Martin Arnold is a maverick composer based in Toronto, who until recently earned his living as a gardener while also writing some of the most distinctive outsider music in North America. He describes his music as meandering, psychedelic, slow-motion dance music, which “aspires to sound like it was recorded underwater in a methadone clinic”. His work uses long melodies which he extends and twists until they become strange. His compositions are championed by a number of world-class performers, including the Quatuor Bozzini, Apartment House and the pianist Philip Thomas. Two of his solo pieces will be played tonight, both by the musicians for whom they were written. The concerts opens with violinist Mira Benjamin playing ‘Slip Minuet’, and ends with cellist Anton Lukoszevieze playing the world premiere of a new work.