Composer and artist Dr Claudia Molitor, of the University of Kent’s School of Music and Fine Art, will see her latest work premiered at the Spitalfields Winter Music Festival 2014.

                               Vast White Stillness

Titled Vast White Stillness, the words from a line in a poem by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the work is part installation, part live performance. It will take place at the Toynbee studios (Commercial Street, E1 6AB) on Saturday 13 December and Sunday 14 December 2014.

Created in collaboration with director Dan Ayling, Vast White Stillness explores stillness, memory and ‘heimweh’, a sense of hovering between happiness and sadness.

Dr Molitor, who is a lecturer in Music and Audio Arts, is a composer and sound artist whose work draws on the traditions of contemporary music but extends to video, performance and fine art practice.

Vast White Stillness follows collaborative work by Claudia Molitor and Dan Aylgin called Remember Me: A Desk Opera, which was showcased at the Spitalfields Winter Festival in 2013.

The installation is supported by Ambache Charitable Trust and Arts Council England.

For more information, or to book tickets, visit: http://www.spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/whats-on/winter-festival-2014/vast-white-stillness/

To hear an interview about Molitor’s work visit The BBC Composers’ Rooms 16: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b0rgh