The sound of music from Kettle’s Yard

Kettle's Yard this month launches a new music series curated by composer Stephen Montague which runs until May. Montague is this year's New Music Associate at Kettle's Yard. In January, Stephen introduces a series of six Sunday lunchtime concerts and two evening concerts featuring some of the most outstanding contemporary music talent from the UK and beyond. He said: "The series is designed to stimulate an open mind with an array of new works and sounds from the 20th and 21st centuries. I'd like to think of it as a nicely manipulated sonic adventure series the public would be sad to have missed." There are four world premieres, including two new Kettle's Yard commissions. The season opens on January 30 with the Aika Collective unveiling a new work by Hannah Varty for solo dancer and two cellos in prone position, a Kettle's Yard commission, with choreography and performance by Finnish dancer Lisa Ilona Jäntti. On February 6, Italian harpist Gabriella Dall'Olio plays music by Paul Patterson and Sylvano Busotti in a programme described as 'heaven and hell', using a prepared harp as well as her usual instrument.