Patrick Bailey conductor and presenter 
Sound Out Young Ensemble  instrumentalists from Enfield, Haringey and Waltham Forest Music Services  
London Sinfonietta

In our annual concert for schools, presenter Patrick Bailey, London Sinfonietta musicians and our Sound Out Young Ensemble explore how to compose and create new music. Listen to pieces by living composers, join in with the performance and hear new work by young people who have taken part in our Sound Out and Composition Challenge programmes. 

YP: piano

Mixed Ensembles Prize - Public Final

Details to follow.

YP: panel

Improvised-comedy with Marcus Brigstocke, Rachel Parris, Josie Lawrence, Lauren Shearing and Lee Simpson.

YP: Keys

Conducting 101 for maestri of all ages - come and have a go at waving a baton!

A piano piano masterclass with me in New Hall School Chapel

Piano and lo-fi machines programme ft. a world premiere by Alex Paxton plus additional sounds from Blak PROTODOME Troise.

Welcome to The Magical Forest. As you make your way through it you’ll soon discover that the journey to The Fairy Queen’s Party is not a straightforward path.  Strange things happen all around as sprites and pixies enchant and trick, but the only real obstacle is ourselves.  

Following on from The Moon Hares in 2022 we return with another family opera created in collaboration with communities from around the UK. Composer James Redwood and writer Hazel Gould transform Henry Purcell’s Shakespeare-inspired 1692 opera into a magical new adventure for the whole family. 

This reimagining of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is about wishes that come true, and what happens when they do, as we learn about friendship, love and telling the truth.

More details here: https://oae.co.uk/event/the-fairy-queen-three-wishes-2/

Yshani Perinpanayagam, Children’s Chorus Conductor

Happy New Year!

Improvised-comedy with Rachel Parris, Josie Lawrence, Neil Mullarkey, Ruth Bratt and Lee Simpson.

YP: Keys

Reviewing new releases with Andrew McGregor.

Listen again here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b06w2121

Come hear about the music and design for our Olivier-winning ROH Linbury Show Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy.

An improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers. In each show the cast conjures up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.

Previous ‘lost’ masterpieces have included Double 0 Darcy, Game of Scones and The Wickham Man.

Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, this is a regency treat guaranteed to delight Austen novices and die-hard fans alike.

More details here

Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys

Preview of my Cage Letters - settings of love letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham.

Taster event of New Movement Collective’s upcoming show Les Noces: The Departure

More details and tickets here.

Daniel Shelvey, baritone

YP, composer, pianist

CD launch of A Winter Breviary featuring a performance my carol When God Made Eve.

Release on Resonus Classics here.

George Crumb Celestial Mechanics [Makrokosmos IV] Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano, 1979  

Claudia Molitor Polymer Hauntings, 2022 

Max Syedtollan Electric Organ Duo, 2023 (world premiere) 

Njabulo Phungula Playground Postcard, 2020 

Gillian Walker Title tbc, 2023 (world premiere) 

Uri Agnon Put Your Hands Together [for late capitalism], 2022

With society’s ever-increasing political polarisation, the temptation to shout louder in order to reach those who feel ideologically far from us is immense. However, as the battles over the climate crisis continue to rage on, it is clear that this combative communication structure often results in those in opposition feeling more defensive of their existing view.   

In this concert, Yshani Perinpanayagam and Katherine Tinker will explore an alternative way forward, turning to art for one of its strongest powers: bringing people together, through cooperation, collaboration and play. It is no mistake that we play games and play music; the idea of play can make concepts too-messy for words far more accessible.  Play is connection. Play demands concentration, imagination and innovation, the very qualities that can lead us towards solutions to the challenges that face us today. 

The programme will start with George Crumb’s epic Celestial Mechanics [Makrokosmos IV] Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano in which a rich and expansive kaleidoscope of sound is created, exploring the timelessness of the universe.The programme then moves to the urgency of the present moment: Claudia Molitor’s Polymer Hauntings is a requiem to fossil fuel, using one of its most day-to-day, visible manifestations: plastic. Ideas of activism, cooperation and play are then investigated in pieces by Max Syedtollan, Gillian Walker, and finally in Uri Agnon’s Put Your Hands Together [for late capitalism]: light-hearted and mischievous in its use of a simple gesture from both performer and audience member – a clap – to affect change.

More details of DEEP TIME festival here: https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/yshani-perinpanayagam-and-katherine-tinker-provocation-vs-play/

Set at the court of the Emperor Nero as he schemes to replace his wife Octavia with his lover Poppea, Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea has a bleak and violent answer to the question, “How far would you go for love?”

With startlingly modern music and characterisation, Monteverdi’s opera was one of the first operatic masterpieces and a fitting showcase for a woman who reportedly said, “I hope I die before I get old” nearly 2000 years before the sentiment was immortalised by The Who.

Robin Norton-Hale directs this new production, with multi-genre musician and composer Yshani Perinpanayagam as conductor and arranger and a new English translation of the libretto from poet and Classicist Helen Eastman. Design comes from the award-winning Basia Bińkowska.

More details soon.

YP: Conductor

Set at the court of the Emperor Nero as he schemes to replace his wife Octavia with his lover Poppea, Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea has a bleak and violent answer to the question, “How far would you go for love?”

With startlingly modern music and characterisation, Monteverdi’s opera was one of the first operatic masterpieces and a fitting showcase for a woman who reportedly said, “I hope I die before I get old” nearly 2000 years before the sentiment was immortalised by The Who.

Robin Norton-Hale directs this new production, with multi-genre musician and composer Yshani Perinpanayagam as conductor and arranger and a new English translation of the libretto from poet and Classicist Helen Eastman. Design comes from the award-winning Basia Bińkowska.

More details here.

YP: Conductor

Set at the court of the Emperor Nero as he schemes to replace his wife Octavia with his lover Poppea, Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea has a bleak and violent answer to the question, “How far would you go for love?”

With startlingly modern music and characterisation, Monteverdi’s opera was one of the first operatic masterpieces and a fitting showcase for a woman who reportedly said, “I hope I die before I get old” nearly 2000 years before the sentiment was immortalised by The Who.

Robin Norton-Hale directs this new production, with multi-genre musician and composer Yshani Perinpanayagam as conductor and arranger and a new English translation of the libretto from poet and Classicist Helen Eastman. Design comes from the award-winning Basia Bińkowska.

More details soon.

YP: Conductor