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Kathryn Tickell playing Northumbrian pipes |
100 concerts celebrate the year of Kings
PREVIEW:FESTIVAL 09
KINGS PLACE
AN eclectic programme of more than 100 concerts is being put on at Kings Place from September 4-6 to celebrate the first anniversary of the arts centre in York Way, King’s Cross.
“Our three-day festival has a genre-defying selection, bringing together classical and contemporary music, blues, avant-garde, world, folk, jazz and the spoken word,” says managing director Jen Mitchell.
“Performances run from breakfast to midnight in our three auditoria, each 45-minute concert costing £4.50 online.
“Our aim is to provide the opportunity to dip into this or that, sample the unfamiliar, discover the unexpected.”
The three-day festival starts 9am on Friday September 4.
Concert highlights include:
* singing workshops for under-fives by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment;
* experimental folk/pop including acoustic/folk rock and acoustic/electronica played by Ted Barnes, the Leisure Society and Clayhill;
* music by new and experimental composers and such 20th-century giants as Debussy and Berio played by the London Sinfonietta;
* Henry VIII’s musical legacy, focusing on works by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd;
* Jazz/experimental played by Andy Sheppard, Jason Yarde, Max de Wardener and Sebastian Rochford;
l music from the baroque, classical and romantic eras performed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment;
* traditional folk renditions by such noted players as Kathryn Tickell, the world’s finest player of the Northumbrian pipes, and English concertina master Alistair Anderson;
* classical love songs including Beethoven’s Kiss, Haydn’s Piercing Eyes and Mozart’s Burnt Love Letters by the Classical Opera Company;
* classical Indian music interpreted by Amaan and Ayaan Khan;
* string quartets by Britten, Mozart, Haydn and Bartok played by the Chilingirian Quartet.
There will also be a centenary celebration of birth of Django Reinhardt along with other guitar performances by leading exponents.
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