october, 2025


Event Details
Friday 3rd October 2025 at 7.30pm Doors open at 7pm Tickets: £20 (£10 for under 18s & students) Tickets are available
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Event Details
Friday 3rd October 2025 at 7.30pm
Doors open at 7pm
Tickets: £20 (£10 for under 18s & students)
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
Reimagining the poetry of Gertrud Kolmar. An immersive musical journey with Professor Julian Marshall.
Beginning in 2007 with the startling discovery of the truly remarkable yet tragically little-known poet Gertrud Kolmar, who perished in Auschwitz in 1943, composer Julian Marshall set out on what has become a deeply involving, transformative creative journey. This has, so far, resulted in five works under the collective name The Welten Project – the seventeen-poem cycle on which all works are based.
In this evening’s presentation, Julian will share the story and process of this project and play a specially curated playlist of music.
Julian says about the event:
‘Towards the end of 2024, I began to feel that an event offering some sort of consolidation and contextualisation of Welten Project works written so far would be worth exploring. I had for some time become aware that from each of the five existing works there could be drawn a kind of distilled, concentrated playlist – a carefully curated compilation that could become a new ‘whole work’ in of itself.
This has now become a reality and I very much look forward to sharing this new endeavour with you – an evening that will take the form of an immersive listener experience prefaced by a short introductory talk and completed with a Q&A session.’
Julian is composer and a professor at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London, England.
You will hear recorded performances from:
James Gilchrist
Melanie Pappenheim
Miranda Ostler
Avigal Tlalim
Louisa Clein
Sophie Harris
Lucy Railton
Raj Bhaumik
Philharmonia Orchestra cellos (sextet)
The Rupa Ensemble
Schoolhouse 6 Ensemble – conducted by Howard Moody
Engineering and mixing by Philip Bagenal and Jonas Persson.
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm