Sarah Small and her viola da gamba on tour 2025

Sarah playing in a Viking longhouse on Unst 2025

Sarah crossing Gortel Heath on her Lubeck trip, NL

Sunday 25^th October 2026

3.00 pm

Runtime: 120 minutes

Colyer-Fergusson Hall

The Gulbenkian Arts Centre

University of Kent

“Sarah Small”

Viola da gamba

Sarah is a freelance viola da gamba player and has performed with ensembles across the UK and Europe including Fretwork, Charivari Agréable and her own ensemble Hex as well as performing in such venues as The Globe Theatre, St. Mark’s Basilica and Buckingham Palace.

Recent projects include “Good Again?”, a self-supported concert tour by bicycle around the UK over 10 weeks and 4500km in 2025, drawing attention to our unsustainable touring practices and the role of musicians during a time of multiple crises.

In the summer of 2026 Sarah is travelling by bike with her viol through Europe, busy writing and composing. Her pieces in Canterbury will include ‘A Response’ and the collection she is working on at the moment, ‘Lachrimae for the Land’. Others will include: Tobias Hume ‘Death, Life, Good Againe’; and Johannes Schenck Sonata no.6 from ‘L’echo du Danube’.

Sarah's detailed programme and notes will be available before her concert, while tickets are available now through the Link to the Gulbenkian Box Office below. Visit her website HERE to follow her journeys. Sarah may arrive in Canterbury on her bicycle…..

Programme 

Programme Notes

Tickets from

Gulbenkian Box Office

Full: £23.50

Students & Under 25s: FREE

(Booking fee of £1.50 per ticket

waived for Gulbenkian Members)

(£1.25 before 1^stAugust)