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BLACK HAIR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE

Black Hair is an ensemble of musicians who share a commitment to exploring new ways of presenting new music. Together the group devises programmes which take the audience on a journey - sometimes quite literally - and their concerts need to be seen as well as heard. Experienced workshop leaders, the group also strives to share its ideas through collaborations and residencies, especially with young musicians, actors and dancers.

NEWSRSS

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York Spring Festival of New Music (in collaboration with the Late Music Festival)

Saturday, 15th May 2010, 7:30pm
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York

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'Rising' in the Spiegel Tent Rotherham

Friday, 9th October 2009, 7:30pm
Rotherham Open Arts Festival
£8 (£6 concession)

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Filming Jessen and Aperghis

Members of Black Hair were at the Royal College of Music this week, filming in the studios there.  The composer Ed Jessen set up the project, and the result will be a short film of his pieces 'Companion' and 'Chambre', and a realisation of one of Georges Aperghis's 'Recitations'.

Danish commission

We have commissioned a new work from the Danish composer Thomas Agerfeld Olesen for our 2010 season. Funding for the commission has been provided by the Danish Arts Foundation. We met Thomas in 2006 when we opened the Aarhus Festival. His new piece (working title: Audio Plays) will exploit the theatricality of Black Hair - but we don't know how yet! The premiere will be in York next Spring. There's going to be a new piece by Roger too, but we know even less about that......

New Collaboration with Open Minds Theatre

Black Hair begins a new collaboration with Open Minds Theatre in Rotherham in the Autumn. Together we will devise a new show for the Rotherham Open Arts Festival. The performance will be on October 9th 2009 in the 'Spiegel Tent' in the centre of Rotherham. Don't know what it's going to be yet, but it's going to be a lot of fun working with Open Minds again. (see upcoming gigs for more info when we have it)

Composition workshops at York

Members of the ensemble worked with student composers at York in the summer term, and recorded 24 compositions on June 22 and 23.

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University of Manchester

Thursday, 1st October 2009, 1:10pm
Martin Harris Centre, Univeristy of Manchester
free

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Lunchtime concert

Thursday, 15th October 2009, 1:10pm
University of Durham, Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham.
£5/£2

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Cutting Edge Programme

Friday, 26th June 2009, 10:00pm
Corsham Festival, Wiltshire
tbc

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Lunchtime Concert

Tuesday, 10th March 2009, 12:15pm
York St John University
Admission free

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