NEW WORK PREMIERE in the Spring Sounds Festival, Stratford-upon-Avon:
A Spread of Dreams
Listen to BBC Interview (2003)
NEW!!! Watch the TRAILER of Black Feather Rising
Vir's fourth opera - and interview with Charlotte Riedijk BLACK FEATHER RISING
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ParamVir.netDelhi-born composer Param Vir is a leading figure in contemporary music. Based in London, his compositional output encompasses works in several genres that include chamber music, symphonic works and opera / music-theatre. His works have been performed by major ensembles, orchestras and opera houses, and presented at several international festivals. He composes prolifically, and this season alone has seen the premieres of three major works, including a full-length opera Black Feather Rising, a choral work He Begins His Great Trance for the BBC Singers and A Spread of Dreams for the Orchestra of the Swan. His work is inspired by varied sources drawn from world mythology, art and literature. Groups that have performed or given premieres of Vir’s works include The Netherlands Opera, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, Schoenberg Ensemble, Fulcrum Point, Scottish Opera, Music Theatre Wales and Ensemble Modern. |
Apart from new works in the coming season for cellist Rohan de Saram and for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Param Vir has also embarked on a major long-term initiative to integrate classical Indian music into mainstream contemporary music, and is currently developing collaborative work with prominent soloists of Indian classical music.
NEWS
WORLD PREMIERE of A Spread of Dreams for the Orchestra of the Swan, 3 May 2009 at Compton Verney, part of the Spring Sounds Festival at Stratford-upon-Avon.
LAST TWO PERFORMANCES OF ORIGINAL PRODUCTION of Black Feather Rising - 24 AND 25 APRIL 09:
Music-Theatre for 2 singers and 6 instrumentalists
Interview above with Alistair Shelton-Smith and Param Vir
FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCES:
- 24 and 25 April, 2009 last two performances of the opera BLACK FEATHER RISING, Stichting Octopus, in The Hague and Zwolle, the Netherlands
- 3 MAY 2009 A SPREAD OF DREAMS, Orchestra of the Swan, World Premiere at the THE SPRING SOUNDS FESTIVAL, COMPTON VERNEY
- 10 May 2009 - New Work for Cellist Rohan de Saram, Donnaueschingen Ars Nova Festival, 5 p.m., Edenkoben, Herrenhaus, Germany
OTHER RECENT PERFORMANCES:
HAYAGRIVA Chicago, with Fulcrum Point, conducted by Stephen Burns (USA Premiere) in January 2009
BLACK FEATHER RISING - new work of Music-Theatre commissioned by Stichting Octopus, with dramatic poem by David Rudkin. 24 October 2008 World Premiere at De Toneelschuur - Haarlem (The Netherlands) followed by Autumn Tour (Europe)
HAYAGRIVA - performance by Klangforum Wien in Berlin, 6 October 2008
WHEELING PAST THE STARS, UK premiere, 3 July 2008 City of London Festival, Drapers' Hall, with Patricia Rozario and Rohan de Saram
HE BEGINS HIS GREAT TRANCE world premiere of new choral version for the BBC Singers, St. Giles Cripplegate, 4 July 2008 City of London Festival
Wheeling Past the Stars - world premiere on 7 November, 2007 Suedwestrundfunk, Stuttgart - Tagore settings for soprano and violoncello (Patricia Rozario and Rohan de Saram) Commissioned by Suedwestrundfunk, Germany
Hayagriva performance by Klangforum Wien, 26 Sep. 2007 at Warsaw Autumn, International Festival of Contemporary Music
Between Earth and Sky, 24 November 2006, BBC Symphony Orchestra cond. by Alexander Rumpf, Hammersmith Town Hall
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT:
- NEW WORK for solo cellist Rohan de Saram
- NEW WORK for BCMG (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group), small ensemble, premiere Barbican Hall April 2010
- WHERE MY HEART LISTS - Choral work on texts by Gerard Manley Hopkins, for female choir
- AWAKENING - full length Opera in collaboration with dramatist David Rudkin