Gavin Friday will be joining the Gavin Bryars Ensemble this summer for two more performances of the Sonnet Project in Leeds and in London.
Gavin Bryars’ through-composed score, ‘Nothing Like the Sun’, weaves together eight of Shakespeare’s sonnets on the subjects of time, memory and music.
The project also features five sonnet settings by guest composers including Antony Heggarty (Antony and the Johnsons) and Mira Calix. Gavin will be performing his own setting of Sonnet 40 as well as narrating Bryars’ 40-minute composition.
Nothing Like The Sun was commissioned by Opera North and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Leeds: The Howard Assembly Room at Opera North
7.30pm June 14th. Box office: 0844 848 2727
www.howardassemblyroom.co.uk
London: Purcell Room at South Bank
7.45pm July 4th
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Gavin will take part in the Sonnet Project curated by Gavin Bryars, jointly commissioned by Opera North Projects and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

A chamber orchestra of eight musicians will share the stage with Gavin and RSC actors, to present the selected sonnets in speech and song. The second half of the performance will see the premiere of Gavin Bryar’s Nothing Like The Sun, a through-composed musical setting of a series of sonnets, accompanied by a specially commissioned film projection.

The Sonnet Project will be performed live at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the RSC’s Complete Works festival, on February 24 and 25.

Tickets (£5.00 – 20.00) are available from www.rsc.org.uk.

Gavin Bryars and Gavin Friday previously collaborated with Crash Ensemble in 2005.