London Sinfonietta Academy 2011
Training musicians of tomorrow
Between 25 – 29 July some of the most talented young musicians and conductors from across the UK joined together for the London Sinfonietta Academy 2011. This intensive course of expert coaching, lectures, workshops and master-classes is designed to hone the participant’s technical and performance skills, and the London Sinfonietta Academy is one of the few courses of its kind dedicated to the specific challenges posed by contemporary classical music.
This year's repertoire featured some of the most significant work of recent years, centred around György Ligeti’s Kammerkonzert. The culmination of the students’ hard work was a public concert at Kings Place, whose programme featured Living Toys by Thomas Adès, Partiels by Gerard Grisey and the premier of Insomniac, a new work specially commissioned from Charlie Piper for the occasion.
Working closely with London Sinfonietta principals, Academy participants and distinguished conductor Pierre-André Valade, we captured some of the process and work that goes into performing a complex contemporary work, focussing on Ligeti's Kammerkonzert.
