840: New Music for Violin and Objects

Presented by: 840

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0	BIRMINGHAM: Vivid Projects
P	Monday 12th September, 2016
N	7:30pm

Event information

840 are excited to present a concert of new music for violin and objects. New works by Michael Baldwin (Weisslich), Dominic Lash (The Dominic Lash Quartet), James Saunders (Bath Spa University), Laurie Tompkins (Slip), as well as 840's own Alex Nikiporenko and Nicholas Peters, will be performed alongside Sunday by Vitalija Glovackyte (ACM Ensemble) and EVERYTHING YOU OWN HAS BEEN TAKEN TO A DEPOT SOMEWHERE by Jennifer Walshe (Brunel University). Violinist Ruben Zilberstein will be joined by Alex and Nick performing on a variety of objects that range from pom poms and party horns (Walshe) to Sainsbury's bags (Tompkins) and phone vibration motors (Glovackyte).

840: New Music for Violin and Objects was first performed in St James’ Church, Islington on 5/3/16. This performance at Vivid Projects, Birmingham forms part of this year’s 840 tour.

840 is a London-based experimental music concert series, founded in 2014 by the composers Alex Nikiporenko and Nicholas Peters. Committed to championing new pieces by composers that we believe in, each concert in the series focuses on a particular chamber instrumentation.

Ruben Zilberstein is a London-based violinist. As a new-music instigator, Ruben is always seeking further collaborations with composers and artists in other disciplines. He has performed concerts and in music festivals in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland and the UK, working with composers including Laurence Crane, James Weeks, Henrik Strindberg and Miklós Maros.