Tuesday 1 June 2010, 8.30pm
Featuring:James Alssopp,Bartok(3rd qtet) performed by theSolstice String Quartet,Mowgli& songs byChris Newman.
James Allsoppis a multi-instrumentalist and composer whose genre busting quintet “Fraud” exploded on to the Jazz scene in 2005 to instant critical acclaim,James also writes for his new trio “The Golden Age of Steam” which features his Fraud collaborator Tim Giles alongsideHammondorgan wunderkind Kit Downes.
As an improviser James has recently recorded an album of solo saxophone improvisations which explore the territory of spontaneous composition. These pieces fuse James’s complex and highly individual harmonic and rhythmic languages with an exploration of extended techniques and effects. The album is due to be released on the “Quartz” contemporary classical music label in October 2009.
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Mowgliis a quintet of improvisers/composers abandoned at childhood and raised by apes. Tonight they perform an improvised set of feral romanticism and carnal desire. Mowgli is a band fromSQUIB-BOXa cooperative dedicated to the production and dissemination of avant-garde music and performance.
"Shere Kharnage" R.Kipling
Dominic Lash- Bass
Adamdela Cour - Voice
JavierCarmona- Percussion/drums
Federico Reuben- Live electronics
Neil Luck- Miscellaneous
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Solstice String Quartet-BARTOK 3rd String Quartet
First prize winners in the 2009 Royal Over-seas League Competition, the Solstice String Quartet is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the finest young quartets in the UK. Selected by both the Tillett Trust and Park Lane Group in 2008 the quartet made their debuts at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in 2009. Established whilst studying at the Cambridge University in 2003, they held a Junior Fellowship at the IIMC in Madrid in 2008-9 where they studied with Prof. Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartet. They currently study with the ProQuartet Foundation in Paris and hold the Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music.
Jamie Campbell -Violin
Helena Nicholls - Violin
Meghan Cassidy- Viola
Gregor Riddell– Cello
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Adam de la Cour(voice) andTim Parkinson(piano) perform a series of Chris Newman's cabaret-style songs, including the wonderful 'Girls are like my sister' and the marvelous 'My wife is French'.
Chris Newman -THREE SONGS
- Beautiful Skys
- Time Continues
- Girls are like my sister
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