Grounding Practice: Ellen Arkbro

Book tickets

Tue 01 Apr 2025

18.45 - 21.00

£10 / £8 concessions

Tickets available on the door

River Rooms

New Wing

Part of Somerset House Studios

Composer and musician Ellen Arkbro invites audiences for an evening of shared listening.

During a period of research and composition whilst in residence at Somerset House Studios, Ellen presents a collection of music that has influenced her practice, sharing insight into process and approaches to listening.

In January 2025, Arkbro embarked on a three-month international residency supporting the development of new work commissioned in collaboration with Goethe-Institut London and CTM Festival, to be presented at both Somerset House Studios' Assembly, a bi-annual series of experimental music and performance, and CTM Festival in 2026.

About Ellen Arkbro

Ellen Arkbro is a composer and musician from Stockholm working with slow harmonies and finely tuned sonic textures. Her work includes compositions for acoustic instruments and synthetic sound. In all of her work, Arkbro focuses on the qualities of harmonic sound that reveal listening as an active process of creative participation. She has studied with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in New York and with Marc Sabat in Berlin. Ellen has also worked with Catherine Christer Hennix and is a member of Hennix's Kamigaku ensemble. She has released three solo albums: For organ and brass (2017), CHORDS (2019) and Sounds while waiting (2023) and is about to release her fourth album Nightclouds (2024) on Blank Forms Editions.

With thanks to the Garfield Weston Foundation