Concerto for a Salad Bowl

Concerto for a Salad Bowl is a concert with a difference.  As well as premièring four pieces by Christopher Barchard, there is a musical symposium which, unusually, puts back to back a talk about the climate crisis by a prominent scientist in the field with music inspired by the crisis following on immediately.  

Climate science remains a controversial subject, but mainly because of  biased reporting in some influential sections of the media. Christopher Merchant is a professor in the field at Reading University and is in a better position than most to comment on the situation. There are questions from the audience to a panel after this. The panel comprises the composer, the pianist and the climate scientist and is chaired by the organist Fionagh Bennet.

The music in the event has been composed using a variety of methods and two of the pieces are played on solo acoustic…