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Matthew Whiteside, August 2012 Pieces and Performances
2012
Ulation [solo viola and live electronics]
Premiered by Andy Berridge of the Scottish Ensemble – 25th April
2012, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Stygian Dream [sinfonetta]
Premiered by RCS Music Lab – 27th April 2012, Royal Conservatoire of
Scotland
Cacoxen [piano trio]
Premiered by Gap Static piano trio – 18th July 2012, Kevin Barry Room,
Dublin
2011
Can We Three…? [electric violin, electric cello, electric guitar]
Premiered by Red Note – 6th June 2011, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh,
Noisy Nights, Red Note
Dichroic Light [cello and live electronics]
Premiered by Lydia Whittingham- 16th March 2011, Recital Room,
Glasgow City Halls, Edit-Point
Everything Will Be Ok [flute, harp, double bass]
One Will Be… [solo trombone and live electronics]
Premiered by Jonathan Wettermark – 7th September 2011, Recital
Room, Glasgow City Halls, Edit-Point
Quartet No. 3 [string quartet and live electronics]
Premiered by the Gildas Quartet – 23rd November 2011, Recital Room,
Glasgow City Halls, Edit-Point
Um Mitternacht [mezzo-soprano, piano]
Vociferous Palpitation [tape]
Premiered 7th March 2012, Recital Room, Glasgow City Halls, EditPoint
Matthew Whiteside, August 2012 We Are Seven [flute, percussion, piano, harp, violin, viola, cello]
Will We See Light? [brass quintet]
Will be premierd by Vox Merus – 31st April 2012, National Concert Hall,
Dublin
The World in an Oyster, the Oyster in the World [clarinet, cello, piano]
Premiered by Said Ensemble – 8th November 2011, Bar Bloc, Glasgow
2010
Bass Clarinet Solo
Work shopped by Sarah Watts - 4th March 2010, QUB
Chordal Relations [chamber orchestra]
Work shopped by Queen’s Camerata - 22nd February, 2010 QUB
Echoes [wind quintet, viola and piano]
Premiered by Said Ensemble, 31st January 2012, The Flying Duck,
Glasgow
Fish and Chips [string quartet]
Premiered - 25th May 2011, Said Ensemble, Bar Bloc, Glasgow,
for Matt Mattera [solo trumpet]
Premiered by Matt Mattera - July 2010, Maccagno, Italy, soundSCAPE
festival
It Just Is [brass quartet]
Laya [soprano saxophone, piano, viola, cello]
Premiered by Yurodny – 31st Septemeber 2010, Kevin Barry Room,
ICC
Organic Construct [2 channel tape]
Matthew Whiteside, August 2012 Premiered January 2011, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Prevalence [percussion quartet]
Premiered by Royal Irish Academy of Music’s percussion ensemble –
31st May 2010, Kevin Barry Room, ICC
Rain [soprano, guitar]
Relations [large orchestra]
Relations II [orchestra]
Silence, Imperfect Silence [flute, sax, soprano, 3 mezzo-sopranos,
percussion, 2 pianos, 2 violins, viola]
Premiered – 5th May 2011 PLUG Festival, Glasgow, Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD)
Sssh! [guitar and flute]
The Wavering Gorge [viola, cello]
Premiered by Cora-Venus Lunny and Katie Ellis – 22nd March 2010,
Kevin Barry Room, ICC
Unresolved [piano solo]
Wondering, Wavering, Willing [violin, guitar]
For Duo 46 premiered - 25th July 2010, Maccagno, Italy, soundSCAPE
festival
Youth [4ch tape]
Premiered - July 2010, Kevin Barry Room, ICC
4-11-11 [solo cello]
Premiered by Katie Ellis – 23rd February 2011, Kevin Barry Room, ICC
4-3-11 [solo soprano saxophone]
Premiered by Nick Roth – 30th March, 2011, Kevin Barry Room, ICC
Matthew Whiteside, August 2012 2009
Imagined Notes [2 Channel Tape]
Premiered - 22nd February 2010, Kevin Barry Room, National Concert
Hall, Dublin, Irish Composers’ Collective, (ICC)
Light [oboe solo]
Work shopped by Charles Reilly - 20th October 2009, Queen’s
University Belfast, (QUB)
One [marimba solo]
Work shopped by Gillian Maitland - 24th November 2010, QUB
Puddle Wonderful [chamber orchestra, sop, mezzo, alto]
Premiered - 12th to 14th November, 2009, Stranmillis Collage, Belfast,
Spark Opera Company
Quartet No. 1 [string quartet]
Premiered - 1st April 2009, Queen’s Composers’ Concert (QCC), QUB
The Space Within [flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello]
Premiered - 24th March 2010 QCC, QUB
Untitled [flute, soprano saxophone, piano, cello]
Premiered - 25th November 2009, QCC, QUB
2008
Applemen [Piano, violin, violin, cello, double bass]
Premiered 25th July 2008, Brian Friel Drama Theatre, Belfast
Beyond the Tone [clarinet, viola]
Premiered 4th July 2008, University of York, Creating New Music
Communities
Matthew Whiteside, August 2012 Other subsequent performances (not premiers)
Organic Construct –
March 2011, Grimsby, Lightworks Degree Show
Organic Constrcut –
April 2011, Sonorities Festival, QUB
Dichroic Light –
5th May 2011, PLUG Festival, RSAMD
Organic Construct –
May 2011, Soundings… , Edinburgh University,
Edit-Point
Organic Construct –
May 2011, Edit-Point@sound lab, Recital Room,
City Halls, Glasgow
Quartet No. 2 -
June 2011 Recital Room, City Halls, Glasgow,
Said Ensemble
Organic Construct –
June 2011, Electro Acoustic Event, RSAMD
Organic Construct –
July 2011, Listening Room, Hilltown Music Festival
Organic Construct -
22nd October 2011, Sound Festival, Aberdeen,
Edit-Point
Dichroic Light (M:1)-
5th November 2011, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Sound
Festival, Geoff Palmer and Pete Stollery
The World in an Oyster -
13th November 2011, Recital Room, City Halls,
Glasgow, Said Ensemble
Dichroic Light -
3rd March 2012, Sound Thought, Glasgow,
Chandra Chapman
Quartet No. 1 -
13th March 2012, Bar Bloc, Glasgow, Said
Ensemble
Dichroic Light –
27th March 2012, Sonorities Festival, Belfast by
Chandra Chapman
The World in an Oyster – 16th – 20th April 2012, New Lens concert Series,
Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Vociferous Palpitation -
3rd May 2012, Noisefloor Festival, Staffordshire
University
Ulation-
28th May 2012, RCS, Glasgow, Iain Jennison
Dichroich Light (M:1) -
22nd July 2012, Gallery of Photography Dublin,
Concorde (Martin Johnson)
Upcoming Works
Attention for Diagenesis (soprano and cello)
New Work for piano trio for Trio Renoir
Matthew Whiteside, August 2012 Review Extracts
Dichroic Light, Aberdeen Art Gallery, 5/11/2012
‘A fascinating essay in pure sound’ - Alan Cooper, Sound Festival, Aberdeen,
2011
I Made A Carrot Cake performed On The Rocks festival, St Andrews 22/4/11
Writer - Charlie Hanson, Sound Designer - Matthew Whiteside.
Cast Charlie Hanson and Kimberly Miller
‘The performance is deeply emotive; with a stark set design and lighting setup perfectly complementing the tone of the piece. As an audience member I
felt completely drawn in by Hanson’s touching and ageless portrayal of love
and loss. This intense part is contrasted by Miller’s convincingly harsh
American accent, symbolising the objective account of death offered by
medical science. The on stage performance is accompanied by a cacophony
of sounds, the rush of a dying man’s final thoughts.’
Holly Patrick, Theatre In Scotland 24/5/11
Source text: http://tinyurl.com/imaccake
Imagined Notes performed Irish Composer’s Collective 22/2/2010
‘But the evening’s most fascinating evocations were in the electro-acoustic
piece, Imagined Notes, by Matthew Whiteside. Starting from sampled sounds
of piano and oboe, he used electronic alchemy to create a soundscape of
mock-vocalisations (sometimes sounding like a chorus of beings halfway
between man and sheep) interrupted by industrial grinding.’ – Michael Dervan
Irish Times 1/3/2010.
Full text: http://tinyurl.com/iccnotes (subscription required)
Puddle Wonderful performed Spark Opera Company 12-14/1/2009
‘All aspects of this opera, form the setting - in an alleyway beside some bins to the cold lighting, to Matthew Whiteside’s discordant score, were powerfully
bleak and amplified the already troubling tale....the distressing nature of the
story was carried through to the dissonance of the music, and different
performers simultaneously playing the same character added to the unsettling
atmosphere. With strong performances from all three vocalists, especially
Rebecca Hopkins, this was a piece where the collaboration between librettist,
composer and director produced a work of singular artistic vision’ - Dave
Kinghan, Fortnight, March 2010