GBSR Duo + Twenty Fingers Duo

Tickets £20 // Under 30 £6
Advance booking required

GBSR Duo:
George Barton percussion
Siwan Rhys piano 

Twenty Fingers Duo:
Lora Kmieliauskaitė violin
Arnas Kmieliauskas cello

Julius Aglinskas (Lithuania, 1988)
Synchronicity (2024) 25’ UK Premiere

Lawrence Dunn (UK, 1991)
Double sonata (2024) 25’ UK Premiere

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Piano-percussion duo GBSR and violin-cello duo Twenty Fingers, renowned for their thoughtful collaborations and visceral interdisciplinary projects, are united in bringing an iron-gripped intensity of focus and a subtle control of sonority to their instruments. Between them, they have brought their acclaimed timbral sensitivity to recent premieres by composers as varied as Oliver Leith, Eva-Maria Houben, Angharad Davies, Dominykas Digimas, Artūras Bumšteinas and Rūta Vitkauskaitė.

At hcmf// 2024, they combine their talents to provide a rich, colouristic and rhythmic canvas for two of the subtlest sonic palettes. The fecund ambiguity of Julius Aglinskas’ music, suggesting by turns coldness, solitude and melancholic nostalgia, finds tantalising mirrorings and contrasts with Lawrence Dunn’s mercurial musical tongue, omnivorously exploring supersaturated detail and sparseness, microtonal dissonance shading into open-hearted lushness, and po-faced self-seriousness lapsing into knowing absurdity.

Produced by hcmf// and Tarp Tylos in partnership with LRT Klasika, Lithuanian Composers’ Union  and Meno Genas; supported by Lithuanian Culture Institute and Music Information Centre Lithuania; also supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Association LATGA, Hinrichsen Foundation, Vaughan Williams Foundation, PRS Foundation Talent Development Network supported by PPL, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Double sonata is commissioned with support from the Francis Routh Trust

Synchronicity is commissioned by LRT Klasika

Photo credit: Lauryna Narkevičiūtė (Twenty Fingers Duo) / Damian Griffiths (GBSR Duo)