Making the most of my visit to Orkney, I will be joining an epic performance of Satie’s Vexations, organised by my dear friend Gemma McGregor.
The performance will be at the second floor of Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, starting at 10:30am and lasting all day long. Audience is welcome to come and go as they wish.
Can’t be more thrilled to be part of this!
work by Barbara Hepworth at Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney.
I am very happy to be part of the next Oxford Improvisers’ concert at The Loft Room @ The Old Fire Station. These bimonthly performances are always a feast of creativity and good free music, frequently featuring great musicians from the improvisation scene across the world, alongside our brilliant Oxford Improvisers’ musicians.
This month, our special guest is Marcio Mattos: born in Rio de Janeiro in 1946 double bass ‘cello performer Marcio Mattos has, since coming to Europe in 1970 has performed, recorded and broadcast in Britain and abroad. Mattos has performed with a host of improvisers including Evan Parker, Derek Bailey’s Company, Marilyn Crispell, Dewey Redman, Georg Graewe, Chris Burn, John Butcher, Phil Minton, Martin Blume, Eddie Prévost and many more. He also trained as a Ceramic artist at Goldsmiths college and continues to make and exhibit work in clay.
This concert will be a special occasion for me, marking a special moment in my story in Oxford, and being part of the Oxford Improviser’s ‘family’.
Hope seeing you there to share this moment with us!
7:45 – 10pm
Arts at the Old Fire Station
40 George Street
Oxford
OX1 2AQ
Tickets : £9 / £6
Illuminate Women’s Music is a project set by composer Dr Angela Slater, dedicated to promote the work of women composers and performers.
We, a group of women performers, will be performing works by women composers from the past and present, including pieces written especially for the project.
The dates and places that we will be playing are:
Thursday 08 March, 6pm: University of Goldsmiths, London SE14 6NW
Friday 09 March, 7:30: St. Michael’s at Northgate, Oxford OX1 3EY
Saturday 10 March, 11am: St. Mary’s Church, Stafford ST16 2AR
Saturday 10 March, 7:30pm: St. George’s Church, Birmingham B15 3DQ
Sunday 11 March, 2pm: Cardiff University Concert Hall, CF10 3EB
Friday 20 April, 7:30: St. Luke’s Church, Brighton BN2 9ZB
You can find everything about the project, including details of dates, places, ticket bookings, information about programmes, historical composers we will be playing works by, the team of contemporary composers and performers, in the website of the project, here.
I am so proud to be part of this project, and I hope to see you in one or some of our concerts!
My local choir, East Oxford Community Choir, is giving their second Concert with a flavour of my loved home country Brazil, now at my doorstep in Oxford, in Headington neighbourhood!
East Oxford Community Choir will be singing pieces by Brazilian composers Villa-Lobos, Ernani Aguiar and Ronaldo Miranda, also a piece by Oxford-based composer Marguerite Wallis.
I will be playing solo piano pieces by contemporary women Brazilian composers Marisa Rezende, Tatiana Catanzaro and Silvia Berg.
Also, we will have special guests Julia Hollander and Peter McMullin.
Come to enjoy this Brazilian flavoured Autumn evening with us!
Entry is free, with donations for Gerontius Amenity Funds, which provides health care for poor old people in Sierra Leone.
Saturday 30 September 2017, 7:30pm
St Andrews Church
Old Headington
OX3 9DL
What a joy for me that my local choir, East Oxford Community Choir, is giving their Summer Concert 2017 a flavour of my loved home country Brazil!
East Oxford Community Choir will be singing pieces by Brazilian composers Villa-Lobos, Ernani Aguiar and Ronaldo Miranda, also a piece by Oxford-based composer Marguerite Wallis.
I will be playing solo piano pieces by Brazilian composers Marisa Rezende and Silvia Berg, and a piece by Portuguese composer Sara Carvalho for prepared piano and toy piano.
Also mezzo-soprano Julia Hollander will be singing pieces by Villa-Lobos.
Come to enjoy this Brazilian flavoured Summer evening with us!
Saturday 15 July 2017, 7:30pm
St Michael at the North Gate
Cornmarket Street
Oxford City Centre
Free, with retiring collection for Sanctuary Hosting
This Saturday 27th May, Oxford Improvisers invite Vid Drašler, Tom Jackson and Daniel Thompson. There will be some improvisations with the host group too, and I will be playing piano and maybe organ.
St Columba’s United Reformed Church,
Alfred Street,
Oxford OX1 4EH
Tickets £8 / £6 on the door
7:45 pm – 10:00 pm
Vid Drašler, Tom Jackson and Daniel Thompson met for the first time in the spring of 2016 as part of the CRAM Records residency at FriForma in Ljubljana, Slovenia. During the residency the trio had the fortune to play and record as a trio in Vrhnika, Slovenia and immediately vowed to collaborate again.
Sat 11 March, 2017
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Marcello Magliocchi (percussion, Italy), Maresuke Okamoto (contracello, Japan), Adrian Northover (saxophone, UK)
Featuring a renowned international ensemble playing in Oxford for the first time.
Plus members of Oxford Improvisers (me included, on toy piano & objects).
£8 / £6 on the door
