pf. Ensemble Modern
cond. Enno Poppe
premiere, Frankfurt, March 2020
contains a field recording by Vincent Duseigne of veal calves being separated from their mothers 
(2015, https://archive.org/details/aporee_30571_35170)
art: Egon Schiele, "Sawmill" (1913)

We are all okay

String Quartet no 5
[excerpt of 60' piece]
Performed by Apartment House
Music We'd Like To Hear
Sept 2021

The Nobby Saddy Quartet [excerpt]

Parlour Music (2021) for solo harp, written for and performed by Cara Dawson

Parlour Music

For solo cello with curved bow. Composed in 2002.
Live performance by Anton Lukoszevieze at the Kintai Festival, Lithuania, on 20 August 2022.

Raimondas Rumsas

HOT IN THE JUNGLE

The Art of Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach

Contrapunctus I

"If number existed before music, perhaps before anything, then mathematical concepts are eternal, and music that comes from numbers is somehow connected with the infinite." - Tom Johnson

Arcs is a translation of a number row into music. The original row influences everything in the piece, from harmony and rhythm to form and instrumentation. Each movement becomes a crystal-like formation; an object that the audience is invited to appreciate the details of.

Movements I and IV were performed by the Fidelio Trio on July 6th, 2014 as part of the Cheltenham Festival Composer Academy.

Arcs (movements I and IV) - Fidelio Trio

Welcoming the new piano (R), saying thank you to the old piano (L) at Avalon Café, Bermondsey, 26 September 2024.

Fernando Yada Rodrigues, piano (R);
Jay Austin Keys, piano (L);
Anne Yin Han, violin;
Matthew Gilley, violin;
Freya Hicks, viola;
Rebecca Burden, cello.

Piano(s) And String Quartet (2024)

for four of the same instrument and audio [version for alto saxophones]
commissioned by the Richmond Concert Society for W37 Saxophone Quartet

“Shoegaze Medieval is based on the ballad Corps Feminin (c.1390) by the ars subtilior composer Solage (c.1340-1400), examining and reworking its materials within a loose and blurry context. All four instruments fulfil equal roles within the work’s heterophonic surface, cycling through the song’s pitch material in loosely constructed canons, but with newly conceived rhythms and durations. The electronic component is made from a series of manipulated audio recordings of the piece, processed and layered again in canonic textures to provide a hazy and psychedelic wash behind the instruments. This process draws from the subgenre of indie and alternative music known as ‘shoegaze’, which came to prominence in the UK in the late 1980s and is noted for its ethereal mixture of obscured vocals, guitar distortion, effects pedals and feedback.”

Shoegaze Medieval

Tree of Hundreds (2020) for solo guitar.

Written for the International Guitar Foundation.
Premiered by guitarist Pavel Ralev in the IGF YAP Concert, October 2020 at Kings Place, London.

Tree Of Hundreds (live)

Alex Nikiporenko is a London-based composer and curator of 840.

Alex received his formal education at Chetham's School of Music, King's College London and the Royal College of Music, where his studies were supported by a Leverhulme Postgraduate Studentship and the Derek Hill Foundation. Since 2014, Alex has studied privately with Laurence Crane. He has participated in Cheltenham Composer Academy 2014, Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme 2018, and Wandelweiser Composers Meet Composers 2019. Alex has been invited to present his work to postgraduate students at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.

Named BBC/Guardian Young Composer of the Year in 2008, Alex became a Creative in Residence at The Hospital Club in 2009. Alex's music has been performed throughout Europe by soloists and ensembles including Juliet Fraser, Zubin Kanga, Anton Lukoszevieze, BLOCK4 recorder quartet, Fidelio Trio, RCM Philharmonic Orchestra and Aurora Orchestra, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. Modus Triplex, for the Tre Voci cello trio, was nominated for the 2016 BASCA British Composer Award and features on Nonclassical's 'Outside the Lines' EP.

In 2015, Alex co-founded 840, an experimental music concert series. Over 22 concerts the series has programmed music by 78 composers, premiering works by Laurence Crane, John Lely, Georgia Rodgers, Leo Chadburn, Lawrence Dunn and Sergei Zagny amongs many others. 840 has been generously supported by the Arts Council England, the Richard Thomas Foundation, the Hinrichsen Foundation and the RVW Trust.

Alex has collaborated with theatre group Arbonauts, creating site-specific performances at Nunhead Cemetery, Latitude Festival and Hengistbury Head, Dorset. He has composed music for fashion brand Aries’ collaboration with Vans and performed with artist Matthew Stone.

Aside from composing, Alex enjoys teaching piano and has published a book of piano pieces for older beginners. He also works as a software developer, building tools that support decision-making in the financial sector.

Arcs (movements I and IV) - Fidelio Trio

Alex Nikiporenko

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