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Join Elizabeth Alker at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London鈥檚 South Bank for an evening of genre-defying musical collaboration featuring new commissions and arrangements from Divide and Dissolve, Nwando Ebizie and Bill Ryder-Jones, all performed with the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra under the baton of Andr茅 de Ridder.

Bill Ryder-Jones is one of England's most distinctive musical voices, blending a boldness of approach and unbending curiosity with a deeply human intimacy. Having gained major success as a founding member of Liverpool band The Coral, his solo career - featuring albums such as 鈥榊awn鈥�, 鈥榃est Kirkby County Primary鈥� and last year鈥檚 鈥業echyd Da鈥� - has allowed the multi-instrumentalist to find ways of combining his deeply felt pop sensibility with an ever-increasing fascination with classical and experimental music.

Divide and Dissolve is a doom metal band founded by Melbourne鈥檚 Takiaya Reed, who recently appeared in the Unclassified Listening Chair. She is a classically-trained saxophonist and guitarist playing music that is often heavy in tone and driven by a fiercely political edge. It is, she says proudly, genreless - so playing new arrangements with the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra is a very natural fit.

Nwando Ebizie is a brilliantly original performer and composer whose music inhabits liminal and mythic spaces, using 鈥渁rt personas, experimental theatre, neuroscience, music and African diasporic ritualistic dance鈥� to encourage audiences to question their perceptions around reality. She has taken her entirely unclassifiable blend of Afro-futurism, ritual and science fiction around the world and is sure to light up the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

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