Past Concerts
Thursday 21 August 2025
7pm
Heinze & Jeffery
Hilary Jeffery – trombone, trumpet
Martin Heinze – double bass
The duo Martin Heinze and Hilary Jeffery interpret early music in a distinctive, open style, drawing on the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi - a notion that values imperfection, asymmetry, roughness, irregularity, and simplicity. In this concert, they present new versions of Orlando di Lasso’s Cantione Sine Textu together with a revised version of their signature piece Wabi Sabi à la Ortiz.
Thursday 4 September 2025
7pm
Arend & Gröger
Heidi Gröger – viola da gamba
Andreas Arend – lyra polyversalis
In this concert, Heidi Gröger and Andreas Arend explore the fluid boundaries between Baroque and contemporary music with two rare string instruments: the viola da gamba and the lyra polyversalis. Both instruments share similar characteristics but originate from different centuries. Their programme includes studies and improvisations by Marin Marais, Georg Philipp Telemann, Andreas Arend and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Thursday 16 October 2025
7pm
Sinclaire & Lahav
Adam Sinclaire – flute
Hilà Lahav – recorder, nay, electronics
Adam Sinclaire and Hilà Lahav present works by Uccelini, Bach and Tanburi Cemil Bey with a repertoire ranging from medieval dance music and laments to Baroque and classical duets and modern soundscapes from Western Europe, Andalusia, the Balkans and the Levant.
Friday 25 October 2024
Baroque Music – Abstracted
Les Voix Humaines von Marin Marais
Hayden Chisholm – alto sax, pūtōrino, shruti box, voice
Susanne Szambelan – cello
Les Voix Humaines is an instrumental piece composed by Marin Marais in 1701 and is considered the best-known work from his second book for viola da gamba. The renowned gambist and composer significantly expanded the repertoire of this instrument under Louis XIV. Hayden Chisholm and Susanne Szambelan present a new interpretation with alto saxophone and cello, featuing improvisation and a shrutibox.
Wabi Sabi à la Ortiz
Hilary Jeffery – trombone, trumpet
Martin Heinze – double bass
This piece is an open structure, created on the basis of a recercada - an instrumental piece that originally served as a free improvisational prelude for playing and tuning instruments. The piece comes from the famous ornamental and viola da gamba school ‘Trattado de Glosas’ (1553) by Diego Ortiz, where musical themes are played from different angles, inspired by the Japanese concept of wabi sabi (intuitive, present, rough, relative, imperfect). The piece moves from a very abstract to an almost classical rendition of the main theme.
Marais Kyrie + Dowland Flow My Tears
Hayden Chisholm – alto sax
Martin Heinze – double bass
Hilary Jeffery – trombone
Susanne Szambelan – cello
Friday 8 November 2024
Satie Slowly - after Philip Corner
Antonis Anissegos – piano
The evening is dedicated to one of the most original composers of the last century and an equally original interpreter of his music: Erik Satie and Philip Corner. We leave the motorway and travel by bike on the country road instead - a route that promises different scents and sounds.
If his piano pieces are so easy, why are they so badly played? What they have—this must not be violated—is an objectivity all the more solid for being so fragile...they resist all
(Philip Corner)
added expressivity
they make those who indulge sound ridiculous. Yet nothing is lacking in them.
Friday 13 December 2024
The Essence of North: Pure
Gerdur Gunnarsdóttir – violin, viola, voice
Claudio Puntin – clarinets
Claudio Puntin and Gerdur Gunnarsdóttir create poetic miniatures combining melodic clarity, complex structures and sonic expansiveness. Inspired by the lights and atmosphere of the north, they create music that captures silence and warmth while leaving room for improvisational elements.