This document provides a summary of the Kings Place Festival for 2009, celebrating its third year. Over four days, the festival features over 100 diverse performances across genres such as classical, contemporary, jazz, blues, folk, spoken word, and comedy. Highlights include collaborations between the Chilingirian Quartet and Millennium Quartet, a showcase of Indian classical music, and boundary-pushing concerts from London Sinfonietta. The festival also features spoken word events, comedy, and jazz performances celebrating Tomorrow's Warriors. In addition to music, there are art exhibitions and food and drink available throughout the festival.

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2. Praise for Kings Place Festival 2009 A big welcome...
‘ At Kings Place, the opening festival of the
2009–10 season was jubilant... who can fault
‘The Kings Place Festival
provides a long-awaited
opportunity to introduce the
9-12 September Kings Place Festival’10
a venue where instead of being told not to music we have so enjoyed Celebrating our third year, we are delighted to introduce
over the years and the young
touch the instruments, you are invited to a dazzling 100 performances, spread over four days. The
musicians who have been so
touch them gently? Between Mozart, Haydn exciting to work with.’ festival is a snapshot of where Kings Place is currently at,
and Beethoven, Indian classical music and Levon Chilingirian
s
ketle
with our open-minded approach to programming talented
Tic sa
a hog roast, it was difficult to know where performers of the highest quality. Offering a showcase of the
‘… one of the jewels in the best in classical, contemporary and experimental, jazz and
’
to turn. The Independent on Sunday cultural life of the capital …
on ow blues, folk, spoken word and comedy, with tickets at just
the acoustics of Hall One
at Kings Place is one of the n £4.50 online – as well as many free events – our festival is
accessible to all.
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best I have ever encountered
anywhere in the world.’
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Martino Tirimo There are far too many highlights to mention here but we have the Chilingirian Quartet
teaming up with El Sistema’s most exciting ambassadors, the Millennium Quartet, for
£4.5ne
‘State-of-the-art Kings Place a series of Latin American classics. Hot on the heels of the highly successful Darbar
onli
has as many echo-chambers festival we have a stunning voyage through Indian classical music. London Sinfonietta
as a medieval cathedral, and cements their reputation once again with three boundary-pushing concerts of highly
that’s just the foyer, so it was ambitious programming including Chamber Music by Thomas Adès. The Orchestra
a pleasure to queue for one’s of the Age of Enlightenment showcase music from the great Baroque composers
tickets while the five members including Purcell and Bach. Impressing audiences with their historical expertise and
any
of Il Suono delivered some forward-looking flair, these performances are not to be missed.
M ee
spirited Gabrieli.’ There’s a myriad of spoken word with Tilt and Magpie’s Nest, whilst comedy giants
fr ts
The Independent Tom Basden, Jenny Éclair and Rob Deering heat up the stage with some side-splitting,
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razor-sharp delivery. Last year’s hugely popular Meet the Journalist makes a welcome
eve
‘Kings Place … acoustically, return as the big guns from the Guardian let us in behind the scenes with lively debate
it is very fine, and surrounding the most current issues in today’s media.
atmospherically inviting…’ Dune Records jazz it up with Tomorrow’s Warriors, whilst F-IRE present Wot is
Sunday Times Culture Jazz and Clowns Revisited, introducing those of all ages to the wonderful world of jazz.
Red Orange explores the folk traditions with adventures from the international scene
‘Kings Place … a place where and, fresh from the overwhelming success of the first-ever London A Capella festival
the curious can drop in at here at Kings Place, we are proud to see the artists back for a series of free events.
lunchtime, tea time, after work Get contemporary as Arctic Circle take us on a cutting-edge journey through two
or dinner time, just to see cities that represent the truest innovators in modern music, Manchester and Bristol,
what’s going on. It’s for those whilst Twisted Lounge return with three unique performances that break the rules by
who are equally happy with a defying all of the genres.
guitar recital, a contemporary You must take some time out to relax and enjoy a coffee in the Green & Fortune Café,
music event, a Beethoven grab a bite at the hog roast, whilst visiting the Farmers’ Market hosted by the Rotunda
quartet or a platform debate Bar & Restaurant. The galleries also programme public art around the building, including
about poetry in the city. That’s water sculptures by Pangolin London artist William Pye during the festival.
very 21st Century.’
Financial Times Can’t wait to see you there!
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3. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Thursday 9 & Friday 10 September
No. TIME SPACE EVENT GENRE
Latin American Classics I – Chilingirian Quartet & Millennium Quartet
1 2.30pm Hall One Song of the Black Swan – Villa-Lobos, Gardel, Ponce and Romero Classical
AFTERNOON
2 3.45pm Hall One Jazzinho – Muños and Hahn Classical
3 5pm Hall One 4 Four Tango – Ponce, Piazzolla and Hahn Classical
Classical Music from India – Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust
4 2.45pm Hall Two Hindustani Santoor Recital World
5 4pm Hall Two Carnatic Concert World
6 5.15pm Hall Two Contemporary Indian Classical Music World
Meet the Journalist – Behind the Scenes at the Guardian
7 3pm St Pancras Room Roger Tooth – Head of Photography Spoken Word
THURSDAY 9
8 4.15pm St Pancras Room Emily Bell – Director of Digital Content Spoken Word
9 5.30pm St Pancras Room Alan Rusbridger – Editor Spoken Word
Spitz presents…
10 6.15pm Atrium FREE Indo Bass Trio Jazz
11 7.30pm Atrium FREE Indo Bass Trio Jazz
In the English Tradition – curated by Alan Bearman
12 7pm Hall One Eliza Carthy Folk
EVENING
13 8.15pm Hall One Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick Folk
14 9.30pm Hall One Chris Wood Folk
London Sinfonietta
15 7.15pm Hall Two Chamber Music by Igor Stravinsky Classical
16 8.30pm Hall Two Chamber Music by Tom Adès Contemporary Classical
17 9.45pm Hall Two Postcards from Europe Contemporary Classical
Tilt @ Kings Place Festival 2010
18 7.30pm St Pancras Room Spoken meets Live: a Spoken Word meets Live Art intervention Spoken Word
19 8.45pm St Pancras Room Spoken Word meets Comedy Spoken Word
20 10pm St Pancras Room London Liming: where Spoken Word meets Carnival Spoken Word
Mikhail Rudy – Russian Masterpieces
21 2.30pm Hall One Seasons and Pictures – Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky Classical
AFTERNOON
22 3.45pm Hall One The Russian Cello – Prokofiev and Stravinsky Classical
23 5pm Hall One Petrushka – Stravinsky and Prokofiev Classical
The Dune Music Company presents… Tomorrow’s Warriors
24 2.45pm Hall Two Tomorrow’s Warriors Biggish Band Jazz
25 4pm Hall Two Tomorrow’s Warriors Quartet Jazz
26 5.15pm Hall Two Myrna Hague + Gary Crosby’s Nu Troop Jazz
The Magpie’s Nest: Once Upon a Time – curated by Sam Lee
27 3pm St Pancras Room Debs Newbold Spoken Word
Contents 28 4.15pm St Pancras Room Jess Smith Spoken Word
FRIDAY 10
29 5.30pm St Pancras Room Taffy Thomas Spoken Word
Spitz presents…
Festival ’10: Full 4-day Schedule 3 30 6.15pm Atrium FREE One Mint Julep Jazz
31 7.30pm Atrium FREE One Mint Julep Jazz
Thursday Programme 7 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Essence of Enlightment
32 7pm Hall One Buxtehude, Böhm, Bach Classical
Friday Programme 21
EVENING
33 8.15pm Hall One J S Bach & the keyboard Classical
34 9.30pm Hall One Three Violins – Music from Purcell’s London Classical
Saturday Programme 35 Comedy at Kings Place – in association with Avalon
35 7.15pm Hall Two Tom Basden Comedy
Sunday Programme 55 36 8.30pm Hall Two Jenny Eclair Comedy
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37 9.45pm Hall Two Rob Deering Comedy
Exhibitions in the galleries 74 38 7.30pm St Pancras Room
Folk Made in the UK – curated by Red Orange
Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll Folk / Contemporary
39 8.45pm St Pancras Room Monster Ceilidh Band Folk / Contemporary
Festival Food and Drink 78 40 10pm St Pancras Room Andrew Cronshaw and Tigran Aleksanyan Folk / Contemporary
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4. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Saturday 11 September PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE Sunday 12 September
No. TIME SPACE EVENT GENRE No. TIME SPACE EVENT GENRE
Light and Dark – Johannes Moser & Sophie Cashell Gould Piano Trio
41 11am Hall One Light – Beethoven, Janácek and Messiaen
ˇ Classical 71 11am Hall One Bohemian Rhapsody – Suk & Dvorák ˇ Classical
MORNING
MORNING
42 12.15pm Hall One Dark – Bach, Takemitsu and Beethoven Classical 72 12.15pm Hall One Variations in a major key – Beethoven & Brahms Classical
Endymion Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Kids
43 11.15am Hall Two For Anton Stadler – Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A Classical 73 11.15am Hall Two Workshop Family
44 12.30pm Hall Two For Richard Mühlfeld – Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Classical 74 12.30pm Hall Two Concert: Our Favourite Things Family
F-IRE presents… Kids F-IRE Kenneth Hamilton - The World of the Romantic Pianist
45 11.30am St Pancras Room Wot is Jazz? Family 75 11.30pm St Pancras Room A Fantasy on Rossini’s Moses – Thalberg Spoken Word / Classical
46 12.45pm St Pancras Room Clown Revisited Family 76 12.45pm St Pancras Room A Fantasy on Bellini’s Norma – Liszt Spoken Word / Classical
A Cappella at Kings Place A Cappella at Kings Place
47 1pm Foyer FREE In The Smoke Contemporary 77 1pm Foyer FREE Voice Contemporary
48 2pm Foyer FREE Diversity Choir Contemporary 78 2pm Foyer FREE Chantage Contemporary
49 3pm Foyer FREE Evolution Contemporary 79 3pm Foyer FREE Evolution Contemporary
Junk Band – curated by Philip Venables & Serge Vuille Junk Band – curated by Philip Venables & Serge Vuille
AFTERNOON
AFTERNOON
50 1.45pm Foyer FREE Rubbish Music Contemporary 80 1.45pm Foyer FREE Rubbish Music Contemporary
Latin American Classics II – Chilingirian Quartet & Millennium Quartet Sacconi Quartet with Simon Crawford-Phillips
51 2.30pm Hall One David Carpio’s Octet – Ginastera and Carpio Classical 81 2.30pm Hall One A Quintet for Clara – Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat Classical
SATURDAY 11
52 3.45pm Hall One Bachianas Brasileiras – Villa Lobos and Carreño Classical 82 3.45pm Hall One Hard-won masterpieces – Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Classical
SUNDAY 12
53 5pm Hall One Last Round – Villa-Lobos, Plaza and Golijov Classical 83 5pm Hall One Dumka and Dancing – Dvorák Piano Quintet in A
ˇ Classical
Outer Circle: Bristol – Curated by Arctic Circle International Guitar Foundation
54 2.45pm Hall Two Rozi Plain Contemporary 84 2.45pm Hall Two Stefan Galt Contemporary
55 4pm Hall Two Eyebrow Contemporary 85 4pm Hall Two Amanda Cook Classical
56 5.15pm Hall Two François & The Atlas Mountains Contemporary 86 5.15pm Hall Two Nicolas Meier Trio Jazz
Poet in the City: Contemporary Lines Royal Academy of Music
57 3pm St Pancras Room Maps Spoken Word 87 3pm St Pancras Room A Sea of Tonality: Debussy, Satie and Takemitsu Classical
58 4.15pm St Pancras Room Bodies Spoken Word 88 4.15pm St Pancras Room Pastiche, politics and all that jazz: Stravinsky, Weill and Eisler Classical
59 5.30pm St Pancras Room Communications Spoken Word 89 5.30pm St Pancras Room Elegiac Harp: Ravel, Bax, Debussy Classical
Spitz presents… Spitz presents…
60 6.15pm Atrium FREE Rosanna Schura Trio Jazz 90 6.15pm Atrium FREE Indo Bass Trio Jazz
61 7.30pm Atrium FREE Rosanna Schura Trio Jazz 91 7.30pm Atrium FREE Indo Bass Trio Jazz
Folkworks: Tradition and Innovation – curated by Kathryn Tickell Outer Circle: Manchester – Curated by Arctic Circle
62 7pm Hall One John Kirkpatrick Folk 92 7pm Hall One Nancy Elizabeth Contemporary
EVENING
EVENING
63 8.15pm Hall One Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell / The Askew Sisters Folk 93 8.15pm Hall One Homelife Contemporary
64 9.30pm Hall One Nancy Kerr and James Fagan Folk 94 9.30pm Hall One Denis Jones Contemporary
F-IRE presents… Dante Quartet
65 7.15pm Hall Two Tom Arthurs Trio with the Elysian Quartet Jazz 95 7.15pm Hall Two Fiery Franck Classical
66 8.30pm Hall Two Kit Downes Trio Jazz 96 8.30pm Hall Two The harlequin colours of Debussy Classical
67 9.45pm Hall Two Basquiat Strings Jazz 97 9.45pm Hall Two Late Fauré Classical
Twisted Lounge presents… Spitz Blues
68 7.30pm St Pancras Room Loré Lixenberg Contemporary 98 7.30pm St Pancras Room JD Smith Blues
69 8.45pm St Pancras Room Breathe – curated by John Butcher Contemporary 99 8.45pm St Pancras Room John Crampton Blues
70 10pm St Pancras Room Physicality – curated by D Toop, J Bissmire and L Michener Contemporary 100 10pm St Pancras Room Parkbench Blues
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5. Thursday
© Morley von Sternberg
highlights
2.30pm The Festival opens with the Chilingirian Quartet joining
forces with the Venezuelan Millennium Quartet for a dazzling
programme of South American chamber music by Villa-Lobos
and Romero.
2.45pm, 4pm, 5.15pm Darbar takes you on a musical journey
through India, from the shimmering sounds of the ancient
santoor in the foothills of the Himalayas, to Indian strains of
instruments more familiar in a Western orchestra. Beautiful,
strange and compelling.
5.30pm Alan Rusbridger, Editor of the Guardian, takes to the
podium as part of the popular Meet the Journalist series.
Book early, this fascinating talk will sell out quickly!
8.15pm Legendary folk duo Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick
are back! Huge names on the folk world for four decades,
their performance is as lively and inspirational as ever.
8.30pm London Sinfonietta: Thomas Adès Chamber Music
spatial surprises and beguiling music from The Tempest
by one of Britain’s leading composers.
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6. THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER CLASSICAL
Latin American Classics I
© Graham Topping
Chilingirian Quartet / Millennium Quartet
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Song of the Black Swan
On the Chilingirian Quartet’s first visit to Hall One 2.30pm
Latin America they met Villa-Lobos’s widow
Heitor Villa-Lobos String Quartet No. 2 (1915)
in Brazil, who gave them the music for his Carlos Gardel Por Una Cabeza
16th Quartet. The distinguished British- Manuel Ponce Estrellita
based quartet have since made many visits to Heitor Villa-Lobos O Canto do Cysne Negro
South America, where they have encountered
Aldemero Romero Fuga con Pajarillo
Jazzinho
2 4 Four Tango
3
its unique multiplicity of cultures and Chilingirian String Quartet
enjoyed meeting a variety of composers Millennium Quartet Hall One 3.45pm Hall One 5pm
Levon Chilingirian violin
and performers. In January 2010 they were Stephen Coombs piano Reynaldo Hahn Violin Sonata Manuel Ponce Sonatina for violin and piano
© Graham Topping
charged with developing a Chamber Music Reynaldo Hahn Nocturne Astor Piazzolla 4 Four Tango
Academy in Venezuela, for the young players Composed in 1915, Villa-Lobos’s Second Improvisations on Latin American Music Reynaldo Hahn Piano Quintet
String Quartet is an early example of a José Luis Muñoz Jazzinho
involved in El Sistema, the world-renowned genre that attracted him throughout his life Chilingirian String Quartet
orchestral-training organisation. (he composed 17 of them in all) and reveals Chilingirian String Quartet Levon Chilingirian violin
For Kings Place Festival they have the early Romanticism and the influence of Millennium Quartet Stephen Coombs piano
French music on the Brazilian master. Charles Sewart violin
chosen to share the platform with one of O Canto do Cysne Negro (Song of the Black Stephen Coombs piano Manuel Ponce’s Sonatina for violin and piano
El Sistema’s most exciting ambassadors, Swan), though it may sound echt-Brazilian, is a beautiful example of his gentle and
the Millennium Quartet, whose players was arranged in 1917 from an orchestral work Born in Caracas of a Venezuelan mother temperate neo-classicism, and also reflects
based on Greek mythology, the symphonic and German father, Reynaldo Hahn spent the influence of Paul Dukas, with whom he
the Chilingirian have coached. Says Levon poem Naufrágio de Kleônicos (1916). Manuel his career so completely in France (where studied in Paris. Astor Piazzolla is celebrated
Chilingirian: ‘The Kings Place Festival Ponce, often called ‘the father of Mexican he moved with his parents at the age of 3) as the great master of Argentinian tango, but
provides a long-awaited opportunity to music’, combined Impressionist and neo- that he’s generally thought of as a French 4 for Tango, composed in 1982, is also his first
classical influences picked up in Europe with composer. As well as composing songs, string quartet, and a virtuoso application of
introduce the music we have so enjoyed over an interest in Mexican folk-music and an operettas and film music, he managed to be the full range of 20th-century string textures
the years and the young musicians who have innate lyric talent, shown to perfection in the the lover of Marcel Proust and the friend and (sul ponticello, ‘Bartók-pizzicato’, harmonics,
been so exciting to work with.’ popular Estrellita, often used as an encore. biographer of Sarah Bernhardt. His Violin glissandi, rapping on the wood with the
Singer-songwriter-filmstar Carlos Gardel, Sonata of 1926 is, typically for him, sunny and knuckles etc, as well as traditional playing
who died in a plane crash in 1935 at the lyrical, full of discreet charm and nostalgia techniques) to a very sophisticated stylisation
height of his fame, is one of the legends of the for more gracious times, even when it is being of the popular dance rhythm. Short, pithy,
Chilingirian Quartet development of tango in Argentina (though sprightly. It could almost be very superior and dark-hued, it makes the perfect foil to
Levon Chilingirian violin he claimed he was Uruguayan, and was salon music, but with an infusion of the Reynaldo Hahn’s imposing yet delightful
Ronald Birks violin born in France!), and creator of the tango- urbanity and grace of Fauré. Piano Quintet in F sharp minor of 1922. This
Susie Mészarós viola canción. The Venezuelan pianist-composer José Luis Muñoz (1928-1982) is credited work breathes the spirit of Gabriel Fauré,
Philip De Groote cello Aldemero Romero was a prolific composer with being the first Venezuelan composer to who was one of Hahn’s teachers at the Paris
in many styles, including Caribbean popular adopt the 12-tone method, but many of his Conservatoire.
Millennium Quartet music and jazz. He created the Venezuelan works attest to his fascination with jazz styles, Lucid and civilised, this is music that
Ollantay Velásquez violin style known as Onda Nueva (New Wave), such as Jazzinho (the title denotes ‘small, harks back to the more spacious and
Miguel Nieves violin influenced by the Brazilian Bossa Nova. sweet’ jazz) for piano and string quartet. comfortable days before World War I, yet
Jesús Pérez viola The highly rhythmic (and almost Bachian!) does so with wit and sobriety, especially
Valmore Nieves cello Fuga con Pajarillo comes from a suite for in the opulently tender slow movement
strings composed in 1975. The pajarillo is a (reminiscent of the operettas of Messager)
Venezuelan dance, something like a waltz but and the vigorous and joyous finale.
with the accent on the second of the three left to right:
beats. Notes by Malcolm Macdonald Chilingirian String Quartet, Millennium Quartet
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7. THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER WORLD
Classical Music from India
Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust
Darbar takes you on an Indian musical
journey, introducing instruments relatively
new to Indian classical music.
We begin in the foothills of the Himalayas
with the shimmering sounds of the santoor,
the hundred-stringed instrument from the
valleys of Kashmir. This ancient instrument is
the Indian version of the hammered dulcimer.
The second concert takes us to the deep Hindustani Santoor Recital Carnatic Concert Contemporary Indian
south, and unusually features the violin as a Hall Two 2.45pm Hall Two 4pm Classical Music
solo instrument, supported by percussion. Hall Two 5.15pm
Harjinder Pal Singh santoor Jyotsna Srikanth violin
We end our journey back in the north, with Manjeet Singh Rasiya tabla Neyveli Venkatesh mridangam Jesse Bannister saxophone
an instrument we would usually associate R N Prakash ghatam Bhupinder Chaggar tabla
Harjinder Pal Singh
with Western jazz – the saxophone. Harjinder Pal Singh’s interest in music began Jyotsna Srikanth Jesse Bannister
in his childhood, and his father sent him to Trained in the South Indian Carnatic and Jesse Bannister plays North Indian classical
learn tabla from Bhai Labh Singh Ji of the Western classical genres, Jyotsna composes music on the saxophone. His exciting music
Punjab Gharana at the age of 14. He also her own music and collaborates with jazz, demonstrates how the saxophone can be
mastered the Pakhawaj style of tabla, and Western classical and world music artists. ‘as sweet and mellifluous as a flute at times
later became a senior disciple of maestro ‘She provided a remarkable, improvised and at others, as powerful and direct as a
Pandit Shiv Kumar. Harjinder travels widely instrumental, switching between rapid-fire Shehnai’ (Amrita Review in Los Angeles, of
in India giving concerts, lectures and violin ragas and slower delicate pieces and Jesse Bannister), adding a new dimension to
demonstration programmes in schools and some impressive interplay between the India’s contemporary classical repertoire.
colleges. He also tours abroad. percussionists.’ (Guardian, April 2010).
Bhupinder Chaggar
this page, from top: Manjeet Singh Rasiya Neyveli Venkatesh Bhupinder is a leading disciple of tabla
Harjinder Pal Singh, Manjeet Singh Rasiya Manjeet is one of the UK’s greatest Indian Neyveli gave his first mridangam maestro Pandit Sharda Sahai Ji. He teaches
opposite, clockwise from top right:
Jesse Bannister, Bhupinder Chaggar, percussionists, and a fine Latin and Afro- performance at the age of ten. He is skilled tabla to jazz students as well as tabla classes,
R N Prakash, Neyveli Venkatesh, Cuban drummer. As well performing with in playing the difficult ‘gumuki’ style and and works with musicians from many cultures,
Jyotsna Srikanth renowned Indian musicians and on theatre is adept in kanjira konnakol, the art of including flamenco guitarist Eduardo Niebla,
© Arnhel de Serra
and film he has played with Western performing percussion syllables vocally. Portuguese percussion maestro Rui Júnior,
musicians, including Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Neyveli has accompanied frontline musicians and soul singer Jocelyn Brown.
Faithfull and Beth Orton. in many major Indian music festivals and has
toured extensively.
R N Prakash
R N Prakash is a disciple of Vidvan K N
Krishnamurthy of Bangalore. His fusion
work with Western pop and jazz groups,
especially Massive Attack, illustrates the
musical bridges he builds to other cultures.
He has made many television appearances
demonstrating the versatility of mridangam
and ghatam.
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8. THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER SPOKEN WORD FREE IN THE ATRIUM JAZZ EVERY DAY FREE IN THE ATRIUM JAZZ
Meet the Journalist Indo Bass Trio
© Tom Bland
Thursday 9 September
Behind the Scenes at the Guardian & Sunday 12 September
Atrium 6.15pm & 7.30pm
Manjeet Singh Rasiya tabla
This series of events features key personnel
Ben Hazleton double bass
from the Guardian, whose offices are here at Clem Alford sitar
Kings Place. Featuring Head of Photography
Indo Bass Trio explores the relationship
Roger Tooth, Director of Digital Content
of rhythm and melody as an energetic
Emily Bell and Editor Alan Rusbridger, these flow between musicians, instruments and
talks will give you a glimpse of life behind the listeners. The double bass, well versed in jazz
and groove, enters the Indian soundscape to
headlines. Essential for anyone interested
explore sonic possibilities. Microtones within
in the challenges and opportunities facing tones create zones for the rhythm inside the
today’s media. rhythm of a heartbeat.
© Felix Clay
© Linda Nylind / Guardian
One Mint Julep
Friday 10 September
Atrium 6.15pm & 7.30pm
Emine Pirhasan vocals
Jim Hart drums
Fred Thomas double bass
Sam Crowe keyboards
Led by vocalist Emine Pirhasan, One Mint
Julep is a new quartet. It is made up of four of
London’s most talented musicians who have
come together to rediscover the classic sound
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of jazz and blues from the early Thirties. Emine
simultaneously evokes the sound of the Thirties’
smoky jazz clubs with contemporary influences.
Roger Tooth
Head of Photography
Emily Bell
Director of Digital Content
Alan Rusbridger
Editor
Spitz presents…
in Kings Place Atrium each day – FREE! Rosanna Schura Trio
St Pancras Room 3pm St Pancras Room 4.15pm St Pancras Room 5.30pm Saturday 11 September
What is a picture desk? How does it choose Emily Bell set up MediaGuardian.co.uk in Alan Rusbridger has been editor of the Atrium 6.15pm & 7.30pm
from the staggering 20,000 pictures submitted 2000, and is now responsible for the award- Guardian since 1995. His editorship has been The Atrium series will include the much-loved Spitz Jazz
every day? How does it deal with readers’ winning guardian.co.uk, the Guardian and notable for pioneering the development of which has had a residency at Kings Place every Friday Vocalist and songwriter Rosanna Schura draws
Observer’s network of websites. Emily also influences from artists such as John Martyn to
reactions to the editors’ more controversial the paper’s digital edition, and for launching night since 2008. These sessions have showcased many of create her unique sound and subtle approach
decisions? Roger Tooth gives a fascinating writes regular columns on media policy the paper in the popular European ‘Berliner’
insight into the images behind the news. His issues. Today she shares her views on some format in 2005. He is also noted for fighting, London’s finest jazz players, including some of the old Spitz to vocal jazz. Her beautiful vocals weave
talk will be illustrated throughout with some aspects of news on the web in today’s world. and winning a number of high-profile legal favourites. We will also be crossing musical borders with the together with piano and bass accompaniment.
Her voice rises above sprawling jazz sounds,
great news and feature photography. cases involving free speech issues and Indo Bass Trio who present you with rhythms as new as they and, with impeccable phrasing, brings out the
corruption in government.
are old. humour and hurt of jazz and blues classics.
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9. THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER FOLK
In the English Tradition
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This fantastic evening of concerts brings together no less Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
than four of English folk music’s most influential and popular Hall One 8.15pm
performers: Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick and A reunion of the legendary groundbreaking
Chris Wood. Not to be missed. These concerts will sell out duo. For more than 40 years Martin Carthy
very fast, so book now! has been one of folk music’s greatest
innovators, and Dave Swarbrick’s contribution
to folk-rock music through Fairport
Convention is legendary.
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‘The super-duo are back ...’ The Guardian
‘Swarbrick is an absolute revelation… as
Eliza Carthy instinctively sympathetic and wickedly
inspirational as he ever was. It’s like they
Hall One 7pm were a couple of twenty somethings again.
To hear Swarb bowing with such soul
Nominated for Singer of the Year, Best Album
and tenderness and dynamism too is an
and Best Original Song in BBC Radio 2 Folk
unconditional joy.’ fRoots
Awards 2009, Eliza Carthy is an extraordinary
singer and fiddle player. Dazzlingly gifted, she
is one of the most impressive and engaging
artists of her generation.
’One of the figureheads of the English folk
revival … compelling’ Evening Standard
‘A gloriously natural singer’ Q magazine
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Hall One 9.30pm
Singer of the Year and Best Album, BBC
Radio 2 Folk Awards 2009, Chris Wood is an
uncompromising songwriter whose music
reveals his love for the unofficial history of
the English-speaking people. With gentle
intelligence he weaves the tradition with his
own contemporary parables. His writing has
been said to share the same timeless quality
as Richard Thompson at his best.
‘Chris Wood has developed into an exceptional
songwriter... venturing into areas that few
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artists would dare tackle.’ Guardian
clockwise from top:
Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick, Chris Wood,
Eliza Carthy
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10. THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER CLASSICAL / CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL
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Europe. Following from this summer’s Sinfonietta Shorts by Gerald Barry, Luke Bedford and Jonathan Harvey
spirited Experiment! week at Kings Place, the London Sinfonietta
Sinfonietta bring three programmes which
encapsulate its reputation for virtuosity, London Sinfonietta is a partner in the Re:New Project, in which 22
ensembles across Europe are exchanging pieces of music to broaden
ambitious programming and pushing the reach of composers from different countries. In this event, London
boundaries: the first gives us Stravinsky’s Sinfonietta will perform two very attractive and exciting pieces in
exuberant Duo Concertante and the gleeful the presence of the composers. Marseille-born Régis Campo studied
with Gérard Grisey and Henri Dutilleux. Pop-Art for flute, clarinet,
comedy of his Suite Italienne from Pulcinella. violin, viola, cello and piano was composed in 2002. In Räihälä’s music
Next up is the chamber music of Thomas Chamber Music by Igor Stravinsky Chamber Music by Thomas Adès influences from rock and jazz are skilfully woven into his own style.
Adès, one of the brightest stars in 21st- Damballa, written for the Uusinta Chamber Ensemble, is scored for
century music, with a programme that
Hall Two 7.15pm
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Hall Two 8.30pm
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For over 40 years, London Sinfonietta has played a crucial role
highlights his theatricality and inventive Duo Concertante Programme to include: in the creation and performance of contemporary music. Sinfonietta
Three pieces for solo clarinet Catch
use of space in writing for small groups. Suite Italienne Court Studies from The Tempest
Shorts is a series of commissions by leading composers in celebration
of the ensemble’s 40th anniversary. Each piece is scored for a small
Postcards from Europe is given over to the group of performers, or soloist. After the works’ first performance,
work of living composers from across Europe, London Sinfonietta London Sinfonietta Sinfonietta Shorts are available to download for free from the London
the result of London Sinfonietta’s partnership In 1930 Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) was introduced to the violinist Born in 1971, British composer Thomas Adès is ‘one of the most
Sinfonietta website, giving musicians across the world an opportunity
to play the pieces. This concert showcases new Sinfonietta Shorts by
with the European Union’s Re:New Project, Samuel Dushkin, who became a great friend and recital partner. imposing figures in contemporary music’ (The New Yorker). His the British composers Luke Bedford (b. 1978), Jonathan Harvey (b. 1939)
in which 22 ensembles exchange pieces of Inspired by Dushkin’s playing, Stravinsky wrote several works for the compositions range from large-scale operas to intimate chamber and Irish composer Gerald Barry (b. 1952).
violinist including his Violin Concerto No. 1, the Suite Italienne (based works, but each is distinctive for their intricate sound tapestries and
music to broaden the reach of composers on pieces from Pulcinella) and the large-scale Duo Concertante (1931). elaborately patterned textural layers. Visit www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk for all the latest news from the
outside their own nation. Also featured Formed of five distinct movements, the music of this Duo ranges from Catch (1991) is Adès’s first chamber piece: a short, humorous work ensemble, and to find out how you can own a Sinfonietta Short.
are London Sinfonietta Shorts, miniature the tranquil pastorale to episodes with a more angular, aggressive for violin, cello, clarinet and piano, with an improvisatory nature, the
character. The final movement, Dithyrambe, features some of the most lively nature of the game ‘catch’ depicted by numerous syncopated
‘birthday cards’ commissioned to celebrate lyrically expressive music the composer ever wrote. rhythms and apparently arbitrary entrances. The work structures itself
Notes by Carenza Hugh-Jones
its 40th birthday in 2008. Three Pieces for clarinet (1918) was dedicated to the tea millionaire, around various combinations of the four instruments, with a stationary
and amateur clarinettist, Weiner Reinhart, who financially supported piano trio taunting and teasing the clarinettist, who refuses to join the
several of Stravinsky’s struggling concert series. The colourful pieces game – but who eventually joins in with a burst of jubilantly expressive
‘As the world panics and looks for safe are among the first works in which Stravinsky experimented with music.
havens for its money, it’s good to see the incorporating aspects of jazz, describing them as ‘written-out portraits Court Studies from The Tempest (2005) is scored for the same four
London Sinfonietta aren’t losing their nerve.’ of improvisations’. instruments as Catch. Written as one continuous movement, the work
Suite Italienne (1932) is a set of six movements for cello and piano, is formed from six solo numbers taken from Adès’s highly acclaimed
Daily Telegraph based on music from Stravinsky’s earlier Neo-Classical ballet Pulcinella. opera The Tempest and freely transcribed for the four instruments.
His starting point was a set of 18th-century pieces by (in some cases The pieces depict the leading figures from The Tempest arriving on
wrongly attributed to) Pergolesi. The work opens with two movements Prospero’s island, with the music conjuring up a rarefied, mysterious
– one high-spirited, one a sombre aria – taken from the start of the world. The work ends with a spine-chilling final section, which
ballet, while the remaining idiosyncratic movements, all twists on ultimately fades out with a mesmerising solo violin phrase.
recognisable Baroque forms, come from the end of the work.
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