Poppy Ackroyd

Poppy Ackroyd plays the Pianodrome Bruntsfield Community Hub on Saturday 27 February, bringing her piano compositions to the venue in Edinburgh Old Town. It's a solo bill, so the evening is built around her work rather than a shared line-up.

Ackroyd is an acclaimed composer known for inventive, beautifully textured piano compositions. That's the core of what she does: writing for the piano in a way that builds layers and detail, and that's exactly what she'll be performing here. The Pianodrome is a dedicated piano space, so it's a fitting spot for a night that puts the instrument right at the centre.

If you're not already familiar with her, she works with the piano as a textured thing rather than just a melodic one. The description of her work as "inventive" and "beautifully textured" points to that — music that's as much about the sound and the feel of the playing as it is about the tunes themselves. It's the kind of thing that works well in a room where you can actually hear the instrument, and the Pianodrome is built for exactly that.

It's a single-performer night, so the whole set is her own. The performance is on Saturday 27 February at the Pianodrome Bruntsfield Community Hub in Edinburgh Old Town.