music we'd like to hear

19:30 Friday 28 November

Mamoro Fujieda

Pattern of Plants, the Fourteenth Collection (1996/2020)

Maya Bennardo

silver birch vignettes (2025)

Kristofer Svensson

Duk med broderi och bordets kant (op.29) (2017)

Jessie Marino

Shinbone (2025)

Maya Bennardo – violin

Jessie Marino – violin, piano

Angharad Davies – violin

Tim Parkinson – piano

20:00 Saturday 29 November

Magnus Granberg

Trouble, Had it All My Days (2023)

Skogen

Heather Roche – clarinet

Anna Lindal – violin

Eva Lindal – violin

Angharad Davies – violin & viola

Leo Svensson Sander – cello

Finn Loxbo – guitar

Stina Hellberg Agback – harp

Magnus Granberg – piano

Simon Allen – vibraphone & percussion

Erik Carlsson – percussion

Henrik Olsson – amplified objects

Petter Wästberg – mixing board, contact microphone, loudspeaker

Toshimaru Nakamura – no-input mixing board

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We’re thrilled to welcome composer and violinist Maya Bennardo to the UK with a programme of quiet intensity and refined detail. The programme includes the intriguing music of Mamoru Fujieda – whose music we last featured in 2011 – as well as works from Kristofer Svensson and Bennardo herself. Expect music of delicacy and space, unfolding in the luminous acoustic of St Mary-at-Hill. In striking contrast, and fresh from a recent appearance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Jessie Marino delivers music full of colour and energy, performing alongside Angharad Davies and Tim Parkinson.

Join us in welcoming Swedish supergroup Skogen to the UK as they celebrate 20 years together with a powerful new concert-length piece by Magnus Granberg, performed just days after its Stockholm premiere. Magnus writes "Trouble, Had it All My Days takes as its point of departure an aria (Seufzer, Tränen, ängstlich sehnen) from Bach’s Cantata BWV 21, Ich hatte viel Bekümmerniß, but borrows its title from the lyrics of a song by American blues singer and guitarist Mississippi John Hurt. The piece is scored for 13 musicians, the duration is approximately one hour."

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music we'd like to hear

maya bennardo & jessie marino | magnus granberg & skogen

2025