Programme Details
Neil Percy conductor
CAGE Credo in US
ELIASSON Presto con energia from Kimmo
SARAH MARZE Runaways (world premiere)
MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE New England Études
Percussion instruments as you’ve never heard them before.
Neil Percy, longest-serving Principal Percussionist of the London Symphony Orchestra and Head of Timpani and Percussion at the Academy, conducts a concert of dazzling contemporary music.
The programme opens with Cage’s satirical Credo in US. Sarah Marze’s brand new work Runaways follows a piece by Swedish composer Anders Eliasson and then finishes with Mark-Anthony Turnage’s New England Etudes, which include a solemn movement titled ‘Bells for Ukraine’ alongside groove-based and funk-inspired sections