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Music of Today: Gabriela Ortiz curates

Free, ticket required

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General booking opens 10am Tuesday 29 April. Join the Friends to book today.

Artists

Geoffrey Paterson – conductor
Eugene Lee – violin
Fiona Cornall – violin
Tamaki Sugimoto – cello
Benjamin du Toit – double bass
Charlotte Ashton – flute, alto flute, piccolo
Lucia Porcedda – clarinet, bass clarinet
Arvid Larsson – bassoon
Carsten Williams – horn
Chris Evans – trumpet
Tom Edwards – percussion
Rachel Gledhill – percussion
Sally Pryce – harp

Programme

Cortés-Álvarez Transcendiendo Muros

Vázquez Son Crepuscular

Syrse La Dialéctica de los Erotes

Ortiz Corpórea

Discover new music from Mexico in this free early evening concert.

Gabriela Ortiz, our Featured Composer for the 2025/26 season, presents her own work alongside pieces by other Mexican composers. Ortiz’s Corpórea contrasts our rational, material selves with the spiritual, intuitive side of our being (listen out for the Afro-Peruvian quijada, an instrument made from a donkey’s jawbone, in the percussion section).

Ortiz has made it her mission to introduce the fresh, diverse music of Latin America to a wider audience. She’s chosen Herbert Vázquez’s Son Crepuscular, for clarinet and string quartet, and Francisco Cortés-Álvarez’s Transcending Walls, inspired by the work of muralists on the Mexican side of the Mexico-US border, to broaden our listening horizons.