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Soundhub Showcase Concert


Sat 16 Jun 7pm Fri 22 Jun 7.30pm
Jerwood Hall, LSO St Lukes UBS and LSO Music Education Centre

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Programme - Sat 16 Jun


Darren Bloom Untitled Elo Masing Planes Toby Young Selected scenes from The Daisy Chain

Programme Notes Darren Bloom Untitled Soundhub


A flexible space for composers to explore, collaborate and experiment Based at LSO St Lukes, Soundhub provides a flexible space where composers can explore, collaborate and experiment, with access to vital resources, support from industry professionals and LSO players and staff. Soundhub is a composer-led space, responding directly to the needs of those using it: a supportive environment for artists to try out new ideas, develop existing work and benefit from peer-to-peer networking and support. The programme has been developed in response to a gap in provision for emerging composers and builds on the LSOs ongoing investment in emerging talent, in particular through the pioneering Panufnik Young Composers Scheme. Soundhub Pilot Soundhub began with a six-month pilot in January 2012 that culminates with two showcase events on Saturday 16 and Friday 22 June at LSO St Lukes. Since January, the composers have been coming into LSO St Lukes for a wide range of individual projects as well as group sessions such as workshops with LSO players and presentations from industry organisations including NMC Recordings. Individual projects have ranged from rehearsals and workshops to tutorials with industry members and digital technology sessions. They have also had regular access to LSO rehearsals and concerts We are delighted to have worked with the following composers over the pilot: Soundhub Members Ed Baxter | Darren Bloom | Alexander Hawkins | Aaron Holloway-Nahum Elo Masing | Christian Mason | Mark Simpson | Ayanna Witter-Johnson Toby Young Soundhub Associates Richard Bullen | Rebecca Dale | Alice Jeffreys | Helen Papaioannou Emma-Ruth Richards | Anjula Semmens | squib-box We are extremely grateful to the following people for all their support and advice over the pilot: Colin Matthews, Ed McKeon, Zoe Martlew, Phil Cashian, Paul Silverthorne, David Alberman, David Worswick, Lorenzo Iosco and Chris Rogers. We are now accepting applications for the first full year of Soundhub which begins in September 2012. Application forms are available at the main entrance. lso.co.uk/soundhub soundhubblog.wordpress.com David Worswick violin Neil Georgeson piano

Elo Masing Planes


Jean Lee choreographer/dancer Toki Quartet [Aki Sawa violin | Midori Komachi violin | Steve Doman viola | Amy Jolly cello] Planes is not an ordinary dance piece. Music and dance are far too closely integrated in this work to regard it as yet another dance performance; rather, it could be seen as a piece of chamber music for string quartet and dancer. Planes challenges the conventions of music and dance collaborations in quite unprecedented ways by establishing a profound and tangible interrelation between movement and sound production. Music and choreography are integrated from a grass-root level and built up together from the very beginning. A large part in this is played by the unconventional notation the piece is written in, devised by the composer to be able to convey the movement-based sonic language that connects closely with the unique movement material of choreographer Jean Lee and enables her to work with the score without necessarily hearing the music played by the performers.

Toby Young Selected scenes from The Daisy Chain


Mark Gotham music director | Ruth Mariner director | Jayne OHanlon set design | Tom Oldham patron | Clara Kanter therapist | Rod Morris prince | Nick Scott miller | Christina Sampson Daisy | Chloe Morgan patron | Angus McPhee patron | Mandhira de Saram violin | Richard Jones viola* | Amanda Truelove cello | Jani Pensola double bass Audrey Milheres flute* | Michael ODonnell oboe | Adam Slater clarinet* | Daniel Jemison bassoon | Jonathan Lipton horn | John Alley piano * Members of the Octandre Ensemble When a stoic marriage counselor is tasked with curing the delusions of the Royal bride Daisy, she discovers a darker side to the nuptials that challenges the very foundations of her practice. Ruined by the fear that her first born heir will be abducted by an aberrant cave-dwelling goblin, Daisys delusions are fantastical, yet firmly rooted in the fissures found when reality shatters loves great dream: her husband is a bastard. Or at least, this was the initial interpretation. As the therapist begins to find Daisys tales more compelling, she becomes trapped in a triangle between guarding the safety of the Princess, the safety of the baby, and exposing the Prince as a psychotic tyrant and cause of Daisys pain. However, for some pain is pleasure, and as the difference between reality and fantasy starts to become more and more obscure, the therapist has to confront the possibility of an incredible truth: that Daisys delusions arent as intangible as they first appear.

Programme - Fri 22 Jun


Various Viola Shorts (Part 1) squib-box Shadow Prophets Darren Bloom Chaconne Elo Masing Planes Ayanna Witter-Johnson A Single Sun Interval Ed Baxter Sketch for the Death of Kodak Aaron Holloway-Nahum Interaction Various Viola Shorts (Part 2) Richard Bullen A Garden of Forking Paths Alexander Hawkins Unknown Baobabs

Neil Luck Club Club is a personal expression of my own frustration at having never learnt to play a stringed instrument. Toby Young Capriccio Capriccio was written in 2011 as a virtuosic showpiece for solo viola. It is a highly playful work, switching between moods very quickly, and explores some of the many facets of this versatile and multi-faceted instrument (including flamboyant, delicate, lyrical, expressive, and even seductive!)

squib-box Shadow Prophets


Neil Luck stage assistant/voice | Adam de la Cour electric guitar Federico Reuben electronics | Tom Jackson saxophone | Matthew Lee Knowles libretto/piano | Fiona Bevan voice | Billy Strachan drums Shadow Prophets is a collaborative opera composed by squib-box, and featuring a libretto by Matthew Lee Knowles. The work was originally commissioned by Associazione Culturale Heuristic for the Miniere Sonore Festival 2011. ...In a galaxy far, far away eastern dictators, western playboys and middleclass composers conflate in an alarming ejaculation of current affairs, hardcore modernism, slapstick, free jazz, and bad stand-up comedy. Expect anything

Programme Notes Various Viola Shorts


Paul Silverthorne viola Adam de la Cour Block Block came about through a mix of diverse influences over a two week period. The initial starting point was Freuds quote concerning the death drive (Todestrieb): the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state ...which was then mixed in with some experiments with the octatonic scale; general writing by ear; and many moments of writers block. Richard Bullen Rite The viola is seemingly just a big violin but tuned a fifth lower. In reality the two instruments are worlds apart. They both have three strings in common, the A, D and G string. The high E-string lends the violin a powerful luminosity and metallic penetrating tone which is missing in the viola. The violin leads; the viola remains in the shade. In return the low C-string gives the viola a unique acerbity, compact, somewhat hoarse, with the aftertaste of wood, earth and tannic acid. Gyorgy Ligeti, preface to Viola Sonata (1994) Part reflection on Ligetis comment, part exploration of the ceremonial aspects of musical performance, Rite was written at the request of the talented young violist Diana Mathews who gave the first performance at St John the Bapist Church, Wimbledon in February 2012. It is designed to be performed in a large, resonant space. Emma-Ruth Richards Hora Spoitorilor Hora Spoitorilor explores one variation on the Romanian folk song of the same name that much of the thematic material for my new chamber opera is built on; the opera is a rescue story of one of the thousands of young Romanian girls that are sex trafficked into Britain every year. This image is from Vanessa Beecrofts sculptural performance in Spasimo Palermo, which Nic, the librettist (http://www.nicchalmers.co.uk) was greatly inspired by. Mark Simpson, Darren Bloom, Aaron Holloway-Nahum Solo This piece was written at the beginning of the pilot of the LSOs Soundhub Scheme. Embedded in the Soundhub scheme is the idea of a community of collaborating composers. With this in mind, we decided to each write a short movement of this work, and each based our compositions (in various ways) upon a piece violist Paul Silverthorne was already playing in the recital: Brittens Lachrymae.

Darren Bloom Chaconne


David Worswick violin Chaconne for solo violin was commissioned by the violinist David Worswick. While the piece strictly follows a chord progression throughout, it is not stated in a bare form until the very end of the piece. As a result, the listener becomes gradually aware of the progression through consistent exposure to the material. The music begins wild and unfocused, leaping around the instrument with very aggressive figurations contrasted by short, gentle fragments played in a much slower tempo. As the piece progresses, the wild music is lassoed, without losing intensity, into a nearly consistent triple time and tighter phrases bringing a sense of greater control and directed energy. In a sense, this work is a tribute to J.S. Bach, as wonderful exponent of expressivity within a strict form. Chaconne is dedicated to David Worswick for his tireless championship of new music.

Elo Masing Planes


Jean Lee choreographer/dancer | Toki Quartet [Aki Sawa violin | Midori Komachi violin | Steve Doman viola | Amy Jolly cello] (Please see programme notes from Sat 16 Jun)

Ayanna Witter-Johnson A Single Sun


Ayanna Witter-Johnson cello In this evenings performance of A Single Sun, you will hear both a work in progress and a culmination of my experience on the LSO Soundhub Pilot Scheme. I have been exploring the role that recording plays in my music and how I can use it to extend in particular the range of the cello to create a variety of sonic landscapes in my music. All the sounds in the piece, besides the voice have been generated by the cello.

Ed Baxter Sketch for the Death of Kodak


Elo Masing violin | Dragos Margineanu electric guitar The score for this work in progress is written onto a digital camera ash unit. This is ashed into the eyes of the performers who then have approximately six minutes until the image on their retina fades beyond recognition. With their eyes shut, they respond to diverse changes in clarity, colour and stability. The work seeks to bring the score inside the human body; and to create a pointedly fugitive score which individual players see once only, eetingly and within the parameters of their ocular idiosyncrasies. (It transpires that if the performer looks at a blank sheet of paper, the image appears there as equally well-defined as inside their head.) My long-term plan is to realise an opera, The Death of Kodak, using multiple ash units and a large ensemble to portray the symptomatic dissolution of this pivotal modernist corporation. Composing can happen anywhere and does not depend on the location you are in at a certain moment. More important than the places you travel to are the people you meet. In this sense, I greatly enjoyed my studies in New York and London because of the opportunities it gave me to meet musicians, teachers and friends.

Ever Out, Babel, 2012); and Scarlet Ibis, Then Constellation, a trumpet concerto written for Wadada Leo Smith. All the players have the exact same melodic line, but have discretion as to the rate at which they move through the materials (amongst other things), and need make no particular effort to play in phase with anyone else. As a result, the line generates its own harmony as it proceeds. It also has no real sense of pulse, although hopefully retains a definite sense of architecture and direction. This composition was written whilst I was preparing for a concert with master saxophonist Marshall Allen, most famous for his work in Sun Ras Arkestra; one particular cell in the melody here recalls a corner from Ras composition Lights on a Satellite.

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Aaron HollowayNahum Interaction


Lorenzo Iosco bass clarinet | David Worswick violin Josef Albers seminal work The Interaction of Colour argues that we never see a colour as it really is because of the constant interaction between every colour with its surroundings. This piece came from an exploration of how the ideas surrounding this argument can be translated into music. A single pitch (the F above middle C) is established by the violin at the beginning of the work. The centre of this work is a duet, symmetrically arranged around the F but is this F a high, middle, or low note? The surrounding material constantly reinterprets and reevaluates the centrepoint of the work, such that it begins as a high ceiling and ends as a pedal bass note. In this, the composition explicitly echoes the sentiment of Albers: Pitch is the most relative medium in music.

I am immensely grateful to Soundhub for providing a platform to develop my ideas and share them with such a wonderful community of fellow composers and industry experts. I would strongly recommend this inspirational scheme to anyone interested in the future of contemporary music! Toby Young Soundhub Member Participation on the Soundhub scheme has been a real privilege for me in a number of ways. Masterclasses with LSO musicians, and access to LSO rehearsals and performances have been both practically enormously educational and creatively stimulating; and access to the wonderful staff and facilities of St Lukes has been invaluable, especially as a non-Londoner for whom a London base such as this is so useful. And of course, the opportunity to get to know, share ideas with, and develop a community of peers such as the Soundhub cohort has been fantastic. Alexander Hawkins Soundhub Member In a short few months, the Soundhub Scheme has opened up a broad range of possibilities and opportunities for me in a myriad of creative roles. Ive composed for and conducted musicians from the LSO, recorded and mixed an EP for a contemporary swing band, programmed and put-on my own concert in the Jerwood Hall, attended numerous LSO rehearsals, and have been actively involved in blogging and even been in a live podcast on the LSO Google Channel. These opportunities were not just completed as an individual, but took place within a community of composers and artists who challenged and inspired me with new styles and methods of creating music that Id never really interacted with before. Aaron Holloway-Nahum Soundhub Member

Richard Bullen A Garden of Forking Paths


Kimon Parry Eb clarinet | Elaine Ruby Bb clarinet | George Sleightholme bass clarinet The evening was intimate, infinite. The road descended and forked among the now confused meadows. A high-pitched, almost syllabic music approached and receded in the shifting of the wind, dimmed by leaves and distance.... I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars... The Garden of Forking Paths, Jorge Luis Borges

Alexander Hawkins Unknown Baobabs


Paul Silverthorne viola | David Worswick violin | Ayanna WitterJohnson cello | Toki Quartet [Aki Sawa violin | Midori Komachi violin | Steve Doman viola | Amy Jolly cello] Unknown Baobabs is part of a series of pieces originally inspired by a structural device I initially encountered in Anthony Braxtons Composition 23C. Other recorded pieces in the series include Baobabs (Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, no now is so, FMR Records, 2009; The Convergence Quartet, Song/Dance, Clean Feed, 2010); A Star Explodes 10,00 Years Ago, Seen By Chinese Astronomers (Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, All There,

Soundhub Members
Ed Baxter Most recently Ed has been commissioned to create (with Chris Weaver) the sound-art element of NVAs month-long son et lumiere project Speed of Light at the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival. He was curator of the sound art exhibition Gone with the Wind at Raven Row, London, in 2011. His recent compositions include The Spiral, commissioned by Sound And Music and BBC Radio 3s Hear & Now for 2010s Cut & Splice: Transmission; Overheard, for musicians, actors and boxers, commissioned by Arika in 2010 for the Kill Your Timid Notion festival in Dundee; and Overheard 2, a 48 hour live radiophonic work for the 2010 Install festival in Glasgow. He was long-listed for the 2010 PRSF New Music Award; and shortlisted for the 2008 PRSF New Music Award. In his day job Ed is CEO of Resonance104.4fm. He is also an Associate Lecturer at the London College of Communication (Sound Arts and Design). Darren Bloom Darren Bloom is a composer, conductor, producer and educator. His work Strange Attractors, written for the Ossian Ensemble as Composer-in-Association, was selected to represent the UK at the 2013 World Music Days. Darren graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with distinction and held the Manson Fellowship for two years. He teaches at Junior Trinity and is Composer-inResidence at the Forest School. Alexander Hawkins Alexander Hawkins is a pianist, Hammond organist, and composer, described by recent reviews as a young master and unlike anything else in modern creative music. His highly individual soundworld is forged through the search to reconcile both his love of free improvisation and profound fascination with composition and structure. As a bandleader, his work has been said to have reached a dazzling new apex (Downbeat, US) with his most recent Ensemble album, All There, Ever Out (Babel, 2012); whilst as part of The Convergence Quartet, he has been said to have achieved a fundamental reassertion of composition within improvised music (Point of Departure). Besides his leader work, he can be heard regularly onstage and on recordings alongside a range of established masters such as Louis Moholo-Moholo, Joe McPhee, and Mulatu Astatke; and has also appeared with the likes of Evan Parker, Wadada Leo Smith, and Marshall Allen. He has appeared on festival, club, and concert hall stages throughout Europe, as well as further afield in countries such as Brazil and Russia. Aaron Holloway-Nahum Works by Aaron Holloway-Nahum (b. 1983) have been performed in the UK, across Europe and in the United States by ensembles and musicians including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Academy Soloists, BBC Singers, Ensemble Amorpha, the Cappa Ensemble, Painting Music, Paul Silverthorne, Peter Gregson, Naoko Miyamoto, and has featured on BBC Radio 3s Hear and Now programme. Aarons work, Plainer Sailing, was recently premiered buy the Riot Ensemble (June 2012) and other recent commissions include The Rivers Daughter, a short-opera written with librettist Sasha Dugdale at Aldeburgh; and the faultlines of prayer for Ensemble Konvergence (Berlin & Prague, Nov 2011). A full-length commercial recording of Aarons music was made at Abbey Road Studios in 2008.Aaron has recently submitted for a DMus in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he was supported by a full scholarship from the Leverhulme & Guildhall Trusts.

Elo Masing Elo Masing is an Estonian composer/free improviser currently based in London. Elos music has been performed at several festivals throughout Europe, most recently at the Estonian Young Composers Festival in Tartu; Spitalfields Festival, Ether Festival and Birtwistle Festival, London. Her works have been played by ensembles such as the Tallinn-based Una Corda, Manson Ensemble, members of the London Sinfonietta, European Union Chamber Orchestra, and the ICP Ensemble. After obtaining a masters degree in composition from the Royal Academy of Music, she is now continuing her doctoral studies at the same institution, exploring the composer-performer-audience relationships in chamber music. She is mentored by Simon Bainbridge, and with support from the Royal Academy of Music, receives private tuition from Rebecca Saunders. Elo has always been interested in collaboration between different fields of creativity, having worked with visual artists, choreographers and animators. Currently she is exploring the connection between music and dance, working with Korean choreographer Jean Lee. She is also interested in the use of music in theatre after participating in the workshop Theatre of Illusion led by Sir Harrison Birtwistle at the Dartington International Summer School 2010. Christian Mason Christian Mason was born in London in 1984. He defines composition as searching in sound for fleeting solidifications of intangible experiences, and adds to this ambitious project the mastering of an extraordinary and rare instrument, the theremin, which he has recently featured in a piece with a string octet, Looking for the Land that is Nowhere. The piece was given its premiere in June 2010 as part of the Music of Today series at the Royal Festival Hall with Lydia Kavina and members of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Christian has recently been selected by Pierre Boulez to be commissioned for a large-scale orchestral work as part of the Lucerne Festival Academy Composer Project. The premiere will take place at the 2013 Festival, following a workshop in 2012. From 2005 to 2008 Christian was shortlisted by the Society for the Promotion of New Music and in 2009 was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize and nominated for the British Composer Awards, chamber category. Alongside pursuing a Ph.D at Kings College London with George Benjamin, Christian works as composition assistant to Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and composition support tutor for the LSO Panufnik Young Composers Project. He previously read music at the University of York and has studied composition with Sinan Savaskan, Nicola LeFanu, Thomas Simaku, Brian Ferneyhough and Julian Anderson. Christian has also participated in summer courses such as the Stockhausen Courses, Dartington, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles 2007, Acanthes 2008 and Takefu International Festival 2008 Mark Simpson Mark Simpson is 22 years old and from Liverpool. In 2006 he became the first ever winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions. As a composer, Mark has worked with some of the leading orchestras and ensembles in the country including a long relationship with the RLPOs Ensemble 10/10. Threads for Orchestra was commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and performed by Vasily Petrenko in the Sage Gateshead, the Barbican and Symphony Hall (2008). A mirror-fragment, a 12 minute orchestral tone-poem based on the poetry of Melanie Challenger was premiered by the RLPO and Paul Daniel in October 2008 and will be recorded at the Barbican by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2013. He recently completed a new work for 10/10, Straw Dogs, which was premiered in June 2011 by Nicholas Collon and was the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Societys composition award 2010. He went on to write Lethe under the

award, a piece for trombone and ensemble, which was premiered in the Royal Festival Hall June 2011. In 2008, he spent six months in Berlin where he studied with Unsuk Chin. More recently, he attended the Dartington International Summer School with Julian Anderson. He read music at St Catherines College Oxford and graduated with a first class degree. He was principal conductor of the Oxford University Sinfonietta. He is studying on the MMus composition course at the Guildhall School with Julian Anderson. Ayanna Witter-Johnson Ayanna is a vocalist, cellist, composer and pianist. In 2008 she was a participant in the LSOs Discovery Panufnik Young Composers Scheme in addition to becoming an Emerging Artist in Residence (EAR) at Londons Southbank Centre and graduated from Trinity College of Music in London with a First Class Degree in Classical Composition. In 2009 she was a featured artist with Courtney Pines Afropeans: Jazz Warriors and in the following year became the only non-American to win Amateur Night Live at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC. In 2011 she was commissioned by Joanna MacGregor on behalf of Bath Festival to create a new programme in response to the work of Nina Simone. In 2011, having won the Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund Scholarship, she completed a Masters of Music in Composition at the Manhattan School of Music. Last year she released her debut recording, Truthfully, produced by Marc Mac (4Hero) and has since recorded one of those featured songs with the Kronos Quartet. Ayanna was recently co-orchestrator alongside Jason Yarde for Urban Classic 2012 featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Dynamite, Skepta, Fazer and Devlin and also toured the UK, supporting Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca. Toby Young Toby Young is a composer and singer from London. He studied composition with Robin Holloway at Cambridge whilst also being a choral scholar in the prestigious Kings College Chapel Choir. Since winning numerous competitions, most notably the International ABRSM Composition Competition (2009) and the Guardian/BBC Proms Young Composer of the Year (2006), Toby has been much in demand, both in the UK and abroad, with works being performed at numerous prestigious venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Sadlers Wells, and the Cadogan Hall, by renowned ensembles and orchestras including the LSO, RPO, Fretwork, Britten Sinfonia and Endymion Ensemble, and the choirs of Kings, and Sidney Sussex Colleges in Cambridge. Commissions have included orchestral and ensemble works for the St Petersburg British Music Festival, the City of Oxford Sinfonia, the London School of Economics, and the Royal Academy of Music, a new opera for the Fitzwilliam Museum next year, as well as solo pieces for the 2007 Brighton Festival, the Birmingham Conservatoire, the Cheltenham Ladies College, Chethams School of Music, and the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts (who commissioned a collaborative project with the artist Jeremy Millar RA). Many works have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In 2009 Toby was Composer-in-residence at the University of Perugia.

short-listed composer from 200710, Richard has studied with Peter Maxwell Davies at Dartington International Summer School where he wrote Firewire, a piece that later won the Royal Academy of Music Alan Bush Prize in 2009. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the Academy with David Sawer and is an associate member on the LSO Soundhub Pilot Scheme. Rebecca Dale Rebeccas interests lie in composing for film, television and theatre. After studying at Oxford she completed an MA in Composing for Film & Television at Bristol University, graduating with distinction and winning the university composition competition. Her current projects range from film and orchestration work to developing a televised musical with the Wellcome Trust, and she also writes regularly for choir. She is passionate about the power of the orchestra to transform visual experiences. Alice Jeffreys Alice first discovered a passion and flare for composing when she was 18 years old. She was awarded a first class honours for composition throughout her undergraduate degree, and will be pursuing a masters in composition after a gap year. Alice is described as having an exceptionally refined musical ear, particularly for texture and timbre. Alices most recent work Light and Shadows (2012), a quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, explores sonority and timbral colours in two complementary pitch spaces, through a series of musical states, whose harmonic boundaries are increasingly blurred. A single sound is gradually expanded and transformed, through exploration of the colours of the cello and violin string, filtering out the upper partials and progressively the lower partials. This opening focus upon sonority becomes the middle-ground state for a linear conceived foreground. Light and Shadows was premiered by the Plus-Minus Ensemble on 12th June. Helen Papaioannou Helen Papaioannou (b.1987) is a composer and saxophonist whose work focuses on relentlessly transforming streams of motion which channel players towards hyperactive rhythmic exchanges and bring physical actions to the fore. She investigates relationships between rhythm and the relational dynamics between musicians during performance, in which she works as composer and improviser in various combinations. Helen is currently studying for a PhD at Newcastle University under the guidance of Agustn Fernndez and Will Edmondes. Performances of her works have involved collaborations with Northern Sinfonia, Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea, Mr. McFalls Chamber, Taylor Wilson, Henrik Frisk and Stefan stersj, Momenta Quartet, in ascolto, Hannabiell Sanders and the Busch Ensemble. Forthcoming projects include a new work for the Notos Ensemble to be performed in Newcastle in July, and a premier of a piece for Amsterdams The Nieuw Ensemble at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Emma-Ruth Richards Emma-Ruths music is performed by Heritage Opera, Opera North, London Philharmonia, BBC NOW Chamber Players, Hkan Hardenberger, Colin Currie, Rhodes Piano Trio, Ebor Singers, Navarra Quartet, HM Royal Marines Windband, Camerata Pacifica and The Absolution Saxophone Quartet amongst others. She is a Royal Northern Gold Medal composer and has featured in festivals including Music of Today 2009, James MacMillan 2009, RNCM Chamberfest 2011, Sounds New Canterbury 2010, HCMF 2011, North West 2012 and IC Hong Kong 2012. Emma-Ruth is an associate member of the LSOs Soundhub; the composer in residence with Milton Keynes City Orchestra; a co-director of Collectives and Curiosities; a member of the Chethams International Faculty; and is completing her PhD at the RNCM studying privately with Alexander Goehr.

Soundhub Associates
Richard Bullen Richard Bullen (b.1984) is a composer living and working in London. He is interested in finding innovative ways of using the physical performance space to heighten the listeners perception of sound and intensify the theatricality often inherent in the musical material. He won a British Composer Award in 2011 for I cant find brumm..., a work written for an amateur ensemble comprising banjos, mandolins and guitars: the Midlands Fretted Orchestra. The piece was commissioned through Making Musics Adopt-a-Composer scheme with funds from the PRS for Music Foundation, and was twice broadcast on BBC Radio 3. SPNM

Anjula Semmens Anjula Semmens began composing under the guidance of Sir David Lumsden and went on to study with Dr David Knotts as a Junior at the Royal Academy of Music for four years. In 2010, she completed her undergraduate studies in Music at St Annes College, Oxford, where she was tutored under Dr Berta Joncus, Dr John Traill and Dr Martyn Harry. Anjula has had her work performed by artists including David Worswick and the Kreisler Ensemble, and in 2007 had her first orchestral piece workshopped by the LSO as part of the Panufnik scheme. She has also taken part in composition courses at the St Magnus Festival and Dartington, with generous support from the RVW Trust. squib-box squib-box is an artist collective and netlabel dedicated to the production and dissemination of radical and avant-garde music, regardless of its genre. Founded in 2010 by Adam de la Cour, Neil Luck and Federico Reuben, squib-box has organized and performed at live events around the UK, with a variety of leading musicians, artists and performers from a range of disciplines. Neil Luck Neil Luck is a composer based in London. His compositional practice focuses on various approaches to non-standard notations, in particular those which implicate either the composers own body/movement in construction, or directly engage with the physiology of performance techniques themselves. He is the founder of ARCO ensemble, and co-founder of squib-box. Frederico Reuben Federico Reuben is a composer, sound artist and laptop improviser based in London. His work challenges the conventional relationships between composer, performer and audience through imagined performance practices, collaborations and modes of sonic representation and production. He plunders, combines and alters cultural objects (recordings, live performances, scores, etc.) through digital technology to produce amorphous and absurd sound worlds. He is interested in how through sound, affect can be transferred, modulated and distorted. Adam de la Cour Adam de la Cour (b.1979) is a composer and performer living just outside London. He is predominantly interested in satire. His music has been performed in ten different countries, and he has performed in nine, therefore his music has been performed internationally, it also has the incredible ability of being completely invisible to the press. He is a founding member of squib-box, alongside Federico Reuben and Neil Luck. squib-box is a co-operative and net-label dedicated to the production and dissemination of radical and avant-garde music, regardless of its genre. As part of squib-box, Adam is developing new work as an associate artist on the LSO Soundhub pilot scheme.

Performers
Fiona Bevan voice Fresh from supporting Ed Sheeran on tour, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fiona Bevan has an unexpected afro and a sweet, fiery voice bigger than her hair. Her distinctive hooky songs pry into the dark, obsessive corners of love via folk, jazz and pop. Likened to Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell and Doris Day, Suffolk singer-songwriter Fiona Bevan has been steadily rising up the London gig circuit, as well as playing at the Big Chill festival, Secret Garden Party, LoveBox, Late at Tate and World Book Night at the Southbank Centre. Last year Fiona worked with Adam Ant and supported Ed Sheeran, Jesca Hoop and John Smith on their UK tours. She was also commissioned by Tate to create and perform a new piece as part of the Tate Modern Visual Dialogues project. Neil Georgeson piano Neil Georgeson read music at Edinburgh University, under the tutelage of Peter Evans, where he performed frequently in venues throughout the city and played concertos with several orchestras. During this time, he won various prizes including the Sir Donald Francis Tovey Prize and also performed for Her Majesty the Queen. In 2001, he moved to London to study for his Masters and Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, under the tutelage of Ian Fountain and Patsy Toh. He also benefited from masterclasses with Irina Zaritzkaya, Victor Rosenbaum and Joanna MacGregor. Neil has received several awards including the Sir James Caird Travelling Scholarships Fund, the EMI award and the Scottish International Educational Trust. He is very much involved in new music, appearing on the South Bank Show playing the music of Gyorgy Kurtag and working with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies on several occasions Neil is the Artistic Director of the Ossian Ensemble, which specialises in theatrical concerts with new music. Also active as a composer, Neil recently gave the premiere, to great critical acclaim, of his work Simmermill for violin and piano. Forthcoming performances include a tour of Taiwan. Mark Gotham music director In 2008, Mark Gotham graduated from the University of Oxford with the Gibbs Prize for the highest-ranking first class degree awarded in music. Since then, he has gained a masters degree in composition from the Royal Northern College of Music (with the support of a full scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Research Council) and pursued a richly varied freelance career as a composer, conductor, academic, teacher, singer, and multi-instrumentalist. Highlights from two years of freelancing included holding the McCann Research Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music and continued work as a composer assistant for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. This academic year, Mark took up a lay clerkship at Ely Cathedral to coincide with the start of his PhD at the University of Cambridge. Tom Jackson saxophone Tom Jackson is a musician who uses clarinets and saxophones as tools of, and for, Ideas. He is a dedicated exponent of newer music and a passionate proponent of that vast body of work - free improvisation. Clara Kanter voice Clara read Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, where she sang with the choirs of Clare and Trinity colleges. Her operatic roles include Zita (Gianni Schicchi), La Zelatrice (Suor Angelica), the Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) and Queen (Svrsvm Corda, world premiere). Concert performances include the St Matthew Passion, Handels Messiah, and Vivaldis Gloria at the Purcell Room. She performs regularly with the Armonico Consort, Philharmonia Voices, Blossom Street and London Voices. Choral work for theatre and television includes Coram Boy (National Theatre), Orlando Goughs One, Two (Dartington International Summer School) and Dominic Muldowneys score for War Oratorio (Channel 4). Recent international ensemble work has included Die Schpfung with Adam Fischer and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and a tour of VOCAbuLarieS with Bobby

McFerrin and the Chamber Choir of Europe. Forthcoming performances include Stockhausens Michaelion with Birmingham Opera Company in August, as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Matthew Lee Knowles libretto, piano Matthew Lee Knowles is a composer, poet, pianist, teacher and events organiser in London. He also paints and makes videos and is currently interested in plants and glitter. Heroes include: the Marquis de Sade, Alan Turing, Muzio Clementi, Morton Feldman and Mark Rothko. He shares the initials of Martin Luther King and shares a birthday with Patsy Cline. Jean Lee choreographer Jean Lee, a choreographer, performance and dance researcher, dance dramaturge and dance writer. She lectured in Korea National University of Arts from 2004 to 2008 (2004-2008 at choreography department and 20052007 at traditional arts department). Jean Lee was awarded a Korea National University of Arts Scholarship (2000-2002), Japan Foundation Fellowship (2001), Arts Council Korea Grants (2005, 2006, 2007), Roehampton University Scholarship (20092010) and Bauhaus Kollege Stipendium (2011-2012). Her academic papers and artistic works have been presented in international dance conferences (Roehampton Conference 2010, SDHS: Society of Dance History Scholars 2011 & CORD: The Congress on Research in Dance 2011-12). Lorenzo Iosco bass clarinet Lorenzo Iosco is Principal Bass Clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra. He was born in Potenza, Italy in 1985 and studied at the Luigi Cherubini conservatory in Florence. After graduating with honours, Lorenzo continued his studies with Carlo Failli (principal clarinet, Tuscany Orchestra) and Dario Goracci (bass clarinet, Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome).He was a member of the Italian Youth Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, Camerata Strumentale di Prato, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and has performed with renowned conductors including Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, Lorin Maazel, Gianandrea Noseda and Nicola Luisotti.Before joining the LSO, Lorenzo was Principal Bass Clarinet of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra at Madrids Royal Opera House for two years. Ruth Mariner director Ruth Mariner studied art before she was awarded an excellence scholarship to study Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, (1st). During her time there she specialized in cultural theory and composition, directing a number of musical performances in a multimedia installation format. She is currently studying for an MPhil in musicology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Ruth is editor of the Classical Music section for Cambridge Universitys leading online paper, and also writes for other music publications, most notably, Classical Music Magazine, London Bach Societys journal Bach Notes and Timeout Hong Kong. Dragos Margineanu electric guitar Dragos Margineanu is a performance artist and film-maker currently residing in London. His works explore the fascinating relationship between sound and image, using diverse materials ranging from digital audio & video to live performance, bricolage and found objects. Selected collaborative works include Openings, a live performance at the Stage Theatre of Central Saint Martins in Kings Cross, London, Chillax and Care, films screened at the Bafta Cinema in London and Think Twice, an art&science exhibition at V22 Summer Club. Dragos is also an active contributor to ResonanceFM, Londons first arts radio station. Angus McPhee baritone Angus started his career as a chorister in St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he sung for a number of high profile events. Now a baritone, his solo career has since blossomed. He has performed bass solos in choral works including Haydns The Creation, Vaughan-Williams Five Mystical Songs, Bachs St John Passion and Mozarts Requiem in Kings College Chapel,

whilst also enjoying a burgeoning recital repertoire through works such as Schumanns Dichterliebe, Berlioz Les nuits dt , Finzis Let Us Garlands Bring, and Bachs Ich Habe Genug.Equally important to Angus were his roles in musical theatre (Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance, Matt in The Fantasticks, and Billy in Anything Goes), and lead singing in the big band, having toured South Africa in 2008. Angus is a also a composer, and was fortunate to have his composition A Prayer of Departure performed at the meeting of the General Synod. In addition to having lessons at the Royal Academy of Music with Alex Ashworth, Angus has had tuition with The Sixteens Eammon Dougan on their new Genesis Sixteen scheme. Chloe Morgan voice Since graduating from Trinity College of Music Chloe has had a varied career. She is in great demand as a choral and session singer with credits including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Prometheus, Madagascar 3, and the Titanic Requiem. She recently sang backing vocals for rap artist Labyrinth on the Jonathan Ross show. Chloe is a regular member of the Monteverdi Choir, of which she was privileged to be an Apprentice while still at college, and has worked for conductors including Sir Colin Davis, Richard Egarr and Andrew Greenwood. She is a Britten Pears Young Artist and sung the role of the Witch of Endor in Handels Saul for the Aldeburgh Festival. Recent roles include Bridesmaid in Webers Le Freischutz (BBC Prom & Opra Comique) and First lady in Cherubinis Mda with the Chelsea Opera Group. Chloe is very excited to return to the Wexford festival to sing the role of Papagena in Mozarts The Magic Flute. Future engagements include Betty Butterworth in Stephen McNeffs The Secret Garden at the Theatre Arts course in Banff, Canada. Roderick Morris voice Roderick graduated with a Bachelor of Music honors degree from the University of Cambridge. Since this time, he has performed as a recitalist and oratorio soloist in the UK and abroad, in countries including South Korea, Japan, Denmark and North America. He took part in a Britten Pears Young Artists Program, performing the St Matthew Passion under Masaaki Suzuki, and took the role of David in Handels Saul at the Spitalfields Festival. He has also performed programmes of Mendelssohn Lieder for the Oxford and Chelsea lieder festivals. His operatic credits include Guido, (Flavio), the title role in Cavallis Il Giasone with Royal Academy Opera, Cupid (Venus and Adonis) with La Nuova Musica, Athamas (Semele), Satirino (La Calisto), and The Spirit, (Dido and Aeneas), the latter under Laurence Cummings. Future operatic performances include The Prince, (Daisy Chain), with Tte Tte Opera, and Dido and Aeneas with Kiez Oper in Berlin. Kimon Parry clarinet Kimon Parry is a young clarinettist of considerable promise whose recent successes include winning the 2011 Clarinet and Saxophone Society (CASS) Solo Clarinet Competition, reaching the 2012 finals of the Wind and Percussion section of the Royal Overseas-League Annual Competition, and being awarded Recommended Artist status under Making Musics Philip & Dorothy Green Award scheme for 2012. Kimon is also a soloist on the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme 2012/13. Kimon completed his Master of Arts with Distinction at the Royal Academy of Music under the tutelage of Mark Van de Wiel. During his undergraduate years as a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music, Kimon studied under Richard Hosford and won the RCM Senior Woodwind Prize in 2008 before graduating with a First Class Honours in 2009. Kimon has played with the London Chamber Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the London Sinfonietta and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Kimon is a member of the Davis Clarinet Quartet. Octandre Ensemble The Octandre Ensemble is a flexible collective of London-based musicians co-founded by composer Christian Mason and conductor musicians co-founded by composer Christian Mason and conductor Jonathan Hargreaves. Taking its name from Vareses seminal work, the ensemble is dedicated to exploring the energy of sounds, and the webs of ideas that form around them. With a growing reputation for their

carefully conceived concerts and unified/integrated events, they were recently featured as ensemble in residence at the York Spring Festival of New Music in May 2012. Forthcoming projects include an appearance at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kiev, Ukraine, in October, and Medieval Modernist, a concert dedicated to the work of their patron Harrison Birtwistle in December 2012. With the support of Diaphonique they are launching an Anglo-French Composers Forum in which six young composers will be featured during a weekend of workshops, presentations and performances at LSO St Lukes, London, in November 2012, in association with LSO Soundhub. Jayne OHanlon set designer Jayne OHanlon is a multimedia/performance artist. She graduated with a first class honours degree from the BA Drawing course at Camberwell College of Arts in 2010 and is currently based in London. Focusing on the social and psychological relationships of place, she designs and creates site-specific objects and costumes, with a heavy emphasis on the absurd. Her portfolio of work involves animation, film, sculpture and performance. Working both alone and collaboratively, she has undertaken a number of artists residencies in association with Spacemakers project in Brixton Village Market, empty shop project Live at The Apollo, and a commissioned production for 198 Gallery London. Other site-specific public projects have taken place in outdoor markets, a cinema and at Zippos travelling circus. She has also curated several exhibitions and judged on a number of awards and exhibitions panels across University of the Arts London. Tom Oldham voice Tom trained at the RNCM and on the Opera Course at the Guildhall School with David Pollard. He has performed with many companies including Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Grange Park Opera. As a consort singer he performs regularly with the BBC Singers, Polyphony and contemporary ensemble Exaudi. Tom also works as a set and costume designer. He studied on the prestigious Motley Theatre Design Course under Alison Chitty and Ashley Martin Davis and recent designs include Rinaldo for Trinity Laban College and the British premiere of Rameaus Acante et Cephise for UCOpera. Elaine Ruby clarinet Elaine is currently completing her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she has studied since winning an entrance scholarship in 2008. At RAM Elaine has studied with Angela Malsbury and Mark Van de Wiel, and has played principal in the various RAM orchestras and Wind ensembles. As part of her degree Elaine spent five months studying at the Paris Conservatoire, learning clarinet with Pascal Moragues and Leroy Arnauld. This year Elaine was Highly Commended in the Royal Academy of Music Patrons award and the Buffet Crampon Clarinet prize. In July 2011 she participated in the LSO Wind Academy and recently performed Boulezs Domaines for solo clarinet and ensemble, directed by Susanna Malkki, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, on the opening night of the celebratory Boulez festival Exquisite Labyrinth. Elaine regularly performs chamber music as a guest with the Aiden Woodcock Charitable Trust, and recently participated as a soloist and chamber musician in the Schwetzingen chamber music festival with SWR radio in southern Germany. Elaine will be commencing her Masters at the Royal College of Music in September, having been awarded full funding under the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Christina Sampson voice Christina Birchall-Sampson graduated from the Guildhall School with distinction following a Music degree at Cambridge University. Prizes include MBF award, Hampshire Singing Competition (second prize), John Sim Prize for contemporary song, and Emmy Destinn competition finalist. Christina made her solo debut at Staatsoper Berlin, Opera du Capitle Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence and Innsbruck festivals in Handel Belshazzar, conducted by Ren Jacobs, and released on DVD (Harmonia Mundi). She played Violetta, La Traviata for Bel Canto Opera, Cheltenham last year. Other complete roles include Musetta, La Bohme, Juliette Romo et Juliette, Gretel, Hansel

and Gretel, Bastienne, Bastien und Bastienne and Madam Silberklang, Der Schauspieldirektor. Christina is also a frequent oratorio soloist and recitalist. Future plans include Tatiana Eugene Onegin (Ryedale Festival Opera, cover), Clorinda La Cenerentola (Opera Loki), Mendelssohn Elijah (St Johns Waterloo), and concerts at the Tavistock Festival. Nicholas Scott voice Nicholas was awarded a Sir Elton John Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, from where he recently graduated, studying with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham with whom he continues to study. Nicholas is a product of the Royal Academy of Music / Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series with whom he continues to perform. He has performed Haydns Creation in Guildford Cathedral and Haydns Missa Cellensis and Handels Foundling Hospital Anthem at Lichfield Cathedral. More recently, Nick has performed in The Victoria International Music Festival in Malta with The Maltese Philharmonic Orchestra and has sung Mozart Requiem in St Martin-in-theFields with the Brandenburg Sinfonia. Nick has been awarded a Kathleen Ferrier Bursary for Young Singers; and at the Royal Academy of Music, the Arthur Burcher Memorial Prize, and the Henry Cummings Prize. He returns to the Royal Academy of Music in September as the recipient of the prestigious ABRSM Scholarship. Paul Silverthorne viola Paul Silverthorne has been Principal Viola of the LSO since 1991 and Principal Viola of the London Sinfonietta since 1988, whilst continuing to pursue a busy solo career. As a soloist, he has performed with such conductors as Sir Colin Davis, Andr Previn, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Oliver Knussen and John Adams and Kent Nagano, with the LSO and other major orchestras in the UK, USA and Europe. After a performance at the Proms, The Times described him as a virtuoso in sensitivity and technique. This year his solo engagements have taken him to the USA (with a newly commissioned concerto by Kenneth Fuchs) and the Far East. This August he was again a soloist at the Proms and in the following week he recorded Kenneth Fuchs new concerto with the LSO for release next August on the Naxos label. He is particularly renowned for his interpretation of new music and his commitment to this field has led to close relationships with leading composers of our time, many of whom have been inspired to write for him. His recordings cover a wide range of repertoire and appear on EMI, Naxos, Chandos, Koch International Classics, ASV, Meridian, Albany and other labels to widespread acclaim. He has just released a new CD, Beethoven by Arrangement, with pianist David Owen Norris. Paul Silverthorne is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, to whom he is indebted for the loan, from their collection, of the Amati viola of 1620 on which he plays. George Sleightholme clarinet George graduated with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music (MA Performance, 2010), where he received the Paton Award. As an undergraduate at Kings College, London he was a choral scholar and Music Department President in his final year. Now a busy freelance performer and teacher, George regularly performs with Live Music Now! ensemble, The Davis Clarinet Quartet, and is a founding member of the contemporary performance group, Electric Vesper. His free improvising ensemble, MOOT, has been playing together for two years. George also tours the UK with Co-Opera Co. (solo clarinet), with upcoming productions to include Humperdinks Hansel and Gretel, Mozarts Don Giovanni, and a revival of last years production of Mozarts The Magic Flute. Billy Strachan drums Billy Strachan studied percussion and drum kit at the City of Edinburgh Music School, with Alan Emslie. After moving to London, he received lessons in orchestral percussion from Chris Brannick at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and studied the music of Brazil and Ghana with Barak Schmool at City University. Since graduating in 2004 Billy has been working as a freelance percussionist, percussion teacher, ensemble director and workshop leader. He currently performs with James Wolff, Fiona Bevan and Brake Drum Assembly amongst many others.

Toki Quartet [Aki Sawa violin | Midori Komachi violin | Steve Doman viola | Amy Jolly cello] The Toki Quartet was formed by four prize-winning musicians in 2010 at the Royal Academy of Music. The group recently won first place in the Sir Arthur Bliss Prize and were selected by Peter Manning to perform at the 2011MasterPiece Fair in Chelsea. They have also been selected to perform pieces by the contemporary composers David Lumsdaine and Steve Reich and are now part of the LSO Soundhub Project with composer Elo Masing. In 2012, they look forward to working with the Kreutzer Quartet and Nicola LeFanu; on a world premiere by Rhian Samuel and on a commision by Yuka Takechi. They have received coaching from members of the Maggini, Endellion and Vanbrugh Quartets as well as workingly closely with several contemporary composers and musicians. Their experience of performing alongside the Scottish Ensemble and the Chillingarian Quartet, and individually with Nobuko Imai and Stephan Picard, has fostered their great interest to explore the chamber music repertoire further. The Tokis are dedicated to the promotion of Japanese and British music and are currently embarking on the Harmony of Cultural Sounds project. The group are named after the beautiful but endangered Japanese Crested Ivis Toki in Japanese. David Worswick violin David Worswick graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 2006 and became a member of the London Symphony Orchestra in November 2010. David was New Music Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music and Leverhulme Fellow at the Royal College of Music. He worked closely with many of todays most important young composers, performing hundreds of new works. He has also worked with composers such as Thomas Ads, Bent Srensen, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jonathan Harvey, Gunther Schuller and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. His recent solo appearances have included concerts in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Leeds International Concert Series, North Wales International Music Festival and at Colston Hall, The Sage Gateshead, Wales Millennium Centre and tours of the UK as a soloist for Live Music Now. Two of his recent chamber music recordings received great recognition winning the Diapason dOr Award and the 2010 BBC Music Magazine Award.

LSO Discovery Celebration Concert Thu 28 Jun, 7.30pm Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre LSO Discovery brings music into the lives of 60,000 Londoners every year, and the annual summer celebration concert, conducted by Kristjan Jrvi and including a new comission for local primary school children, brings together LSO Discovery participants on the Barbican stage. Tickets 4 To book tickets call the Barbican Box Office on 020 7638 8891 or visit lso.co.uk

Arte Presents: Afro Folk Session Thu 28 Jun, 7.30pm Charlie Wrights The Afro-Folk Sessions will bring together an emerging vein of outstanding musicians from the UK and beyond who are blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz, soul and afro-inspired roots music. Featuring Soundhub composer Ayanna Witter-Johnson. Tickets 6 in advance (8 on the door) To book tickets visit www.wegottickets.com

LSO Brass Academy Concert Sat 7 Jul, 1pm Jerwood Hall, LSO St Lukes Join LSO Brass Principals and the UKs most promising young brass musicians as they showcase works for brass ensemble that have been prepared as part of the LSO Academy, including the world premiere of Jubilee Music by Dudley Bright, LSO Principal Trombone. Tickets 7 (5 concessions) To book tickets call Laura Sheldon on 0207 382 2566 or laura.sheldon@lso.co.uk

Celebration of British Music Wed 8 Aug, 7pm St Marks, Maida Vale Join the Delphian Singers, featuring Soundhub Member Toby Young, in their concert celebrating the diversity of British choral music.

Coming soon...
The Riot Ensemble Sun 17 Jun, 8pm Jerwood Hall LSO St Lukes In association with LSO Soundhub, the Riot Ensemble present Song Offerings from British composer Jonathan Harvey, Elizabeth Maconchys Sun, Moon and Stars and a world premiere of Aaron Holloway-Nahums new work Plainer Sailing. The concert will be followed by a reception with opportunities to interact with the musicians and composers. Tickets 10 (5 concessions) To book tickets call the Barbican Box Office on 020 7638 8891 or visit lso.co.uk

Tickets 8 (6 concessions) Tickets available on the door

Alexander Hawkins and Trio Fri 14 Sep, 9pm & 10.15pm Kings Place Two concerts, each featuring brand new compositions, and rare settings for Hawkins: piano solo, and for the first time in public, in the classic piano trio format. Tickets 4.50 Tickets available on the door or soon online at www.kingsplace.co.uk

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