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Premiere of 12 Caprices with Sean Shibe at Wigmore Hall

  • Writer: JJMM
    JJMM
  • May 9
  • 1 min read

© Iga Gozdowska
© Iga Gozdowska

12 Caprices, a new work for solo guitar by James Dillon, will be premiered by Sean Shibe at Wigmore Hall on Thursday 29 May 2025. The programme will celebrate Boulez’s centenary with a performance of Le marteau sans maître.


Shibe will then present the German premiere in the same programme on 31 May at the Elbphilharmonie, as part of the Hamburg International Music Festival.


Prefaced by Lorca's Capriccio, the miniatures offer glimpses and fleeting ideas of form and uncertainty across a total of 10-minutes:


"In the moon's web,

the sky spider,

stars are entangled,

whirling."

Federico Garcia Lorca



The work will receive its Swedish premiere with Magnus Andersson at Östergötlands Musikdagar, Norrköping, on 13 August.

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