Premiere of New Music 20x12 commission
Warwick Arts Centre celebrates the Cultural Olympiad on 3rd March 2012 in an afternoon of music and table tennis, with a Musical Promenade culminating in the premiere performances of Joe Cutler’s new work for the Coull Quartet and four table tennis players, with film by Tom Dale.
Photo: Ed Moore
The Arts Centre will be filled with fun activities on the themes of Ping!
Come and try your skills against the table tennis robot, watch a tournament, or join a table tennis workshop with some of England’s top players.
Musical Promenades will take place at 12.00, 2.00 and 4.00 and will last about an hour. To book your free places on the Promenade please contact the Warwick Arts Centre box office on 02476 524 524 or visit their website at www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Brazil, Brazil!
We are about to embark on a journey of musical discovery with our distinguished friend and colleague, the Brazilian pianist Clelia Iruzun. Brazil is a country which is currently in the spotlight, with the world Cup taking place there in 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016.
We join Clelia and the internationally respected Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon in a concert of Brazilian Music at the South Bank Centre on 24th November. The programme reveals the secrets of Brazil’s rich heritage of chamber music for guitar, piano and strings, with its African, native Brazilian and European influences.
We then tour to Brazil with Clelia in October next year, when we have been invited to perform in Rio and Sao Paulo. We will also be travelling to Bahia in the North East of Brazil, working with the youth orchestra and giving a chamber concert in their series. We hope to bring some of the young players from Bahia back to the UK for chamber concerts in the future.
Brazil at Southbank Centre, London on 24th November 2011
6.30pm Brazil and the UK: Cultural dialogue towards the 2016 Olympics and beyond.
Discussion led by Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor of the University of Warwick and distinguished colleagues (Purcell Room)
7.45pm ‘Three Centuries of Music from Brazil’ , performed by Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon, London-based Brazilian pianist Clelia Iruzun, and the Coull Quartet (Purcell Room)
9.30pm After the concert there will be the opportunity to hear another side of Brazil’s musical life. Anselmo Netto and friends will be performing Brazilian Choro and world music in the relaxed ambience of The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
This concert sees the realisation of Clelia’s long-held ambition to give the UK premiere of Henrique Oswald’s romantic Piano Quintet. We hope you can join us!
“The classical chamber music of Brazil is a hidden treasure trove which I would like to share with audiences everywhere” says Clelia.
Southbank Centre information
