TWO NEW WORKS: 

ENCOUNTER: Darbar Chhayanat
East-West integrated work in association with the Darbar Festival, premiered on 1st April 2010 London

CONSTELLATIONS
Ensemble work for the BCMG premiered at the CBSO CENTRE Birmingham and BARBICAN CENTRE London- April 2010

and

 . . . beyond the reach of the world . . . for solo cello, inspired by the diary of Kim Malthe-Bruun. American Premiere by Rohan de Saram, 15 May 2010 Los Angeles

NEWS FLASH: Param Vir has been awarded the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship for a major 6-week arts residency in Italy during the summer of 2011


 

 


Vir's fourth opera - and other Video Interviews with artistes in the first production of BLACK FEATHER RISING

Black Feather Rising Flyer

Param Vir

Delhi-born composer Param Vir is a leading figure in contemporary music. Based in London, his 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 the last 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 (Chicago), Scottish Opera, Music Theatre Wales and Ensemble Modern. Current commissions include a new work for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. 

NEWS

. . . beyond the reach of the world . . . has an acclaimed AMERICAN PREMIERE in Los Angeles with Rohan de Saram:

"In between came Param Vir’s “… beyond the reach of the world …” This moving 16-minute solo, given a transcendent performance by de Saram, was inspired by 22-year-old Danish Resistance fighter Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was tortured and executed by the Nazis in 1945. Percussive effects suggested a clock ticking down, while ghostly figurations deepened this memorial to one person’s heroic and horrendous ordeal. Then, de Saram’s extraordinary dynamic control turned his cello into a whispering soul until only silence remained." 

LOS ANGELES TIMES, MAY 16, 2010

 

WATCH THE TRAILER OF BLACK FEATHER RISING

    

MAJOR RECENT PERFORMANCES:

1. DARBAR CHHAYANAT settings integrating Indian Khayal singing and Coloratura for Soprano within Raag Chhayanat, 1st April 2010, Kings Centre, King's Cross. Commissioned by DARBAR, Asian Arts Culture Heritage.
2. CONSTELLATIONS World Premiere by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Sunday 18 April 2010 – Birmingham CBSO Centre (2 Concerts), 
3. . . . beyond the reach of the world . . . Rohan de Saram (solo cello), American Premiere, Herbert Zipper Concert Hall, Los Angeles - 15 May, 8 p.m.
4. CLEAR LIGHT, MAGIC BODY performance by virtuoso guitarist Oren Fader, 6 February 2010 in Brooklyn.
5. . . . beyond the reach of the world . . . new work for cello and percussion, Rohan and Suren de Saram at the Sound Festival, Aberdeen, 14 and 15 November 2009
6. WHEELING PAST THE STARS, Song cycle - Romanian Premiere 7 August 2009, Icon Arts Cisnadie 2009 Muzica
7. 3 MAY 2009 A SPREAD OF DREAMS, Orchestra of the Swan, World Premiere at the The Spring Sounds Festival, Compton Verney 24 and 25 April 2009 

WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT:
NEW ORCHESTRAL WORK - For 2012. In preparation.
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