Easter Saturday Classical Concert

This concert is part of a broader Easter festival series titled 'Grigoryan Brothers & Friends', bringing together an ensemble like no other. The musical relationships run deep and wide, spanning years, countries, repertoire, and instrumentation. What makes this weekend special isn't just the repertoire (spanning Bach to Piazzolla, jazz inspirations to ambient atmospheres) or the rare mix of instruments (think classical and electric guitars, piano, bass, tabla, cello and voice). It's the chemistry. These artists have toured together, written together, risked together, lived and loved together over many years, countries and genres. They are both blood and chosen family. Expect moments of high-wire virtuosity and, just as often, the kind of stillness that transcends time.

This is a concert designed to breathe, with spacious soundscapes that invite contemplation and revival. Pianist-composer Luke Howard opens with his own meditative works before joining Lenny Grigoryan for original duos shaped by quiet beauty. The Grigoryan Brothers perform Howard's Amistad and Nat Bartsch's luminous Kindling, while Andrew Blanch and Vladimir Gorbach bring radiant colour to Philip Houghton's Wave Radiance. Sharon Grigoryan will perform Sarah Hopkin's Reclaiming the Spirit before being joined by Luke Howard for Arvo Pärt's transcendent Spiegel im Spiegel, its crystalline lines suspended in time.