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Published: 08 May 2013
On 25 April 2013, Brett Dean’s cantata for bass-baritone, chorus and orchestra, The Last Days of Socrates, received its world premiere performance at the Berlin Philharmonie. Simon Rattle conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker, with Sir John Tomlinson as soloist.The premiere performance was met with high critical acclaim:“Ein paar Nummern größer ist nun “The Last Days of Socrates” gewachsen, Brett Deans neuester Streich: ein riesenhaftes...
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Published: 06 May 2013
On 9 May, Brett Dean returns to the UK to conduct the Northern Sinfonia at The Sage Gateshead in an exciting programme featuring the world premiere of Dean’s arrangement for strings of the slow movement of Beethoven’s Razumovsky Quartet No.1, commissioned by the Northern Sinfonia. The programme also features Dean’s Testament and Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 Eroica.The following week sees the members of the Northern Sinfonia perform another Dean...
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Published: 15 April 2013
On 25 April, Brett Dean’s cantata for bass-baritone, chorus and orchestra, The Last Days of Socrates, receives its world premiere at the Berlin Philharmonie. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin prepared by their Chief Conductor Simon Halsey, joined by Sir John Tomlinson who sings the role of the philosopher in this new work which depicts the trial and death of Socrates, with libretto by Graeme...
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Published: 08 April 2013
Brett Dean travels to New York this month to perform two programmes of chamber music with the Chamber Music Society of the Lincoln Center and the Orion String Quartet. The first programme on 15 and 16 April comprises Schubert’s Quartet in A Minor Rosamunde, Dean’s Epitaphs and Schubert’s Quartet in D Minor, Death and the Maiden. In the second programme on 18 April, Dean performs his Intimate Decisions for solo viola and Voices of Angels with the...
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Published: 07 January 2013
This February, Brett Dean will conduct the Australian Chamber Orchestra on tour at several venues in Australia.Dean will conduct a programme of Haydn, Mozart and also the Australian premiere performance of his concerto for electric violin, Electric Preludes, with ACO leader Richard Tognetti as soloist.After touring Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth (2-16 February) with Dean, the ACO will move on to Asia.
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Published: 17 December 2012
On Saturday 22 December, a new Brett Dean work for chorus and orchestra will receive its world premiere at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig.Commissioned by the Thomanerchor, The Annunciation is a work for Advent, its text drawing from the Bible and an original text by Graeme Ellis.The world premiere performance will be performed by the choristers of the Thomanerchor with members of the Gewandhausorchester, conducted by Georg Christoph Biller.Click...
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Published: 19 November 2012
Brett Dean’s residency at the 2013 Grafenegg Festival will see him follow in the prestigious footsteps of composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Heinz Holliger, Tan Dun, Cristobal Halffter, HK Gruber and James MacMillan.The position will see Dean fully immersed in the festival programme as composer, performer and conductor. Many of Dean’s orchestral and chamber works will be showcased throughout the festival, including the world premiere of...
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Published: 26 October 2012
Brett Dean’s Fire Music is shortlisted for the International Award category of this year’s British Composer Awards.The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors has shortlisted Brett Dean’s orchestral work Fire Music in the International Award category of this year’s British Composer Awards.Inspired by the devastating ‘Black Saturday Fires’ in Victoria, Australia on February 7 2009, Fire Music has been greeted with high critical...
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Published: 03 September 2012
On 10 September, Brett Dean will conduct the world premiere of his latest work Electric Preludes, for chamber orchestra and 6-stringed solo electric violin. The work was commissioned for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and their leader Richard Tognetti, who is also soloist in the work, and for Festival Maribor by Jan Minchin. In the same programme, Dean will also conduct his own work Carlo as well as performing his solo viola work Intimate...
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Published: 08 August 2012
This month saw Brett Dean take up a week-long residency, both as a composer and performer, at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont. The festival’s opening concert boasted an all-Dean programme in which Dean played his solo viola piece Intimate Decisions. Throughout the week, several concerts showcased various Dean chamber compositions, culminating in the finale concert on 4 August in which he played viola in his string quintet, Epitaphs.
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