This Saturday we invite you to listen in to three intimate solo performances. These shared moments will appear on the surface to be simply using instruments we are familiar with such as the piano, guitar and clarinet. Yet in the hands and hearts of our performers (from across genres and the globe), we promise the music will transcend, transform and thrill us within the space.
Saori Miraku is a pianist-composer, improviser and performer based in London. Her music is an invitation to transcend, to reach beyond the everyday world and into a place of stories, memories, imagination, dreams and transformation.
When she performs, she expresses her personal experience of being, but in doing so invites her audience to follow her on that journey. it is her wish that they visit their own heart space, where they can experience the beauty and magic of conversing with their true selves. Saori released her piano solo album “Many Times on Earth” in December 2023
Yukiko Matsukura studied visual and performing arts at Kyoto University of Art and Design. Whilst performing in Jean Cocteau's one woman play "Voice" as a graduation project, she was asked to compose a song for the play. This made her realise that her future was in singing.
She began collaborating with composer, guitarist and pianist Masaru Watanabe, a member of Hachimitsu Pie - one of the pioneers of Japanese rock. With both voice-only works and accompanying herself on a guitar and piano she channels the inner impulses that bought her to sing in the first place - her new album is due in 2026.
Michelle Hromin is a Croatian-American multidisciplinary artist, specializing in contemporary and experimental clarinet performance and writing. An advocate for new and experimental music. As a performer she has toured across the world and worked with some of the leading new music ensembles.
Michelle made her solo debut at Cafe Oto in January 2024. With a recent performance project Kalendar: 12 Miniatures for 2021 brought awareness to her Croatian heritage through improv-based clarinet works informed by the months of the Slavic calendar. She is currently working on her solo album, Present Tense, of works for clarinets and pedals, due to be released in 2026. the everyday touching on the avant-garde, dreaming with instrument and voices and ideas very much in the now.
Musical moments born from drawing inspiration from across genres and the globe. As usual this bespoke and curious curation is something you won’t experience the same way anywhere else!
Arctic Circle's Daylight Music has, for over sixteen years, become an important part of London’s live music scene, with a weird and wonderful mix of musicians presenting ideas and storytelling in music and sound, alongside delicious cake, in some of the most splendid and iconic venues.
Further event details: Cafe open. An event for all ages. Pay-What-You-Can entry in advance or on the door (£12 per adult suggestion, children free), subject to availability/capacity.