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Ilan Volkov presents an ear-opening smorgasbord of orchestral music exploring themes including space, nature, resilience, innovation and humour. The world premiere of Sylvia Lim's composition draws inspiration from the quiet strength of moss and the Japanese art of Kintsugi (mending broken pottery with gold), offering a meditation on healing and renewal. Eleanor Cully Boehringer’s world premiere weaves poetic text, fragments of song and imagined sound, turning small details into expansive musical gestures. Argentine composer Hilda Dianda (born 100 years ago this April) explores playful avant-garde textures, while ‘Luminance’ by Canadian composer Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux contrasts live instruments with electronic timbres to create illuminating soundscapes. In her orchestral version of ‘The Northern Shore’, fellow countrywomen Barbara Monk Feldman evokes the landscape and atmosphere of the northern shores of Canada – a reflection on its vast and desolate beauty.