About this Event
Part of Theatreship's guest event series - where contemporary artists take over the ship to highlight the stories they want to tell.
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At HOWL, audience members are encouraged to listen, reflect, and express themselves using the art materials provided. Feel free to take your pieces home, or leave them with us to be used in the next event poster!
For our inaugural HOWL, we're premiering new works by Boston based composer Sam Long, as well as exploring free improvisations. Performances will be in various configurations of duos of the following artists.
American cellist Liam Battle is known for his uncompromising dedication to new music and experimentation. He is regularly engaged as a performer, scholar, curator, and teacher. His work finds itself at home in experimental, classical, improvisatory, independent, and academic music spaces.
“The audience was enraptured in a deep meditation” is how Forbes has described the emotional impact of Liam’s performance. He is regularly engaged as a soloist for his unique ability to interpret complex, demanding scores and to communicate with audiences. Liam has collaborated with dozens of today’s leading composers on world premiere performances and careful interpretations of their music for solo cello and chamber ensembles.
Liam also performs with the Antigone Music Collective, an independent new music ensemble which he founded with violinist Amelia Korbitz. His performance with the ensemble was noted for its “technical mastery, rich tone, and fluid character…” by Cleveland Classical.
Rebecca Burden is a musician based in South East London. A cellist, composer, and educator, her practice has taken her from clubs, abandoned offices and hotels frequented by witches, to the Barbican, the Athens Acropolis and Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.
She is a Britten Pears Young Artist. Her new work 'Fond Fancy' for ensemble and electronics, was written for and premiered by the House of Bedlam at the 2026 Aldeburgh Festival.
Her award-winning piano trio Terra Invisus specialises in free improvisation and the performance of new works. In 2025, the trio toured Lithuania with their international project Tarp Dviejų. In 2026, they have collaborated with CoMA London, and are preparing new releases with composers Ed Cooper and Patrick Ellis.
Michelle Hromin is a Croatian-American clarinetist and writer based in London. Specialising in contemporary music, her work explores multiphonics and resonance-based sonorities, and the idea of presence through artistic mediums.
She is a clarinettist with the Colin Currie Group and has performed with groups such as Apartment House, Manchester Collective, Her Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modern, English National Opera, London Concert Orchestra, Barefoot Opera, London Mozart Players and at the London Contemporary Music Festival, Barbican Centre, Tokyo Opera City, Iklectik, and Cafe Oto.
An advocate for new and experimental music, Hromin has commissioned and performed dozens of new works. Highlights include: 'Kalendar', 12 miniatures about the months in the Croatian year with composer Micahel Spiroff; and '_nts', a new work by Jellal Koay for close-dyad multiphonics and 4-channel electronics. She has also worked with composers on the London Symphony Orchestra Soundhub Scheme, Bang on a Can, Eighth Blackbird, and UPROAR Wales. Her debut solo album, Present Tense, consisting of works for clarinets and pedals, is due to be released on Relative Pitch Records in 2026.
Rosa Juritz is a bassoonist and interdisciplinary artist based in London. With a background in composition and an improvisatory practice, her work examines the interplay of auditory and visual artistic methods. She uses the linguistic concept of transliteration as a framework for investigating what new forms of artistic expression might arise when methods of one medium are replicated within another. Juritz has worked and collaborated with artists across a wide variety of practices and genres, including with ensembles Musarc and Standard Issue. She was the winner of the 2021 University of York Nicola LeFanu prize, awarded to the best original composition performed that year.
Saurabh Shivakumar is a London-based composer, performer and inter-disciplinary artist whose work explores embodied listening, performer agency, and the space between notation and improvisation. He is currently Manson Fellow in Composition and a PhD candidate at the Royal Academy of Music, and won The Musicians’ Company Priaulx Rainier Composition Prize in 2026, and was a Southbank Centre Future Artist in 2025. He performs with Red on Gold and [flux], and sings with the New London Chamber Choir and Musarc, and has performed at festivals such as Music We’d Like to Hear and the 840 series. His music has been played by ensembles including The Hermes Experiment and Riot Ensemble. He teaches at Trinity Laban and Junior Trinity.
Sam Long is a Boston-based composer and improviser who works in extended just intonation. His recent work also includes a series of pieces transmitted directly to musicians without any notation. He has written for ensembles including the Lydian String Quartet, Talea, the Mivos Quartet, and Ensemble Dal Niente. Samuel was one of 10 composers selected by IRCAM to perform with and study under Bernhard Lang at the 2022 ManiFeste festival in Paris. In 2024, he was a fellow at the Etchings Festival in New York City and gave the first live performance on a 1960s Buchla synthesizer as a fellow of the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Arts. He performed at the 2025 Darmstadt Summer Courses.
He received an MFA in Music Theory and Composition at Brandeis University, where he was awarded the Fischer Prize for Excellence in the Creative Arts. He studies privately with La Monte Young and Catherine Lamb, and currently attends Boston University for his DMA.
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The venue opens at 2pm for drinks in the bar. Everyone is welcome to come early and enjoy the space, but we recommend that you arrive by 7pm at the latest to settle in and get your seats.
Theatreship is committed to broadening access to the arts - we know that ticket price is a huge barrier for some. If the regular ticket price is beyond what you feel able to afford for whatever reason, please don't hesitate to email us at [email protected] and we will do everything we can to help, no questions asked.
We also offer arts supporter tickets, for those that can, to pay a higher price to support the venue, the artists who perform here and subsidised tickets for others.
Due to the historic nature of the ship, we’re sorry to say there is not currently step-free access into the theatre space. We have dedicated staff on hand to help with stairs, and an onsite wheelchair once you’re inside the venue. If you have any access needs, please do e-mail us at [email protected].
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