London-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney follows up her 2018 Grammy-nomination, appearance on Later...with Jools Holland, and sold-out Kings Place performance with a concert specially curated for Venus Unwrapped.
The experimental vocal trio present a programme combining voice with electronics, found sounds and percussion, inspired by leftfield pop, theatre and new classical music.
Renowned vocalist and composer Lore Lixenberg presents her new project: Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano in surround sound.
The guitar was historically regarded as a male dominated instrument but in recent times many women have excelled in guitar, both as performers and composers.
Principal Players from Aurora Orchestra reflect on 15 years and look back on the orchestra’s journey of becoming one of the world’s most dynamic and creative forces in orchestral music.
An ethereal night of Nordic folk tunes and folklore with Aurora Orchestra’s Norwegian Principal Cellist Torun Sæter Stavseng.
Renowned violinist, educator and cultural leader Midori brings to Venus Unwrapped her unique sequence of works by living female composers.
Tansy Davies has established herself as a highly individual voice in new music today. Her musical constructions are built from the materials of the modern past.
Pullitzer prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw reveals all facets of her dynamic musicianship in this collaboration with the young, New York-based Attacca Quartet. Hers is an art which converses with the musical past without fear of
In an exceptional melding of man and machine, Dan Tepfer uses the Yamaha Disklavier piano to bring together his world-class pianism with his background in physics and programming.
Jean-Michel Blais is a Montreal-based piano virtuoso and composer. His music is influenced by a range of composers and pianists such as Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, classical minimalists (Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Erik Satie), and modern composers such as Chilly Gonzales and Yann Tiersen.
The world-renowned Sacconi Quartet champions two of today’s leading female composers, performing the world premiere of a new string quartet by Judith Bingham, alongside Helen Grime’s String Quartet.
Pioneering Australian pianist Zubin Kanga performs ground-breaking new works exploring our relationships to screen technologies, from classic cinema to video games.
To celebrate the one year anniversary of its release, London’s leading string orchestra bring a renewed perspective to Elena Tonra's (vocalist/guitarist of Daughter) solo record, Ex:Re.
Pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton and an all-girl band The Swamp Girls weld together punk songs, scratch animation and an epic fairytale about the perils of annexing the wild.
The 50th anniversary concert of Gavin Bryars’ The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), which explores the now well-known tragedy of the ‘unsinkable’ ship.
Explore Ensemble celebrate the music of acclaimed Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho including the UK premiere of Figura, a dazzling chamber music version of her theatrical clarinet concerto.
Perhaps the most influential woman of 20th-century music, Nadia Boulanger is an icon in the story of classical music, having taught an impressive list of musical titans. Aurora Players curate a night inspired by Boulanger’s legendary salons...
The Colin Currie Group is a hand-picked virtuosic ensemble specialising in the music of Steve Reich. Tonight they perform his inimitable Clapping Music and other classic ensemble works.