Wigmore Hall’s George Benjamin Day offers a thick slice of the composer’s creative world, spanning everything from his early Sonata for violin and piano and the intricate 'Shadowlines' to a staging of his acclaimed chamber opera of 2006, 'Into the Little Hill'.
It kicks off, at 11.30am, with a performance from violinist Carolin Widmann, flautist Adam Walker and pianist Marino Formenti and a programme to include Benjamin's Sonata for violin and piano; 'Flight'; 'Shadowlines'; Three Miniatures for solo violin; and Three Studies; and Christian Mason's 'Heaven's Chimes are Slow'.
At 6pm, Wigmore Hall's Director John Gilhooly talks to the composer ahead of the evening concert performance of 'Into the Little Hill'.
Then, at 7.30pm, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with soprano Susanna Andersson, contralto Hilary Summers, under George Benjamin, perform the chamber opera, alongside Francesco Antonioni's 'Ballata'; and the world prèmiere of David Sawer's 'Rumpelstiltskin' Suite.