Autumn 2011

Current projects:

Enlli for clarinet quintet based around David Hart's poem Crag Inspector, to be performed in 2012 (tba)

Presteigne Festival - 'Singing History project with schools on the Welsh borders for performance in July 2012

BCMG Learning - Schools Concert Plus project 'A Box of Delights' with Birmingham Primary Schools, concert January 21st 2012 CBSO Centre

Thursday 14th July, 7.30pm  

Is This It? - A new opera by Liz Johnson and Rosalind Haslett
The Opera Group
 
Is This It?
When an extra angel appears in the foyer of the opera house the management are thrown into confusion, especially when it begins to become apparent that this is no ordinary angel. One man must take action to save the theatre, the audience, the earth - not to mention the heavens - from the angel in the foyer. Addressing the issues of individual action and personal responsibility, this new opera by Liz Johnson and Rosalind Haslett is a companion piece to Like Bedford's Seven Angels.
 
Linbury Studio Foyer
The Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden

Monday 20th June 2011, 1pm

Kyle Horch, saxophone and Pavel Timofejevsky, piano

Liz Johnson - Inflorescence (world premiere)

St Peter's Church

Kensington Park Road
Notting Hill
London W11 2PN
 

Sunday April 3rd 2011, 7.00pm

Bournville Young Singers, director Anne Ellis

Nightmare Night - Liz Johnson

Sun Dances (Premiere) - Liz Johnson

Birmingham Town Hall

Tuesday March 29th, 1pm

Flotilla 


Liz Johnson - Hildegard Reflections 

St Martin-in-the-fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ

5 December 2010 3pm Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Forty-Something Fantasia for string quartet - Liz Johnson performed by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet

 

27 November 2010 7.30pm St Peter and St Paul's Parish Church, Ermington, Devon Ben Hartley Reflections - Liz Johnson for cello solo and choir, performed by Elaine Ackers (cello) and the Erme Singers (directed by Peter Thurley), supported by Peninsular Arts, Plymouth University. 

June 23rd 2010 1pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire Cabbage Dreams and Sleep Close - Liz Johnson, for voice and piano performed by Suzannah Purkis (voice) and Ronald Woodley (piano), Leaf-Fall-Dance - Liz Johnson, for piano solo performed by Marie-Louise Taylor
 
June 14th 2010 1pm St Peter's Church, Notting Hill O Vos - Liz Johnson, for 3 alto sax, performed by Flotilla

May 22nd 2010 Artrix, Bromsgrove Leaf-Fall-Dance - Liz Johnson, for solo piano performed by Marie-Louise Taylor (piano)

May 6th 2010 1.05pm Amaryllis Fleming Hall, RCM, London Orisha Osun -Liz Johnson, for soprano sax solo, sax sextet and percussion performed by the RCM saxophone ensemble directed by Kyle Horch

November 24th 2009 1.15pm Birmingham Conservatoire James Geer (tenor) and Ronald Woodley (piano) premiere Cabbage Dreams - Liz Johnson

Summer 2009 

Liz Johnson's Turn of the Moon for saxophone quartet featured in Rome, Italy

Donne In Musica Works for Saxophone Quartet

The 10 concerts planned with the SAXODIA QUARTET of the Antonia Scontrino Conservatory, Trapani, will take place in Rome between the 8th and 14th June. The works, chosen by international panel, will be performed in an "outreach" programme for the genral public of all ages and is the first of its kind in Italy - we are taking the contemporary works to schools, social centres, a library, a park and a centre for political refugees in the same quarter of Rome, Municipio XVIII, Roma Aurelia

 Spring 2009 Flotilla CD £10

Release of Flotilla CD for saxophone consort, featuring Liz Johnson's O Vos for 3 alto saxophones, from Hildegard Reflections.
Visit www.flotilla.org.uk for more information and
order your CD from www.bigshedmusic.co.uk
 
Flotilla's programmes include works by major international and British composers including Elliott Carter, Jonathan Dove, Edward McGuire, and William Sweeney. Committed to developing a distinctive repertoire, the group has presented the first performances and recordings of several works, including Paul Evernden's Three Songs for Sajmište and Liz Johnson's Hildegard Reflections.
 

January 17th 2009 When Words Sing BCMG

CBSO Centre, Birmingham Conductor: Peter Wiegold

Liz Johnson's Elephant Woman for solo voice, performed by Eileen Hulse with animations by Jonathan Lee
 

January 17th 2009, Plymouth Chamber Music Trust, Sherwell Centre, and 26th Jan: Birmingham Conservatoire, Frontiers series featuring Liz Johnson's Hildegard Reflections: 3 pieces for saxophone ensemble

January 18th: Red Hot Celli Peppers, Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham featuring Liz Johnson's Celli Source for 8 cellos 

Liz Johnson in conversation with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies about her String Quartet No 3 Intricate Web performed by the Brodsky Quartet, October 5th 2008 Kings Place, London

 

 

 

 

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