Elena Langer is a composer in residence at the Leicester International Music Festival 2024 – British chamber music festival which will take place from 19-21 September in UK.

Elena Langer, composer in residence (born 1974 in Moscow), is a Russian-born British composer of opera and other contemporary classical music. Her work has been performed at the Royal Opera House; Zurich Opera; Carnegie Hall; Richard B Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre; Shakespeare’s Globe; Wigmore Hall; Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg; and Milton Court, Barbican Centre.  Her very many outstandingly successful compositions include the opera, Figaro gets a Divorce (WNO); Five Reflections on Water for the Boston Symphony Orchestra; RedMare for Katya Apekisheva & Charles Owen, and a selection of chamber pieces for Nicholas Daniel and others, some of which we will hear at this festival.

Program ‘British Chamber Music 1920 – 2022’:

Arthur Bliss: Conversations for oboe, flute & string trio

Grace Williams: Sonatina for flute & piano

Madeleine Dring: Trio for oboe, flute & piano

Interval

Elena Langer: Figaro’s Dances for piano

Michael Tippett: Prelude, Recitative & Aria  for oboe, flute & piano

Peter Warlock: The Curlew for tenor, flute, cor anglais & string quartet