Coming up for Air in Malta

Creative workshop with flutist Kathryn Williams

Ahead of her performance at the Three Palaces Festival on 30 October, flutist Kathryn Williams brings her internationally acclaimed project Coming Up for Air to Malta for the first time. Described as “ingeniously inventive” (Tempo) and “strangely fascinating” (BBC Music Magazine), the project examines and redefines the role of breath in performance.

Initiated in 2017 as a personal response to chronic respiratory illness, Coming Up for Air invites composers to create works limited to a single breath. The collection has now grown to more than 150 pieces, spanning playful, poetic, and theatrical explorations that highlight the body’s physical limits while celebrating breath as music’s life force.

In this interactive session, audience members are invited to attend and observe Williams who will share insight, from her creative practice, as well as perform selected single-breath works -  including submissions from University of Malta students, and reflect on how limitation can spark artistic possibility. While this workshop is exclusive to University of Malta students, audience attendees have a chance to witness workshopping students exploring breath as sound, gesture, and performance, connecting their own embodied experiences to music-making. This session offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with an evolving international project, while discovering practical tools for performers, composers, and listeners to rethink how we breathe, play, and listen.

The session will take place on 29 October, 10.00 - 12.00 in OH127, University of Malta, Msida Campus.  Register here to observe the session. Discover more about Kathryn Williams by clicking here: http://www.kathryngwilliams.com/coming-up-for-air.html