"The new Music of Today season offers you a huge range of new experiences and discoveries. At the start, music by the bright young Dutch composer Michel van der Aa, quirkily mixing technology with live instruments. At the end, the nocturnal brilliance of the Italian Salvatore Sciarrino. In between, we profile the great British composer Oliver Knussen, who is a Southbank Centre Associate Artist, and Hans Abrahamsen, the compelling subtle Danish composer. We also mark the 10th anniversary of
the death of spectral French composer Gérard Grisey with his final work, a hauntingly clairvoyant meditation on death. The season finishes with our young composers’ concert, The Wild Hunt of the Summer Wind: three compositions based on sections of text from Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder.

Join us for another season of the very best music: the music of today."

Julian Anderson, Artistic Advisor