The Hermes Experiment
| Great Hall
Anne Denholm harp
Oliver Pashley clarinet
Marianne Schofield double bass
Heloise Werner soprano / co-director
Hanna Grzeskiewicz co-director
Programme
Eleanor Alberga Deep Blue Sea
Ayanna Witter-Johnson Draw the Line
Raymond Yiu Written at Sunset
Ravel (arr. Schofield) Rigaudon from Le tombeau de Couperin
Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner) Tree
Misha Mullov-Abbado The Linden Tree
Laura Moody new work
Tom Coult I Find Planets
Kate Whitley My Hands
Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley) The Almond Tree
Debussy (arr. Schofield) Fantoche
Debussy (arr. Werner) Mandoline
The Hermes Experiment are experimentalists and communicators and their music is boldly entertaining.
Presented and supported by the The Michael Cuddigan Trust, they perform three new works commissioned during lockdown, alongside a mixed programme of delightfully entertaining oddities and reworkings of classics.
Hermes are quite an act, boldly entertaining ★★★★★ The Scotsman
Witty and imaginative (…) joyous and heartbreaking The Guardian
The Hermes Experiment’s second album Song, which features some of these works below, will be out on 22 October and CDs will be available for purchase at the recital. Card payments only.
TICKETS: £15 | £10 concs