Klaus Weber’s exhibition is to provide composer and jazz musician Hugh Pascall with the inspiration to write and premiere a suite of commissioned pieces. Themes explored by Weber; disruption of society’s natural order, our relationship with the natural world, alien realities and the everyday hallucinatory, will be translated into music for a one-off performance by Pascall’s Quintet. Weber’s wind chime installation, which emits the interval of a tri-tone, will provide a fundamental basis for the works. For composers and improvisers, this interval is a cornerstone of harmonic development, which opens the door to advanced functional harmony. Pascall will unite the worlds of visual and musical art, perpetuating reminders of the unexplained and unmastered, that are presented to us in Weber’s work.

Performing in trumpet and flugelhorn player Hugh Pascall’s Quintet will be acclaimed tenor saxophonist James Allsopp, drummer Tim Giles and pianist Ivo Neame, who all met whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Music in 2001. They have each gained international recognition for their work as performers and composers. Allsopp and Giles’ outfit “Fraud” won the BBC Jazz Award for Innovation 2008 and the Ronnie Scott Award for best New Act 2007. Since then they have brought us “The Golden Age of Steam” with Mercury Prize finalist Kit Downes. Arthur Lea, first class graduate at the Royal Academy, composes for Anglo-German quartet “Paragon”. With regular European tours winning them the Prix du Public at Avignon Festival 2006, the group released their second album ‘Quarterlife Crisis’ in early 2010.

Hugh Pascall also graduated from the Academy with a first class BMus in Jazz, and has also studied at the Paris Conservatoire. His performance history includes venues The Vortex, Royal Festival Hall, Ronnie Scott’s, and twice at Glastonbury Festival. Paul Isaac Francs’ Jazz Trumpet Concerto written for Pascall, was performed with the Royal Northern College Symphony and Nottingham Youth Orchestras in 2006. A recent concert saw the Hugh Pascall Quintet premiere new works at the Clifton Music Festival. The pieces were commissioned by the festival organisers, and were inspired by the artwork of Edmund Blampied, who illustrated the early editions of JM Barrie’s novel Peter and Wendy. Excerpts of the recording of this concert can be heard below plus more on Pascall’s website.

Lost Shadow (clip) by Hugh Pascall

This performance is sponsored by Clement Pianos