As part of a day of poetry specially curated for the Deal Festival, poet Jacob Sam-La Rose and violist Fiona Winning perform an hour of words and music. Performance poetry from Jacob will mix with music by Fiona featuring amongst other works, Three Phase Stanzas.

Commissioned by violist Fiona Winning for a premiere at Berwick Music in October 2022, this work uses recorded viola material to create an electronic pallet of sustained ambient sounds, sporadic pizzicato, long flowing melodies and unpitched sonorities. Over the top of this the viola presents three stanzas. Melodies that take the listener through different modes of expression and restfulness.

Scottish violist Fiona Winning was until 2014 Principal Viola of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and before that the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. During her years in London, she was a regular guest principal of the Philharmonia and London Philharmonic Orchestras, including four seasons at Glyndebourne Opera. She is also a regular guest principal viola of the Aurora Orchestra, London Sinfonietta and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. For seven years she was a member of the Scottish Ensemble with whom she performed at the Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms, and at the Edinburgh International, Aldeburgh and City of London Festivals, and broadcast regularly on Radio 3. Fiona plays on an Antonio Gragnani viola from 1780 for which she gratefully acknowledges support from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Loan Fund for Musical Instruments.