PERFORMANCES
RITUAL
Ritual is a hybrid theatre work where music, fashion, and dance intertwine, honouring the shared act of knowledge creation across cultures.
Inspired by the timeless passing of wisdom from one generation to the next, the production unfolds as a living process. Real-time sewing, handcrafting, and vocal improvisation emerge before the audience, shaped by multiple languages and extended techniques. The sound world is woven from ritualistic gestures, layered textures, and sustained, resonant drones, inviting listeners into a space of deep attention and transformation.
Languages: Hungarian, Ukrainian, Spanish, English
Artists
Music ensemble:
Ben Finlay - Cello, music director
Ozzy Moysey - double bass, objects
James Mainwaring - Saxophon
Joel Stedman - clarinet
Teruki Chan - percussion
Nika Ticciati - keyboard
Mick Bardon - cello
Singers performers:
Valentina Diaz
Milana Sarukhanyan
Andrea Benahmed Djilali
Dancers:
Ori Zahdlic - choreographer
Astros Davidsdottir
Sasha Gunning
Easter: A Choral Journey
A journey through the Easter story illustrated by Handel, Stainer, Mozart, Palestrina, Lauridsen, Haydn and others
NORMALSTYLE presents
Taupe // free(math)avant(skronk)
Erosion Control // noise-rock-improv
Nika Ticciati Ensemble // impro-heavy-opera-ish-loose-hand-writing-music
STRANGE GATHERING IMPROV JAM NIGHT
It’s free improv jam sessions!
Structure:
1. Bring yourself and your instrument
2. Find Milana and let her know that you want to improvise
3. You are going to be selected randomly in random combinations of musicians for jamming
4. Play for 5-10 min.
Herbie Hopkins live
8pm opening set by Alex Rushfirth
8:45pm Song Set by
Matthew Bourne (harmonium)
Samuel Oteaks (dance)
Milana Sarukhanyan (vocals)
James Mainwaring (sax)
Alex Rushfirth (vocals)
Herbie Hopkins (vocals, guitar)
1in12 Free Improv Monthly Jam Sessions
Free Improv monthly jam sessions launched and lead by Milana Sarukhanyan. We welcome everyone to experience music making with no rules in iconic 1in12 Club in Bradford. Bring your instrument and curiosity to find new sounds and ways to express your ideas.
Every first Wednesday of every month.
Free entry.
Open Source Art Residency: Leeds Improvisers Orchestra
Week of art residency where Leeds Improviser Orchestra explores sound, painting, and theatre in one space.
Chapel FM Goes Global Arts Fair
Special live performance where Milana is going to bead Ukrainian Namysto in real time performing vocal free improvisation. At the end of the performance everybody will have a chance to win the Namysto by participating the raffle.
Messiah Handel
Milana Sarukhanyan is joining Morley Music Society as a soprano soloist for ‘come-and-sing’ Handel’s Messiah conducted by musical director Graham Thorpe.
Untitled Event
Milana Sarukhanyan is joining Bradford Choral as a soprano solo in Gounod’s Missa Solemnis under the button of musical director Ben Finlay
Fleitų 3 & KINK Duo
European Music Collective presents an autumn tour 2024 where they present a Double Bill with Fleitų 3 and KINK Duo. Their final concert will be in Antwerp, Belgium in energetic Klankhaven where their improvisation journey will focus on flutes soundscape and the storytelling revolving around the topics of fetish, desires, and sexuality.
Fleitų 3
Mėta Gabrielė Pelegrimaitė
Salomėja Kalvelytė
Kristupas V. Gikas
KINK Duo
Milana Sarukhanian - story telling, vocals
Christoph Götzen - electric guitar
Fleitų 3 & KINK Duo Double Bill
European Music Collective presents an autumn tour 2024 where they present a Double Bill with Fleitų 3 and KINK Duo. Their first concert will be in Düsseldorf, Germany in iconic Salon des Amateurs where their improvisation journey will focus on flutes soundscape and the storytelling revolving around the topics of fetish, desires, and sexuality.
Fleitų 3
Mėta Gabrielė Pelegrimaitė
Salomėja Kalvelytė
Kristupas V. Gikas
KINK Duo
Milana Sarukhanian - story telling, vocals
Christoph Götzen - electric guitar
Barber of Seville
Ian McMillan adapts this tale of class, marriage, mischief and young love into a sparkling Yorkshire version.
Conductor: Ben Crick
Director: Alex Chisholm
RECITAL WITH JULIAN GALLANT
Solo recital with pianist Julian Gallant, including Mussorgsky’s The Nursery, Walton’s Three Façade Settings, and a selection of songs by Richard Strauss.
RECITAL | HAMPSTEAD MUSIC SOCIETY
Evening recital at Burgh House with Ben Finlay (cello), Kriszina Orvos (pianist), and Barbara Toth (violinist). Programme will include Russian chamber music and a collection of Italian Bel Canto arias.
CARMINA BURANA | HUNTINGDONSHIRE PHILHARMONIC
Milana perform as soprano soloist in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Huntingdonshire Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Michael Karcher-Young.
ROBERTO DEVEREUX | OPERA INTEGRA
Milana will sing the role of Elisabetta in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux with Opera Integra.
Performances: 15, 16, 17, 18 June 2023, 5pm.