New live recording: Signum Quartet performs “Unfettered and Alive” in Boulez Zaal in Berlin, September 2024.
15 NOVEMBER 2024: Duo Du Toit & Kooper (NL) will release a new album for the label Channel Classics, featuring Fallout for clarinet and piano
OCTOBER 2024: Performances of Mamela, Mamela, Mamela for solo cello by Prof Anmari van der Westhuizen (ZA) at Alte Schmiede in Vienna and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg
5 OCTOBER 2024: In Bloom: post-truth, machines & strings (curated by Lise Morrison)
This edition of In Bloom presents three artists who investigate how their work relates to that societal context. Issues about reality, the post-truth society, and computational innovation VS. human beings’ bodies and thoughts are often delved into by: Rafaele Andrade, Mehrnaz Khorrami, Vitali Karagkezidis with Kristia Michael
17&18 SEPTEMBER 2024: Signum Quartet performs my new string quartet “Unfettered and Alive” in the Boulez Zaal in Berlin in their program “bridge the chasms that divide”
30 AUGUST 2024: Lise performs (an improvisation) at Festival Into the Great Wide Open in Vlieland as part of Kinetic Sounds, a multi-speaker installation
2 AUGUST 2024: Maria du Toit performs Fallout at the ClarinetFest in Dublin.
24 MAY 2024: Stef van Vynckt, Belgian harpist and co-founder of the Extended music Collective, performs ‘Seeking, as it Were’ at CLASSICAL: NEXT in Berlin (DE)
21 MAY 2024: Prof Anmari van der Westhuizen performs Mamela Mamela Mamela at Bard College Conservatory of Music in New York (US)
1 -3 MARCH 2024: Lise served on the jury for the Alexander SA Composers’ Awards in Cape Town. The rehearsals/workshop with Cape Town Philharmonic (CPO) and five finalists took place in Artscape, Cape Town and the final concert and deliberations took place at the Hugo Lambrechts Auditorium.
28 JANUARY 2024: Dr Myles Roberts, South African flautist, performs ‘Five Times Recycled’ in Florida (US) as part of the Florida Flute Association Convention.
16 MARCH 2024: Quatuor Bozzini performs cleared air and delicate dust at Festival Dag in de Branding on 16 March, at Amare, Den Haag. This piece was commissioned by Quatuor Bozzini and Gaudeamus Muziekweek in 2018. Check out the score follower video here.
‘No grief without joy’ was released on SAWYER EDITIONS on 7 July 2023.
Stream it on Spotify, on Apple Music Apple Music or Youtube
Duo Du Toit & Kooper ‘s upcoming album on Channel Classics Records will feature Fallout for clarinet and piano. Watch the interview with Lise and consider supporting their crowdfund campaign.
Performance of Five Times Recycled for bass flute and electronics by Gergely Ittzes (flute) and Cameron Harris (electronics)
27 November, Goethe Institut Johannesburg
ISCM (International Society of Contemporary Music) World New Music Days 2023
In Bloom: Nostalgia (TENTH Edition)
Korzo Theater, The Hague,
on Saturday October 7th 2023
Photo by Stephan Kaffa
Five Times Recycled for bass flute and two cassette recorders
Upcoming performances by Sara Constant in Stockholm, Toronto, Stuttgart
Seeking, as it were for solo harp and pre-recorded harp-like instruments
Commissioned by Stef van Vynckt
D R O O M B E G I N : commissioned by Asko Schönberg, Video by Okke van Breemen
In Bloom Concert series at Korzo Theatre:
A selection of new music, unearthed from the city’s fringes, blossoming in and around The Hague
“If the minutiae of timbre and voicing is the order of the day, Morrison’s dark satire seems to suggest, then we are playing a mad game with ghosts.”
William Fourie, TEMPO – a Quarterly Review of New Music
“Morrison’s [work] is quite cerebral… the sounds come to you in bits and pieces.”
Izak de Vries, Voertaal
Lise Morrison 