Trio Verso is a collaboration whose work interprets and refocuses the 1950s poetry and jazz movement for a 21st century audience, through the fusing of evocative lyric texts with free improvised jazz grooves and jazz-inflected soundscapes. The CD Storm Chaser was released in 2010. Performances are centred on close interaction, the poet exploring different interpretations of his texts […]

Baroque guitarist Gordon Ferries visits the music of seventeenth-century Spain’s fiery streets — a time when the five course guitar produced a sense of abject horror in the morally inclined, citing associations with popular ballads, taverns, criminality, sensuality and in particular dancing. Ferries weaves his way through the seductive labyrinth of Francisco Guerau‘s harmonic poem; sensual ballads, sublime passacalles […]

Ashok Klouda (cello) Winner of the 2009 Tunnell Trust concert award scheme, Ashok Klouda made his solo Wigmore Hall debut in January this year as a result of jointly winning the first Worshipful Company of Musicians / Concordia Foundation Young Artists Fund award. Other recent competition successes include 1st prize in the 2006 J. & A. Beare […]

A new chamber ensemble for Aberdeenshire The Heller String Quartet was formed in 1976 when four musicians at the Royal College of Music in London who won several major prizes for individual performance and quartet playing were invited by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation to become the quartet-in-residence in Bermuda. They took their name after winning […]