Friday 20 March 2026, 7.30pm
Doors are at 7:30pm and music will start from 8pm
Lucy Humphris | trumpet
Jennifer Torrence | percussion
eavesdropping returns to Cafe OTO for another four-day festival, curated by Juliet Fraser, which includes four evening double-bill events and a weekend-long forum of provocations up the road at Vortex Jazz Club. We hope to stimulate your ears and your imagination by presenting new work by eight artists working at the experimental fringes of a variety of genres. The programming within each set is artist-led: repertoire is only announced on the night.
eavesdropping
eavesdropping is a platform for the sharing of new music and new ways of thinking about music. Founded by soprano Juliet Fraser in 2017, our activity includes a festival, a forum, a podcast, outpost events around the UK and artist development opportunities. Our mission is to build community through an ethics of curiosity and care, in the belief that ripples do make waves.
https://www.eavesdropping.london
eavesdropping is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Network Partner supported by PPL. eavesdropping gratefully acknowledges the generous support of Arts Council England's National Lottery Project Grants & the eavesdropping consortium patrons.
LUCY HUMPHRIS is a British trumpeter, working as a soloist and chamber musician who specialises in performing contemporary music. A regular guest of Ensemble Musikfabrik and The Monochrome Project, she has a passion for pushing boundaries as an instrumentalist and for working closely with composers. In 2023 she released her debut album Obscurus, with pianist Harry Rylance, exploring themes of obscurity and the hidden. She is an ever-curious musician, and has collaborated with artists and musicians across genres, from folk to electronic music, and in all sorts of venues—from some of Europe’s greatest concert halls to Orcadian ruins and Napoleonic spiral staircases.
https://www.lucyhumphris.com/
JENNIFER TORRENCE is an Oslo-based percussionist/performer working internationally as a soloist, chamber musician, collaborative artist, improviser, composer, and artistic researcher. She is a member of Pinquins and Associate Professor of Percussion at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH). From 2026-2030 she is also a post-doctoral researcher at NMH with the project "Of the Collective".
https://www.jennifertorrence.com/
