New Music: Marie Schreer, violin, Taher Adel, poet, and Aaron Holloway-Nahum, electronics

Violinist Marie Schreer is well-known to audiences throughout the UK as a principal player with the Halle Orchestra and a member of the Riot Ensemble. In her solo projects she champions new music for the violin that exploits her electrifying presence as a performer. For this concert Marie will be joined by the poet Taher Adel to perform a recent work by the Iranian composer Ashkan Behzadi, a collection of pieces that considers the idea of home, cultural heritage and displacement through Taher’s beautiful Arabic poetry. Perttu Haapanen’s in vitro is a wild collision of virtuosic acoustic and live electronics that will push Marie to her limits. Well almost! And there’s music by Marie herself and Aaron Holloway-Nahum that frames a set in which music and language are perfectly combined.