Hatch launched in February 2025 and is a new project co-founded by Hannah Cooke & Suzie Purkis.

Hatch is a space for professional singers of contemporary music to share, workshop or perform new work* in a supportive, low-key environment with the opportunity for peer-to-peer feedback.  Bring us your ideas, your dreams and wonderings, your half-mixed potions, your beautiful creations. Come here to re-wild your singing. To be listened to, supported and encouraged by fellow explorers, adventurers, and alchemists.

Each singer will have the room for as long as needed (up to ca 35 minutes) to workshop, receive feedback or perform. Bring what you want to bring and present it as you wish - this is your space to use as best suits your needs. It absolutely does not need to be ‘performance ready’, this is a rare chance to try things out in front of a completely non-judgemental audience, any one of whom could be singing on another day. We’ll typically have a chat about what will be most useful to you before you sing to make sure you’re getting what you need from our time together.

Hatch is also a social space for professional contemporary singers and composers to meet and network, discover new repertoire and performance practices, and to join a community of the curious. We plan to run Hatch every 2-3 months and envisage people attending as regularly as possible, sometimes as performers, sometimes as listeners, providing a supportive audience and offering peer feedback as appropriate.

Next session:

Wednesday 3rd September 2025

Doors 5.30pm, Experiments 6-9pm, Social 9pm onwards

Location: St Pancras Clock Tower, London, NW1 2AR

Apply by Friday 22nd August to hatchexperiments@gmail.com and please tell us a little about your practice. If applying as a performer, please state what you hope to bring to the session (don’t worry, there will be flexibility with this!) *We will define ‘new’ work as anything written since 1958. We aim to notify by 27th August whether we have space for you as a performer this time, or whether we’d like to keep your proposal for a future Hatch session.