NATALIE Clein, winner of the 2005 Classical BRIT Award for Young British Performer, is playing two concerts in one night at Nunnington Hall on Monday, but that tells only part of the story.

Her Resonances project is touring grand English houses for an “innovative sound and music experience” devised by SoundUK, specialists in novel presentations of new music.

Concert-goers will arrive at Nunnington after hours – either at 6pm or 8.30pm – to be taken on a sensory journey through the National Trust house. An installation by soundtrack composer Simon Fisher Turner and sound designer Matthew Fairclough will fuse music with textured effects and haunting recorded voices, bringing to life the historic rooms once home to Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII.

Each audio tour will culminate in a performance by Natalie, combining new works by Thomas Larcher and Guillemots bandleader Fyfe Dangerfield with solo Cello Suites by Bach. As she catches a train north, Natalie discusses her new project with CHARLES HUTCHINSON.

How did Resonances come to fruition, Natalie?

“I was approached by SoundUK, who wanted me to perform at the end of their new installation, and we started chatting about it last year.

“I always say I’m up for any venue and any concert situation, but the only thing that’s fundamental to it is that the audience must be in a state of concentrated silence.

“I think it’s really exciting for the audience to be in that kind of environment, and I find it exciting, too.”

What will Monday’s sound and music experience involve?

“The audience will move around the house; I will stay in one room. After they walk around the rooms, immersed in the sound installation, they’ll finish with my concert, which lasts about 50 minutes and begins with a text written by my friend Jeannette Winterton.

“I’ll be playing a new work by Thomas Larcher, a great Austrian composer, who’s written a solo sonata for me. I know him and admire him and I’m always looking for new composers to write for me, and I think his work will go really well with the Bach pieces, because Bach is eternally interesting and fulfilling for me.”

How come you are working with pop singer Fyfe Dangerfield?

“I first played a piece by Fyfe at the Manchester Bridgewater Hall in 2007, and for Resonances we discussed in detail all the different effects you can get with a cello solo.

“I know he’s loved responding to that challenge, as he has a wonderful imagination, and he’s come up with a piece called Poco And The Cage about a trapped skylark.”

How would you describe Fyfe’s piece?

“It could be put in the box of contemporary classical music, though I don’t like boxes. It was written as a sideline, but writing instrumental pieces is something that he’s interested to develop as a distinctly different thread to the Guillemots, and I’d love to be involved with him in further projects.”

• Natalie Clein, Resonances, Nunnington Hall, Monday, 6pm and 8.30pm. Tickets: £18 on 01439 748283.