Aisha Orazbayeva and Joseph Houston came together in 2015 to play music by Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff and John Cage in a series of concerts across the UK, Europe and the US. They have since commissioned a new work by Wolff, with whom they worked at Orpheus Institute Ghent, Belgium. Tonight they will perform new and old music by Wolff, including the world premiere of his new work Wade in the Water.

Aisha Orazbayeva is a Kazakh-born violinist renowned for her interpretations of contemporary music and her radical approach to old violin repertoire. She has released two critically acclaimed solo albums on Nonclassical and Prah Recordings, and has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Joseph Houston is a pianist based in London and Berlin. He made his Southbank Centre debut at the Purcell Room as part of the Park Lane Group Young Artist Series in 2013, and in the same year was a recipient of the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund’s Emerging Excellence Award and won second prize in the British Contemporary Piano Competition. His playing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and he has given world premiere performances of numerous works by composers such as Charlotte Bray, Christian Mason, Martin Suckling, Michael Zev Gordon and Colin Matthews.