Composer & Creative Director
Einstein in Oxford
An ongoing collaboration between Leeming and author Andrew Robinson, Physicist Brian Foster and Astrophysicist Roger Davies.
About the Project
Since 2025 Leeming has been working with Andrew Robinson, physicist Professor Brian Foster, and astrophysicist Professor Roger Davies to create a set of works responding to Einstein’s time in Oxford and the continuing legacy of his ideas across physics and astronomy.
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This collaboration explores three interconnected perspectives of reality: the quantum, the cosmic, and the human. The quantum perspective draws on the fleeting, energetic, and constraint-driven nature of particle physics, where events emerge through interaction and measurement; the cosmic perspective reflects the vast, slow dynamical motion of galaxies, where hidden mass and history are revealed through movement over immense timescales; and the human perspective acts as the perceptual bridge, grounding these extremes in lived experience of time, motion, and change.
Writing for violin, the instrument played and loved by the scientist himself, the works will be premiered on 18th June 2026 at the de Jager Auditorium, Trinity College, Oxford