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October 2010

Saturday 9th October 2010 'Mysterium' performed by bcmg, directed by Peter at Birmingham Symphony Hall including works by Bruno Maderna and Param Vir.

September 2010 Launch of nmc recordings 'Earth and Stars' Portrait album, www.nmcrec.co.uk/

July 2010

Thursday 1st July 2010, 6pm Performance of new 'regions' from Wiegold's project 'Mysterium' by the the SouthBank Sinfonia directed by Peter including Martin Butler and Torbjorn Hultmark from notes inégales. Concert includes performance of Wiegold's 'Frog Hunt' for solo bass clarinet. Free Rush Hour Concert 6pm St Johns Waterloo

Saturday 10th July 2010 Performance of 'The Cut Worm Forgives the Plough' by members of the National Youth Orchestra, National Youth Music-Theatre, National Youth Jazz Collective, Pro Corda and National South Asian Music Youth Orchestra.

National Festival of Music for Youth, Birmingham Conservatoire. Day Ticket: £6/£4 (concessions) Day Ticket for 21s and under: £3 Box Office: 0121 780 3333 Online: www.thsh.co.uk

June 2010

Friday 25th June 2010 Performance of new version of 'Angel of Night' for musical saw vibraphone, flutes, bass clarinet and double bass. Ignite Ensemble, Wigmore Hall

April 2010

Sun 18th April 2010, 1:30pm Take a thrilling journey through new soundscapes with Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's Family Concerts at CBSO Centre. Launch off with Bruno Maderna's Serenade for a Satellite then visit the extraordinary musical worlds of comopsers Luciano Berio, Param Vir, David Lang, Peter Wiegold and Charlotte Bray. These concerts are conducted and presented by Peter Wiegold with some added theatre from the whimsical imagination of Graeme Miller, constellations of BCMG musicians will sparkle with energy and sounds will spin in mobiles across time and space. Come a bit earlier and take part in fun activities in the foyer!

The deftness and beauty of the performance kept everyone spellbound" Daily Telegraph

CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF [map link] Box Office: 0121 767 4050 Repeats Barbican Centre, London: Sat 24th April 2010, 1:00pm, Silk Street EC2Y 8DS [map link] Box Office: 020 7638 8891

March 2010

5th March Event 3, Piano Circus 20in09 Festival Shuffle, 7.30pm, Hoxton Hall, London

Peter Wiegold conducts notes inégales and directs improvisation from the keyboard. Into the mix tonight; Matt Rogers and Larry Goves, Richard Barrett, Andrew Poppy and more...La Belle Epoque by Peter Wieogold for keyboard and piano Re-Mixed by duoDorT with DJ Grohs

February 2010

16 February 2010 The Sage Gateshead Hall Two, 8pm. At this concert Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Peter Wiegold, will play music by Richard Rijnvos, John Casken, Kent Olofsson, Agustín Fernández and students from Newcastle University and the University of Durham. This is part of Newcastle New Music: a mini-festival of events taking place between 17 and 21 February 2010 at ICMuS (International Centre for Music Studies) at Newcastle University.International guests include composer David Lang (US), guitarist Christoph Jaggin (Switzerland) and, from Sweden, composer Kent Oloffson, guitarist Stefan Ostersjo and multi-flautist Terje Thiwang.

21st February Chelsea Arts Club,

Iestyn Morris - Counter Tenor

A varied evening of speech and song with repertoire to include late romantic English song and the world premier of Peter Wiegold's song cycle "Causes for Wonder" Iestyn will be performing in the bar from 6pm, £7.50 please book with the office.

143 Old Church Street, London SW3 6EB, Box Office: 020 7376 3311

September 2009

6 September 2:15, 3:45 & 5.30pm, Kings Place Festival. notes inégales in three performances, including Christian Marclay's Shuffle and the UK premiere of Peter's Earth and Stars
Read More: www.notesinegales.co.uk Tickets www.kingsplace.co.uk

July 2009

4 July 9:00pm, Manchester Picadilly Station. The End of the Line (A Brief Encounter) is the latest in the RNCM's series of large-scale summer projects. Admission free. Read More.

9th July 1:10pm, The Forge, Camden. Tickets on the door. duoDorT perform Peter's piano and keyboard duo La Belle Epoque, programme to include works by Colin Riley, Howard Skempton. Read more.

April 2009

2 April 8:45pm, Kings Place, Hall One, Part of the NMC Songbook week - Causes for Wonder. Peter's song 'A Cause for Wonder' gives the title to NMC's Songbook concert, with Countertenor Iestyn Morris and tenor Daniel Norman, joined by harpist Lucy Wakeford and pianist Andrew Ball in a programme of songs by Gerald Barry, John Casken, Joe Cutler, Ben Foskett, David Horne, Robert Keeley, David Matthews, Tarik O'Regan, Luke Stoneham, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Peter Wiegold. Tickets: £9.50, £12,50, £15.50 Saver Seat £6.50, www.kingsplace.co.uk

26th April 7:30pm, CBSO, Birmingham, Berkley Street B1 2LF. Peter conducts BCMG in a programme of: Charles Ives - A host of short pieces including The Unanswered Question, Fugue in Four Keys on 'The Shining Shore', Set for Theatre Orchestra, Henry Cowell - Aeolian Harp, Sinister Resonance, Ensemble, Percy Grainger - Free Music Nos 1 & 2, John Cage - Living Room Music, Henry Brant - Music for a Five and Dime Store, Percy Grainger - Random Round. Tickets In Advance: £14 (£8 concessions, £5 under 16, On-door: £15 (£9 concessions, £6 under 16s). Tel : 0121 767 4050

March 2009

26 March 6:00 - 7:15pm St John's Waterloo SE1 8TY. Free Rush Hour concert with Southbank Sinfonia, Peter Wiegold conductor, Melinda Maxwell cor anglais. Programme: Wiegold Earth, receive an honoured guest . Lutoslawski Chain 1 . Takemitsu Rain Coming

January 2009

6/7 & 9 January The National Youth Orchestra premiere a new work by Peter called "Bow-Wave", at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and the Roundhouse, London. The piece will be directed by Peter and is staged, played from memory and partly improvised. The programme also includes the Berio Sinfonia and Strauss Alpine Symphony, conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

November 2008

13 November The Silk String Quartet premiere a new work by Peter, at the Purcell Room, commissioned by the Asian Music Centre.

October 2008

Peter will preparing a new version of his large ensemble piece, Kalachakra, for a new album to be recorded and released by NMC in 2009. This will form part of NMC's 20th anniversary celebrations.

September 2008

14 September Peter has been appointed Artist in Association with bcmg. He directs a new work by Richard Glover and his own piece That Man's Talking Nonsense, in 2 performances at Art Fest in Birmingham. Performances at 2.30pm and 4.30pm.

July 2008

5 July Peter conducts Southbank Sinfonia; Stravinsky Pulcinella, Woolrich 3 Orchestral Pieces, Wiegold Earth Recieves an Honoured Guest.

Workshops continue for Harrison Birtwistle's new opera, The Corridor. Peter will be the music Director at Aldeburgh Festival in 2009.

May 2008

7-9 May notes inégales play Brew....The Miles Davis Project, at The Institute of Psychiatry as part of the Music and the Mind concert series and 2 nights at the ICA.
 

March 2008

Recording for CD of 'the burden'd air' for cello and live electronics; Matthew Barley, cello, with Carl Faia, sound engineer.

30 March Peter has been invited by The Sage Gateshead, to write and direct a new cello concerto for Matthew Barley and the Northern Sinfonia. The performance will be preceded by a week of improvisation workshops, led by Peter and Matthew. These workshops will be for local musicians and for the Sinfonia players themselves, who will improvise in the piece. Entitled 'To the shades of the departed', as part of a concert in The Sage Jazz Festival. Peter also directs works by Mark Anthony Turnage, David Lang and Mike Gibbs.

January 2008

11 January Premiere of new work for clarinet and piano, Peter Sparks and Matthew Schellhorn in the Park Lane Group's 'Young Artists New Year Series'.

13-14 January Returning to bcmg to conduct 4 family concerts. Programme to include pieces by Boulez, Reich, Knussen, Cashian, Stravinsky and Peter's new arrangment of his piece for piano and percussion, 'That man's talking nonsense', for ensemble. With graphics and live video by Terry Braun.

August 2007

17 August Peter conducts BBC Young Composers Prom and is panellist for the Young Composers Competition.

19-27 August Chamber Music International. Peter and Martin Butler deliver the composition seminars and classes which form part of this leading international residential course, held at Purcell Scholl of Music.

July 2007

28 July BBC Proms - Prom 21. Peter conducts his work, He is Armoured Without at the 2007 Proms on Brass Day, for the BBC Philharmonic, soloists Torbjorn Hultmark, David Purser, musicians from Uzbekistan, the Coldstream Guards, plus 100 more brass players.

May 2007

4 May 25-piece Brunel improvising ensemble, ‘Brunel new noise’ performs in Canterbury , The Orange Street Music Club, starting at 8.30pm.

March 2007

13-15 March Newcastle. Working with choreographer/video maker Gretchen Schiller and Sally Jane Norman director of Culture Lab (www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab) using video capture as the basis of making new work based on Wiegold’s conducting, as part of their ‘Cultural Technologies of the Body’ project.

10 March Peter will work with young Cardiff musicians on the music for the Working Title film, Hunky Dory, with Catherine Zeta Jones, to be filmed summer 07.

19 March Peter will once again conduct Southbank Sinfonia for part of their spring season, at St John’s, Waterloo. Programme will be Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto, Ramifications for string orchestra and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.

28 March Peter conducts the opening concert of the Cologne Festival, Berio Accordo.

February 2007

Workshops in Glasgow and Manchester with members of the BBCSCO and BBCPO and young composers, as part of preparations for the Young Composers Prom

Final edits made to Rand Steiger’s ‘Traversing ‘for ‘cello, string orchestra and live electronics recoded by Peter with Matthew Barley and the Southbank Sinfonia last September, prior to its release in America.

13 Feb Music-theatre Workshop. Extra workshop led by Gretchen Schiller and I. She is a Brunel drama lecturer/choreographer/video maker, who is working with me on video capture based on my conducting. This will be an exploratory workshop about the relation of the musical and the physical, including drama students alongside music students.

January 2007

Sees Peter conducting Northern Sinfonia at The Sage Gateshead in a performance of Martyn Harry’s ‘The Spell’. This is a return visit, after the recent success last October of ‘Anthem for Northumberland’, with Nitin Sawney.