Past events

CrossCurrents Festival 2018

Be inspired, be challenged, and get excited by contemporary/new music in this eight day festival. This biennial event features the best of new music and welcomes artists, composers and students to present performances and events to stimulate and invigorate.

Witness life as a student composer as we open the doors to this Department of Music composition workshop. The Ligeti Quartet challenge student composers and help them hone their skills writing for string instruments and the quartet format.

A programme of music which borrows, steals and transforms...

This workshop is generously funded by the University of Sheffield Concerts (UOSC), a Sheffield home for musical discovery, learning, and participation.   With scores of international and award-winning performers, a kaleidoscope of choirs, collectives, composers, conductors, and ensembles of all shapes and sizes, UOSC is committed to providing opportunities for music lovers of all tastes and ages. 

This workshop is generously funded by the University of Sheffield Concerts (UOSC), a Sheffield home for musical discovery, learning, and participation.   With scores of international and award-winning performers, a kaleidoscope of choirs, collectives, composers, conductors, and ensembles of all shapes and sizes, UOSC is committed to providing opportunities for music lovers of all tastes and ages. 

A performance of animated scores presented by the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre (MTIRC), De Montfort University, Leicester.

Free entry, no tickets required

With narrator Mark Tattersall.

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.

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