Concert Series 2009
Wednesday 10th June

Doors Open 6:30pm Commences: 7.00pm Close: 8:00pm

CLAIRE BOOTH (soprano)


with ANDREW MATTHEWS-OWEN (piano)

A concert in collaboration with Sounds Underground (www.soundsunderground.org)
The Louise Blouin Foundation in collaboration with pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen is delighted to present soprano Claire Booth in a recital of 20th and 21st Century song by some of the UK’s foremost contemporary composers.

This recital is truly a labour of love. The outstanding performers have a personal connection to nearly every piece in their programme. Arlene Sierra's new scena was especially written for the duo and receives its World Premiere Works by Alun Hoddinott, Philip Cashian and Robert Fokkens will also be heard for the first time by a London audience.

Claire Booth has established a long standing collaboration with Oliver Knussen and here she performs his Whitman Settings . While for many years Andrew Matthews-Owen has championed the work of his compatriot Alun Hoddinott; all the more poignant as the performers have dedicated this recital to the Welsh composer's memory in what would have been his 80th birthday year. Completing the evening is Royal Philharmonic Society Award Nominee 2009 Laurence Crane's Weridi

Thursday 10th June performance programme:
Oliver Knussen: Whitman Settings (1 & 2)
Alun Hoddinott: One Must Always Have Love (London Premiere)
Arlene Sierra: Hearing Things (World Premiere)
Robert Fokkens: Africa (London Premiere)
Philip Cashian: The Songs Few Hear (London Premiere)
Laurence Crane: Weirdi

Pre-concert discussion with Arlene Sierra, Laurence Crane and Robert Fokkens lead by Katie Derham.

Tickets:
Tickets for this event are: £12 full/£8 concessions/£5 members
(Ticket price includes a glass of champagne)
We advise booking in advance. To order tickets please contact the Louise Blouin Foundation on 020 7985 9600 or info@ltbfoundation.org. Tickets can be purchased at the door subject to availability.

Claire Booth
One of today's most versatile and successful sopranos, Claire Booth made her professional debut at the Royal Festival Hall singing Oliver Knussen’s ‘Océan de Terre’ for the composer’s 50th birthday celebrations concert. This proved the basis of a productive association with this composer/conductor, including numerous appearances with the London Sinfonietta and BBCSO as well as two BBC Proms performances; his ‘Whitman Settings’ in 2005 and his ‘Requiem; Songs for Sue’ in 2007, written for Claire. This latter performance earned her a nomination at the 2008 South Bank Awards. Her busy concert career has included appearances with the CBSO, the CSO, the BBCSO, the BBCSSO, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra, The London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Intercontemporarin, the AAM and the Kings Consort, working throughout the UK and Europe with conductors including Sakari Oramo, Ilan Volkov, Martyn Brabbins, Marcus Stenz and Edward Gardner. Highlights include her debut performance of ‘Pierrot Lunaire’ with Pierre Boulez at the Luzern International Festival, Handel’s ‘L’Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato’ at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, Stravinsky Songs with the CBSO and Sakari Oramo and Britten’s ‘Les Illuminations’ with the BBCSO and Jukka-Pekka Saraste. She makes regular appearances at the Wigmore Hall having performed there in recital with Graham Johnson, in Handel programmes including Daphne (Apollo e Daphne) and The Messiah with Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company and performances ranging from Dvorak to Elliott Carter with the Nash Ensemble.

Forthcoming engagements include performances of Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the CBSO and Andris Nelsons, Benjamin’s ‘A Mind of Winter’ conducted by the composer at the Luzern International Festival, further performances with the BBCSO, London Sinfonietta and the Nash Ensemble, a Purcell and Eccles programme at the Lufthanza Festival, Bach’s ‘St. Matthew’s Passion’ at the Royal Festival Hall and George Crumb’s ‘Ancient Voices of Children’ at the 2009 BBC Proms. She sings in Pascal Dusapin’s opera ‘To be Sung’ with the EIC at the Cite de la Musique Paris, Elle in Poulenc’s ‘La Voix Humaine’ for Opera North, Anicia Eritea (Cavalli 'Eliogabalo') for Grange Park Opera, Morgana (Alcina) and Agilea (Teseo) for English Touring Opera.

Her duo with pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen commissions and champions the music of some of the UK’s leading living composers.



In conjunction with the concert series a programme of lectures will be taking place. For further information please contact Mairead O'Rourke: Mairead.ORourke@ltbfoundation.

To become a member please visit: http://www.ltbfoundation.org/ltbi_membership.html

Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks

Louise Blouin Foundation, London
30 April to 14 June 2009
The Louise Blouin Foundation is delighted to announce its partnership with PaceWildenstein Gallery, one of the foremost Contemporary art dealers in the world, to showcase the first major London exhibition of works by the sculptor Louise Nevelson in nearly four decades. The exhibition, opening 30 April 2009, will feature a collection of works highlighting the career of one of the most innovative and influential sculptors from the Postwar period in America, bringing together some of the most monumental and seminal examples of Nevelson’s art from the 1950s to the 1980s.
"Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks" will be on view at the Louise Blouin Foundation, 3 Olaf Street, Notting Hill, from 30 April to 14 June 2009. Please join us on 29 April from 6.00 to 9.00 PM to celebrate the opening of this exhibition with a private viewing at the Louise Blouin Foundation.


ADMISSION IS FREE

Gallery Hours
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 10.00 AM – 6.00 PM
Thursday 10.00 AM – 9.00 PM
Saturday 12.00 PM – 6.00 PM

SPONSORED BY

Louise Blouin Foundation | 3 Olaf Street, London W11 4BE
Copyright (c) 2009, www.ltbfoundation.org

 2 April: Joby Burgess Percussion and Electronics A programme of music by American and British composers