Ubuntu Ensemble at Wigmore Hall 2026

GRANT MCLACHLAN, JAN-HENDRIK HARLEY, MOKALE KOAPENG AND MORE

DATE

27 Jun 2026, 7.30pm

ARISTS

Leon Bosch DOUBLE BASS, CONDUCTOR
Ubuntu Ensemble

OVERVIEW

Freedom Songs: A day of concerts dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising

An evening of orchestral music by South African composers highlighting Shane Woodborne’s Red Ink concerto for double bass and string orchestra (2019). Commissioned by the Matseer Diabelli Sommer festival Red Ink is dedicated to the bassist Leon Bosch and serves as a musical memorial to the Soweto Uprising of 1976 in South Africa, an event that marked a turning point in the fight against apartheid but which came at a devastating human cost.

With an introduction by Eugene Skeef, composer, poet and activist.