Wigmore Hall’s contribution to contemporarychamber music and repertoire development goesfrom strength to strength, as this unmissableprogramme richly demonstrates.

ApartmentHouse, formed by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze in1995, became the first contemporary musicensemble to win the coveted Royal PhilharmonicSociety Award for Chamber Music and Song in2012.

In this programme for string quartet, piano,percussion and harmonium, the ensemble givesthe first performance of Freezywater, a WigmoreHall commission by Leo Chadburn, known to manyas the ‘transgressive pop’ artist Simon Bookish.Works by Lithuanian composer Egidija Medekšaitė,Toronto-based composer and performer MartinArnold, and Dutch/Brazilian composer LuizHenrique Yudo add to the concert’s ear-catchingmix of world and UK premières.