RCM Chamber Ensemble: Starry Night

Dates
18 June 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Tickets
£8, £5

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A chamber group performs on stage

18 June 2025, 6:00pm

Venue
Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall

Tickets
£8, £5

Yi-Chuan Chen, Giuseppe Stillitano and Toby Purser conductors
RCM Chamber Ensemble

Jessie Montgomery Starburst
Missy Mazzoli Ecstatic Science
Nok Him Chan Starry Night (world premiere)
Lutosławski Dance Preludes
Martinů Nonet no 2 H 374

RCM Head of Conducting Toby Purser and postgraduate conductors direct a concert of contemporary chamber works themed around the night sky.

The concert features Missy Mazzoli’s layered and effervescent Ecstatic Science, and a world premiere from RCM Large Ensemble Composition Competition winner, Nok Him Chan. Also on the bill is Martinů’s bubbling Nonet no 2, one of the last works the composer wrote, as well as Lutosławski’s jovial Dance Preludes, written after the Second World War and based around Polish folk-dance rhythms.

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