Events

May
24

BNMI Living Music Summit: Sound Image Gesture (Concert 1)

iridescent shadows for flute and bass clarinet (2020)

as part of the Boston New Music Initiative (BNMI) Living Music Summit 2024

Full Programme:

Melika M. Fitzhugh Lythraceae
Wajdi Abou Diab Tafa'il
Leah Reid Cloud Burst
Yan Ee Toh Iridescent Shadows
Motoki Ohkubo Kitchen Steam
Heather Savage Hope Rising
Michael Blazek The Fallout
Ingrid Stölzel Leonardo Saw the Spring
Liza Lim Cello Playing ~ as Meteorology

Join the Boston New Music Initiative's core ensemble directed by John Masko, as we perform music that explores the ideas of Sound, Image and Gesture in meaningful and unique ways. The performance will include multimedia works utilizing video and dance in addition to music.

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Jun
3

Colossus Collective: International Music Festival

HXBXTXT for ensemble (2021, rev. 2024)

Archie John conductor
Sinead Walsh flute
Nikolai Iaushev clarinet
Ester Stålberg violin
Oona Lowther cello
Julian Chan piano

Full Programme:

YAN EE TOH HXBXTXT
JOSH NAPPER Phos Hilaron
WILF DINGLE Assembly
JOSH CONWAY Parallel Lines
ARCHIE JOHN canticle in the fish’s belly

This concert features new works by students from the Academy, Cardiff University and New York University.

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Apr
25

Music and the Persistence of Memory: CHROMA Ensemble Side-by-Side

  • Angela Burgess Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music (map)
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Symbolic Landscape for flute, bass clarinet, harp, violoncello (2024)

Musicians of CHROMA Ensemble and the Royal Academy of Music
Stuart King clarinet
Clare O’Connell cello
Lydia Walquist flute
Grace Tanner harp

Full Programme:

HANI ELIAS Duo
YAN EE TOH Symbolic Landscape
JAMES GARNER (just) the ideas that you caught
SARAH MARZE Lauren's Flying Machine
ASHKAN LAYEGH Quartet

Academy instrumentalists play SIDE-BY-SIDE with members of the award-winning ensemble CHROMA in a concert of new pieces by student composers.

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Apr
25

Sounds Like Art

Echoes of Folie

Performed by:

Mia Serracino-Inglott, mezzo soprano
Bella Lorenzo-Giguere, cellist
Yan Ee Toh, composer/electronics
Inès Gioannini & Saffron Skipper (Courtauld Institute)

The Courtauld Institute of Art and ‘Artist Development’ at The Royal Academy of Music invite you to a series of short pop-up performances to draw you closer The Courtauld Gallery’s collection. Visit Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère to hear from the barmaid herself and experience a new lament on the uneasy scene of Gauguin’s Nevermore.

The collaboration brings together postgraduate students from both institutions, combining their skills in art history, music performance and composition. It is facilitated by Dr Charlotte de Mille and Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian.

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Mar
15

RAM Opera Makers Showcase

Imposters, a mini-opera (2024)

Libretto: Noah McCreadie
Music: Yan Ee Toh

Natasha da Costa - the Therapist
Imogen Baker - Elizabeth
Anna Lluna Aguilar - Sonya

Jess Hoskins, conductor
Jiewei Yu, pianist
Sophie Daneman, stage director

written as part of the Royal Academy of Music's Opera Makers project led by David Sawer and Jess Walker

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Feb
16

RIOT Ensemble Side-by-Side

depart for large ensemble (2023-24)

Fabián Panisello conductor
Musicians of RIOT Ensemble and the Royal Academy of Music

As part of Riot Ensemble's residency at Royal Academy of Music, they run graphic scores and side-by-side projects with performance and composition students. This programme will feature three brand-new works by composition students Yan Ee Toh, Toby Anderson and William Harmer, culminating in a chamber concerto by the Argentinian-Spanish composer Fabián Panisello, who also conducts this evening’s concert.

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