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Learn about about the importance of music composition in helping displaced people find a
voice
In addition, their friends and families (non-traditional audiences) gained a considerable
insight into orchestral performance, whilst the wider audience reported developing a
greater ability to empathise with the refugees’ experiences. In this Research Works
event Dr Toby Young and Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey will share the findings and
challenges of the project and consider how it could be expanded to reach other
communities. They will be joined by one of the young refugees to reflect on their
experience as a participant, offering a valuable opportunity to engage with a unique
young artist and unpack their first experience of orchestral music-making.
19 October, from 6pm, free but booking required

CONCERT/ Ubu Ensemble
Guildhall’s experimental Ubu Ensemble returns to the stage with a fascinatingly scored,
jazzy work by 20th-century composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Translated as “Music
for the dinners of King Ubu”, it is inspired by the play Ubu Roi by French symbolist
writer Alfred Jarry, and displays Zimmermann’s personal ‘Klangkomposition’ style of
combining layers of musical material from various time periods. This is a really great
alternative to most classical works shown in the Autumn series of events.
Watch online from 7.30pm on 28 October

CONCERT / Guildhall Chamber Orchestra
Guildhall Chamber Orchestra will be led by the much sought-after conductor Joshua
Weilerstein, Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, as he directs a
concert of neo-Classical works. Witnessing a Brentano String Quartet performance of
Haydn’s Quartet op 77 inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw to write
Entr’acte in 2011. Subtitled ‘a minuet and trio’, the piece fascinatingly weaves
eighteenth-century style with 21st-century colours and techniques.Prokofiev’s self-
named “symphony in the Classical style” has become one of the Russian composer’s
most popular works which has been performed across the globe.