Mosaic Seasons presents Music of Our Time at Bechstein Hall

Mosaic Seasons was founded in 2023 by composer Tatiana Svetlova as a classical music festival based in the South of France and Monaco. The festival envisions envisions a creative dialogue between music, poetry, art, and dance, and its Music of Today series focuses on contemporary music. Svetlova is now expanding the reach of the festival to London and on 14 March 2026 Mosaic Seasons presents Music of Our Time at Bechstein Hall. Pianists Edna Stern, Evelyne Berezovsky, and Louis-Victor Bak will perform music by Silvina Milstein, Geoff King, Tatiana Svetlova, Edna Stern, and George Benjamin.

The programme opens with a pairing of Silvina Milstein’s Piano Phantasy after Mozart K. 475 and Mozart’s Fantasia No. 4 in C minor, K. 475. Milstein’s piece transforms Mozart’s Fantasia into a rhapsodic exploration of tonality. Geoff King's David in Hastings is the third movement of his suite family photos which was written as a companion to Schumann's Carnaval.

Audiences will hear two works by Tatiana Svetlova that blend playfulness with reflective depth. Sonnets No. 4 and 5 on the Theme of Bach’s Chaconne represents her own reflections on Bach's chaconne. Madonna and Child (for Gaudi’s La Pedrera) is a meditative homage to the architect Antoni Gaudi, who wanted to create the sculpture of Madonna and Child on the roof of La Pedrera in Barcelona, but the developer refused this plan. 

Edna Stern will perform three of her own compositions: Prelude without a C/do, Etude “La disparition d’après Perec” without E/mi, and Kidnapped: 7.X.2023. These pieces are inspired by Georges Perec’s novel La Disparition (a novel written without the letter E) and his poems that systematically suppress a letter. They explore this systematic absence through musical language. 

The evening concludes with George Benjamin's Shadowlines, sequence of six canonic preludes written for Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Full details from Bechstein Hall website.