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
Unfortunately this concert has been postponed due to circumstances beyond our control. A new date will be announced in due course.
Ticket holders should be informed directly by St Martin-in-the-Fields. Venue contact information is available here.
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 Royal Danish Academy of Music composers.
“Imprisoned Absence” is a close collaboration between composer, Vernon C David and scientist/poet, Banafshé Larijani, exploring the symbolic imagery of the collective conscious.
Banafshé Larijani scientist/poet is the Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI-Bath), University of Bath.
Spend an evening with author, journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson for a celebration of her book Sound Within Sound.
The evening includes a discussion of Sound Within Sound and performances inspired by the composers referenced in the book.
Ligeti Quartet return The Fire Station to play a full suite of music by Anna Meredith and Steve Reich alongside new music by three of the region’s most adventurous composers, Peter Brewis, Ross Millard & Faye MacCalman.
Join the Ligeti Quartet and friends for an enticing programme of György Ligeti's music, including the incredible Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes.
An exploration of Ligeti’s unique take on the fundamental elements of music from the playful Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes to Bartók-inspired Quartet No.1, modernist Quartet No.2, and the uncertain harmonies and tangled textures of Ramifications.
The Ligeti Quartet performs with students from the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), in a programme focused on György Ligeti's Ramifications as part of the composer's centenary celebrations.
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).