Chineke! Chamber Ensemble make their summer return to the Edinburgh International Festival

Showcasing the orchestra’s finest musicians, the Chineke! Chamber Ensemble brings together four brilliant but intimate works by Black and Indigenous musicians, from William Grant Still’s celebration of African-American experience to the blues energy of young US composer Valerie Coleman. The Chineke! musicians give premieres of two brilliant new works by Australian Aboriginal composers. Deborah Cheetham weaves together threads of imagery and history in her tapestry-inspired Ngarrgooroon, while William Barton draws on his virtuosity as a didgeridoo player in his The Rising of Mother Country.

The warmth and touching melody of Mendelssohn’s Piano Sextet, effectively a chamber concerto for piano and strings written when he was just 15, brings the concert to an uplifting close.

Performers

• Chineke! Chamber Ensemble

Programme

• William Grant Still: Folk Suite

• Valerie Coleman: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta

• Deborah Cheetham: Ngarrgooroon

• William Barton: The Rising of Mother Country

  Interval

• Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet in D, Op 110