SECOND GLANCE

The second performance festival!

There is life beyond the premiere!

So much new music never gets beyond its first performance. In 2006 Mark Troop started Second Glance to address this problem, to the delight of composers and publishers all over the UK.

Second Glance promotes Second Performances pure and simple. Wherever we can we will perform new works that have been neglected for whatever reason, without compromise or affiliation.

Turning premieres into repertoire is the ethos of the festival, and we want as many performers as possible to be in on the fun. To that end we have run the festival twice in London and taken it twice to South Africa, where we exchanged music and ideas with South African composers and players at the New Music Indaba.

Through Second Glance we have a working festival that can showcase new music in the best light possible – and it has rapidly become a wonderful snapshot of the contemporary British musical scene in all its glory and inventiveness.