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Over the last season the Ensemble has given several performances of Joe Cutler's lively and witty piano quartet Slippery Music, which received its premiere at the 2010 Cheltenham Festival and was subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In May the Ensemble premiered Unisono: Homage to the Bach Family for violin, viola, cello, double bass and piano by Pavel Zemek Novák at the Newbury Spring Festival. This short work consists of five short pieces based on works by J S Bach and four of his sons, and was conceived as a companion piece to the five Bach Chorales beautifully arranged for the Ensemble by John Woolrich in 2000.In June 2012 the Ensemble will premiere a new Piano Quartet by Huw Watkins at the Spitalfields Festival in London. This will be followed by two commissions for the Ensemble's 30th Anniversary in 2013. A Piano Quartet by Edward Rushton will have its first performance at Kings Place, London in March 2013 and a Piano Trio by Colin Matthews will be premiered at the Cheltenham Festival in July 2013.