Meet @ the Market opens its 2026 season with a trip through myth, magic and the cosmos. At its heart is Gustav Holst’s The Planets, one of the most exhilarating orchestral experiences ever written. From peaceful glow of ‘Venus’, to the uplifting joy and nostalgia of ‘Jupiter’: hearing it live is a full-body experience with surround-sound intensity, colours that seem to glow, and a chorus that drifts into infinity.

Balancing this is a gem by Holst’s daughter, Imogen. Written in the middle of World War II, her Suite for Strings brims with folk-like melodies, lively rhythms and surprising tenderness.

To shake things up, New Zealand’s John Psathas gives us a hit of adrenaline with Djinn, a concerto for marimba that fuses jazz-like grooves and global rhythms with his own fantasy-inspired sound world.

It’s a night where past and present collide: myth meets groove, father and daughter share a stage, and the orchestra opens up galaxies of sound.