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Seven Septets

Black and white photo of pianist and composer Kit Downes

Seven unique musical voices, seven specially-created new works. An ensemble of virtuosic and versatile contemporary musicians alternate in leading their fellow performers.

Classical, Jazz and experimental improvisation fuse in an electrifying showcase of cutting-edge music from some of the UK's brightest composer-performers. Multi-instrumentalists in their own rights, each takes a turn to lead with a musical concept of their own, while the remainder of the group illuminate these ideas with their own semi-improvised accompaniment.
 
Featuring Jas Kayser, Jazz FM Breakthrough Act of the Year Award 2021; multidisciplinary percussionist and artist Angela Wai Nok Hui; ‘boundary-blurring composer and improviser’ (Guardian) Fred Thomas; BBC Jazz Award winner Kit Downes; 'latter-day Cathy Berberian or Meredith Monk’ (The Times) soprano and composer Héloïse Werner; 'wildly alternative' (Soundfly) cellist, vocalist and composer Laura Moody; and composer, cellist and October House Records founder Colin Alexander.
 

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