Kate Honey: Women Make Music
We are delighted that the PRS for Music Foundation Women Make Music has supported a commissioning project, which will lead to a brand new work by composer Kate Honey. This will be a piece for violin and piano for a concert to be given by violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved and pianist Roderick Chadwick on Sunday 27th April 2014, 12.15pm at Kettle’s Yard.
Kate recently completed a degree in Music at the University of Cambridge and is rapidly emerging as a very gifted young composer. Her highly personal music frequently displays a deeply felt commitment to social and environmental issues, which is manifested in musical gestures, which are finely-imagined but also striking and at times even shocking. Her new piece promises to focus on the local: it will be a work conceived specifically for Kettle’s Yard, rooted in the poetics of the place and drawing on some of the art which is housed there.
Kettle’s Yard has a thriving New Music Series with a loyal and enthusiastic audience. New commissions from both emerging and leading composers are at the heart of each successive Season.
Kate Honey’s new work promises to be a highlight of the 2014 series.