Music – up-coming events
Saturday 10 May – Friday 6 June, 2008
various venues, London
Balkan Fever London 2008
Started in 2006 as an initiative of the Austrian Cultural Forum, Balkan Fever London continues, in a month-long festival, to present a wide range of music from the Balkans, or drawing on the region’s musical traditions. As in previous years with the support of ACF, the programme includes Austrian-based artists who have taken part in Balkan Fever Vienna (www.balkanfever.at), this year the singer Maja Osojnik and DJ Dunkelbunt.
Thursday 15 May - Pizza on the Park Jazz Club
Maja Osojnik Band (Slovenia/Austria)
Sunday 18 May – Cargo, Shoreditch
DJ Dunkelbunt (Austria)
Information and sound clips: www.myspace.com/balkanfeverlondon
Venue and Information
various venues, London
Wednesday 14 May, 7.30pm
St George’s Hall Concert Room, Liverpool
Viennese Masters, Ensemble 10/10
This concert explores, as its starting point, the newest music from Vienna. HK Gruber and Kurt Schwertsik are leading members of the Third Viennese School, which emerged in the 1960s; their music draws together influences as diverse as Stockhausen, Cage and Schubert, and blends them with an often irreverent wit. Johanna Doderer (b.1969) ‘proves convincingly that even today you can create intense music by combining late-romantic models with minimalism’ (Die Presse, Vienna). Lukas Ligeti took a different musical path from his famous father into the world of jazz performance; his compositions have been championed by Gruber. Doderer, Ligeti – could this be the Fourth Viennese School?
Venue and Information
St George’s Hall Concert Room, Liverpool
Hope Street, Liverpool
Box Office: T 0151 709 3789; www.liverpoolphil.com
Wednesday 4 June, 2008, 2pm
Wigmore Hall, London
Richard Tauber Prize For Singers 2008
Public Final Audition
Venue and Information
Wigmore Hall, London
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Box Office: 020 7431 0144; www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Saturday 21 June, 2008
Exhibition Road, London
georg & thomas carysforstories at Exhibition Road Music Day
georg & thomas carysfortstories bring their fusion of jazz, experimental music, sound-designs, theater and dance to the Exhibition Road Music Day. This spectacular day of free live music in the heart of London will include over 100 performances and showcase an incredible range of sounds and styles all celebrating the diversity of international culture.
Carysforstories is made up of Georg Gratzer (woodwinds & voice), Thomas Mauerhofer (electric guitar, laptop and voice), Chris Knowles (conducting the stories), Edina Husanovic (vocals), Joachim Kapuy (acting the dance) and Christiana Lederhaas (dancing the act). Each episode of their unique style of theatre/music/dance performance tells its own story derived from personal experiences with strangers or as strangers in a foreign environment.
For more information please visit www.carysfortstories.co.uk or
www.exhibitionroadmusicday.org
Venue and Information
Exhibition Road, London
36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Box Office: 020 7431 0144; www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Saturday 26 July, 2008
Pembrokeshire
Wiener Ball in Wales
From the opening Polonaise, to the last waltz after midnight, this will be an evening celebrating the history and beauty of the Viennese waltz. The Vienna Opernball Ensemble and dancers recreate this 19th century tradition from the Royal Palaces of Vienna. Dance classes will be held on Friday and Saturday to allow the uninitiated to participate. The £35 tickets will include a dance lesson, admission to the event and an evening supper.
Box Office for tickets: T 01239841387;
www.rhosygilwen.co.uk/events/event_detail.asp?e=1460