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RNCM Original Voices Festival celebrates new perspectives on music that has filled the concert hall, in some cases, for centuries.

From staging, to presentation, and new arrangements, we’re maximising the potential of live performance in the 21st century as we challenge traditions and spark new experiences.

Part of our Future is Green initiative, this year our festival is specially focussed on thinking how we can re-examine familiar music through the lens of the climate emergency and natural world.

Manchester Camerata, directed by Caroline Pether, and RNCM students perform side-by-side in a uniquely curated and dramatised experience.  The ensemble will be joined by Chris Redmond of Hot Poets, an organisation who exist to forge a strong and mutually beneficial relationship between the spoken word poetry scene and key organisations working on the front lines of climate change action and innovation.

Using movement, improvisation, spoken word, and music, expect to be taken on a voyage that explores the discomfort that we sit in whilst the world around us changes to a more promising position, championing possibilities of change and hope.

J S Bach arr Vennart St Matthew Passion BWV 244 O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
Hildegard von Bingen Columba aspexit
Larry Goves Borneo Rivers
Bryce Dessner Aheym
Radiohead arr Vennart Everything in Its Right Place
James Weatherley-Buss Summits
Caroline Shaw Punctum

Caroline Pether director
Chris Redmond poet/spoken word

Manchester Camerata and RNCM Students:
Caroline Pether violin
Georgina Bloomfield violin*
Joy Becker violin
Dylan Latham violin*
Alex Mitchell viola
Hannah Borlase viola*
Geirþrúður Anna Guðmundsdóttir cello
Andrea Kim cello*
Daniel Storer double bass
Sara Banks double bass*

*Indicates RNCM musicians

Hot Poets is an ambitious, award-winning, internationally focused CIC, working to powerfully communicate climate change science and action through spoken word poetry. The real stories of ecological innovation and hope we don’t often hear. Hot Poets is funded by Arts Council England and works in partnership with organisations such as UNFCCC, UCL, Gaia Foundation, Manchester University, 3M, Met Office and LSE.

Tickets:
£5 (Under 26s and Students) + £1 Booking Fee
£10 + £1 Booking Fee

This event will end at approximately 9pm.