Curated By… Ben Nobuto: an intimate programme exploring the music, composers and sonic ideas that have influenced his artistic development.

Ben Nobuto (Photo: Jennifer Hawthorn )

Kings Place’s new Curated By… series places audiences at the centre of a composer’s creative world. For the opening event on 23 May, Curated By… Ben Nobuto the British-Japanese composer presents an intimate programme exploring the music, composers and sonic ideas that have influenced his artistic development.

The event features Festival Voices with violinist Rakhi Singh in 21st-century hockets, Notre Dame polyphony, Renaissance madrigals, and voices with violin & electronics including music by Pérotin, Carlo Gesualdo, Caroline Shaw, Catherine Lamb, Wally Gunn, Tom Coult, Meara O’Reilly and Paul Clark, alongside two works by Ben Nobuto, Sol which was written for the National Youth Choir and featured on their 2023 disc Young Composers 4 [see my review] and Face Anthem.

Describing the programme, Nobuto writes: “I always felt I came to vocal music through a side door, discovering composers and styles by accident and making surprising connections across time periods, like listening to music on shuffle. This is a selection of that playlist.”

Full details from the Kings Place website.