Kantos Chamber Choir

We’re delighted to welcome Kantos Chamber Choir to Future Yard, bringing their show In Your Dreams to our stage this Autumn.

Kantos is a trailblazing vocal ensemble, producing vocal performances shaped by the music and stories they believe in. Performing music by everyone from 11th Century visionary saints to genre-bending, experimental rock stars, Kantos prides itself on championing contemporary and well-known choral music.

This show is a journey of the music we hear in our dreams, with improvised soundscapes, poetry and music by Laura Mvula, Vaughan Williams and many more. The show also features a performance of a specially commissioned new piece of music by Kristina Arakelyan. There will also be a demonstration of how brain wave data is captured while we sleep.

Tickets on sale now, on a pay-what-you-can model.

Where do we go in our dreams?

As dusk drapes the world in velvet shadows, sleep whispers its invitation. It is here, in the quiet hours between night and dawn, where this music lives, embarking on a quest to discover what happens when we close our eyes. Journey through improvised soundscapes, poetry, and choral music by composers including Eric Whitacre, Laura Mvula, Vaughan Williams, and a new commission by Kristina Arakelyan to unveil the hidden landscapes of our dreams and the mysteries of the subconscious mind.

We also welcome members of the RNCM Research Department and the University of Manchester, who will study how our brain responds to live music during this event. They will give a short demonstration of their process before capturing and processing live brain wave data in real time and projecting it behind the choir, illustrating the extraordinary power of music.

THE MUSIC

Eric Whitacre – Sleep
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Pseudo-Yoik
Mátyás Seiber – Three Nonsense Songs
Josef Rheinberger – Abendlied
Ēriks Ešenvalds – Only in Sleep
Camden Reeves – The Maze of Sleep
Kristina Arakelyan – NEW WORK*
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Lullaby
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Cloud Capp’d Towers
Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon

*commissioned by Kantos

Kantos Chamber Choir presents
In Your Dreams
Saturday 26th October 2024
Doors 7:30pm / Performance starts at 20:00
75 Argyle Street
Tickets: £15/£10/£5/donation – Tickets are on a Pay What You Can model

Future Yard is a cashless venue – all payments are taken by contactless or chip and pin. Live curfew 11pm. Kitchen open 6pm-9pm.
If you have any specific access requests, please read all of the details about accessibility at Future Yard here.
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. We cannot issue refunds to under 16s who are not accompanied by an adult.
This is a seated event that takes place indoors.