PRXLUDES is incredibly excited to present DANCE SUITE, a new work by composer Alex Groves and performed by Zubin Kanga, at the 2025 New Music Biennial, supported by the PRS Foundation and Cyborg Soloists.
PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial is a critically acclaimed free festival presenting 20 pieces of new music across two festival weekends, at Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture (6th-8th June 2025) and London’s Southbank Centre (4th-6th July 2025), broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and available for download from NMC Recordings.
PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial is generously supported by Southbank Centre, Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, BBC Radio 3, Arts Council England and NMC Recordings.
Alex Groves’ DANCE SUITE was commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London.
“I can’t wait to bring DANCE SUITE to audiences in Bradford and London with PRXLUDES and Zubin. They’re both doing such fantastic work to champion new music and composers so it’s great to be collaborating with them as part of NMB.”
~ Alex Groves
Tickets for DANCE SUITE at New Music Biennial are currently available – get them here:
–
A set of Baroque dances for the 21st-century – DANCE SUITE channels the sounds of the contemporary dancefloor into four vivid and punchy tracks.
Created by composer Alex Groves and performed by pianist, composer and technologist Zubin Kanga, DANCE SUITE presents as a collection of hyper-pop songs full of kick drums, synths and snares based on the age-old format of the Baroque suite, bringing together classical virtuosity, queer culture, and novel technologies. Performed on the ROLI Seaboard, DANCE SUITE explores the messy tangle of emotions found on the dancefloor at 2am; with each movement having a little nod back to the Baroque form that inspired it.
Alex Groves is an Ivor Novello-nominated composer and curator working across contemporary classical and electronic music. Described as ‘hypnotic’, ‘grungy’ and ‘energising’, his music tickles the mind and the body, sometimes with expansive sonic landscapes and other times with pounding rhythms and infectious hooks.
Zubin Kanga is a pianist, composer, and technologist. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of curating and creating interdisciplinary musical programmes that seek to explore and redefine what it means to be a performer through interactions with new technologies. Since 2020, he has been leading Cyborg Soloists, a major music-technology research project supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London, which is unlocking new possibilities in the interaction of live musicians and AI, interactive visuals, biosensors, and new hybrid instruments. He has premiered over 150 works and performed as soloist at many international festivals including hcmf//, Modulus Festival (Canada), Time of Music Festival (Finland), Gaudeamus Festival (Netherlands) and Paris Autumn Festival (France).
PRXLUDES is a contemporary music magazine, resource, and organisation dedicated to the promotion and celebration of the work of emerging composers. Spearheaded by UK-based composers Zygmund de Somogyi and Patrick Ellis, PRXLUDES specialises in in-depth coverage of composers, ensembles, and organisations promoting the work of emerging artists; since their founding in 2020, PRXLUDES has interviewed over 100 composers from the UK and around the world, and collaborated with leading music organisations on features and events.
PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial is generously supported by Southbank Centre, Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, BBC Radio 3, Arts Council England and NMC Recordings.
Alex Groves’ DANCE SUITE was commissioned by Zubin Kanga as part of Cyborg Soloists, supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and Royal Holloway, University of London.
