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Paul Kilbey

Paul Kilbey writes on music and culture for publications including Culture Wars, Huffington Post and Bachtrack.
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Laura J. Bowler - Photo by Claire Shovelton

No punches pulled in Size Zero Opera’s Women Box in London

Opera’s tough. You can’t just stand there and sing. The minimum requirement for an opera singer is t...
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Paul Kilbey
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London Contemporary Music Festival Celebrates Bernard Parmegiani

Britannia House, a large building just off Brick Lane in London’s East End, used to be a carpet fact...
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Paul Kilbey
Jennifer Walshe

5 questions to Jennifer Walshe (composer)

THMOTES, a project by Irish composer Jennifer Walshe, involved a number of text scores sent via Snap...
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Paul Kilbey
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Truly Nonclassical: Gabriel Prokofiev and Peter Gregson’s Cello Multitracks

Nonclassical are an organisation with big plans for music’s future, intent on taking the “classical”...
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Paul Kilbey
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Richard Beaudoin’s Microtimings

Theory and aesthetics in new music are two very, very different things. There’s what goes in to a pi...
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Paul Kilbey
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Jonny Greenwood and Penderecki (Nonesuch)

I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved,...
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Paul Kilbey
Nicole Lizée

5 questions to Nicole Lizee (Composer)

In Death to Kosmische you have the string quartet use a stylophone and an omnichord. In the past you...
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Paul Kilbey
Kronos Quartet - Photograph by Michael Wilson

Kronos Quartet’s Early Music at the Barbican, London

The Kronos Quartet completed their week-long residence with the Barbican Centre in London with a typ...
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In the fertile shadow of Schoenberg

Somewhere in the world of contemporary music, in among all the solo bassoon CDs and Tom Waits arrang...
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Paul Kilbey
Eddie Prévost - Photo by Vanita & Joe Monk www.monastery.nl

Free improvisation/Book launch – Eddie Prévost at Café Oto, Dalston

The free improvisation group AMM have, remarkably, been active since 1965, and founder-member Eddie...
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Mercy and Grand: The Tom Waits Project at Spitalfields Winter Festival, London

Mercy and Grand is a collaborative project commissioned by the UK group Opera North, in which a grou...
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Paul Kilbey

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