John McGuire

Recent Performances

  1. 2025

    Twelve Circles; Playground

    Music We'd Like to Hear
    St Mary at Hill, London, July 11, 2025
    Twelve Circles: Mark Knoop, piano. Playground: Plus-Minus Ensemble, Mark Knoop, conductor.
    Playground broadcast on BBC Radio 3, New Music Show, August 9, 2025.
  2. 2024

    Jump Cuts

    Kunst-Station Sankt Peter
    Cologne, November 23, 2024
    Axel Lindner, conductor; Cristina Ardelean, Karin Nakayama, violin; Axel Porath, Laura Hovestadt, viola; Adya Khanna Fontenla, Burkart Zeller, cello
    Lunchtime concert, 1:00 p.m.
    Recorded November 12; released on Double String Trios.
  3. 2023

    Double Bars; Playground

    Initiative Musik und Informatik Köln (GIMIK)
    Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, June 16, 2023
    Axel Lindner, conductor; Cristina Ardelean, Lola Rubio, violin; Axel Porath, Laura Hovestadt, viola; Adya Khanna Fontenla, Burkart Zeller, cello
    World premieres. Concert for the composer's 80th birthday.
    Recorded June 13 and 16; released on Double String Trios.
    Broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, August 17, 2023.
  4. 2019

    A Cappella

    Music We'd Like to Hear
    St Mary at Hill, London, July 19, 2019
    Beth Griffith, soprano
    UK premiere.
  5. 2017

    Forty-Eight Variations for Two Pianos

    Music We'd Like to Hear
    St Mary at Hill, London, July 14, 2017
    UK premiere.
  6. 2015

    A Cappella

    ISSUE Project Room
    Abrons Art Center, New York, May 8, 2015
    Beth Griffith, soprano
    Part of Tectonics Festival New York 2015.
  7. 2014

    Jump Cuts

    Ensemble Modern
    Alte Oper, Frankfurt, January 24, 2014
    Ensemble Modern, Erik Nielsen, conductor
    World premiere. Commissioned by Ensemble Modern.
  8. 2012

    Decay for Eight French Horns; Vanishing Points; A Cappella

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    Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, April 25, 2012
    Decay: Christine Chapman, horn; Melvyn Poore, electronics. A Cappella: Beth Griffith, soprano; John McGuire, sound direction.
    Evening concert, 7:30 p.m. Decay in the 2008 version for horn and eight-channel electronics; Vanishing Points for four-channel playback.
  9. 2012

    Pulse Music III

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    Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, April 25, 2012
    Sound installation, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. First presentation in four channels.