Seasonal Quartet with Ali Smith

Program

Kate Moore – Fall Falling (2025)
Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Spectra
Alice Yeung – Inabsolute Zero (2025)
Peter Maxwell Davies – A Sad Paven for These Distracted Tymes
Seung Won Oh – In Spring: Echoes of a Silent Cry (2025)
Kinan Azmeh – Essays On Solitude
Sara Zamboni – Hymn to Timeless Melancholy, Hymn to an English summer (2025)


New European Ensemble

Flute: Felicia van den End
Clarinet: James Meldrum
Piano (July): Malgorzata Walentynowicz
Piano (August & October): Hanna Shybayeva
Violin 1: Rada Ovcharova
Violin 2: Alva Holm
Viola: Emlyn Stam
Cello: Willem Stam

Readings: Ali Smith
Premiered: June 2025

Four female composers write for NEuE

A concert performance with live readings by Scottish author Ali Smith, one of the most prominent writers of our time, from her Seasonal Quartet novels Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer, focussing on eternally relevant contemporary themes such as climate, ecology, migrations, social media, Brexit, war, populism. NEuE presents a programme of music inspired by the novels’ themes, including newly-commissioned works by four female composers from around the world: Kate Moore (Australia), Alice Yeung (Hong Kong), Seung-Won Oh (South Korea) and Sara Zamboni (Italy).

 

 

 

Dates

Thu 2 Jul '26 - 07:00
Spitalfields Music Festival, London
Tickets
Fri 28 Aug '26
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Locatie details

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