Her Ensemble - Forgotten in HIStory at Battersea Arts Centre, London on Friday 17th September 2021

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Her Ensemble - Forgotten in HIStory

Add to my Calendar 17-09-2021 20:00 17-09-2021 22:00 36 Her Ensemble - Forgotten in HIStory Did you know that just 5% of the classical music pieces programmed worldwide are composed by women?  Her Ensemble, the UK’s first women and non-binary string orchestra, make their debut to celebrate over 2000 years of female composers. Deriving from the European Union Youth Orchestra, Her Ensemble brings together some of the most in-demand orchestral and chamber musicians in the UK. Merging aspects from both classical and pop scenes, the mould-breaking group will perform a range of music written by women, combined with artistic lighting to reinvent the classical concert experience and canon of classical music as we know it. Music will include their own arrangements of Bingen, Mahler and Boulanger amongst others, and feature BBC Young Musician string finalist Elodie Chousmer-Howelles, award-winning film composer Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres and singer-songwriter Caitlyn Scarlett.    “New music groups seem to start up almost every week, but occasionally one launches that makes you not just listen, but stop and think” – Marcus Marshall, Secretary General, European Union Youth Orchestra Battersea Arts Centre, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Battersea Arts Centre
Lavender Hill
Wandsworth
London
SW11 5TN
England

Friday 17th September 2021
8:00 PM

Programme

Jessica Montgomery – Starburst
Hildegard of Bingen – O virtus sapienti
Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – Coma
Grażyna Bacewicz – Concerto for String Orchestra: Andante
Caroline Shaw – Valencia
Florence Price – Andante Moderato
Lili Boulanger – 3 Morceaux
Mari Esabel Valverde – Moonlight Quartet (arr. string orchestra)
Alma Mahler – Die Stille Stadt
Angela Morley – Reverie
Caitlyn Scarlett – Forgive Yourself
Anna Meredith – Tuggemo

Performers

Elodie Chousmer-Howelles – violin
Caitlyn Scarlett – voice
Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres – electronics

Her Ensemble

Programme Note

Did you know that just 5% of the classical music pieces programmed worldwide are composed by women?

Her Ensemble, the UK’s first women and non-binary string orchestra, make their debut to celebrate over 2000 years of female composers.

Deriving from the European Union Youth Orchestra, Her Ensemble brings together some of the most in-demand orchestral and chamber musicians in the UK.

Merging aspects from both classical and pop scenes, the mould-breaking group will perform a range of music written by women, combined with artistic lighting to reinvent the classical concert experience and canon of classical music as we know it.

Music will include their own arrangements of Bingen, Mahler and Boulanger amongst others, and feature BBC Young Musician string finalist Elodie Chousmer-Howelles, award-winning film composer Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres and singer-songwriter Caitlyn Scarlett.

“New music groups seem to start up almost every week, but occasionally one launches that makes you not just listen, but stop and think”

– Marcus Marshall, Secretary General, European Union Youth Orchestra

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