BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show hosts a concert of contemporary music, featuring four sets by leading artists in the genres of avant garde, improvised and experimental music, with more than a nod to deep folk traditions too. 

 From Dublin, Ireland, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh brings his extraordinary 10-stringed fiddle (called a hardanger d'amore) to make haunting folk-inspired music with live electronic treatments. 

 Jenn Kirby is a founder member of not one but two Laptop Orchestras (in Swansea and Dublin); for this gig she performs solo, on vocals and live electronics. Jenn has developed hybrid musical instruments, using software, sensors and re-purposed controllers, so that her physical movements onstage mould and direct the live electronic sounds. 

 Wales-based Rhodri Davies is a celebrated improviser on the harp. Although classically trained on the orchestral pedal harp, Davies’ interest has long reached beyond the conventions of that instrument. He has played harps from a range of cultures; modified their sounds with bowing, preparations and amplification; built ones played by the elements; created fragmented harp installations and destroyed countless strings, and sometimes more, in performance. 

The GBSR Duo are George Barton (percussion) and Siwan Rhys (piano), two of the UK's finest young contemporary chamber musicians. The duo has built its reputation on a combination of exceptional interpretations of the existing piano-percussion repertoire, committed performances of ambitious new commissions, and inventive collaborations.

The show will be recorded for future broadcast on Radio 3. 

FREE. Booking tickets is essential for this event.

Photographs by Damien Griffiths.