Festive Opening Hours – St George’s will be closed to the public from Christmas Eve (Tue 24 Dec) to Sun 12 Jan 2025 inclusive. We will reopen as normal from Monday 13 January 2025.

Box Office phone lines will open Wed 8 Jan – Fri 10 Jan (counter service resumes Wed 15 Jan).

Season’s Greetings from all at St George’s Bristol!

Skip to main content

(Doors 8.15pm | Show begins 8.45pm)

Sarah Davachi

This event has passed.

Book tickets here

Tickets can also be bought in person from our Box Office directly before the event.

A rare UK performance for LA-based Canadian composer and mult-instrumentalist Sarah Davachi, whose signature slow-burning explorations of timbral and temporal space, utilising extended durations and considered harmonic structures, tonight take the form of an exclusive performance for piano and electronics.

Sarah Davachi is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, creating works both contemplative and beatific, eerie yet essentially human. Her projects are primarily concerned with disclosing the delicate psychoacoustics of intimate aural spaces, utilizing extended durations and simple harmonic structures that emphasize subtle variations in overtone complexity, temperament and intonation, and natural resonances. The instrumentation she employs is varied, including analog synthesizers, piano, electric organ, pipe and reed organ, voice, tape-replay samplers, orchestral strings, and woodwinds, with mutual idioms often layered in textural and timbral counterpoint. Ever prolific, Sarah’s most notable recent release is 2020’s ‘Cantus, Descant’, a double album meditation on impermanence and endings, framed by minimalistic organ études and careful harmonic layering. 

More from Bristol New Music