Stewart Copeland & Arash Safai

**In this Platoon Presents at Kings Place event taking place on Earth Day, renowned composers Stewart Copeland and Arash Safaian discuss their recent compositional projects, brought together by their love of Nature.**

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After rising to international stardom as the drummer of The Police, Stewart Copeland largely rejected his pop music past to pursue a career as a composer, authoring a prolific series of film scores, operas, and ballets. Arash Safaian’s compositional output has graced the stages of Munich Opera Biennale, Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, Tonhalle Zurich, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Philharmonie Berlin with recordings in the German classical Charts and the US Billboards, while topping the iTunes charts in several countries, as well as being named an ‘Album we loved in 2020’ by Apple Music. Safaian’s *Birdsongs* project, which he will discuss, will be released later in 2025.

Stewart Copeland’s Wild Concerto combines sounds from the natural world – captured as field recordings by Martyn Stewart – with their more traditional orchestral counterparts to create an engaging and distinctive sound world where Nature is the soloist. Rather than musically evoke the characteristics of the wildlife, Copeland allows their own songs and sounds to speak for themselves; none of the recordings are altered.

***This event will last approximately 75 minutes, without an interval.***

Presented by Kings Place.

This is a 14+ event.