Not every concert comes prefaced with a yoga demonstration. But not every concert features Rolf Hind’s The Eye of Fire — 25 minutes of musical contortions for piano quintet, inspired by yoga positions ranging from the nonchalant Corpse to the joint-wracking Scorpion.

Considering the exertions new music makes, I’m surprised that the marriage hasn’t been tried before. This exuberantly imagined piece certainly made a grand finale to Hind’s SPNM (Society for the Promotion of New Music) touring programme, littered with premieres from young composers, performed with the Duke Quartet.

We’d begun two hours earlier with a persuasive account of the Schnittke piano quintet from the 1970s: disjointed, ghostly, mad — though compared to Hind’s creation a piece as conservative as Brahms.

Schnittke at least kept the pianist sitting down; Hind requires a prepared piano and much plucking and thudding. The result is lyrical chaos, playful and spiritual both at once: proof enough that Hind isn’t just a formidable piano player but a composer of note as well.

He wasn’t the only good modern Brit on parade. Jeremy Thurlow, in his late thirties, demonstrated real mettle in his 2004 piano piece The Will of the Tones. Single notes and quiet resonances gradually built into a surging, shivering mass, spiced with delicious harmonic jolts. All very satisfying; and meat and drink for Hind’s fingers.

The versatile Duke Quartet had their own banquet with the world premiere of Philip Venables’s String Quartet — 15 minutes of contrasting gestures, driven through three compact movements by a powerful sense of drama and structure. Naomi Pinnock, in her premiere, took the opposite route with the four piano aphorisms of IS — static contemplations of moods and textures. She shows promise, if not yet much personality.

The third premiere, Shiori Usui’s Liya-pyuwa, for string quintet, walked a perilous line between string scrapings and slitherings and piano plinks. When does the play of fascinating sonorities weaken into a chain of mere noise? In Usui’s case after six minutes; and there were three more to go. But I still liked her individual ear. An encouraging concert.