In Seven Days Piano Concerto with Moving Image is a multi-media piece for piano, orchestra and six video screens. A collaboration with composer Thomas Adès, the piece follows the Genesis tale of creation. The visuals in the piece are the result of an in-depth documentation of the recent re-generation of the Royal Festival Hall in London, threaded with footage and photographs of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA (the two places equally responsible for the work’s commission). The original pictures are rendered into complex narrative abstractions that introduce new figurative forms.
 

6 channel DV or 1 HD (split screen), 29 min

The piece is constructed of 7 movements, which are played continuously:

1. Chaos – Light – Dark
2. Separation of the waters into sea and sky
3. Land – Grass – Trees
4. Stars, Sun, Moon
FUGUE: 5 Creatures of sea and sky – 6. Creatures of the land
7. Contemplation
 

Commissioned by The Southbank Centre London and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
www.laphil.com

World premiere: London, Royal Festival Hall, 28 April 2008
Conducted by Thomas Adès with the London Sinfonietta and Nicolas Hodges (Piano).

US Premiere: Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall, 27 May 2008
Conducted by Thomas Adès with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and
Nicolas Hodges (Piano).

European Premiere: Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw, 5 September, 2008
Conducted by Thomas Adès with the Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra and
Nicolas Hodges (Piano).