THE Old Laundry Season is still going strong with more big hitters still to come.

Ensemble 360 heads to the Bowness theatre on Thursday, November 28 (8pm) performing music penned by one of the country’s greatest composers of chamber music - Benjamin Britten.

Britten was also a prolific composer of film scores, had a lifelong lover for Schubert’s music and was passionate about new music and collaborating with other art forms.

He wrote his energetic Sinfonietta at the tender age of 18.

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid is a later work, an intensely intimate piece for solo oboe, which depicts six short stories of love and transformation.

Ensemble 360 will perform Ovid accompanied by a new film by Katie Goodwin especially created for the highly-regarded players, who will also play Britten’s Sinfonietta Op1, Charlie Piper’s new work With Stolen Fire to BFI archive film footage and Schubert’s Piano Quintet Trout.

Formed in 2005, Ensemble 360 comprises 11 musicians of international standing who came together for a residency in Sheffield with Music in the Round, establishing a versatile group of five string players, five wind players and a pianist.

Since, they have gained an enviable reputation across the UK not only for the quality and integrity of their playing, but also for their ability to communicate the music to a range of different audiences.

There is also a pre-concert talk at 7pm when Ensemble 360 oboist Adrian Wilson and Music in the Round’s associate composer, Charlie Piper, chat about the performance and the centenaries it celebrates.

Meanwhile, for those who prefer the thundering, exhilarating rhythms of taiko drumming the Old Laundry’s the place to be the following night (Friday, November 29, 8pm) when Mugenkyo returns for another dynamic and captivating show.

A fusion of primal rhythm, energy, choreographed movement and infectious humour to captivate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, the purveyors of power percussion perform an array of traditional taiko while revealing its history, culture and background in a dramatic but intimate show.

Theatrical and energising in equal measure.

Old Laundry Theatre manager Fliss Pocock said she was delighted with the Season so far: “The three Alan Ayckbourn plays were each very different with some incredible performances - not least from two local girls, nine-year-old Florence White and Kira Tirvengadum age seven, who have been performing in Alan’s newest play - Arrivals and Departures. They’ve had a great time and Florence even offered to go to New York when the show is performed there. We are very grateful to Anne-Marie White of Stagecoach for finding the girls for us.”

Fliss said that another highlight from the Season was the annual visit from students from LAMDA (The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art): “We saw a fantastic performance of A Few Good Men which is set on a naval airbase. At one point during the play an RAF jet flew over the theatre and the sound tutor thought the operator had used a sound effect at the wrong time. I have to say that their actual sound effects weren’t nearly as loud as the real thing.”

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