Silver Chamber is a project designed to explore the intersection between progressive metal and classical chamber music, initiated by composer/guitarist Stephen J Brown as a vessel for his genre-subversive methodology for music creation
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To deliver the music through recording and performance, Brown also serves as musical director for a ‘chamber’ of a strings quintet, grand piano, and harp, whilst performing as lead guitarist within a rhythm section of three electric guitars, bass, and drums. This unique instrumentation, supported by electronic production, combines to create a soundscape to match the scale of a symphony orchestra whilst capturing the intimate articulations of the individual performances - resulting in music as precise as it is cinematic
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Silver Chamber’s core purpose is to break new ground for metal music, subverting preconceived ideas of the genre, making it inclusive to new audiences, and creating a stimulating new context for the classical tradition to be carried forward into. As a realisation of this, Silver Chamber delivered its inaugural performance in February at the Royal Northern College of Music’s concert hall to an acclaimed reception as the first metal project ever to be held in the prestigious space
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Conductor - Eden Saunders
Violin I - Gráinne White
Violin II - Hannah De Bordes
Viola - Sophie Combes
Cello - Ruaraidh Williams
Double Bass - Joana Izabelle/Thomas Judge
Harp - Holly Alice Morton
Piano - Letizia Palmieri
Electric Guitar - Adam Burlington
Electric Guitar - Andrew Slaven
Bass Guitar - Mimi Sheikh
Drums - Mathieu Lacour
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Silver Chamber is driven by a lifelong affinity for metal and a reverence for the virtuosity of the classical tradition. Yet its core purpose extends beyond the music alone, to redefine how that music is delivered and with whom it can connect. For every barrier that inhibits people's access to these genres, there is an element of Silver Chamber designed to subvert it
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