Past events

Free entry

Open Rehearsal (4pm); Panel Discussion (6pm); Performance (8pm)

The Ligeti Quartet, along with other City Music Foundation artists, will perform in this double bill of operas by Michael Nyman and Kate Whitley.

Whitley’s Unknown Position was inspired by Erika Eiffel, who famously married the Eiffel Tower in a real life example of object sexuality or objectophila. In the libretto, by Emma Hogan, the woman portrayed falls in love with a chair.

A workshop with M.Phil. composition students at Cambridge, as part of the Ligeti Quartet's residency supported by the Radcliffe Trust.

Tickets: £12 / £5

This concert explores the history and future of music: transformations of famous Baroque works, visionary early 20th-century quartets, Haas's reinterpretations of tradition, and the world premiere of award-winning composer Stef Conner's Singing Strings: A Contemporary Quartet in Conversation.

Tickets: £16 (early bird £12), students £5

The Ligeti Quartet joins guitarists Tom Kerstens and Kevin Cahill, and percussionist Karen Hutt for a programme of new music including works by Max Richter, Joby Talbot and John Metcalfe. 

This concert is the culmination of the nine-day Barnes Ensemble Festival and features the work of contemporary composers-in-residence Chaya Czernowin and Eric Wubbels, and the US premiere of Clara Iannotta’s dead wasps in the jam-jar (ii), as well as works by György Ligeti, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Zosha Di Castri.

The Ligeti Quartet will be performing at the Curtis Institute as part of the Barnes Ensemble Festival:

See the Barnes Ensemble members in an energetic and virtuosic chamber music program that includes Loren Loiacono’s Waxing Cerulean, Xenakis’s Tetras, Weisse Apfel by Klaus Lang, Wolfgang Rihm’s in nuce, and Natura Renovatur by Giacinto Scelsi.

Admission free

The Ligeti Quartet joins guitarists Tom Kerstens and Kevin Cahill, and percussionist Karen Hutt for a programme of new music including works by Max Richter, Joby Talbot and John Metcalfe. 

This is the last day of Shabaka Hutchings's three-day residency at Cafe OTO, spanning the wide range of his constantly evolving creative output.

This concert launches two major guitar albums: Cançons i danses by the Eden Stell Guitar Duo featuring the first guitar CD entirely devoted to the music of the Catalan composer Federico Mompou, and Ignite by Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble which offers an all new music programme including work by Max Richter, Gabriel Jackson and John Metcalfe.

The Ligeti Quartet is in residence for the Cheltenham Composer Academy (9-16 July 2017), alongside percussionist Joby Burgess and director Michael Zev Gordon. This showcase includes the premieres of six new works by Academy participants.

This short concert is part of a two-day celebration of the legacy, musicological and performance interests of the late Professor Alexander Ivashkin. The Ligeti Quartet is joined by guest violist Diana Mathews.

Part of the Brighton Fringe Festival: Listen America! 20th-Century Innovative Music series

From Britten to America

Christina McMaster (piano)
Lena Napradean (piano)
Ayanna Witter-Johnson (cello / voice)
Ligeti Quartet
Fred Harper (percussion)
Children from The Hall School and St Mary's School

This concert showcases the expansion of the string quartet repertoire to include music from beyond the Western classical tradition. Christian Mason’s Tuvan Songbook is part of a series of Songbooks to be commissioned by the Ligeti Quartet, each based on a tradition of overtone singing from around the world. ‘Melodicles’ is a musical concept invented by American composer Lou Harrison, whose centenary is celebrated in 2017. His String Quartet Set borrows from medieval European and Eastern influences.

With narrator Matthew Bulgo

A festive fairytale treat for all the family, A Child’s Christmas in Wales chronicles Dylan Thomas's own childhood memories and remains one of his most popular and loved works.

In this wonderful adaptation for strings, step into December days ‘as white as Lapland’, where mischief is easily found, snowballs are hurled, and the curious grownups are shrewdly observed.

With narrator Matthew Bulgo

With narrator Peter Florence