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Ligeti Quartet present a programme combining works from their repertoire with those of composers from the South China Normal University:

Wei Cong String Quartet No. 1 (2007)
Pang Wenlan String Quartet No. 1 "Veins of Withered Wood" (2026)
Wang Siqi Wrath Lullaby for String Quartet (2026)
Xu Xinhua Fluctuations in Mood for String Quartet (2023) 

New works by composers of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, all composed in 2026

An occasion to observe the Ligeti Quartet's working process for listening, analyzing technical performance issues, and developing and evaluating notation for the string string quartet.

We'll be looking at works by teachers and students of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music, all composed in 2026
Chen Mingzhi Embrace Freedom in the Strom No.2
Lei Xiaopei Gitch Quartet
Xue Youqi Holzmaskentanz
Zeng Junxi JI JI

The Ligeti Quartet will be rehearsing works for the upcoming concerts at the Conservatory.

Schubert Fantasie in F minor for piano four hands, D. 940
Joseph Havlat & Jâms Coleman (piano)

This late-night concert brings together two works written 160 years apart, tracing very different kinds of journeys. From an inward voyage in Schubert to a starkly documented passage through twentieth-century history in Reich.

Anna Meredith has achieved incredible success straddling multiple musical worlds, never compromising her raw, individual style. This concert features the Ligeti Quartet’s new album Nuc, providing a survey of Meredith’s career to date, heard through her original works for string quartet. New arrangements of Meredith’s music by the Quartet's violist Richard Jones also feature, including from her award-winning electronic and dance albums.

Cover art by Eleanor Meredith and Martin McGrath

Ligeti Quartet play works by DKDM composers.

New works by Royal College of Music composers

New works by Royal College of Music composers

Kaija Saariaho’s Terra Memoria reflects on memory and change, evoking landscapes both personal and physical, while Wadada Leo Smith’s String Quartet No. 5 (In the Diaspora: Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions) conjures the forces of upheaval and renewal. In Warblework, Cassandra Miller transforms the intricate songs of North American thrushes into layered, weaving lines that blur the boundaries between human and avian voices. John Luther Adams’ The Wind in High Places turns string instruments into an aeolian harp, evoking vast, windswept landscapes.

4 hands – 8 hands

An exploration of physicality and limitation, featuring works that connect hearing and movement, alongside pieces for string quartet performed with right hand only.

The Ligeti Quartet perform tracks from their 2023 album Nuc, fusing acoustic and electronic music for string quartet by Mercury-nominated composer Anna Meredith alongside visual projections.

The Ligeti Quartet performs the world première of a work by Helga Arias, commissioned by the CNDM (Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical), alongside music by Christian Mason, György Ligeti, and Anna Meredith.

Terry Riley’s contribution to the string quartet canon is celebrated with a performance of his seminal work, Cadenza on the Night Plain, and a premiere of a new arrangement of Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band (the B-side of Riley’s much-loved 1969 album A Rainbow in Curved Air). Alongside this, their interpretation of 70 Chords by Terry by one of Riley’s fellow travellers, Pauline Oliveros, whose approach to listening and improvisation revealed radical new ways of communal music-making.

This programme explores the kaleidoscopic idea of memory, in collaboration with composers based in the UK and Colombia. This wide-ranging programme explores themes from the history of Colombia, through the changed cultural landscape of Kazimierz – the old Jewish district of Kraków, to sonifications of the epigenetic memory of trees.

Anna Meredith has achieved incredible success straddling multiple musical worlds, never compromising her raw, individual style. This concert features the Ligeti Quartet’s new album Nuc, providing a survey of Meredith’s career to date, heard through her original works for string quartet. New arrangements of Meredith’s music by the Quartet's violist Richard Jones also feature, including from her award-winning electronic and dance albums.

Cover art by Eleanor Meredith and Martin McGrath