Thomas will conduct a series of performances in June 2023 featuring music by contemporary composer Deborah Pritchard and art by Maggi Hambling CBE and Marc Chagall www.musicatmalling.com
Thomas Kemp conducts the premiere of Hinterland by Howard Skempton with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in Leamington and West Malling. The programme includes works by Rebecca Saunders and Nigel Osborne.
Excellent review in Musical Opinion: "The result was a true continuation of the energising, restorative effect of Bach's music, crisply and spontaneously rendered by members of Chamber Domaine under Thomas Kemp's alert direction."
"Metaphysical Brilliance" - a five star review of Six Brandenburgs: Six Commissions in The Artsdesk
Fantastic review in The Observer by Fiona Maddocks.
Fantastic review by David Nice in The Artsdesk about Music@Malling and BCMG concert.
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Fantastic review in The Artsdesk by David Nice about BCMG and Music@Malling concert. "Bittersweet spells for the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in rural Kent."
Thomas conducted the premiere of Elias - Capriccio for Bassoon and Strings at the Music@Malling Festival. Other premieres included Elias - Three Scherzi for Violin and Piano which he will record in October with pianist Sophia Rahman for Signum.
Enthusiastic review from the 5:4 blog about BCMG concert. "Thomas Kemp strongly projected the solemnity that permeates here, reinforcing the sense that it’s the following movement, ‘Dirge’, that’s the primary trajectory of all the music in This Silence. ‘Dirge’ was so engrossing that minutes seemingly passed in moments, one becoming lost in its...
Thomas conducts world premiere of Turnage Concertino with The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
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October 2021
Thomas will be conducting a programme of Mark-Anthony Turnage, Eleanor Alberga and Rebecca Saunders to open the 2021/22 season for BCMG in the CBSO Centre, Birmingham. The concert includes the world premiere of Turnage - Concertino for Clarinet and Ensemble with Clarinet virtuoso, Jon Carnac.
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky's death in 1971, Thomas Kemp and Chamber Domaine will be recording The Soldier's Tale in April 2021 for Resonus.