PAST IS PROLOGUE

Returning to Conway Hall, Untitled Experiment was proud to host Katarzyna Kowalik on harpsichord, and Ioana Petcu-Colan on violin, for an evening of weaving together past and contemporary compositions. In an extraordinary presentation, both artists challenged the listener with sounds perhaps never experienced. The audience and artists present were essential in completing this unforgettable sonic landscape. If you would like to relive the event, or see it, a recording of the full performance is available here.

Thanks to Katarzyna Kowalik, Ioana Petcu-Colan, and all the people who participated.

Event Details:
Music evolves. Musical language has been evolving over time, from simple and harmonic to more complicated and dissonant. Somewhere along the line some of the audience got lost. We asked two performers to put together a programm to relate two different musical languages from two different times. They have chosen these pieces to stitch a line between them. We invite you to join them and follow along in this performance, tracing how the past can point the way to the present and future.

Music evolves, so should the audience.

Katarzyna Kowalik is a Polish-British harpsichordist based in London, known for her inventive programming and boundary-pushing collaborations that connect early music with contemporary expression.

Ioana Petcu-Colan is an Irish violinist celebrated for her genre-spanning artistry and leadership with the Ulster Orchestra, performing worldwide and creating work that bridges classical tradition with new sonic explorations.