Euchar Gravina: Once upon a place

Euchar Gravina brings together a programme of contemporary chamber pieces that inhabit, remember or conjure a place of their own, tracing how places are recreated as music reaches for them.

Some of the works on the programme draw on real locations – Cerrone’s Double Happiness collects sentimental souvenirs from a trip across Italy and Harding’s Aepyornis uses the sounds of Madagascar to transport us to an imagined prehistoric land.

Sabat’s Backyard Summer Patio reminds us of the universal and the unspecified: any patio, any summer, anywhere. Similarly, Lonsdale’s enchanting Breathing Skies and The Distant Bells of Fulfilment, featuring the New London Chamber Choir, opens a window onto something just out of reach.

The concert closes with Gravina’s new work, drawing on a diary of sonic and musical artefacts gathered from Malta. Here memory of place is not fixed, but produced as a ritual being remade, echoing into the unconscious.

The concert will finish at approximately 9.30pm.

Programme

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen Konstateringer
Luigi Nono A Pierre. Dell’azzurro silenzio, inquietum
Christopher Cerrone Double Happiness (UK premiere)
Hollie Harding Aepyornis (UK premiere)
Justė Janulytė Psalms
Marc Sabat Backyard Summer Patio (UK premiere)
Fausto Romitelli Golfi d’Ombra
Eden Lonsdale Breathing Skies and The Distant Bells of Fulfilment (UK premiere)
Joanna Bailie marblepark
Euchar Gravina New work (world premiere)

Performers

Jess Hoskins conductor
Taylor MacLennan flute
Heather Roche clarinet
Francesca Lombardelli percussion
Eliza McCarthy piano
New London Chamber Choir