Mira Calix: Fables & other works

Abstract

Mira Calix is not afraid to challenge musical convention or cross genre boundaries. She creates music of unconventional beauty, working with found sound, electronics, voice and classical instrumentation. Her prolific and innovative approach to composition has led to a critically-acclaimed catalogue of work. She has been commissioned to set both the words of one of Britain's most acclaimed and award winning contemporary poets, Alice Oswald and that of its most established; William Shakespeare, to music. She has released music alongside avant-garde classical composers like Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Jonathan Harvey and collaborated with indie innovators such as Malcolm Middleton (Arab Strap) and Brian McComber (Dirty Projectors). She has supported Radiohead on a leg of their Kid A tour and composed Nunu for the London Sinfonietta and a chorus of insects. She has released five albums on Warp Records.

This concert surveys Mira Calix’s works for ensemble and electronics, including the wonderfully strange Nunu for musicians and a choir of insects, and works by Ades, Ligeti and Saariaho. Mira also premieres her Made of Music commission inspired by, and incorporating the music of, Elisabeth Murdoch Hall. Show more