Music of Sanctuary and Solidarity

With United Strings of Europe

The programme will feature the European premiere of Caroline Shaw’s striking To the Hands – a six movement cantata responding to Dietrich Buxtehude’s Ad manus from his Membra Jesu nostri. The concert will also include Shaw’s In Manus Tuas for Viola Solo as well as the world premiere of The Journey by Lebanese composer Houtaf Khoury, commissioned by United Strings of Europe.