Music – up-coming events
Wednesday 17 – Saturday 27 June 2009
Various venues
Fatima Spar and the Freedom Fries
An eclectic group that mix Turkish, Klezmer, Swing and Balkan sounds and conjure up images of smoke-filled Berlin
cabarets during the War. Lead singer Fatima Spar’s velvet vocals, quirky theatrics and piercing gaze is impossible to resist.
Wednesday 17 June: The Brook Theatre, Old Town Hall, Chatham, Kent
Box Office: 01634 338 338; Tickets: £11; concs available; Time: 8pm, medway.gov.uk
Thursday 18 June: West End Centre, Queens Road, Aldershot, Hampshire
Box Office: 01344 484 123; Tickets: £12; members - £10; Time: 8pm, westendcentre.co.uk
Friday 19 June: South Street Arts Centre, South Street, Reading, Berks
Box Office: 0118 960 6060; Tickets: £10; concs - £8; Time: 8pm, readingarts.com
Saturday 20 June: Cellar Bar, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Ringmead, Bracknell, Berks
Box Office: 01344 484 123; Tickets: £10; members - £7; concs - £6; Time: 8pm, southhillpark.org.uk
Wednesday 24 June: The Stables Theatre, Stockwell Lane, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, Bucks
Box Office: 01908 280 800; Tickets: £12.50; meal deal - £22.50; Time: 8pm, stables.org
Thursday 25 June: Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent
Box Office: 01227 769 075; Tickets: first 200 - £5 (£10 with food); then £10 (£15 with food); Time: 7.45pm, gulbenkiantheatre.co.uk
Friday 26 June: West Ashling Village Hall, Chichester, West Sussex
Box Office: 01243 781 312 (cc) / 01243 774 641; Tickets: £12.50; Time: 8pm, rootsaroundtheworld.info
Saturday 27 June: Impulse Festival, Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, London EC2
Box Office: 08700 600 100; Tickets: £15/£13; Time: 8pm
For more information visit http://www.fatimaspar.com or http://www.rootsroundabout.co.uk
Venue and Information
Various venues
UK Tour
Monday 6 – Thursday 8 July 2009
Various venues
radio.string.quartet.vienna
This critically acclaimed quartet fuses the traditional string quartet with the very unconventional sounds of 1970s jazz and
rock. Together Bernie Mallinger (violin, composer, arranger), Asja Valcic (cello), Johannes Dickbauer (violin) and Cynthia
Liao (viola) produce a new, fresh and distinctive sound. Their first CD Movimento was nominated for the Amadeus Award, and they have recently been awarded the German Record Critic’s prize.
Monday 6 July: The Firestation Arts Centre, Windsor
Wednesday 7 July: Jazz@PizzaExpress, Soho
Thursday 8 July: Henley Festival
For more information please visit http://www.radiostringquartet.com
Venue and Information
Various venues
www.radiostringquartet.com
Saturday 1 August 2009
St. John’s College Chapel, Cambridge
Natascha Reich at the Cambridge Summer Music Festival
Austrian organist Natascha Reich will perform at this year’s Cambridge Summer Music Festival which promotes world-class musicians from the UK and around the world, as well as providing a platform for talented young artists at the start of their career. Reich studied organ and harpsichord in Vienna and Groningen. She has performed throughout Europe and been featured in TV and radio recordings.
Venue and Information
St. John’s College Chapel, Cambridge
www.cambridgesummermusic.com
Wednesday 5 August – Tuesday 1 September 2009
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
LivingRoom – Christoph Pepe Auer, bass clarinet & Manu Delago, hang
After playing together in various bands and projects Christoph Pepe Auer and Manu Delago discovered how superbly
their two instruments, bass clarinet and hang, complimented each other. The ‘hang’ is a spherical instrument invented in 2000 by Sabina Schärer and Felix Rohner as a result of working with Steeldrum, Gong, Udu and Gatham. By bringing these two instruments together they created a new sound which is presented by probably the world’s first bass clarinet and hang duo.
This fascinating formation will be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Box Office: 0871 750 0077; http://www.roxyarthouse.com
For more information on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival visit http://www.edfringe.com/
Venue and Information
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Roxy Art House, Lady Glenorchy’s Church, Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9EB
Until October 2009
Various venues
City of Dreams: Vienna 1900 - 1935
Esa-Pekka Salonen - conductor
Julian Johnson - series consultant
This unique nine month exploration of the music and culture of Vienna between 1900 and 1935 will feature orchestral concerts in 18 cities, chamber music, films, study days, a unique interactive online resource and a virtual Viennese café in Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.
“Vienna in 1900 was a unique cultural melting pot, where musicians, philosophers, poets, painters and scientists met together in the city’s many cafes, and created works of art and science that changed the course of history. I have always believed that the music of this period has a very special artistic significance; we are all looking forward to offering our audiences the chance to experience the music ofMahler, Schoenberg and Berg in the context of Klimt’s paintings, Josef Hoffmann’s tableware and Freud’s dreams.”
-Esa-Pekka Salonen
For more information and concert listings visit www.philharmonia.co.uk/vienna
Venue and Information
Various venues
www.philharmonia.co.uk/vienna
2009
Various venues
Haydn Year 2009
2009 will mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). His music and legacy will be celebrated around the world on this occasion. Haydn’s connections to Britain were varied. He came to London several times, and it is here that he composed some of his best-known works, including the Surprise, Military, Drumroll and London symphonies. Haydn also composed arrangements for nearly 400 Scottish songs. The Haydn 2009 anniversary will feature in concerts, some of which will be co-organised and supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum London, all over the UK.
For more information visit: http://www.haydn2009.at/; http://www.haydn107.com
Thursday 25 June 7.30pm, Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall
András Schiff conductor/piano & Miklos Perényi cello
The Programme will include Haydn’s Symphony No. 80 in D minor, his Piano Concerto in D, the Cello Concerto in C, and his Symphony No. 103, Drum Roll
For more information and to buy tickets please visit http://www.philharmonia.co.uk