The Third Orchestra

Our Spring Season started with two wonderful concerts of The Healing Circle at The Brunei Gallery at SOAS University of London, and at Bush House, King's College London for the annual conference of The British Forum of Ethnomusicology. How special to play in the theatre at Bush House where for 100 years, the BBC World Service has broadcast to the globe with the motto- Nation shall speak peace unto nation. 

Along with members of the Third Orchestra Peter has taken part in creating music for a Kings College project recording for interactive spacial audio experience. KCL's Zoran Cvetkovic, Professor of Signal Processing and the amazing MagicBean immersive recording aid specialists, this promises to be an exiting departure into the world of sound technology. 

The Spring Season continued at our home Club Inégales with young cross-genre post-graduate performers and composers from across London joining us to create further iterations of our season's The Healing Circle project. 

Pangea performed with members of The Third Orchestra on 23rd April and with Riot Ensemble on 30th April. On 14th May, they performed with young Arabic Jazz ensemble Jam al-Jazz. 

Following the The British Forum for Ethnomusicology performance Dr.Razia Sultanova, Central-Asian specialist at Cambridge University wrote this very touching review:

The Healing Circle transcended the boundaries of concert performance. It became a mirror held up to a world marked by political turbulence, cultural dislocation, and the erosion of collective certainties. The voices—at times fragile, at times urgent—seemed to ask a quiet but insistent question: where are we heading

This was not merely an impressive work of experimental music, but a profoundly जागृत (awakening) experience—one that left its scholarly audience not comforted, but stirred, unsettled, and acutely aware.

Dr. Razia Sultanova, 11th April 2026