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Premiere of the Month: Josephine Stephenson’s new work featuring Nicolas Altstaedt

2025-11-14T10:03:00

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A work that takes on the topic of climate change

In her work Fire, river, garden for cello and choir, British–French composer Josephine Stephenson tackles the subject of climate change. Writer Ben Osborn created the work’s libretto, which takes the form of a dialogue between humans and the Earth. ‘Ben and I reflected on the fact that humans have been on Earth so briefly in terms of geological time, yet have had such a huge impact on it,’ says Stephenson…

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