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UK-wide premieres announced for New Music 20x12 Cultural Olympiad Composers
Dates for the first set of premières by New Music 20x12 Cultural Olympiad Composers were announced this morning by PRS for Music Foundation. This ambitious and wide-ranging project, which is part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, involves some of the UK's leading composers from across a range of music genres. Each composer has been commissioned to capture the spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic Games with a piece of music 12 minutes in length. Premières will take place the length and breadth of the UK at concert halls, arts centres, festivals, public spaces and, for one première, a prison - culminating in a weekend at Southbank Centre (13 - 15 July 2012) where all the works will be performed as part of a wider exploration of composing new music.
Rambert's inaugural Music Fellow, Gavin Higgins, has composed a new work as part of New Music 20x12: What Wild Ecstasy will be premièred by Rambert Dance Company at His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen 15 - 17 February 2012. Tickets are on sale now »
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