Spelk Ensemble — A Transatlantic Programme
Saturday 7 May 2022 @ 1pm
Delta Saxophone Quartet – Dedicated to you but you weren’t listening
Saturday 7 May 2022 @ 7.30pm

Nick Williams, artistic associate of the Spelk Ensemble

Delta Sax quartet members arrayed in front of the arch of a railway bridge

Contemporary music concerts in York

Welcome back to live contemporary music. Featuring 20th and 21st century music, this year, we include eight new commissions… read more »

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Celebrating new music in York

York Late Music presents a series of concerts in York featuring an extensive selection of 20th and 21st century music, including many new works.

Concerts are on the first Saturday of each month from October to December 2021, and February to June 2022.

Lunchtime Concerts

1pm to 2pm Saturday

Tickets just £5 online or on the door

Evening concerts

7.30pm to 9.30pm Saturday

Tickets £12/£10 online or on the door

(£5 for students)

Peter Boardman: a tribute

Steve Crowther has written a short tribute to Peter Boardman, who died recently. Peter was the Director of Late Music from 2009 until 2017, who guided its conversion from a music festival to a concert series.

Composer of the Month

Nick Williams composed 1520 Sedgewick Avenue — “a celebration of the creativity and anger of early hip hop” — to be performed at the exciting lunchtime concert featuring Spelk on 7 May 2022. Interviewed by fellow composer Steve Crowther, Williams describes the unusual nature of that concert’s programme, his background, how he works and reveals which pieces of music he’d select for that Desert Island

Review: Gemini (October 2021)

Paul Conway has written an extensive review of Late Music’s October evening concert, featuring Gemini, which included premieres of pieces by Sadie Harrison and Morag Galloway. Of Harrison’s Fire in Song, he notes “this work made a strong impression on disc, but seeing it performed live was an even more affecting experience”. You can experience that difference yourself at one of our concerts!

Listen: Podcast Interview series

In a series of podcasts on our revitalised “Listen” page, composer Hayley Jenkins interviews Late Music performers and fellow composers about pieces performed at this season’s Late Music concerts. Just added (4 May 2022): Hayley interviews saxophonist Chris Caldwell, a founder of the Delta Saxophone Quartet, about the programme for the Delta’s Late Music evening concert on Saturday 7th May 2022.