soundfestival: Seasonal Quartet - Ali Smith & New European Ensemble

soundfestival: Seasonal Quartet – Ali Smith & New European Ensemble

The New European Ensemble from The Netherlands presents a programme of new music written to accompany Scottish author Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet novels. Works by Kate Moore (Australia), Alice Yeung (Hong Kong), Seung-Won Oh (South Korea) and Sara Zamboni (Italy) illuminate the themes present in the novels and include readings from the author herself.

Anna Thorvaldsdottir            Spectra (excerpt) / Reading from Autumn
Kate Moore                                  Fall Falling / Reading from Autumn
Anna Thorvaldsdottir            Spectra (excerpt) / Reading from Winter
Alice Yeung                                  Inabsolute Zero / Reading from Winter
Peter Maxwell Davies            A Sad Paven for These Distracted Tymes

INTERVAL

Seung Won Oh                           In Spring: Echoes of a Silent Cry / Reading from Spring
Kinan Azmeh                              Essays on Solitude / Reading from Summer
Sara Zamboni                             Hymn to an English Summer

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

soundfestival runs from 22nd -31st October. Please visit our website for the programme: www.sound-scotland.co.uk