IMMA SETIADI AND NIGEL CLAYTON (PIANO DUET)

CMS are delighted to welcome the acclaimed piano duo of Imma Setiadi & Nigel Clayton to Chichester. For Nigel and Imma, bringing Classical Music to a wider audience in an engaging way has always been at the heart of their work together. Recently they have been touring the complete ‘Planets’ by Holst in his anniversary year across the country and abroad. They have also been engaged in a number of cross-arts projects, one of the most significant of these has been Debussy’s La Mer, working with visual art and dancers at the Turner Contemporary Gallery, for Trinity Laban Arts Festival and the Deal Festival. Together they have performed recitals at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, St John’s Smith Square in London, Cowdray Hall in Scotland, and in various music clubs and festivals across the UK. They have also collaborated with the Joyful Company of Singers on Brahms projects, with the Musical Rainbow Ensemble for a programme based on Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Happy Prince’ and for ‘Music of The Spheres: The Planets Reimagined’ – a spectacle based on a performance of Holst’s masterpiece. They have also enjoyed supporting charities such as ‘Everyone Matters’ (performances in care homes, hospitals, and special needs schools), ‘the Hunger Project’ and ‘Aid to the Church in Need’. Extremely keen to expand repertoire for piano duet, they have commissioned and premiered pieces by Philip Wilby, Paul Robinson, Jean-Francois Michel, and in conjunction with Celebrating Australian Music, premiered a suite by Wendy Hiscocks. Both share a love of teaching and have designed several courses/workshops in piano duet, chamber music, solo piano and Art of Teaching for aspiring musicians.