SIDE BY SIDE

Following their sold-out performance of the same name at Stone Nest, FIGURE presents a new programme of Baroque and contemporary music. Baroque masterpieces by Handel, Muffat, and van Wassenaer are contrasted with contemporary compositions by Caroline Shaw, Oliver Leith, and a specially commissioned world premiere by Jacob Druckman Prize winner Isabella Gellis.

Programme:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 6 No. 5 (1739)
Joanna Ward (born 1998) A Sweet Romance (2025) – (commissioned by FIGURE)
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692-1766) Concerto Armonico No. 5 in F minor (ca. 1740)
Caroline Shaw (born 1982) Entr’acte (2011/2014)
Isabella Gellis (born 1997) New Work – (commissioned by FIGURE)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704) Battalia (1673)
Oliver Leith (born 1982) Honey Siren (2019)
Georg Muffat (1653-1704) Armonico Tributo Suite no. 5: Passacaglia

'This group (established in 2021) is unequivocally impressive, its sound invigorating, its commitment absolute' - The Guardian