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FREE ENTRY midday - 2pm

Daylight music is a dazzling idea presented by the Union Chapel to open up their amazing gothic venue to a shiny new daytime crowd and provide a rather exciting platform for artists.

Encouraging experimentation and profiling new music as well promoting a free music ethos. Join us!

Experience music and Saturday afternoons in a whole new way.

Blank Canvas has become a night reputed for its eclectic contemporary classical and experimental music programming, which pays no heed to classical music convention. 

On Laura Moody:

Laura Moody explores what is possible using only solo cello and voice to create unique, experimental, acoustic pop music. Laura is also known for her work with innovative string quartet the Elysian Quartet which has won much acclaim for its pioneering performances and recordings of contemporary classical, experimental and improvised music. She has also toured world-wide as a member of physical theatre string ensemble The Gogmagogs. In her solo cello and voice work she looks to combine the two instruments in interesting and often physical, even theatrical ways. Laura composes what she believes to be essentially pop songs, although nobody else ever seems to agree with this definition. Her songs are influenced by beatboxing, electronica, contemporary and classical music and various kinds of pop music. However, in the absence of the ability to actually beatbox or use technology in any meaningful way and being much too self involved and lazy to be bothered to compose for other people she explores what is possible with just solo acoustic cello and voice.

On Will Dutta:

Will Dutta, pianist, collaborator and independent producer, works within the shady borders of contemporary classical music. He has recently worked with electronica stalwarts Plaid, DJ Yoda and the Heritage Orchestra as well as being chosen for the PRS Foundation’s New Music Plus…Producers Partnership scheme. After graduating from Trinity College of Music in 2007 Will established Chimera Productions, a company committed to providing musicians and composers with interesting and often unusual platforms to perform and premiere new music and challenging a wider audience to listen to classical music through pioneering commissions and cross-genre collaborations. Recent new music include collaborations with Gabriel Prokofiev, Plaid and Max de Wardener as well as hosting performances by top soloists and ensembles: Jack Liebeck, O Duo and Powerplant to name a few.

On the Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble:

The Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble has been established for almost 20 years and has a reputation for creating interesting and innovative programmes. The aim has always been to place the emphasis on the music rather than on the instrument.The ensemble worked closely with Moondog in the 1990s and today's programme features some of his works alongside arrangements by the current crop of Guildhall students.

Presented by Union Chapel
Produced by Arctic Circle

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