Performance

A Requiem For The Dispossessed: Manchester Camerata Quartet Live

27 - 28 Sep & 25 - 26 Oct 2024

£10.00/£8.00 concessions

Lancaster Rooms

New Wing

Part of Imran Perretta: A Riot in Three Acts

Live performance of Imran Perretta’s original score for string quartet, A Requiem for the Dispossessed, performed live by Manchester Camerata orchestra arranged by William Newell, within the installation. A Requiem for the Dispossessed is co-commissioned by Somerset House Studios and the Manchester Camerata.

A Requiem for the Dispossessed: Manchester Camerata Quartet Live is commissioned as part of the exhibition A Riot In Three Acts. You can also experience the recorded score as a sound installation within the wider exhibition, arranged for spatial presentation, through the run (27 September – 10 November 2024).

Book Tickets

Performance duration is approximately 45 minutes. There are matinee performances on 28 September and 26 October.

Fri 25 Oct

Book for 18.30 Performance

Book for 20.15 Performance

Sat 26 Oct

Book for 14.30 Performance

Book for 16.15 Performance

We’re sensitive to the fact that while this subject matter is important to explore, it may be triggering to some audiences. Our visitor experience team have been briefed to direct visitors who may feel triggered by the work to the decompression room located near the exhibition; a separate, dedicated space to reflect, with suggested resources for help and support. For further support, we’d also like to highlight the following resources:

Healing Justice https://healingjusticeldn.org

Resist and Renew https://resistrenew.com

Radical Therapist Network: https://www.radicaltherapistnetwork.com

The Black, African and Asian Network (BAATN): https://www.baatn.org.uk

About Imran Perretta

Imran Perretta is a Somerset House Studios artist. Questions around power and identity formation underpin Peretta’s work in a post-9/11 world marked by austerity, state-sponsored Islamophobia, and the War on Terror. Recent exhibitions, screenings and performances include tears of the fatherland, Secession, Vienna (2024), The Condition of Being Addressable, ICA LA (2022), SUROOR for CTM Festival, Berlin and Whitechapel Gallery, London (2022), the destructors, Spike Island, Bristol, Chisenhale Gallery, London, the Whitworth, Manchester and BALTIC, Gateshead (2020-21) and Rotterdam International Film Festival; AMRA (in collaboration with Paul Purgas) for Art Night London, (2020-21). Imran was a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist Award in 2023 and was named a Turner Prize Bursary recipient in 2020.

About Manchester Camerata

Manchester Camerata is the UK’s most relentlessly pioneering orchestra, constantly paving the way of what a 21st century orchestra should be. Led by its visionary Music Director, Gábor Takács-Nagy, and its artistic partners, Manchester Camerata has toured internationally, performing in the world's most iconic concert venues with the greatest artists in classical music.

Based at the Monastery in Gorton, Manchester, the Camerata sees a vibrant and exciting future for classical music, investing in the next generation of musicians in the north with its Camerata 360° Ruth Sutton Fellowship programme.

Manchester Camerata believes that music has the power to change the lives of people and transform the prospects of places. Find out more at manchestercamerata.co.uk/about-us

A Riot In Three Acts (2024) is commissioned by and developed in residence at Somerset House Studios. The score, A Requiem for the Dispossessed (2024), is co-commissioned by Somerset House Studios and the Manchester Camerata, by arrangement with NEWFORM MUSIC. Supported by d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape.