Seaming To + Leon Michener & Mark Sanders

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Seaming To

Performing the first set, Seaming has contributed her unique vocals to music with Robert Wyatt, Jean Claude Vannier, Leila, Homelife, Graham Massey, Herbaliser and Cinematic Orchestra.

With rich, lush orchestral and cinematic writing, blending classical instruments with the electronic, she will be performing works from her forthcoming album and a new work commissioned by the Chinese Arts Centre, entitled 'Songs for My Grandmother'.

For this new project she will be joined by her mother, the classical pianist Enloc Wu, and together they will perform songs portraying the lives of three generations, using vintage electronics, clarinet, 18th Century celeste and analog synths.

'Songs for my Grandmother' is supported by The PRS Foundation.

“When she sings, puts the rest of the band in the shade. A tiny woman with a pixie haircut and euphoric smile, To only has to open her mouth for her astounding, operatic voice to float out…Her singing is beautiful enough to make you wish the rest of the musicians would drop out of their groove for a moment” (The Guardian).


Leon Michener & Mark Sanders

Leon Michener is a London-based improvising pianist and composer whose work spans many idioms and genres. He will be joined in a duo by Mark Sanders in a set that features original compositions and deconstructions of selected Chopin Etudes and improvisations on material especially composed for the event by contemporary classical composers.

"Leon Michener has created something totally original" (The Observer).