The piece, Solecism, for Horn in F and Tape will be premiered by Mathew S James (for whom it was composed) at the Commonwealth Bar and Stage in Calgary, Canada on the 8th of April 2016

Event at EMMEDIA Gallery Calgary, Canada on the 29th of February. Performances by Timepoint Ensemble of works by  Snowden, Reich, Westerkamp and Wicomb’s electroacoustic How Long Is a Pop Song.                                                                                  

The piece by Wicomb On Air for 7 speakers/actors on different levels will premiere at this event.

Press

The CD can be purchased from Orlando Records. Wicomb’s Your Mother’s Molecules recorded by Ensemble Reconsil features in the South African section of the box-set.

PURPUR Lab Press release

Second performance of Me [an]D – watch video here

A short video of excerpts of previous PURPUR event – watch here

Performances in Sweden (Stockholm and Visby) of the piece Pool, for trombone and percussion, by the Axelsson Nilssen Duo. Concerts will take place 8 and 10 October.

Listen to a ‘live’ recording of the piece here

The premiere of the piece Me an[D], for piano and MIDI soundtrack, performed by the South African pianist Coila Enderstein at a KEMUS Concert, 15 September 2015, at the Fismer Hall Stellenbosch as part of the Kompos Symposium.

Listen to a `live` recording of the piece here

The premiere of this concerto, composed for bassist Brydon Bolton and the South African New Music Ensemble (SANME), will take place  at the New Music Indaba (RSA) on the 25th of July 2015.

Listen to a ‘live’ recording of the performance here.

Samsa Masjien

The launch of the text (Willem Anker) and music (Pierre-Henri Wicomb) of this play in book-accompanied-by-cd format will take place at the Protea Book Shop, on the 16th of May 2015 in Stellenbosch. Published by Protea.

Press 

Excerpts of  three duo versions (trumpet/flute/saxophone and piano) of the piece Domicilium by Pierre-Henri Wicomb.

Axelsson Nilsson Duo 

Composers’ workshop and performance at Nirox (April 1 – 10) with Swedish Duo, performing the piece Pool by Pierre-Henri Wicomb.

The play Samsa-masjien (Willem Anker) will be performed at the Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, form the 15th – 31st of January 2015.

Designed and directed by Jaco Bouwer
Music composed by Pierre-Henri Wicomb
Lighting design by Johan Britz
Cast: Gerben Kamper, Antoinette Kellermann , Ilana Cilliers and Ludwig Binge