Hard Rain SoloistEnsemble with Maiden Voyage Dance.

Our last collaboration with the wonderful Maiden Voyage Dance (MVD) was a great success with ensemble and dancers giving a pulsating performance of Reich’s Double Sextet to a full house at the Sonic Lab. We return to that very venue for our next collaboration with MVD, this time raising the challenge further, tackling Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No 1 Op. 9. This is not a piece of music that immediately shouts ‘dance’ at you, but in the hands of MVD we will be in for a new visual exploration of this great work.

Alongside the Schoenberg masterpiece we have a reprise of Jane O'Leary's Winter Reflections, which HRSE featured in its 2019 season. Two previously commissioned works appear in this programme too: Piers Hellawell's Ground Truthing and John Buckley's Three Mobiles after Alexander Calder, from our 2017/18 and 2018/19 Seasons respectively. Finally, if you missed the final of our 5th Peter Rosser Composition Awards, we have another chance to hear the winning work in this concert; Dark Measures by Anita Mawhinney.