Concert Details
7pm Oct 24 Kino Teatr
Hermes Experiment: ‘Tree’
Music by Caroline Shaw, Errollyn Wallen, Laura Moody, Abel Selaocoe, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre & more…
With its distinctive line-up of clarinet, harp, voice and double bass, the critically acclaimed ensemble, Hermes Experiment, creates a soundscape by turns intimate, luminous, virtuosic and strange.
Concert Programme
A meditation on nature, memory and change
This Autumn the Hermes Experiment launch TREE, their third album with Delphian Records. The album is a meditation on nature, memory and change. Commissioned works by Laura Moody and Abel Selaocoe, and a vivid reimagining of a work by the baroque composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre are complemented by new compositions from the ensemble’s members, exploring the human instinct to find emotional meaning in the natural world – in birdsong, trees, storms, stars. With its distinctive line-up of clarinet, harp, voice and double bass, the ensemble creates a soundscape by turns intimate, luminous, virtuosic and strange.
Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (arr. Schofield), Les rossignols
Laura Moody, Rilke Songs
Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm-Blair), Plan & Elevation: I. The Ellipse
Oliver Pashley, But I Still Breathe
Marianne Schofield, Islands
INTERVAL
Héloïse Werner, Thunder clears
Abel Selaocoe (arr. Woodgates), Buhle Bendalo
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree
Meet Our Performers
Tomos Xerri (harp)
Oliver Pashley (clarinet)
Marianne Schofield (double bass)
Héloïse Werner (soprano)
Winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award 2021 and the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Competition 2019, The Hermes Experiment is one of the UK’s leading young contemporary music ensembles. Capitalising on their deliberately idiosyncratic combination of instruments (harp, clarinet, voice and double bass), the Hermes Experiment regularly commissions new works, as well as creating their own innovative arrangements and venturing into live free improvisation. They have commissioned over 60 composers at various stages of their careers. They have released two albums on Delphian Records, HERE WE ARE and SONG, both to critical acclaim.