perf. by London sinfonietta, cond. Jack Sheen. 2nd of December 2022, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank center, London (UK)

"To dream is to forget.." - Fernando Pessoa. The Book of Disquiet

"I’ve been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it…" Morton Feldman, 1982

Co-commissioned by and written for Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta and Remix Ensemble

Cyclically floating between different phases of density and intensity, minor and major, slowing or accelerating waves, the piece is woven from hypnotically repetitive patterns of 7 slightly different tempos which intertwine through 16 lines of the ensemble conceived as a complex human body with regular breathing, heart beating, eye movements, blood flow etc., all happening at the same time but not synchronised.

The title “Sleeping Patterns” refers to the brain wave oscillations through different sleep stages as well as to the Morton Feldman’s question “Why Patterns?”

Duration: 20’

Instrumentation: fl, ob, cl, bsn, tpt, hn, tbn, acc, kbd, 2 vibr, 2 vln, vla, vc, cb

© Éditions Salabert/Universal Music Publishing Classical

"Sleeping patterns" for ensemble (2022), London sinfonietta (excerpt)

Lucy Armstrong is a London based composer who writes boldly theatrical music for the stage and concert hall. Her work has been performed across the world including in Norway, Japan, Colombia, the US and across Europe and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

In 2022, Lucy was one of five composers who collaboratively scored Gods of the Game, an opera about football and corruption commissioned by Sky Arts. Gods of the Game was produced by Grange Park Opera and Factory Films, and broadcast live on Sky Arts. In 2017-2018, Lucy wrote a chamber opera, A Risk of Lobsters, in association with the Royal Opera House. Lucy wrote a chamber opera for Bergen National Opera and this work was subsequently performed at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival (London) and at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) in 2015. She’s currently resident composer at Glyndebourne and recently wrote a children’s Christmas song with writer Helen Arney which was sung by over 2000 local primary school children across 8 performances. She also developed an opera for care homes with Glyndebourne which premiered in 2024 and was toured to 15 care homes across the Sussex area. 

In 2021-2022, Lucy and Rebecca Hurst were commissioned by Salford Choral society to write a 25 minute work for choir and orchestra for Salford Choral Society and Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra. Following the success of the premiere in 2022, the pair were then commissioned by Cambridge Philharmonic to write another large scale work for symphony orchestra and chorus which premiered in 2023. They were then commissioned by Glyndebourne to write “The Stone Flower” for mezzo soprano and ensemble and this piece was premiered by Jade Moffat in 2024.

In 2024 she collaborated with BCMG, Haroon Mirza, Juliet Fraser and David Spittle on “Waking from Time” a collaborative, cross genre, multi-disciplinary performance. After working with Psappha on their “Composing For” scheme, Lucy was awarded their inaugural Peter Maxwell Davies commission in 2018, to write a 15-minute chamber work. She has also been commissioned by FontanaMix, one of Italy’s leading new music ensembles. In 2021-22 she won a place on the Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Composers’ Scheme where she wrote a chamber work for French horn and piano which premiered at the Wigmore Hall. She was commissioned by The Arch Sinfonia and Chloé van Soeterstède to write a 20 minute saxophone concerto which was premiered in 2023 by Gillian Blair.

Using composition as a creative tool for outreach and education is an important part of Lucy’s practice. She regularly leads participation and learning projects with the London Sinfonietta and recently conducted “We need to have a conversation” written in collaboration with secondary school students in London Sinfonietta’s 50th Anniversary concert. Lucy was commissioned by London Sinfonietta as part of their Sound Out concert series to write “Patterns and Mirrors” for Sinfonietta and youth ensemble, which was conducted by Armstrong to a full Royal Festival Hall of school children. She has also worked with Glyndebourne youth opera, Piccadilly Symphony Orchestra and RNCM Engage. Lucy’s collaborative project with Kate Pearson and RNCM Engage was nominated for a Times Higher Education Award in 2018. She has taught at the University of West London and regularly deputises at Trinity Juniors, City Young Musicians (Junior Guildhall) and Morley College. 

Lucy studied at the RNCM with Gary Carpenter and Adam Gorb and then with Julian Philips at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she went on to be a Fellow in Composition (2018-19).

For more information visit: www.lucyarmstrong.net

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2025
28.02.2025 :: Graz Opera house, Austria. Last show of FIEBER 

2024 
26.09.2024 :: Graz Opera House, Austria (Premiere of Louis Stiens' ballet Fieber)
19.09.2024 :: Conflux Festival with Casimir Geelhoed
12.07.2024 :: Brutus, Rotterdam
20.06.2024 :: Suburbia, Garage Noord Amsterdam
12.05.2024 :: AV live show with Luca Tornato, Zenith Utrecht 
05.04.2024 :: Rewire Festival, the Hague. Collab with Casimir Geelhoed
28.03.2024 :: Field of Fictions at OT301 Amsterdam (fka Whitespace). With Anthony Linell ambient live, Kareem Lotfy live, Leslee Smucker, Anni Nöps x Casimir Geelhoed collaborative live 
21.03.2024 :: Amsterdam
09.03.2024 :: Post Hoc x V23, Brussels 
14.01.2024 :: 22-channel live set, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

2023 
08/12/2023 :: Spatial live set, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 
22/10/2023 :: Live set, Dutch Design Week Eindhoven 
22/10/2023 :: Lucien Nicou TDC, collaboration with Casimir Geelhoed 
03/09/2023 :: Pelagic Ambient 
25/08/2023 :: radio TNP, Amsterdam
15/07/2023 :: Spatial sound installation at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
24/06/2023:: AV performance w Zalán Szakács light installation, Amsterdam 
13/05/2023 :: Orchid Point, the Hague
20/04/2023 :: spatialised fixed media piece, Kinetic Sounds, de Doelen concert hall Rotterdam 
16/04/2023 :: Krah, the Hague
25/03/2023 :: Gent, Belgium
11/03/2023 :: The Grey Space, the Hague
09/03/2023 :: Whitespace at OT301 Amsterdam with Vanity Productions (Posh Isolation) 
05/03/2023 :: Into the Universes, Doka Amsterdam
10/02/2023 :: Future Intel, the Hague
15/01/2023 ::  Filmwinter festival. Stuttgart, Germany

2022
19/11/2022:: The Grey Space in the Middle
16/09/2022:: Zenevloed x Janushoved, OCCII, Amsterdam
03/09/2022:: 6-channel spatial performance. Kunstkapel, Amsterdam 
07/07/2022:: Body Drift, soundcape for contemporary dance, Amsterdam
10/06/2022:: Kinetic Sounds, iMAL, Brussels
29/05/2022:: Ifima, soundtrack for contemporary ballet, Stuttgart 
06/06/2022:: Conflux festival, Rotterdam
07/05/2022:: Weelde, Rotterdam
02/04/2022:: The Grey Space, the Hague
12/03/2022:: AV hybrid set, GOLF festival, Haarlem

19/11/2021 :: Mami Kang choreography presentation, de Vlugt Amsterdam
18/11/2021 :: WORM, Rotterdam
15/10/2021 :: The Grey Space, The Hague
14/08/2021 :: Super, UNM Festival, Aarhus
25/06/2021 :: Sonic Acts Nuclear Unknowns
24/06/2021 :: Subbacultcha, Amsterdam

24/10/2020 :: Valley, Sexyland, Amsterdam
22/02/2020 :: West gallery, The Hague
30/01/3030 :: Het Magazijn, The Hague
23/01/2020 :: Whitespace, OT301 Amsterdam

18/12/2019 :: The Grey Space In The Middle
07/12/2019 :: The Grey Space In The Middle
20/11/2019 :: The Grey Space In The Middle
01/11/2019 :: Mechanism, Rotterdam
25/05/2019 :: WFS  festival, the Hague
18/05/2019 ::  Index, the Hague
10/05/2019 ::  Electriciteitsfabriek, the Hague
04/05/2019 ::  Dune Works, the Hague
29/03/2019 ::  Most Dismal Swamp launch, London
29/03/2019 :: Spatial sound installation at arebyte gallery, London
05/01/2019 ::  Mediamatic, Amsterdam

 01/12/2018  :: A/V Whitespace set at Fiber
24/11/2018 ::  Multi Groove, Amsterdam
02/11/2018 ::  Under Spuigat, the Hague
19/10/2018 ::  Multi Groove, Vice HQ, Amsterdam
12/10/2018 ::  OT301, Amsterdam
05/10/2018 ::  Whitespace set, Amsterdam
04/10/2018 ::  De School, Amsterdam
01/09/2018 ::  Whitespace set, the Hague
29/08/2018 ::  Sexyland, Amsterdam
03/08/2018 ::  Under The Rose, Tallinn
15/07/2018 ::  Monarch, Berlin
22/06/2018 :: A/V set at Klankvorm, Rotterdam
16/03/2018 ::  PIP, the Hague
23/03/2018 :: Sonic Acts, Amsterdam
27/01/2018 ::  Bar None, Amsterdam

 16/12/2017 ::  WORM, Rotterdam
15/12/2017 ::  Mind Over Mttr, Antwerp
10/11/2017 ::  Trade, Berlin
29/09/2017 ::  Bound Centre, Rotterdam
25/08/2017 ::  Club Felicity, Tallinn
13/05/2017 :: Bar None, Amsterdam
08/04/2017 :: Bar None, Amsterdam
01/04/2017 :: Progress Bar, Amsterdam
31/03/2017 :: Rewire festival, the Hague
23/03/2017 ::  PIP, the Hague
24/02/2017 :: Sonic Acts, Amsterdam
03/02/2017 ::  Bar None, Amsterdam

04/11/2016 ::  OT301, Amsterdam
01/10/2016 :: Bar None, Amsterdam
26/08/2016 :: Konstanet, Tallinn
08/07/2016 :: Acud Macht Neu, Berlin

The works of Justė Janulytė claim to build a "monochrome music" collection: they explore time-space perception through large-scale multilayered textures and extremely gradual metamorphoses. Justė Janulytė's catalogue, balancing between the aesthetics of minimalism, spectralism and acoustic electronica, has become one of the most fascinating focal points in the contemporary musical world. (Universal Music Publishing Classical) 

More on www.justejanulyte.com

Musique faite à la main (à 97 %). Mon répertoire ici comprend des pièces et des chansons des groupes Le Feu d’en face ou L Jazz ainsi que des pièces enregistrées seul ou avec Francis Lahaie, Philippe LeBel, Normand Bouchard, Michel Martineau ou Doddy Dorlette.
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Mes premières expériences de la scène remontent au début des années 1970 à Sherbrooke, puis en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Voici quelques artistes avec qui j'ai enregistré de la musique ou joué en public ou dont j'ai fait la première partie, ce qui comprend des soirées-bénéfices et la première Fête nationale à Amos en 1977 : Jim Corcoran, Jim et Bertrand, Raôul Duguay, Francis Lahaie, Philippe LeBel, Mary-Eve Martel, Yves Martel, Justin St-Pierre, Michel Martineau, Normand Bouchard, Robert Leblond, Charlie Cover, Doddy Dorlette, Soir de Semaine, François Brazeau, Benoît Auclair, Réjean Daoust, Jasmin Martel, Jeff Kavanda, Samuelle Desjardins, Michel Lavallée et Massimo Cisca.

Finnish pianist, composer (b. March 6, 1991) with a classical training, but interest in several other genres as well. Also playing the alto saxophone and sitar, but piano has always stayed as the main instrument.

Age at starting playing the piano: 4
Age at starting composing: 7
Main teacher in piano: Mika Lilius 
Composition teacher: Jukka Koskinen 
Other relevant studies: different workshops and master courses under Meri Louhos, Teppo Koivisto, Lotta Wennäkoski, Alastair White and others

"Sleeping patterns" for ensemble (2022), London sinfonietta (excerpt)

Juste Janulyte