
LATEST:
Param Vir gives an illustrated lecture on his music at WAIKATO UNIVERSITY, Hamilton New Zealand Wed. 16 June 2010 at 2 p.m. Room IG.09 Basement Music Lecture Room
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
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. . . 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
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Delhi-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 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. |
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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 in association with Darbar, the Asian Arts Culture Heritage. |
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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
FORTHCOMING PERFORMANCES:
WORKS IN DEVELOPMENT:
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