A new solo piano programme for 2025, drawing on the idea of a forest ecosystem to weave together a series of miniatures in very different styles, from well-known favourites to more obscure works especially by female composers. Each set of pieces becomes its own multi-movement work: some flow naturally into each other, with thematic and tonal links, while other transitions are more abrupt (Bartók’s fly rudely interrupting Rachmaninov’s Lilacs, for instance.) The programme follows a broader arc from day into night, with dawn birdcalls from Fannie Dillon and Jean-Philippe Rameau, evening sounds by Ethiopian pianist and composer Emahoy Tsegue Mariam Guebrou and Debussy-contemporary Mélanie Bonis, and finishing with a wonderful nocturne by the Croation composer Dora Pejačević.

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Timothy Salter generously contributed a new work for the programme, filling a significant gap in the piano repertoire for pieces about fungi!

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More info and dates to follow.