18 January 2026

John Butcher & Benedict Taylor

Born in Brighton and living in London, John Butcher is a saxophonist whose work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback, unusual acoustics and non-concert locations. He is well known as a solo performer who attempts to engage with a sense of place.

Benedict Taylor is a leading figure within contemporary composition, modern string performance and improvised music in the British and European new music world. The central focus of his work is in new composition for live performance, film, theatre, contemporary dance, art installation and electro-acoustic composition. In performance, he predominantly works within improvisation, new composition and 20th/21st century music.

Martin Lau & Jo-Anne Cox

Martin Lau improvises on woodwinds, found objects and electronics, favouring collaboration. He performs under the name Flooded Access and runs the monthly experimental music event Ealing Extranormal.

Jo-anne Cox is a performer/composer, based in London and working across the UK. Her unique work to date spans across electronic, experimental, folk and contemporary classical music. Her natural creativity has led to many musical and cross art form collaborations, including working with Elinor Rowlands at Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. Jo-anne’s composition for piano and electric cello, Galwad y Mynydd, was featured on Siwan Rhys’ album, Letting the Light In, which reached #10 in the Specialist Classical charts in 2024.

Olga Ksendzovska & Sylvia Hallett

Keyboardist and vocalist, Olga has been playing music since she was five years old. Starting, as most children do, with classical music, her musical life took her through many genres and bands. Genre has never been a focus for Olga’s musical practice, she tends to regard music as a practice of purposefully organized sound rather than sets of rules and traditions.

Sylvia Hallett is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Her work grew out of the London Musicians Collective, where she played in a trio with Lol Coxhill and Susannah Ferrar, and was a regular contributor on NATO records with British Summer Time Ends.