Ian Sankey and Joe Snape
Thursday 7 July 1pm Free Entry
Ian Sankey is a musician and trombone player based in the North East of England. Ian works predominantly across the classical, contemporary and early music scenes both at home in the UK, and throughout Europe.
Ian performs with numerous award-winning ensembles and orchestras, including Sacred Bones, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Aeris Brass, Northumberland Radical Fun Group and Elysium Brass. He currently also tours throughout Europe with new music ensemble Stargaze, working with pop giants including Dirty Projectors frontman David Longstreth.
Alongside his work with larger ensembles, 2022 will bring new ventures including a collaboration with composer Joe Snape, recipient of a 2021 Paul Hamlyn Artist Award - working on a large format piece for trombone and electronics. Ian will also work with pianist Anna Michels across a range of UK and Europe-wide recitals and competitions.
Joe Snape (1989) mixes conventional and homemade instruments with light, text and video to make unusual and emotive performances. His work has been presented at places like The Kitchen (New York), Café Oto (London), and Wonder Site (Tokyo), and also at places like the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg) and Aldeburgh Music. The Quietus calls Joe’s music ‘goofy, melancholy, irreverent fun – very, very singularly itself.’ Fluid Radio thinks it’s ‘joyous and beautiful’, and one time in The Guardian Nico Muhly called it ‘organized, disorganized fun’. In front of a small audience, the AACM’s George Lewis described Joe’s work as ‘some seriously unartful sh*t,’ and everybody agreed. Joe is a former UK Young Artist, has been nominated for the Arts Foundation’s Creative Producer fellowship, and has helped commission new work from almost twenty young composers on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a recipient of the 2021-22 Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Award for Artists in Composition and was a 2020-21 composer-in-residence at the beautiful Sage Gateshead.