• Source: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

      • Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) is a British chamber ensemble based in Birmingham, England specialising in the performance of new and contemporary music. BCMG performs regularly at the CBSO Centre and Symphony Hall in Birmingham, tours nationally and worldwide and has appeared several times at the Proms in London.
      Musicians from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra formed the ensemble in 1987, with Simon Rattle as its founding patron. Since then BCMG has premiered over 150 new works and won numerous awards, including the 2004 Royal Philharmonic Society Audience Development Award, the 1995 Gramophone Award for Best Orchestral Recording, the 1993 Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Ensemble Award, the 1993 Prudential Award for Music, and The Arts Ball 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award.
      Thomas Adès was the first music director of BCMG, from 1998 to 2000. The current artistic director of BCMG is Stephan Meier, who succeeded Stephen Newbould (artistic director 2001-2016). John Woolrich and Oliver Knussen were artists-in-association with BCMG.
      Past chairs of BCMG have included Stephen Saltaire, who served in the post from 2000 to 2015. In December 2015, BCMG announced the appointment of Christoph Trestler as its new chair.


      Sound Investment


      The Sound Investment scheme is a partnership between BCMG, the composers whom it commissions to write new pieces and BCMG's audience. Members of the public are invited to "invest" in a new commission by paying a sum of money, currently £150, to purchase Sound Investment Units in the new work and so contribute to the costs involved in commissioning new pieces. For each commissioned piece, a certain number of Units are available, typically 30-50. Sound Investors are kept informed about "their" work's progress and are invited to attend rehearsals, as well as the first public performance. They are also able to purchase either a signed copy of the score or receive a signed copy of the score's title page. Composer Colin Matthews, who has had four works commissioned by BCMG, has called the Sound Investors "a remarkable group...although the only return on their investment is a signed copy of the score.


      Composers and works commissioned


      (The year shown is the year of first performance)

      1990: Simon Holt: "Lilith"
      1992: Geoffrey Poole: The Magnification of the Virgin
      1992: David Lang: My Evil Twin
      1993: Elena Firsova: Distance
      1993: David Sawer: The Memory of Water
      1994: Detlev Muller-Siemens: Phoenix
      1994: Errollyn Wallen: Are you worried...?
      1994: Colin Matthews: ...through the glass
      1995: Philip Cashian: Chamber Concerto
      1995: Aaron Jay Kernis: Goblin Market
      1995: Judith Weir: Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
      1996: Sally Beamish: A Book of Seasons
      1996: Osvaldo Golijov: Last Round
      1996: Howard Skempton: Delicate
      1997: Thomas Adès: Concerto Conciso
      1997: Peter-Paul Nash: Symphony No. 2
      1997: Gerard McBurney: Desire
      1998: Simon Bainbridge: Guitar Concerto
      1998: David Lang: The Passing Measures
      1999: Alastair Greig: Play
      1999: Bent Sørensen: Sinful Songs
      1999: Stuart MacRae: Portrait
      1999: Kenneth Hesketh: The Circling Canopy of Night
      2000: Gerald Barry: Wiener Blut
      2000: Colin Matthews: Continuum
      2000: Thea Musgrave: Lamenting with Ariadne
      2000: John Woolrich: Bitter Fruit
      2001: Poul Ruders: ABYSM
      2001: Edward Rushton: Palace
      2002: Gerald Barry: Dead March
      2002: Marc-André Dalbavie: Palimpseste
      2002: Mark-Anthony Turnage: The Torn Fields
      2002: Simon Holt: Boots of Lead
      2003: Param Vir: The Theatre of Magical Beings
      2004: Philip Cashian: Three Pieces
      2004: Michael Wolters: Neighbours for a Night
      2005: Julian Anderson: Book of Hours
      2005: Huw Watkins: Rondo
      2005: Judith Weir: Psyche and Manimekelai
      2005: Howard Skempton: Ben Somewhen
      2006: Philip Cashian: Skein
      2006: Morgan Hayes: Violin Concerto
      2006: Dave Douglas: Blue Latitudes
      2007: John Woolrich: Going a Journey
      2007: Tansy Davies: Falling Angel
      2007: Elvind Buene: Garland (for Matthew Locke)
      2007: Brett Dean: Wolf-Lieder
      2007: Johannes Maria Staud: One Movement and Five Miniatures
      2007: Nicholas Sackman: Concerto in Black
      2008: Gerald Barry: Beethoven
      2008: Luke Bedford: Good Dream She Has
      2008: Kevin Volans: The Partenheimer Project
      2009: Francesco Antonioni: Ballata
      2009: Helen Grime: A Cold Spring
      2009: Simon Holt: Capriccio Spettrale
      2009: Richard Causton: Chamber Symphony
      2009: Vic Hoyland: Hey Presto!... moon - flower - bat
      2009: David Sawer: Rumpelstiltskin
      2010: Charlie Usher: Slow Pan
      2010: Michael Wolters: I see with my eyes closed
      2011: Jo Kondo: Three Songs Tennyson Sung
      2011: Dominic Muldowney: Six Cabaret Songs
      2011: Silvina Milstein: de oro y sombra ...
      2012: Tansy Davies: Nature
      2012: Alexander Goehr: To These Dark Steps / The Fathers are Watching
      2012: John Woolrich: The Mustering Drum
      2013: Richard Baker: The Tyranny of Fun
      2013: David Sawer: Rumpelstiltskin Suite
      2013: David Sawer: The Lighthouse Keepers
      2014: David Lang: Crowd Out
      2014: Param Vir: Raga Fields
      2015: Ivo Nilsson: Rapidità
      2015: Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest
      2015: Melinda Maxwell: FRACTURES: Monk Unpacked
      2016: Edmund Finnis: Parallel Colour
      2016: Michael Zev Gordon: Seize the Day
      2016: Benedict Mason: Horns Strings and Harmony
      2016: Richard Baker: Hwyl fawr ffrindiau
      2016: John Woolrich: Swansong
      2016: Luke Bedford: In Black Bright Ink
      2016: Zoë Martlew: Broad St. Burlesque
      2017: Helen Grime: Piano Concerto


      References




      External links


      Birmingham Contemporary Music Group official website
      BCMG Past Commissions

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