'tanka' - music by Josephine Stephenson & words by Ben Osborn
performed & recorded live by The Hermes Experiment for BBC Radio 3 Open Ear concert at LSO St Luke's in June 2018.
Héloïse Werner - soprano
Oliver Pashley - clarinet
Anne Denholm - harp
Marianne Schofield - double bass

Recording uploaded with kind permission from BBC Radio 3
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000h93

Tanka, Josephine Stephenson (live performance)

Hymn To Hermes, composed by Joseph Davies.
Commissioned by Tŷ Cerdd for its premiere performance by Hermes Experiment at St David's Hall, 13th February 2018.
Recorded on 17th September 2018 at Tŷ Cerdd Studios. Engineered and produced by James Clarke.

Heloise Werner, soprano
Anne Denholm, harp
Oliver Pashley, clarinet
Marianne Schofield, double bass

Joseph Davies - Hymn To Hermes (performed by Hermes Experiment)

Winners of the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Competition 2019, Tunnell Trust Awards 2017, Nonclassical’s Battle of the Bands 2014, Making Music Selected Artists 2019/20 and Park Lane Group Young Artists 2015/16, The Hermes Experiment is a contemporary quartet made up of harp, clarinet, voice and double bass. Capitalising on their deliberately idiosyncratic combination of instruments, the ensemble regularly commissions new works, as well as creating their own innovative arrangements and venturing into live free improvisation. The ensemble has commissioned over 50 composers at various stages of their careers. Their debut album will be released in 2020.

Recent highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall, BBC Radio 3 Open Ear at LSO St Luke’s, Tallinn Music Week, St Petersburg’s Sound Ways Festival, Southbank Centre, Kings Place and Spitalfields Festival.

The Hermes Experiment were one of this year’s showcase artists the Classical NEXT Conference 2019. In January 2019, they celebrated their fifth birthday with a concert supported by Arts Council England and RVW Trust, and recorded for BBC Radio 3.

The quartet has received funding from Arts Council England, Aldeburgh Music, the RVW Trust, Hinrichsen Foundation, Britten-Pears Foundation, Future of Russia Foundation, Oleg Prokofiev Trust, Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust, PRS for Music Foundation and Help Musicians UK.

Tanka, Josephine Stephenson (live performance)

The Hermes Experiment

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