Delta Saxophone Quartet – The Steve Martland Story
Friday 30 September 2022 @ 7.30pm
Jakob Fichert (piano) — Saturday 1 October 2022 @ 1pm
Bingham String Quartet — Saturday 1 October 2022 @ 7.30pm

Contemporary music concerts in York

Welcome back to live contemporary music. Featuring 20th and 21st century music, starting on Friday 30 September with a festival weekend… read more »

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Celebrating new music in York

York Late Music presents a series of concerts in York featuring an extensive selection of 20th and 21st century music, including many new works.

Concerts are normally on the first Saturday of each month from September to December 2022, and February to June 2023. The opening concert with the Delta Saxophone Quartet is on Friday 30 September 2022 (with lunchtime and evening concerts too, the next day).

Lunchtime Concerts

1pm to 2pm Saturday

Tickets just £5 online or on the door

Evening concerts

7.30pm to 9.30pm Saturday

Tickets £12/£10 online or on the door

(£5 for students)

Steve Martland remembered

The Delta Saxophone Quartet opens our 2022-23 season on Friday 30 September. For just shy of four decades the Quartet’s raison d’être has been to encourage composers to create new music and perform these fresh works in an engaging and inclusive way attracting listeners of all ages and social backgrounds. … read more »

Composer of the Month

Norwegian composer Stine Solbakken composed Karl Johan’s Gate, to be performed at the exciting evening concert on Friday 30 September 2022, featuring the Delta Saxophone Quartet. Interviewed by fellow composer Steve Crowther, Solbakken describes her background, how she became interested in composing, how she works and reveals which pieces of music she’d select for that Desert Island

Review: Gemini (October 2021)

Paul Conway has written an extensive review of Late Music’s October evening concert, featuring Gemini, which included premieres of pieces by Sadie Harrison and Morag Galloway. Of Harrison’s Fire in Song, he notes “this work made a strong impression on disc, but seeing it performed live was an even more affecting experience”. You can experience that difference yourself at one of our concerts!

Listen: Podcast Interview series

In a series of podcasts on our “Listen” page, composer Hayley Jenkins interviews Late Music performers and fellow composers about pieces performed at this season’s Late Music concerts. Today, Hayley talks to Chris Caldwell of the Delta Saxophone Quartet about the evening concert that opens the 2022-23 season, on Friday 30 September 2022.