Ahead of their upcoming performance of Heartfelt at Village Underground this summer, we’d like to introduce you to the Sacconi Quartet, one of our new exciting collaborations. Who are Sacconi Quartet? Formed in 2001 by four Royal College of Music graduates, the Sacconi Quartet is an award-winning classical string quartet. Inspired by Italian luthier and restorer Simone Sacconi,…
This summer Emily Hall’s new opera Folie à Deux explores a relationship twisted by shared delusion. Catch up with the artists to find out more about this new work and the people behind it: Folie à Deux / Sound Among Sounds Saturday 6 / Sunday 7 June Rich Mix Discover a story of shared madness…
On Wednesday 10 June the Sacconi Quartet perform Beethoven’s string quartet in A minor in a unique performance at Village Underground. As you hear the music, you can also follow the performers’ emotional journey through a robotic connection to their heartbeats. As Beethoven doesn’t often appear on our festival programme, we’ve dug up five interesting facts…
Emily Hall and writer Sjón lead us on a journey through love and shared delusion this summer in Folie à Deux. To find out more about the words that Emily’s set, we asked him about the texts he’s written. ‘I wrote it in my small cottage on the south coast of Iceland in the winter darkness.…
This Summer Festival is packed full of intriguing events. To help you navigate the programme, we’ve asked our Associate Artists to share what they’d like to come to (excluding their own events!). With less than a month to go until our Summer Festival, we got composer and saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings to talk us through some…
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