Kantos – Take Flight
  • Saturday 18 April 2026, 7:30pm
  • Stoller Hall
  • Tickets: £20.50. FTE/U18 £5.50
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Image Kantos – Take Flight

Soar with us in an uplifting performance inspired by flight in all its forms. In collaboration with Anglo-Lebanese Violinist and Artistic Director of United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul, we explore the exhilaration, freedom and wonder of the open sky.

Take wing with Vaughan Williams’ beloved The Lark Ascending, re-imagined for choir and solo violin, and with Shaw’s and the swallow, a tender reflection on migration and refuge. Circle the world with Clyne’s Orbits, and explore the dream of human flight in Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine.

Ultimately, our flight returns us back to solid ground with a renewed sense of hope.

Kantos – Take Flight
  • Saturday 18 April 2026, 7:30pm
  • Stoller Hall
  • Tickets: £20.50. FTE/U18 £5.50
Book tickets

Performers

Performers

Co-Curator & conductor Ellie Slorach
Co-Curator & solo violin Julian Azkoul
Kantos Chamber Choir

Programme

Programme

Yukiko NISHIMURA In The Wind 1. Land Breeze
Christopher TIN Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Owain PARK The Wings of the Wind
Yukiko NISHIMURA In The Wind 2. Gray Sky
Caroline SHAW and the swallow
Anna CLYNE Orbits
Yukiko NISHIMURA In The Wind 3. Breath of Air
Charles VILLIERS STANFORD The Blue Bird
Eric WHITACRE Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine
Yukiko NISHIMURA In The Wind 4. High Wind
Claire Victoria ROBERTS Hope is the Thing with Feathers
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr. Paul Drayton The Lark Ascending

Soar with us in an uplifting performance inspired by flight in all its forms. In collaboration with Anglo-Lebanese Violinist and Artistic Director of United Strings of Europe, Julian Azkoul, we explore the exhilaration, freedom and wonder of the open sky.

Take wing with Vaughan Williams’ beloved The Lark Ascending, re-imagined for choir and solo violin, and with Shaw’s and the swallow, a tender reflection on migration and refuge. Circle the world with Clyne’s Orbits, and explore the dream of human flight in Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine.

Ultimately, our flight returns us back to solid ground with a renewed sense of hope.