Contemporary
Music Soloist
 Heather
performs worldwide as a soloist with many of the
world's leading Ensembles, ranging from Pierre
Boulez and the Chicago Symphony in Tokyo through to
Steve Reich and Musicians at the Lincoln Centre,
New York.
With Synergy Vocals, Heather regularly appears with
London
Sinfonietta,
Ensemble
Modern,
Ictus
and the Rosas dance company along with most major
Symphony Orchestras including Boston, Chicago, the
Royal Philharmonic and BBC.
With
Steve Reich after the European premiere of You
Are in January 2005
When
Heather recorded Steve Reich's Drumming with
Micaela Haslam and Ictus in 2003, Gramophone
magazine described it as a:
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"Superb
new release...this performance is quite
the equal of, and possibly more colourful
than, Reich's second version, on Nonesuch,
and clearly outstrips the original, less
trim DG version"
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World
Première performances include Azio Corghi's
opera Blimunda at La Scala, Milan with
performances following at Turin and Lisbon Opera
Houses; Corghi's Rinaldo & Co in Catania
Opera House, Sicily, and Luciano Berio's opera
Outis at La Scala, Milan.
Heather
has been a soloist in more than twenty five
performances of Berio's Sinfonia, most
notably with the London Philharmonic Orchestra,
Chicago Symphony (as part of Pierre Boulez' 70th
birthday celebrations in the USA and later in
Tokyo) and the Concertgebau Orchestra in Amsterdam
with Berio himself conducting. In June 1998 she
took part in a Dutch television multimedia
documentary about Sinfonia which was nominated for
a Grammy. In 1999 Heather sang Sinfonia for
Electric Phoenix in Lisbon and Naples.
In
2003 she appeared with the Boston Symphony, BBCSO,
London Sinfonietta and noteably with the Nederlands
Radio Orchestra in a live broadcast of a world
première of Dreamhouse, specially
written for her by the American composer Steve
Mackey. With the Sinfonietta she also sang in
Cyprus as part of their EU celebrations. A
highlight of that year was a performance of
Tehillim as part of the inaugural week of
the Zankel Hall in the Carnegie Hall, New
York.
In
summer 2004, Heather was a soloist at both the
Berio and Birtwistle celebration weeks at the South
Bank Centre in London with London Sinfonietta,
Synergy Vocals, London Voices and the BBCSO.
 2005
included the European première of Steve
Reich's new composition "You Are
(Variations) " in Germany along with
Tehillim and the UK premiere at the Barbican
Centre with Synergy Vocals/Ensemble Modern. Another
highlight was a BBC Radio 3 broadcast of
Stimmung with Sing Circle from the top of
the 'Gherkin' building which was the opening
concert of the City of London Festival. In November
she appeared in Buenos Aires as a soloist with
Diego Masson in Laborintus II.
photograph
by
Amit
Lennon
from the Independent 28/6/05
"Stimmung
is a tour de force for the vocal ensemble
requiring accute concentration flawless
pitching and a sense of humour. Gregory
Rose's Sing Circle more than rose to the
challenge......surreal magical and
unforgettable"
Evening Standard 28/6/05
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2006
is very busy with concerts all over the World
celebrating Steve Reich's 70th Birthday. Heather
will noteably appear again at Carnegie Hall and a
special weekend at the Barbican Centre in a
retrospective of Steve's work. Cllick on
diary
to
find out more.
"This
performance was a fine one, the BBC
Symphony Orchestra delving into repertoire
it cannot have encountered much before.
Synergy Vocals was typically excellent,
with the high soprano of Amy Howarth and
Heather Cairncross's rich alto deserving
of special mention."
www.Classical
Source.com 2006
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