The 4th Purpur Festival included the premieres of Wicomb’s Now for Triads for absent robot toy piano and the piece Sue-Uhm Kwee performed by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet.
USA premiere of Me [an]D
Premiere of Loop
Performance of Wicomb’s soundtrack Cue Music in collaboration with dance company Prematuur’s Loop at the Baxter Dance Festival.
InterZones CD available
The new CD of the Swiss improvising duo InterZones is available now including a piece of Wicomb. Piece Three is the result of an ongoing collaboration towards the staging of an opera with the musicians Franziska Baumann and Christoph Baumann.
South African Music Cd
The launch of Weerspieelings, a CD of South African composers in Birmingham, featuring Wicomb’s solo violin work Spelling and Sounds, performed by Lieva Starker.
SA Premiere of ‘Three Milieus’
Purpur Festival nr. 3
Premiere of the piece Self-Portrait – listen to a recording here
Residency, Africa Open and NIROX
Sterkfontein Composers’ Meeting facilitates the ongoing collaboration/residency with the Swedish duo Axelsson Nilsson, which will be taking place at the the NIROX sculpture park. Wicomb composed the piece Automation for the duo.
Marat/Sade
The play by Peter Weiss is opening at the Baxter Theatre on 23 February 2017. Regie and design Jaco Bouwer, original music Pierre-Henri Wicomb, Costume design Birrie le Roux, Lighting design Patrick Curtis.
Atelierkonzert
[COM]POSER, a concert and presentation in Bern, 14 October. A reflection on Wicomb’s work produced during his Pro Helvetia artist residency in Switzerland.
