Nigel Osborne
A busy week of contemporary music coming up. On Thursday I’m delighted to be conducting Psappha’s final concert of the season, which includes Nigel Osborne’s incredibly evocative Bosnian Voices. Written to mark 20 years since the conclusion of the war in Bosnia (a conflict in which the composer was a humanitarian volunteer) it is a set of arrangements based on songs written by inhabitants of Srebrenica.
Sir George Benjamin
On Saturday the RNCM New Ensemble will be at the Wigmore Hall presenting a study day of the music of Sir George Benjamin.