Manu Delago x Max ZT: 6pm

A duo concert pairing handpan player Manu Delago with hammered dulcimer player Max ZT, part of the EFG London Jazz Festival 2026, staged at Stone Nest in London's West End.

Manu Delago is an Austrian composer born in Innsbruck in 1984, whose first album, Made in Silence, was released in 2006. In this project Delago plays the handpan, while Max ZT plays the hammered dulcimer, and Max ZT also appears under the name House of Waters. The two musicians met almost ten years ago, when Delago was touring in the United States. They began by improvising together and later developed a set of composed pieces.

The duo recorded that material in an 18th-century space inside an old monastery in the Alps, and the resulting album is titled Deuce, a name chosen because both players had just turned 40. Their music is built on improvisation and composition, with soundscapes that move between delicate passages and driving rhythms, and it is intended to be meditative in character.

Stone Nest is an arts organisation and performance venue in central London's West End, presenting experimental work alongside concerts and shows.