The 20th annual summer concert series of new, neglected and unfamiliar music, at St Mary-at-Hill in the City of London.

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The first concert features new work by rising star of microtonal guitar song, Maddie Ashman, alongside work by Chiyoko Szlavnics performed by Maddie with Mira Benjamin & Amalia Young. Also featured is a new piano trio from British composer and painter Chris Newman. We revive of a classic work by Laurence Crane, written for radio in 1996, but tonight given its UK premiere by singer Melanie Pappenheim, for whom it was written. We also revisit pieces from our very first concert in 2005, with a fiery work for prepared solo violin by Thomas Stiegler performed by Angharad Davies, and piano music of imagined timeless antiquity by Markus Trunk.

Thomas Stiegler – quasi una fantasia (1993)
Maddie Ashman – new work (2025)
Markus Trunk – Riten der Böotier (2005)
Chris Newman – Things of Slight Interest (2024)
Chiyoko Szlavnics – Freehand Poitras (2008)
Laurence Crane – Events (1996)

Voice – Melanie Pappenheim
Voice, Guitar, Cello – Maddie Ashman
Solo Violin – Angharad Davies
Violins – Mira Benjamin, Amalia Young
Cello – Alice Purton
Clarinets – Heather Roche, Michelle Hromin, Alex Lyon
Piano – Tim Parkinson