Septura, now celebrating their 10th anniversary, comprises some of the finest brass players of their generation. Their creation – the brass septet – is uniquely vibrant and versatile, and aims to harness its intense emotional power to produce transformative musical experiences for audiences.

The fate of brass chamber music mirrors that of the female composers of the past – marginalised, neglected, ignored for centuries, and only now coming to the fore. Tonight’s concert places the music of two female composers, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Clara Schumann, alongside that of their historically more celebrated male contemporaries. They also include baroque music inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses and romantic music originally for the keyboard, imagining a world in which these men and women had written for brass.