Spitalfields Music Festival Goes Virtual This Winter
Due to ongoing government advice, Spitalfields Music has today announced that the 2020 festival and programme has been reimagined as a series of digital events which will be broadcast via the Spitalfields Music website on Saturday 5 December. Tickets for Spitalfields Music Festival at Home are on sale now.
Eight short commissions by contemporary women composers will receive their world premieres as part of Fast Food, Fast Music. Written for and performed by the Miller-Porfiris Duo and Siwan Rhys the programme will feature new works by Victoria Benito, Joy Effiong, Bobbie-Jane Gardner, Millicent James, Sarah Rodgers, Jasmin Rodgman, Susannah Self and Heloise Werner performed alongside Errollyn Wallen's Five Postcards. Fast Food, Fast Music is part of the festival's pledge to Keychange, the international initiative to empower women to transform the future of music.