Concert in Sheffield
The Ligeti Quartet's second concert as Quartet in Residence at the University of Sheffield.
The Ligeti Quartet's second concert as Quartet in Residence at the University of Sheffield.
Featuring works by Max Richter, Joby Talbot, and John Metcalfe.
With Tom Kerstens' G Plus Ensemble as part of the North East Guitar Festival 2015.
Outside Shell's headquarters, Southbank, London
A musical protest inspired by the famous story of the quartet continuing to play as the Titanic went down. It is an attempt to change the hearts and minds of the people at Shell who can make the decision not to risk the Arctic's future.
With Simon Desbruslais, trumpet
People Watch, by Bill Bankes-Jones and Stef Conner
Includes the world première performances of Anna Meredith's Music for Ravens and Tom Green's Gravity Fragments. Followed by a DJ set from Richard Greenan (KIT Records).
With Ensemble BPM
With Ensemble BPM
Works by Tom Green, Ji Sun Yang and Tim Parkinson
Narrated by Charles Armstrong
Nastassja Simensky (curator)
Rachel Duckett (soprano)
Performance on the cockle boat 'Indianna' at the excavation site of shipwrecked HMS London (1665).
With Louise Alder (soprano) in a rare performance of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite for string quartet and soprano.
The Ligeti Quartet's first concert as Quartet in Residence at the University of Sheffield, including the world première of George Nicholson's String Quartet No. 4.