dow (diffusion: Pete Stollery) | Season of Mists |
Daniel Barreiro (diffusion: Annie Mahtani) | Fragments – Images – Resonances |
James Carpenter | Tangle |
Pippa Murphy (diffusion: Pete Stollery) | Caspian Retreat |
[INTERVAL]
Hasnizam (diffusion: Pete Stollery) | Bako |
Joseph Hyde | Levels and Perspectives 2: Windpump |
David Berezan (diffusion: Jonty Harrison) | Cyclo |
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay | Bucolic & Broken |
Steven Naylor | Lullaby |
Friday 1 July
13:00 Elgar Concert Hall – Concert 6
This concert features music by current students and also by composers who studied or worked in the Electroacoustic Music Studios during the last 10 years.
Ângela da Ponte (diffusion: Marty Fisk) | ThEma |
Mark Ferguson | Mud Roots |
Savannah Agger (diffusion: Gabriel Montufar) | Landschaften II |
Costis Kontos (diffusion: Manfredi Clemente) | Xaliks |
Pardis Nikbakhsh (diffusion: Milad Mardakheh) | Cave |
Julien Guillamat | Les marteaux oubliés |
Erik Nyström | Compose/Decompose |
Kevin Buckland (diffusion: Michael Gatt) | Sons Libérés |
Jorge Gregorio García Moncada (diffusion: Scott Wilson) | Psittacus |
17:00 Elgar Concert Hall – Concert 7
This concert welcomes back composers who worked in the Electroacoustic Music Studios during the 1990s and 2000s and also features the 1992 BEAST commission Valley Flow from lifelong BEAST friend Denis Smalley.
SOUNDkitchen: Iain Armstrong & Annie Mahtani | Ilha Verde |
Jonty Harrison | Concertino |
Joseph Anderson | Concertina (after Harrison’s Concertino) |
Lisa Whistlecroft (diffusion: Gabriel Montufar) | Happy Birthday BEAsTs |
Peter Batchelor | Kaleidoscope: Arcade |
Adrian Moore | …prospecting… |
Denis Smalley (diffusion: Jonty Harrison) | Valley Flow |
19:30 Elgar Concert Hall – Concert 8
The final concert of the festival features new music by composers who were here during BEAST’s formative years in the 1980s and music from composers who influenced or were influenced by Jonty Harrison. It also includes new works by lifelong BEAST friend Simon Emmerson and by BEAST founder Jonty Harrison.
Scott Wilson | BEASTly Fanfare |
Andrew Lewis | Cori Spezzati |
Nicholas Virgo & Alistair MacDonald (diffusion: Alistair MacDonald) | A Confluence of Birds |
Francis Dhomont (diffusion: Jonty Harrison) | Studio de nuit |
Hans Tutschku | Remembering Japan – Pt. 3 – Abstraction |
Annie Mahtani | Breathe |
[INTERVAL]
Elainie Lillios & Michael Thompson (diffusion: Annie Mahtani) | Tonic in G |
Simon Emmerson | Near and Far (at once) |
David Berezan (diffusion: Adrian Moore) | Sonic Birthday Card |
Pete Stollery | Community |
Bernard Parmegiani (diffusion: Jonty Harrison) | La Roue Ferris |
Jonty Harrison | Wee BEASTies |