Complex Interactions: An Invite to Delight
19/11/2025
An exciting new collaboration between rarescale's Artistic Director, Carla Rees, cellist Amy Jolly and composers Ellen Sargen, David Gorton and Sam Hayden
Complex Interactions brings together a selection of new works for solo and duo, exploring the relationships between performer and instrument, the performers themselves, performer and composer, and performer(s) and audience.
Works from this project are presented in various different events, including An Invite To Delight - two performances in Manchester and Leeds in December 2025, and Sounds Strangely Good, Ya? at Nottingham Contemporary in October and December 2025.
An Invite to Delight
Join rarescale – Amy Jolly (cello) and Carla Rees (baroque and Kingma system flutes) - as they embark in a new collaborative adventure, exploring and developing new repertoire for their instruments in relation to the present and the past. An Invite to Delight brings together duos and solos, including two new commissions - Hues, Blues and Desalination - Ellen Sargen’s depiction of the colours that paint the past, present and future of our planet and David Gorton’s Inventions to delight, bringing the music of William Byrd and John Johnson into a contemporary idiom. The programme also includes Sam Hayden’s 2019 tour de force for solo flute, Attente, Justin Connolly's last work, Scherzetti for solo flute, and works for solo cello by David Gorton and Sam Hayden.
Programme:
David Gorton - Inventions to Delight (premiere)
Justin Connolly - Scherzetti (premiere)
Britten - Tema
Sam Hayden - Attente I
David Gorton - Saltarello
Sam Hayden - Attente II
Sam Hayden - Artefacts
Sam Hayden - Attente III
Ellen Sargen - Hues, Blues and Desalination (premiere)
The performance lasts approximately 1 hour. Tickets are available on a Pay What You Can basis. Book at the links below:
Manchester - International Anthony Burgess Centre - 5 December 2025
Leeds - The Snug - Hyde Park Book Club - 8 December 2025
As part of this project, we will also be appearing at the following events:
Sounds Strangely Good, Ya? - Nottingham Contemporary 19 October 2025
Research talk - The Kingma System Flute - A Tool for Performer/Composer Collaboration - University of Manchester 4 December 2025
Composition Workshop for RNCM students with rarescale and Ellen Sargen - 5 December
Sounds Strangely Good Ya? - Nottingham Contemporary 17 December 2025
The Complex Interactions Project is supported by the Francis Routh Trust
Works from this project are presented in various different events, including An Invite To Delight - two performances in Manchester and Leeds in December 2025, and Sounds Strangely Good, Ya? at Nottingham Contemporary in October and December 2025.
An Invite to Delight
Join rarescale – Amy Jolly (cello) and Carla Rees (baroque and Kingma system flutes) - as they embark in a new collaborative adventure, exploring and developing new repertoire for their instruments in relation to the present and the past. An Invite to Delight brings together duos and solos, including two new commissions - Hues, Blues and Desalination - Ellen Sargen’s depiction of the colours that paint the past, present and future of our planet and David Gorton’s Inventions to delight, bringing the music of William Byrd and John Johnson into a contemporary idiom. The programme also includes Sam Hayden’s 2019 tour de force for solo flute, Attente, Justin Connolly's last work, Scherzetti for solo flute, and works for solo cello by David Gorton and Sam Hayden.
Programme:
David Gorton - Inventions to Delight (premiere)
Justin Connolly - Scherzetti (premiere)
Britten - Tema
Sam Hayden - Attente I
David Gorton - Saltarello
Sam Hayden - Attente II
Sam Hayden - Artefacts
Sam Hayden - Attente III
Ellen Sargen - Hues, Blues and Desalination (premiere)
The performance lasts approximately 1 hour. Tickets are available on a Pay What You Can basis. Book at the links below:
Manchester - International Anthony Burgess Centre - 5 December 2025
Leeds - The Snug - Hyde Park Book Club - 8 December 2025
As part of this project, we will also be appearing at the following events:
Sounds Strangely Good, Ya? - Nottingham Contemporary 19 October 2025
Research talk - The Kingma System Flute - A Tool for Performer/Composer Collaboration - University of Manchester 4 December 2025
Composition Workshop for RNCM students with rarescale and Ellen Sargen - 5 December
Sounds Strangely Good Ya? - Nottingham Contemporary 17 December 2025
The Complex Interactions Project is supported by the Francis Routh Trust