Hastings Chamber Music Festival Hermes Experiment: TREE Music by Caroline Shaw, Errollyn Wallen, Laura Moody, Abel Selaocoe, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre & more + Artists in Conversation: Music & Science with climate scientist Frank Venmans + Musicians This Autumn the Hermes Experiment launch TREE, their third album with Delphian Records. The album is a meditation on nature, memory and change. Commissioned works by Laura Moody and Abel Selaocoe, and a vivid reimagining of a work by the baroque composer Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre are complemented by new compositions from the ensembles members, exploring the human instinct to find emotional meaning in the natural world in birdsong, trees, storms, stars. With its distinctive line-up of clarinet, harp, voice and double bass, the ensemble creates a soundscape by turns intimate, luminous, virtuosic and strange. The Hermes Experiment Tomos Xerri (harp) Oliver Pashley (clarinet) Marianne Schofield (double bass) Hlose Werner (soprano) Winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award 2021 and the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Competition 2019, The Hermes Experiment is one of the UKs leading young contemporary music ensembles. Capitalising on their deliberately idiosyncratic combination of instruments (harp, clarinet, voice and double bass), the Hermes Experiment regularly commissions new works, as well as creating their own innovative arrangements and venturing into live free improvisation. They have commissioned over 60 composers at various stages of their careers. They have released two albums on Delphian Records, HERE WE ARE and SONG, both to critical acclaim. Panel Discussion: Music & Science Join renowned climate scientist Frank Venmans for a powerful discussion at the start of the concert on the links between climate change, forests, and biodiversity and how musicians are responding through art. Discover how music can amplify climate awareness and inspire change. Full Programme: Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (arr. Schofield), Les rossignols Laura Moody, Rilke Songs Caroline Shaw (arr. Denholm-Blair), Plan & Elevation: I. The Ellipse Oliver Pashley, But I Still Breathe Marianne Schofield, Islands INTERVAL Hlose Werner, Thunder clears Abel Selaocoe (arr. Woodgates), Buhle Bendalo Errollyn Wallen (arr. Werner), Tree Misha Mullov-Abbado, The Linden Tree Hannah Peel (arr. Pashley), The Almond Tree