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In the Media: Urban Birds

15 July 2014
Image by Flickr user sussexbirder - shared under creative commons licence
Image by Flickr user sussexbirder – shared under creative commons licence

Staged by the PRS for Music Foundation to coincide with this year’s Commonwealth Games, the first ever New Music Biennial showcases new commissions from a wide range of composers across the UK in two special events held in London and Glasgow.

BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now programme broadcast music from the showcase, including Urban Birds, a piece for piano and percussion by Dr Arlene Sierra.

Arlene Sierra: Urban Birds
Xenia Pestova, Kathleen Supove and Sarah Nicolls (pianos)
Jose Miguel Fernandez (electronics)

The programme is available on BBC iPlayer at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0495mlz