Psappha

Who we are

Psappha is Manchester's new music ensemble and one of the UK's top contemporary music groups. Formed in 1991 by its Artistic Director Tim Williams, it specialises in the performance of music by living composers and music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Psappha is looking for partners for its outreach programme. 'Composition Lab', an online resource (with more than 100 films) designed to accompany the composition element of GCSE and A-level music. Psappha is continually seeking to develop new audiences, breaking fresh ground in its innovative development of the digital dissemination of its work, through free-to-view films of live performances on its website. The Space Project - Psappha has received support to take Peter Maxwell Davies’s iconic work, Eight Songs for a Mad King from the concert hall to a virtual environment using the latest gaming technology. The project will be implemented as a 3D virtual world, accessible online as a browser-based application for computers and mobile devices. Psappha will work with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and the University of Salford in the development and implementation of the project. See www.thespace.org - September 2013