Edinburgh-based Ninfea-Cruttwell-Reade, a Royal Philharmonic Society featured composer, won ardent admirers in 2025 with her Piano Concerto and motet for The Sixteen, The Call of Gideon. The Carducci Quartet and Tom Poster, persuasive and committed advocates of contemporary compositions, give the first performance of her new piano quintet, conceived for Wigmore Hall Voices of Today to mark the Hall’s 125th anniversary.

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Carducci String Quartet; Tom Poster piano

Wigmore Hall

TMC Music for Brass and Percussion

Tanglewood Music Center

Angels are all around us. So started a discussion between John Studzinski (philanthropist and founder of the Genesis Foundation) and the late Robert Willis (poet, cleric and Dean of Canterbury Cathedral until 2022). Often angels are introduced into stories and creative art as signs of a spiritual dimension which is beyond our human conceiving. There is in fact a much wider acceptance of the concept of angels in the minds and hearts of people of all faiths and none. Robert was commissioned by John to write a series of poems about Angels as messengers, ministers, warriors and worshippers, with John then commissioning three young composers to set these poems to music.

Voices of Angels

St John R C Church

St James's Piccadilly

Expressing the effects of global warming and the collapse of historic ecosystems, Cecilia Darmström’s ICE depicts through music the earth fighting for existence, and how we could rewind this process. British composer Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade’s Piano Concerto receives its world premiere with BBC NOW regular, Clare Hammond at the keys before we turn to the series’ namesake, Grace Williams. One of her earliest works, and believed to be the first symphony ever written by a Welsh composer, her dramatic First Symphony is inspired by fifteenth century Welsh rebel, Owain Glyndŵr.

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade

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Past events

Jun 20, 2026

Carducci String Quartet; Tom Poster piano · Wigmore Hall

Jun 29, 2025

TMC Music for Brass and Percussion · Tanglewood

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