SUNDAY SUNDOWN CONCERTS
Join us for our Sunday Sundown series. All concerts are at 6:00pm and have free admission with a retiring collection for the musicians unless otherwise specified. See below for the current schedule, and also heathstreet.live. At Heath Street Baptist Church - see map and get directions.
Sunday 29 September 2024 at 6:00pm
Slow Music:
April Twelves
April Twelves experiment with the sense of time for both performers and audience — expanding time on many levels, from the macro scale of timelessness to the micro details of moving between notes in a considered way. They make slow music for an immersive and inquisitive listening experience. Alice and Ole create original music for prepared sarods, violins, violas, slide guitars and electronics. Born out of a series of improvisations, this project explores the colours, textures and resonances from encounters with Indian classical instruments. The Hindustani slide guitar and Karnatic violin have an intercultural story after travelling to India from Hawaii and Europe, respectively.
- Alice Barron (UK) - Violin, viola, loop pedal
- Ole André Farstad (Norway) - Prepared sarods, Hindustani slide guitar, electronics
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.
Sunday 6 October 2024 at 6:00pm
A Question, An Answer:
Istante Collective
A programme which brings together a meditation about life and death through wonderful photographs by Ari Jaaksi and music by Tobias Hume, played on the Viola d’Amore, alongside consort music by 17th century composers Locke, Purcell and Mattheis. Featuring the UK premiere and presentation of this media compilation by Stefano Zanobini, published and distributed by Novantiqua Records.
This media book as well as the other media books produced by NovAntiqua is more then music and more then a book and give the possibility to the artists and the listeners to reflect together about the whole 'thinking' around the music. The infinite associations that the music gives to other arts and to the philosophy work as a gate to a 'deep listening'.
Istante Collective
- Stefano Zanobini - viola and viola d’amore
- Hilde Kuiken - viola
- John-Henry Baker - bass violin
- Beatrice Scaldini - violin
- Nicola Barbagli - oboe & recorders
Ticket information coming soon here.
Sunday 13 October 2024 at 6:00pm
UKHA Emerging Artist Series Part Three:
Tara Viscardi
Tara will perform works by Monteverdi, Strozzi, Luzzaschi, Carolan and Purcell on the Italian baroque triple harp alongside her own contemporary folk compositions on traditional Irish harp.
Hailing from the Beara Peninsula in the South-West of Ireland, Tara Viscardi performs on Irish traditional, classical and baroque harps. A graduate of the Royal College of Music, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado Milan and TU Dublin Conservatoire, Tara was first prize winner of the 2021 London Camac Harp Competition and is a 2024 UK Harp Association Emerging Artist. Solo and chamber performances have taken her across Ireland and the UK, to venues including the Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, Cadogan Hall, the Irish Embassy, Irish Cultural Centre, London Irish Centre, Canterbury Cathedral, Shakespeare’s Globe and the National Concert Hall Dublin.
She has been featured playing her own arrangements and compositions on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ Lyric FM, RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, BBC Radio Ulster, Radio Kerry and Bloomsbury Radio. Further highlights include performing at the 13th World Harp Congress Hong Kong, for Irish President Michael D. Higgins and Mrs Sabina Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin, for An Taoiseach and An Tánaiste upon their visits to London and for HM King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Hillsborough Castle. She launched her debut album 'Beara' in April 2024, where she is joined by flautist Robert Harvey for her own compositions paired with music written and collected on the Beara Peninsula since the 18th century. She released a debut EP, 'Uncovered Roots' in 2023 with saxophonist Robert Finegan, which explores folk music from Ireland and the UK in different contexts and is currently part of early music ensemble Nobody's Jig and folk group MNÁ as well as collaborating with countertenor Hugh Cutting.
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.
About the UKHA Emerging Artist Series
Each year the UKHA committee selects three soloists or ensembles at the beginning of their careers to take part in a collaborative concert series. With support from the UKHA, these artists will work together to curate, plan and perform nine concerts across the UK.
https://www.ukharp.net/emerging-artists.html
Sunday 27 October 2024 at 6:00pm
Musikverein:
Revolutionary Drawing Room and Andrew Skidmore
The Revolutionary Drawing Room is that rare group, a string quartet that performs late 18th- and 19th-century repertoire with a sound derived from the beauty and flexibility of gut strings. The political upheavals of the time were matched by a breathless pace of change and the forging of new styles, forms and tastes both in the music and in the instruments used.
"...a formidable quartet, whose virtuosity is matched by their insightful attention to every detail." Early Music Review
Programme
- F Schubert - Quartetsatz, D.703
- F Schubert - Quintet in C major, D. 956
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.
Sunday 8 December 2024 at 6:00pm
Andrea Di Biase’s Oltremare Quartet
Oltremare is an Italian word meaning "oversea". The band plays on the differences of Andrea Di Biase's two musical worlds divided by the sea: one is rooted in his native Italy with the melodic and poetic approach of Italian masters such as Nino Rota and the band's first pianist Antonio Zambrini; the other is rooted in UK, his country of adoption, with the harmonic and rhythmic intuitions of British artists such as Kenny Wheeler, who invited Andrea to play with his Trio in the late part of his career.
Andrea's idea of building a bridge between two sides of the sea is reflected in the choice of surrounding himself with the most refined British improvisers: the inventiveness of star pianist Ivo Neame, the unpredictability of virtuoso saxophonist Michael Chillingworth and the blistering energy of Gogo Penguin's drummer Jon Scott.
Oltremare Quartet’s first album Uncommon Nonsense was released by one of the finest UK Jazz labels: Babel Records. The band will premiere a new repertoire they are about to record for their second album.
- Michael Chillingworth - Sax
- Ivo Neame - Piano
- Andrea Di Biase - Double Bass
- Jon Scott - Drums
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.