Paul Hutchinson & Karen Wimhurst with Hannah Cumming

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Paul Hutchinson & Karen Wimhurst with guest Hannah Cumming Jan 29 2026


Paul and Karen came together through their love of traditional music cut through with
experimentation, boldness, humour and risk. Their first duo album Coracle had five
star reviews and led to them touring widely across UK and European Festivals.
Both composers and improvisers, they now celebrate over twenty years of close
collaboration and original music playing as a duo and with other bands and large
scale projects.
Expect ethereal to turn gutsy, passion to be tempered by a good laugh and a tide of
improvisation which means no two evenings are ever the same.
Paul Hutchinson is a BBC Folk Award Best Live Artist nominee with Belshazzar’s
Feast, a much-feted accordion player and teacher. He’s equally at home on the
concert stage, playing dance tunes for enthusiastic revellers or running workshops.
His previous collaborations with Hoover the Dog, Pagoda Project and The Maniacs
produced albums and performances that drew five-star reviews.
Karen Wimhurst is a widely commissioned composer ranging from chamber
works to music theatre and large-scale, collaborative productions.
Eclectic in nature, her own distinctive music manifests diverse traditional
and jazz influences alongside a strong grounding in contemporary classical
music. Latest works include Synthetica, an online opera in collaboration
with MoDiP; Heart of the Matter, a bijoux chamber opera for Bass and piano
featuring in Tete a Tete opera festival 2024; Freedoms for mixed choir and
cello; a Song for Dorset one of the featured composer in the lockdown A
Song For Us project and Jump, a solo work for clarinets, insect and
amphibian sounds, featured at the British Library event Small but Perfectly Formed hosted by Martha Kearney.