Description
Black Sun is a four movement work for trombone quartet inspired by artistic representations of the Sun: Olafur Elliasson's The Weather Project - a blazing light project that filled the Tate's Turbine Hall in 2003; Monet's Impression, Sunrise - with it's pure orange sun playfully glistening over a boat filled body of water; Turner's Sun Setting Over a Lake - a vivid, red sunset set against hazy and impressionistic landscape; and Damien Hurst's Black Sun - a dark black disk covered in thousands of dead flies. Described as 'boldly imaginative' [the Times], 'a talent to watch' [New York Times] and 'one of the most interesting voices of his generation' [Limelight], Gavin Higgins is one of Britain's most exciting and gifted compositional talents.