Catherine Laws: HANDS ON! event image at School of Arts and Creative Technologies East, Campus East, University of York
University of York Concert Series 2026

Catherine Laws: HANDS ON!

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
School of Arts and Creative Technologies East, Campus East, University of York (YO10 5GB)

About This Event

Hands On is a playful piano performance all about touch: the important nuances of touch, especially for the wonderful resonances of piano music, but also for how playing and listening to music touches us.

I know the air is being touched by the sound, and the sound is touching the palms and the fingers

Devised and performed by pianist Catherine Laws, with theatre maker Teresa Brayshaw and composers Nicholas Brown, Damien Harron, Jenn Kirby, and Lynette Quek. With additional music by Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Sometimes I see her reaching for the place that will interfere,

or the place that will resonate,

or the place that will vibrate.

Eyes closed; hearing through touch.