Free jazz, intimate electronics and new music at St Margaret's Church.

Stockholm piano trio SPACE make their Eroteme debut, bringing together Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman and Anna Lund in a music that moves between free jazz, improvisation and contemporary classical music. They arrive with their new LP London Concert, released this year by Fönstret and available on the night.

Michiko Ogawa returns to Eroteme following her 2023 performance with Lucy Railton. Her 2025 solo album Pancake Moon brings together piano, organ, synthesizer and shō in two expansive pieces where acoustic, electronic and environmental sounds unfold with remarkable intimacy.

🎟️ Tickets

£15 advance / £18 on the door

Limited capacity — advance booking recommended.

SPACE TRIO

SPACE is a piano trio from Stockholm playing free jazz that channels the American free jazz tradition and contemporary classical music. Combining raw power with an exquisite attention to detail, the three musicians make every moment sparkle with possibilities. In this aural space, every movement matters.

SPACE released their debut album Space in 2022, followed by Embrace the Space on Relative Pitch in 2024. Their new LP, London Concert, recorded live at Cafe OTO and released by Fönstret in 2026, will be available on the night.

“The release of energy is hair-raising as three voices collide in free jazz maelstrom. Utterly brilliant… Space is fast becoming one of the most daring piano trios on today’s scene.”

— Free Jazz Collective

📎 More info: spacetrio.se

Lisa Ullén — piano

A native of Seoul, Korea, Lisa Ullén grew up in the northern part of Sweden, and is based in Stockholm.

She is a graduate of the Royal Musical Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, where she studied classical piano in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since the late 1990s, she has devoted herself entirely to improvised music, in the form of free jazz as well as avant garde and contemporary classical and experimental music. A versatile player with a singular musical vision, Ullén has repeatedly proven her ability to imprint her absolute sense for tonal texture on whatever musical context she appears in.

📎 More info: lisaullen.com

Anna Lund — drums

Anna Lund is one of Sweden's most in-demand drummers, working across free jazz and improvisation and wide-ranging pop constellations including Ane Brun and Frida Hyvönen and has made music for Sweden's preminent theatres including Stadsteatern and Dramaten.

Elsa Bergman — double bass

Elsa Bergman studied double bass in Trondheim, Norway, at Sund Folkehøgskole and later at the Jazz Department of the Norwegian Academy of Music. Since then she has worked in various free jazz and improvisation groups.

She released her debut solo album 'A' in 2021.

Michiko O 小川 道子

Michiko Ogawa is a performer-composer born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.

She is a member of several musical groups, including Berlin’s Harmonic Space Orchestra, and has worked with Lucy Railton, Manuel Pessoa de Lima, James Rushford, Sam Dunscombe, Ellen Arkbro, Tashi Wada and others.

Her second solo album, Pancake Moon, was released by Futura Resistenza in 2025. Across two extended pieces, Ogawa works with piano, organ, synthesizer and shō, bringing acoustic and electronic sound into intimate dialogue with environmental recordings.

She studied at Toho-Gakuen School of Music and Musikhochschule Freiburg before completing her doctorate at the University of California, San Diego in 2019, where her research focused on the film music of Teiji Ito. She is currently writing a biography of Ito.

📎 More info: michikoogawa.com

EROTEME

Home of the Uncategorizable. Eroteme is a Manchester concert series championing experimental music from the hinterlands.