About this Event
Non pleurer mais rêver
The Grapes Duo (organ and saxophone) and a vocal ensemble will perform music by Eva-Maria Houben, Huw Morgan, Artur Vidal, and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé during an evening inspired by French poet Cécile Sauvage.
14th of November 2025
St James Garlickhythe (Garlick Hill, London EC4V 2AF)
Doors open 6.30 Music begins at 7 pm
Free (suggested donation £10)
You can listen to our last concert here
Bios
Eva-Maria Houben (b. 1955) is a composer, organist, pianist and musicologist, born and based in Germany. She is a member of the international group of composers Wandelweiser, which also includes Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro, Antoine Beuger and others. Her scores have been published by Edition Wandelweiser since 2000, and CDs have been recorded and released through Another Timbre, Irritable Hedgehog and Makro labels. Eva-Maria has been writing and performing works for the organ for over 30 years. Her texts on subjects of contemporary music are widely published by Steiner, PFAU, Edition Howeg, bis-label Oldenburg. Eva-Maria’s works were performed at London Contemporary Music Festival, Cafe OTO, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (England), Issue Music Room, MATA Festival (New York), Counterflows Festival (Glasgow), and more.
https://www.wandelweiser.de/eva-maria-houben.html
Huw Morgan lives in Bristol where he directs a number of choirs and is Associate Director of Music at All Saints, Clifton. He is a founder and director of the online transatlantic publishing collective "Firehead Organ Works"; a founding member of "Automatronic", a collective that seeks to commission, promote and perform new music for organ with electronics; and of the concert series "mainly slow organ music", that aims to bring new composers and audiences to the organ. His own music has been widely performed, including recently at BBC Tectonics (Glasgow), Windfire Festival (Sydney), Sounds Festival (Aberdeen), Nidaros Cathedral (Trondheim) and at Festival Internacional di Organo Barocco (Mexico City).
https://organslow.mystrikingly.com
Artur M. Vidal is a London-based and Spanish-born saxophone player who grew up in Paris where he studied music, philosophy, and history of Art. His work involves field recordings, sound walks, dance, and improvisation. He has been doing academic research in London on improvised music and has become a certified teacher of Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening practice. He has published two collections of text scores: The Hum in the Valley (2021) and Friendly Algorithms (2018).
www.arturvidal.com
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé is a London-based artist, composer, experimental vocalist, improviser and a Reader in Fine Art and Relational Practices at UCA Farnham. Her music and scores are distributed by Edition Wandelweiser. Recent releases include A ‘new social virtuosity’; a dissonant manifest(o), Future Humanities, vol 2 issue 4 (2024), winter / snows CD (kvieto, Feb 2024), frrree mon cheri Bouche Bée (Earshots, 2023), A direction out there, readwalking (with) Thoreau (Edition Wandelweiser, 2021).
www.ewaeckerle.com
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St James Garlickhythe, Garlick Hill, London, United Kingdom
GBP 11.55
