Crossed opens AWE 2026 into a landscape where moral, political, and spiritual lines are tested, crossed, and redrawn. Music composed in the aftermath of occupation, conflict, and political upheaval traces a journey from fracture and uncertainty toward luminous clarity.

Programme

• Grażyna Bacewicz Quartet for Four Violins
• Johann Sebastian Bach Jesu, meine Freude BWV 358
• Michael Norris Exitus, III. Niflheim (“The House of Mists”)
• Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in C major, op.59, no.3
  
  

Performers

• Benjamin Baker, Justine Cormack, Florian Donderer & Marike Kruup - Violin
• Matthew Lipman & Julia Joyce - Viola
• Tanja Tetzlaff & Matthias Balzat - Cello