Bridging Worlds brings together Royal Albert Hall’s Associate Artists Rushil Ranjan and Abi Sampa with students from Trinity Laban, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Sunshine Orchestra (Chennai, India).

Over the past year, cohorts of conductors, dancers, composers and non-Western instrumentalists have collaborated to create bold new works, driven by a shared curiosity: How can Western and global classical musical traditions meet to inform one another and open up new creative possibilities?  

Through close mentorship with dancer and choreographer Aakash Odedra, conductor Melvin Tay, composer Rushil Ranjan, and vocalist and instrumentalist Abi Sampa, students have developed their practice through experimentation, exchange, and collaboration. All of the pieces are new creations developed during the programme and are heard here in performance for the first time. 

This evening marks the culmination of that journey: an energising meeting of sonic worlds and cultures. Western classical music is woven together with dizi, bodhrán, haegeum and dilruba, alongside Carnatic and Hindustani vocals and dance inspired by the non-Western traditions explored in the work - celebrating collaboration, exchange and the future of classical performance. 

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