PIA by Katya Bourvis with Tala Lee-Turton & Hannah Peel

A seventeen-piece brass band performs Peel’s critically acclaimed record Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia, exploring the ephemeral nature of human existence, memory and imagination.

Blurring the boundaries between time and space, we meet Barnsley woman, Pia, across three generations of her life, as her mind journeys between the closed collieries of her hometown and increasingly vivid dreams of space travel.








Part of Concert Theatre.

PIA is commissioned by the Barbican and Barnsley Civic.

The work is supported by Arts Council England, the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.

Barbican Classical Music Programme receives major support from Marcus Margulies and additional support In Memory of John Murray.

Generously supported by Trevor Fenwick and Jane Hindley.