The Arts Lab at the Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts (CSVPA) hosts an evening of music, conversation, discovery, dance performance and projection installation, developed in response to Professor Richard Causton’s classical composition, 'Phoenix' (2006), winner of a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.

Introductory talk by Dr Simone Kuegeler-Race - ‘The history and representation of the Phoenix in Art, Literature and Culture

Composer talk - Professor Richard Causton talks through the piece and the compositional process, accompanied by NEXT ensemble (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group)

Performance of ‘Phoenix’ by Next Ensemble

Performance by CSVPA students exploring intermedial relationships between music and images, stillness and movement, and themes of demise and re-birth. This final performance of ‘Phoenix’ will attempt a Gesamtkunstwerk, a ‘total work of all the Arts’.