Ambient Delights features pianist Brieley Cutting with musicians Dan Lopez (violin), Eleanor Streatfeild (cello), Luke Spicer (viola), Bonita Han-Williams (double bass) and composer/live electronics performer Mark Oliveiro. 

Franz Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major takes its nickname from the integration of the vibe and material from one of Schubert’s own art songs, Die Forelle (The Trout). It was conceived in 1819 when Schubert was 22 years old and on holiday in the countryside of Austria at a place he described as "inconceivably beautiful”. Reflecting a lightness and carefreeness, the sound world of this Quintet conjures up sounds of running water and the wriggling of a trout, with beautiful transparency of texture and infectious melodies. 

Mark Oliveiro’s Electronic Suite for piano quartet with live generative electronics will receive its world premiere at this concert. A three-movement journey, this work blurs the line between acoustic intimacy and digital intervention, exploring how acoustic and electronic voices can collide, diverge and ultimately converge - transforming contrast into coherence.

FRANZ SCHUBERT
Piano Quintet in A major D.667 “The Trout” (1819)

I. Allegro Vivace

II. Andante

III. Scherzo

IV. Andantino - Allegretto (Theme & Variations)

V. Allegro guisto

MARK OLIVEIRO

Electronic Suite for piano quartet with live electronics (2025)

I. Garden of Ambient Delight(s)

II. The Seven Deadly Glitches…

III. …and the Four Beat Things