THE BRIDGE ENSEMBLE

VALERIE COLEMAN  Umoja (3′)
OTTO MORTENSEN Quintette (18’)
PAUL HINDEMITH Quintet (15′)
ARTURO MÁRQUEZ Danza de Mediodia (10′)
FLORENCE PRICE Adoration (4′)
VALERIE COLEMAN  Red Clay (6′)
ỌLÁ AKINDIPE  Èkó Scenes (10′)

Howdenshire Music’s first lunchtime concert of 2024! Featuring the exciting young Bridge Ensemble, supported by Music in the Round.

Introducing the Bridge Ensemble to East Yorkshire, a wind quintet who champion music by marginalised composers from backgrounds under-represented in chamber music.

Opening with Valerie Coleman’s joyous Kwanzaa dance ‘Umoja’ and concluding with a brand new Afrobeat inspired work by the group’s clarinettist Ọlá Akindipe, this is an inviting tour through unjustly overlooked works.