Reimagining the poetry of Gertrud Kolmar. An immersive musical journey with Professor Julian Marshall. Beginning in 2007 with the startling discovery of the truly remarkable yet tragically little-known poet Gertrud Kolmar, who perished in Auschwitz in 1943, composer Julian Marshall set out on what has become a deeply involving, transformative creative journey. This has, so far, resulted in five works under the collective name The Welten Project the seventeen-poem cycle on which all works are based. In this evenings presentation, Julian will share the story and process of this project and play a specially curated playlist of music. Julian says about the event: 'Towards the end of 2024, I began to feel that an event offering some sort of consolidation and contextualisation of Welten Project works written so far would be worth exploring. I had for some time become aware that from each of the five existing works there could be drawn a kind of distilled, concentrated playlist a carefully curated compilation that could become a new whole work in of itself. This has now become a reality and I very much look forward to sharing this new endeavour with you an evening that will take the form of an immersive listener experience prefaced by a short introductory talk and completed with a Q&A session.' Julian is composer and a professor at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London, England. You will hear recorded performances from: James Gilchrist Melanie Pappenheim Miranda Ostler Avigal Tlalim Louisa Clein Sophie Harris Lucy Railton Raj Bhaumik Philharmonia Orchestra cellos (sextet) The Rupa Ensemble Schoolhouse 6 Ensemble conducted by Howard Moody Engineering and mixing by Philip Bagenal and Jonas Persson.