7pm
Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, Marylebone, London, NW8 8EH
‘Mezzaterra’, a song cycle of eight songs based on themes of culture and identity, was written in 2021 by Camille Maalawy and Mark Slater to explore Camille’s British-Egyptian heritage. Responding to sources from pharaonic hieroglyphs through to contemporary poetry via European art music and music for religious rituals, the result is a 30-minute piece fusing Arabic and European musical styles, both notated and improvisatory. The piece examines concepts of travel, wandering, being an outsider, a foreigner – issues that are as powerful and relevant today as they were in pharaonic times.