Our online listening club is held monthly from 7-8pm on the last Friday of the month, and is a chance to come together regularly to listen to new music and find out more about a selection of contemporary composers.
We will invite a variety of different guest hosts who will explore the music of a new contemporary composer each session. You'll be invited to spend some time listening to one of the composer's works before we meet, but there will also be an opportunity to listen to the work during the session if you don't get around to it beforehand.
Like a book club but with less homework!
For this month's listening club we'll be exploring Diana Soh's “sssh”.
You can listen to the piece here:
Biography - Diana Soh
A multi-disciplinary Singaporean composer based in Paris, Diana Soh has written for a wide range of instrumentation from chamber music to orchestra, dance, film, choral and vocal music, and multi-media site-specific works, with a special interest in theater and for integrating the use of technology.
Educated in Singapore, the US and France (IRCAM), she has also participated in masterclasses and workshops with Péter Eötvös, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Brian Ferneyhough, Isabel Mundry, Misato Mochizuki, and Beat Furrer and is the recipient of numerous prizes including the SACEM Francis and Mica Salabert award in 2021, the 2015 National Arts Council Singapore's Young Artist Award and the 2017 Impuls composition competition.
Her musical interest is directed at exploring performance interactivity and obtaining specific sound colors from the intimate collaboration with performers. She has received notable commissions from the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Aix-en-Provence festival, Maison de Radio France, Opera de Lyon, Grand Théâtre de Provence for the Nouveaux Horizons festival, IRCAM, Philharmonie de Paris, La Chapelle Musicale, Gulbenkian Foundation and Luxembourg Theater.
Her works have been broadcast internationally on WDR, ORF, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, RAI, BBC Radio 3 and France Musique. They have been performed by ensembles such as Ensemble Court-Circuit, Klangforum Wien, Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Lucillin, Schallfeld Ensemble, Maîtrise de Radio France among many others.
She is currently composer in residence at Opera de Bordeaux and her upcoming season includes commissions by Opera de Lyon, Festival d'Aix and Ensemble Intercontemporain and the Arditti Quartet.
Please register in advance by clicking BOOK on the right hand side. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the session.
You can join the session on Zoom via an internet browser on your computer or mobile device or you can phone in on either a mobile or landline to listen using the Dial by your location number.
If you have any queries please email info@sound-scotland.co.uk
