November is a busy month for Sally Beamish as she celebrates her 70th birthday year, with performances in London, Tasmania and Sweden, and a streaming milestone for her birthday album.
On Thursday November 5 the Elias Quartet perform at Wigmore Hall in a concert billed as a birthday celebration for the composer. The programme includes Beamish's String Quartet No. 3, Reed Stanzas (published by Norsk Music), and String Quartet No. 4, Nine Fragments.
On Monday November 9 the Guildhall School of Music & Drama holds its Annual Viola Day, with a birthday recital celebrating Sally’s repertoire for viola. The feature concert takes place in the Music Hall on Silk Street at 12:35pm, a fitting tribute to a composer who is also a celebrated violist.
Later in the month, two of the co-commissioners of Sally’s viola concerto IZAKHI give their territory premieres. The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra performs the work on November 14 under Eivind Aadland, with the orchestra’s principal Andrew Seymour as soloist, and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra performs it in Örebro on November 19 with Michael Collins as soloist.
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra | Örebro Konserthus
Meanwhile, Gerropaedie, from Sally’s 70th-birthday album House of Wonder, has passed 4 million streams.
