Vaughan Williams, passionate about preserving folk melodies, treats them here with love, an act of cultural service that preserves these tunes and the communities that carried them.

Salina Fisher’s Kintsugi reflects on the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, celebrating fractures for the unique history they represent.

Sebastian Black’s new work for solo violin then tells the story of Alexander Aitken’s violin, gifted to him on his voyage to fight in the First World War, played for his comrades at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, then lost at the Somme, but not forever.

Ravel’s Piano Trio closes AWE London 2026, completed in 1914 as the outbreak of war spurred him on to finish the work before enlisting.

PERFORMERS

Benjamin Baker (NZ/UK) - violin | AWE Artistic Director

Yura Lee (USA) - viola

Maciej Kułakowski (Poland) - cello

Jack Moyer (NZ/UK)- cello (AWE Scholar)

Daniel Lebhardt (Hungary) - piano