This autumn, Liberty Festival 2025 brings a celebration of disabled artistry to Wandsworth as a highlight of the London Borough of Culture Year.

About The Show

In Hexagram, Adrian Lee curates, composes, commissions, and performs exciting new repertoire for solo electric guitar. Adrian Lee lost his sight mid-career; he is a musician and composer who specialises in music for theater, TV, film, and VR and had established a strong foundation in classical music before his sight loss.

Almost 100 years since the invention of the electric guitar, Hexagram draws on this rich cultural heritage and opens up areas of new potential, including performing in spaces with beautiful, reverberant acoustics which reveal yet more of the instrument’s rich character. Hexagram presents a range of repertoire including classical, contemporary and outright experimental.  We hear different perspectives – from the quiet intimacy of the unprocessed instrument to extended 3D soundscapes using multiple effects, loopers and speaker systems. Roll on the next 100 years. 

About The Artist

Composer and guitarist Adrian Lee is one of the leading music creatives in contemporary UK theatre. Adrian’s output comprises over 60 scores for theatre, TV, radio, film, dance and music theatre. He has worked extensively with theatre companies, including the Royal National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Young Vic Theatre. 

His compositions have pioneered the integration of world music performance traditions and styles in mainstream media productions, and his scores demonstrate a broad spectrum of compositional approaches, from devised works to the use of improvisation through to fully-notated compositions. 

Adrian’s recent work embraces curating/composing/performing new works for electric guitar ensembles in the contemporary classical music context.