Performance Guides

Offering advice and experience from London Sinfonietta musicians, conductors and Academy students, we have created a number of performance guides to aid understanding and performance of several key works by Ligeti, Knussen and Birtwistle.

Performance guide to Coursing by Oliver Knussen

Performance guide to Silbury Air by Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Performance Guide: Conducting

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Published: 15 Jan 2019