| Friday 26 September 2025 | 19:30 |
| Anna de Bruin, Triona Milne, Clare O’Connell, Thea Spiers | Aurea | |
| Groves, Alex | Single Form (Dawn) | |
| Agar, Lara | Canon and Chaconne | |
| Finnis, Edmund (b. 1984) | String Quartet no. 1 'Aloysius' | |
| Croft, John (b. 1971) | Voi sete la mia stella | |
| Umemoto, Yuri (b. 2002) | Look at me, senpai | |
| Nobuto, Ben (b. 1996) | Skip | |
| Nobuto, Ben (b. 1996) | New work |
| Ben Goldscheider | French horn |
| Brother Tree Sound |
New music for horn, string quartet and electronics, curated by Ben Nobuto. Ben Goldscheider, ’one of Britain’s leading horn players’ (Classical Music), joins trailblazing quartet Brother Tree Sound to present works by Edmund Finnis, Alex Groves, Lara Agar, Yuri Umemoto, John Croft and a world premiere by Nobuto.
The horn and string quartet is an unusual combination. Aside from Mozart’s Horn Quintet from 1782, very few pieces have been written for this pairing. On the surface they seem completely opposed, their sound, their connotation. The image of the horn player amongst the quartet feels like a character airdropped in from another world, a surreal crossover. This programme tries to make sense of that situation.
Two works that focus on indeterminacy: Brother Tree Sounds’ Aurea takes inspiration from the Japanese art form kintsugi, and Lara Agar’s Canon and Chaconne crafts a world, sets things off and watches them collide in different ways.
Two works that draw from nature: Alex Groves’ Single Form (Dawn) is a ‘slow-motion, sonic sunrise’ for horn and live electronics, and Edmund Finnis’ String Quartet No. 1 evokes ‘the shape of a valley; the image of clouds … a sense of sounds breathing.’
Two works that think about time and stasis: the shimmering, microtonal drones of John Croft’s Voi sete la mia stella, and the hypnotic, anime loops of Yuri Umemoto’s look at me, senpai.
A new work by Ben Nobuto, about joy and renewed hope.
This event will last approximately 2 hours, including an interval.
