Leila Josefowicz appears as a 2025 Featured Artist at the Aldeburgh Festival, performing in two major concerts that underline her fearless commitment to contemporary music and dynamic collaboration.

On 21 June, Josefowicz joins BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sakari Oramo for a performance of Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto — a vivid, searching work which Josefowicz has premiered in several countries. The concert opens with Daniel Kidane’s Awake, a vibrant orchestral piece full of rhythmic energy, and concludes with two late-Romantic masterpieces by Richard Strauss; Death and Transfiguration and Four Last Songs, the latter sung by soprano Anu Komsi.

Josefowicz returns to Snape Maltings Concert Hall on Wednesday 25 June for an intimate chamber recital with acclaimed siblings Huw Watkins (piano) and Paul Watkins (cello). The programme spans Barber’s lyrical Cello Sonata, Helen Grime’s atmospheric Harp of the North, and Stravinsky’s spirited Divertimento. At the heart of the concert is the world premiere of Colin Matthews’ Paraphrases – a work written for Josefowicz, followed by the searing intensity of Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No.2.