London’s Kings Place has announced the Solem Quartet’s participation in ‘Earth Unwrapped’, an expansive year-long festival taking place next year.
Leading arts venue Kings Place has unveiled ‘Earth Unwrapped: Sirens for a Wounded Planet’, a major event taking place over the course of 2025 that explores our relationship with the natural world through adventurous and immersive programming.
The Solem Quartet are pleased to join many of today’s most innovative artists for this series, which features cutting edge performances, world premieres and community engagement.
In a recent article for Classical Music, artistic director Sam McShane writes ‘the arts have always played an important role in communicating complex social challenges and we are so very lucky to have some of the world’s finest and passionate artists to tell important narratives surrounding our everyday life on Earth. Throughout this year, we invite our audiences to come together, join our community to listen, learn and be inspired.’
Passionate advocates for new music, the Solem Quartet has established itself as one of the most adventurous quartets of its generation. For ‘Earth Unwrapped’ they will perform their new programme ‘Towards Silence’, crafted especially for this event. In this exquisite programme, the listener is invited to contemplate – or perhaps mourn – Earth’s current condition, while also remembering its aural beauty.
The programme takes its name from John Metcalf’s 2020 work Towards Silence, a work that reflects the relationship between humanity and the planet, and the crisis of extinction. Music by 12th century polymath Hildegard von Bingen is heard alongside works by 21st century composers Cassandra Miller, Meredith Monk, Nick Martin and Max Richter. Full details of this programme can be found here.
The concert takes place on Saturday 29th November at 7pm in Hall 2 of King’s Place. Tickets for the event are now on sale, and may be booked via this link. More information about ‘Earth Unwrapped’ can be found here.