Polish ensemble Kwartludium perform with Scanner at Spitalfields Music Winter Festival

Leading avant-garde Polish ensemble Kwartludium present a new collaboration with artist and electronic musician Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) as part of the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival.
Kwartludium has built a reputation for presenting striking new music across Europe. Modern improvisation to visual scores has become the focus of much of the work of Polish ensemble in recent years and they explore this medium in this rare London concert.

Kwartludium ensemble was formed in 2002 by Dagna Sadkowska (violin), Michał Górczyński (clarinet, bass clarinet), Paweł Nowicki (percussion) and Piotr Nowicki (piano), and focuses on performing works by young composers active in Poland and abroad. Kwartludium have given many world premiere performances both in Poland and elsewhere, and performed at music festivals including Warsaw Autumn, Unsound (New York), Ensemble Europa (Cologne), C3 (Berlin), Loop (Brussels), Open Form (Copenhagen) The Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures (Łodz), Musica Polinca Nova (Wrocław), festivals of multimedia and audio art in Warsaw and Avant Days, Gdánsk.

Scanner came to prominence from his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations. He has won admiration from Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen, among others and has worked with artists from all genres including Radiohead, The Royal Ballet, artists Steve McQueen and Derek Jarman and fashion designers Hussein Chalayan. In 2004 he became the first artist to exhibit a sound-art commission at the Tate Modern and from 1994-2000 he curated the pioneering Electronic Lounge club at London's ICA. This year he presented his Bridging The World installation at the Museum of London, Docklands and in 2015 will compose the score to the Dutch National Ballet's new production of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

The performance is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute in London.
Tickets: £15 (unreserved)
Online: spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk
Phone: 020 7377 1362 On the door: 30 minutes in advance of the event start time (subject to availability)

Notes to Editors
Spitalfields Music is a creative charity producing live music experiences in East London through a year-round programme of festivals and creative learning and participation projects. Based in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, it reaches over 10,000 people a year, with participants and audiences ranging in age from newborn to over 90 years-old.

Spitalfields Music's annual festivals (Spitalfields Music Summer Festival & Spitalfields Music Winter Festival) bring together world-renowned artists and local musicians. Spitalfields Music regularly commissions new music, supports emerging artists, explores how music interacts with other art forms and curates works that challenge, provoke and inspire. To ensure access to all, 30% of tickets for Spitalfields Music's two annual festivals are free or £5.

Spitalfields Music's award-winning Learning & Participation programme, which celebrated 25 years in 2014, innovates within the sector, particularly in work with early years (0-3 years-old) and training music leaders. Projects in the programme run throughout the year within and outside of the festivals. These bring participatory music opportunities to members of the local community in schools, community centres, hospitals and libraries across Tower Hamlets.

Spitalfields Music continues to expand its work across the wider East London area, and in 2014-15 for the first time tours its flagship project Musical Rumpus outside of London, both across the UK and internationally.

Spitalfields Music is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO), and the only NPO working in classical music based in East London.

The Polish Cultural Institute in London is a diplomatic mission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Based in London, the Institute is dedicated to nurturing and promoting cultural ties between the United Kingdom and Poland, both through British exposure to Poland 's cultural achievements, and through exposure of Polish artists and scholars to British trends, institutions, and professional counterparts. The function of the Polish Cultural Institute is to showcase contemporary Polish culture for Britain's multicultural audience, particularly in London as it is truly the leading global cultural capital. Our programme covers the visual art, film, fashion, design, architecture, theatre, dance, music, and literature.
www.PolishCulture.org.uk  / @PLInst_London / www.facebook.com/polishinstitutelondon 

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