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Songs of Now
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group creates music for everyone, reflecting the beauty and challenges of our world today. We believe that music has the power to bring people of all ages and backgrounds together. We build an inclusive community of composers, musicians, and audiences; enabling them to share their spark of imagination, creating beautiful and strange sounds.
‘Songs of Now’ will showcase the music of world leading black composers for Black History Month October 2023, conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni with concerts in Birmingham, Cardiff and London. The programme will centre on the world premiere of a new piece by Daniel Kidane, written for the winner of Black British Classical Foundation’s Voices of Black Opera Samuel Coleridge Taylor prize, Thando Mjandana. One of the UK’s leading contemporary composers, Kidane will write for intimate Pierrot ensemble of flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello plus tenor voice. ‘Songs of Now’ will also feature pieces by George Lewis, Hannah Kendall, a UK premiere from Julian Anderson, and works by Elliott Carter.