14 SEPTEMBER 2010 at 7.30 pm

GEMINI
Director: IAN MITCHELL
The Ensemble  has performed extensively throughout the UK, Europe and Asia and given frequent radio and television broadcasts. Recordings include music by Peter Maxwell Davies, John White, Philip Grange, Nicola LeFanu, David Lumsdaine, Geoffrey Poole, Lindsay Cooper, Howard Skempton, Stephen Goss, Camden Reeves and Douglas Young's music for the video of Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester, which has been shown worldwide on television.
Festival appearances have included Aldeburgh, Bath, Brighton, Chester, Guildford, Huddersfield, King's Lynn, St Magnus, Spitalfields, Warwick Camp and Leamington plus concerts and workshops abroad for the British Council and others.  Gemini was one of the instigators of the festival Hidden Sounds - a celebration of women's music - in London, out of which grew the influential organisation Women in Music. The Ensemble is a prizewinner in the music category of the Prudential Awards for the Arts, and has been the recipient of an Arts Council Incentive Award.
Gemini celebrated its thirtieth season in 2004-05 and since its formation has presented a richly varied repertoire, incorporating standard eighteenth and  nineteenth century chamber music, twentieth century music, new music, music theatre, music and dance and improvisation, plus much music by women and other neglected composers, and works inspired by, or influenced by, music outside the Western European tradition.  An ongoing series of commissions is developing the use of the bass clarinet in small chamber ensembles.
Gemini is Ensemble-in-Residence at the Universities of Surrey and Bristol, was Ensemble-in-Association with the Department of Music at the University of Exeter from 1996-2007, and was Ensemble-in-Residence at the University of London, Goldsmiths College 1998-2000.