“Join Elizabeth Alker at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank for an evening of genre-defying musical collaboration featuring new commissions and arrangements from Divide and Dissolve, Nwando Ebizie and Bill Ryder-Jones, all performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra under the baton of André de Ridder.
Bill Ryder-Jones is one of England’s most distinctive musical voices, blending a boldness of approach and unbending curiosity with a deeply human intimacy. Having gained major success as a founding member of Liverpool band The Coral, his solo career – featuring albums such as ‘Yawn’, ‘West Kirkby County Primary’ and last year’s ‘Iechyd Da’ – has allowed the multi-instrumentalist to find ways of combining his deeply felt pop sensibility with an ever-increasing fascination with classical and experimental music.
Divide and Dissolve is a doom metal band founded by Melbourne’s Takiaya Reed, who recently appeared in the Unclassified Listening Chair. She is a classically-trained saxophonist and guitarist playing music that is often heavy in tone and driven by a fiercely political edge. It is, she says proudly, genreless – so playing new arrangements with the BBC Concert Orchestra is a very natural fit.
Nwando Ebizie is a brilliantly original performer and composer whose music inhabits liminal and mythic spaces, using “art personas, experimental theatre, neuroscience, music and African diasporic ritualistic dance” to encourage audiences to question their perceptions around reality. She has taken her entirely unclassifiable blend of Afro-futurism, ritual and science fiction around the world and is sure to light up the Queen Elizabeth Hall.”
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