Date: January 30, 2026
Categories: British Composers, Concerts, Experimental, New Work, Women musicians
Tags: finnissy, mad song, mazzoli, muhly, o'reilly theatre, reich

Friday 30th January 2026, 5:30 PM O’Reilly Theatre, Keble College, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3PG.

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Programme
Michael Finnissy – Banumbirr
Kai Kubota-Enright – spatial communication of dripstone
Missy Mazzoli – Still Life with Avalanche
~ Interval ~
Nico Muhly – Doublespeak
Isabella Gellis – And Other Things
Steve Reich – Double Sextet

Performers
Mad Song

Programme Note
Mad Song explore repetition in a wide-ranging programme culminating in Steve Reich’s iconic Double Sextet.

Join Mad Song at Keble’s O’Reilly Theatre for an early-evening concert exploring repetition in the music of six living composers. The varied programme presents the wide range of contemporary aesthetic styles, spanning Finnissy’s (b. 1946) modernist Banumbirr to Steve Reich’s (b. 1936) iconic Double Sextet.

The influence of Reich’s pioneering minimalism makes itself felt strongly in the work of Mazzoli (b. 1980) and Muhly (b. 1981). Meanwhile, the programme is completed with recent works from two younger voices: Kai Kubota-Enright (b. 2000) and Isabella Gellis (b. 1997).