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Festival Voices
Fragmented Recollection is a bold, evocative choral experience that pushes the boundaries of vocal music. Blending Renaissance polyphony, minimalist classics and cutting-edge new work, Festival Voices present choral music heard through the lens of memory: looping, breaking, shifting and reforming.
The programme moves from the raw power of Tallis’s Lamentations of Jeremiah (Part I) to the pulsating clarity of Philip Glass’s Three Songs, the glitchy urgency of Ben Nobuto’s Blip, and Roger Marsh’s jagged setting of James Joyce. Tallis’s If Ye Love Me is transformed by Nico Bentley into a remix that fuses sacred tradition with electronic sound.
Festival Voices also premiere a new commission in response to Hildegard von Bingen, performed live in the foyer to open the evening. This intimate prelude sets the tone for what follows: a journey through music that asks what it means to remember, and what happens when memory begins to slip.
As the centrepiece of a full evening of live music, performance and installation at Kings Place, Fragmented Recollection is an unmissable start to the season. Bold, beautiful and unexpected.
Olivia Chaney
Performing a spellbinding set, Olivia’s performance will include haunting interpretations of Prince’s Sometimes It Snows in April and Bowie’s Memory of a Free Festival — reimagined with harmonium, alongside her own original songs for guitar and piano.
Joe Webb
2025 Mercury Prize–nominated pianist Joe Webb takes audiences on a thrilling journey from the joyful swing of Ragtime to the inventive freedom of modern jazz. With dazzling technique and irresistible charisma, Webb reimagines the piano’s past and future in one electrifying set.
Ristband
Ristband Studios presents FORMATIONS, a unique award-winning immersive concert combining live music, performance, spatial audio and virtual reality, taking audiences on a journey through memories that are both real and surreal.
