Rebecca Saunders - Withinnan Lauren Redhead - the spark which escapes Michele Abondano - One Is Too Few (UK premiere) Ed Cooper -…they conjure aglow, movements… Christopher Fox - Es war einmal (world premiere)
Kate Ledger is a pianist, collaborator and educator specialising in embodiment, spirituality, and authenticity via experimental artistic practice. She frequently collaborates with composers to explore the effects of musical notation on the way she moves as she performs. Through her practices of Feldenkrais and yoga, she explores how composers can work with or against her habitual performing movements. This is revealing many ways in which to write for the performing body, enhanced by the uniqueness of each composer.
This concert explores themes of intimacy and care, in and around the piano, via sentimentality, storytelling, and exploration. It will feature two new pieces written for Kate - the European premiere of Michele Abondano’s One Is Too Few (2022) and the world premiere of Christopher Fox’s Es war einmal (2022) – alongside pieces by Rebecca Saunders, Lauren Redhead and Ed Cooper.
5:15pm: Pre-concert talk - Christopher Fox Once upon a time: the Brothers Grimm compose music for piano.
Christopher Fox explains how and why he took 21 stories by the most famous collectors of German folk-tales and turned them into a new work for the pianist Kate Ledger.
