- Rebecca Saunders
Chroma I-XXIII (2021)
(for 12 - 16 performers)- Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
2003-2021
Programme Note
Chroma's duration and length is necessarily flexible, please contact the composer. The music boxes and record players can be hired from the composer via her office at Littlebit (website https://www.rebeccasaunders.net/).
Subsequent versions of chroma:
chroma I
Commissioned by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants for Tate Modern
16-18 June 2003, Tate Modern London, by London Music Projects
chroma II
October 2003, Musée de la Musique, Cité de la Musique Paris by Ensemble Intercontemporain
chroma III
March 2005, Museum of Art and History Geneva, Festival Archipel, by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma IV
February 2006, Nybrokajen 11 Stockholm, Stockholm New Music by the Curious Music Players
chroma V
March 2006, Musée des Beaux Arts Lyon, Biennale Musiques en Scène Lyon by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma VI
November 2006, Philharmonie Luxembourg, by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma VII
March 2007, Malmö Castle, Festival Connect, by the Curious Chamber Players
chroma VIII
Feburary 2008, Paul Klee Zentrum Bern, by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma IX
April 2008, Märkisches Museum, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik 2008, by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma Xa
September 2008, Hofkirche Innsbruck, Klangspuren Festival Schwaz by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma Xb
September 2008, Mart Museum Rovereto, Transart Festival, by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma XI
December 2008, Studio Version, Studio WDR Kölner Philharmonie by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma XII
June 2010, Herrenhausen Hanover, Herrenhausen Festival, by Ensemble Musikfabrik
chroma XIII
October 2010, Museum of Art and History Geneva, by Ensemble Contrechamps
chroma XIV
November 2010, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Fesitval, by Ensemble Musikfabrik
chroma XV
March 2011, Cafe Moskau Maerzmusik Berlin
chroma XVI
May 2011, Festival les Amplitudes, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Usine électrique
chroma XVII
2012, CAC Vilnius
chroma XVIII
March 2013 Salzburg KarlBöhmSaal Schauspielhaus
chroma XIX
September 2013 Bonn Kunst Museum, Beethoven Fest
chroma XX
May 2017 Ghent Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, Ensemble SPECTRA and director Filip Rathé, Festival “Ear to the Ground”
chroma XXI
October 2021 Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel, direction and spatialisation by Gemma Ragués Pujol & Ali Latif Shushtari, Ensemble NEC-Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain and students of the Hochschule der Künste Bern
chroma XXII
October 2021« Cathédrale souterraine » Berne, direction and spatialisation by Gemma Ragués Pujol & Ali Latif Shushtari, Ensemble NEC-Nouvel Ensemble Contemporain and students of the Hochschule der Künste Bern