An examination of the challenge that the broken contract between audience and musician has left to those of us who present new music in the aftermath. Is it possible to re-engage an audience that has invested its ownership elsewhere?

Piers Hellawell is a composer, writer and photographer. He is Professor of Composition at Queen's University in Belfast and was the Gresham Professor of Music between 2000 and 2003. His work has been performed at the Henry Wood Promenade concerts and by the Vanbrugh quartet, Stockholm Chamber Brass and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He was awarded a Leverhulme fellowship in 2010.
All of Piers Hellawell's previous lectures may be accessed here.
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