Past events

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

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Tickets: £12 for adults and £3 for under 25s

Ligeti Quartet brings the now-vintage sound world of Steve Reich’s iconic Different Trains into the present day via the Soundscape system at Kings Place.

Alongside this poignant work the Quartet presents tracks from their new album Nuc, a collaboration with award-winning composer Anna Meredith. In addition to strings, Nuc features the sounds of synths, drum machines, birdsong, an MRI scanner, brass and hums, proving the durability of the string quartet in the twenty-first century.

Join the Ligeti Quartet in a programme celebrating the centenary of Hungarian composer György Ligeti's birth. 

Join the Ligeti Quartet and Anna Meredith at Rough Trade East for a short informal performance and hear the artists talk about their collaboration for their new album Nuc.

Ligeti Quartet plays works by Guildhall undergraduate composers.

Ligeti Quartet plays works by Guildhall undergraduate composers.

BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show returns to the Fire Station with a specially recorded event featuring several new music acts, including the renowned Ligeti Quartet and the cutting edge Distractfold Ensemble.

The show recorded on this evening will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show on Saturday 7th January 2023 at 22.00.

The Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust (CCCT) is issuing its call for compositions 2022 dedicated to the spirit of the New which Cornelius Cardew embodied. The theme this year is "The Caravan Moves On". The instrumentation is string quartet + mezzo-soprano (Lotte Betts-Dean).

The Cornelius Cardew Concerts Trust (CCCT) is issuing its call for compositions 2022 dedicated to the spirit of the New which Cornelius Cardew embodied. The theme this year is "The Caravan Moves On". The instrumentation is string quartet + mezzo-soprano (Lotte Betts-Dean).

Ligeti Quartet play works by DKDM composers:

• Adrianna Kubica-Cypek
• Zechen Hu
• Kristin Warfvinge
• Emil Johansson

Tangram are curating a programme celebrating the 70th anniversary of Cage's 4'33'' by exploring the ways silence have influenced western classical music. The programme will include new works by Sun Keting and Qu Xiao-Song.

Tangram are curating a programme celebrating the 70th anniversary of Cage's 4'33'' by exploring the ways silence have influenced western classical music. The programme will include new works by Sun Keting and Qu Xiao-Song.

Conducted by the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas' (SoNA) Music Director Paul Haas and featuring the live regional premiere of the groundbreaking piece New Canons by Trevor New, the program will include a mixture of chamber orchestra and chamber music inspired by artworks in the exhibition The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse.

Inspired by Bartók’s legacy as a composer and collector of Eastern Europe folk music, KOGG conjures a world inspired by the breadth of Bartok’s explorations coupled with their own unique sound and approach.

Experimental electroacoustic duo KOGG is a collaboration between Selena Kay and Cerys Hogg. KOGG combine composition with improvisation and generative approaches. Working with real and home-made instruments, sound objects, and field recordings, they fabricate a kaleidoscopic sound world of elastic rhythms and shifting melodies.

The Ligeti Quartet make their return to Barber Concerts and give the final Barber Lunchtime Concert of the 21/22 season.

Ayanna Witter-Johnson is a multi-talented singer/songwriter, cellist, pianist and composer. She has a phenomenal mastery for seamlessly crossing the boundaries of classical, jazz, reggae, soul and R&B, to imprint her unique musical signature collaborating with artists including Anoushka Shankar, Nitin Sawhney, Andrea Bocelli and Jools Holland.

Laura Jurd leads this 11-piece ensemble recreating the music of her album Stepping Back, Jumping In, described as ‘a stylistic reinvention from the esteemed trumpeter’ with ‘moments of unalloyed joy’ by Guardian critic John Fordham. The ensemble features members of Laura’s regular quartet: pianist Elliot Galvin, bass player Conor Chaplin and drummer Corrie Dick, plus the Ligeti Quartet and three brass players. One for lovers of contemporary jazz and contemporary classical music.

New York drummer Sean Noonan who is now based in London will again partner with the Ligeti Quartet in the most ambitious project to date. Commissioned by the Arts Council of England, PRS for Music, and Forestry England, Bartalk addresses the issue of solitary confinement — a long-held concern for the composer that has only come into sharper focus during the pandemic era.

New York drummer Sean Noonan who is now based in London will again partner with the Ligeti Quartet in the most ambitious project to date. Commissioned by the Arts Council of England, PRS for Music, and Forestry England, Bartalk addresses the issue of solitary confinement — a long-held concern for the composer that has only come into sharper focus during the pandemic era.