Zubin Kanga performs the London premiere of Answer Machine Tape, 1987, a major work for piano and multimedia by Philip Venables, created in collaboration with dramatist Ted Huffman. It focuses on visual artist David Wojnarowicz, whose answering machine tape becomes a window onto the 1980s New York art scene, its queer community, and the devastating effects of the AIDS crisis.
Music and memory have a deep-rooted, emotive connection. Marking his 65th birthday year, composer-conductor Brett Dean joins mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean to weave together fragments of remembrance: tributes, elegies, snapshots, and echoes across time.
A revelatory evening of rhythm, resonance, and remembrance, led by the trailblazing Colin Currie Quartet. Featuring powerful works for percussion by some of contemporary music’s most inventive voices.
A trio of composer-performer-improvisers, miré invite you into their world with a shadowy and mesmerising yet playful and virtuosic programme of music from their forthcoming EP.
As part of Memory Unwrapped and Steve Reich’s 90th celebrations, the Solem Quartet perform Reich’s Different Trains, joined by Alice Zawadzki for her own songs, alongside music by visionary Kate Bush in a uniquely modern dialogue.
As part of Memory Unwrapped and Kings Place’s celebration of Steve Reich at 90, Phaedra Ensemble’s Slow Changeexplores memory and transformation through Reich’s minimalism, Coltrane’s Africa, and the UK premiere of Thorvaldsdottir’s Enigma.
As part of our Steve Martland, Composer-in-Focus series, Hebrides Ensemble brings together bold contemporary voices exploring nature, memory, and sound. Works by Steve Martland and Eleanor Alberga frame a new commission from Dave Maric, Shifting Baselines—a powerful reflection on shifting norms in our relationship with nature.
The Colin Currie Group performs the music of the Steve Martland Band, unleashing the full force of Martland’s sound, epic in scale, electrifying in energy, and uncompromising in spirit.
Broken sounds and broken instruments: an uncompromising portrayal of the mind. 8 Songs for a Mad King is a melodrama with a libretto based on the real-life observations of King George III.
Inspired by Mary Jean Chan’s poetry, composer Nicola T. Chang creates a new score for CLS musicians and traditional Chinese instruments, weaving an immersive dialogue of words and music in partnership with Faber & Faber.