To book for the concert, supper and accompanying wines – go here.
6.30 for drinks, the concert starts at 7pm.
The Kyan Quartet – Naomi (violin 1) from London, Sydney (violin 2) from Los Angeles, Simon (cello) from Paris and Wanshu (viola) from China – all come together next Monday at 33 Hampstead Lane where their programme will reflect their home countries:
- Peter Warlock’s Capriol Suite – for Naomi
- Sun Keting‘s Snowpetal – for Wanshu
- Caroline Shaw‘s Entr’acte – for Sydney
- Claude Debussy‘s String Quartet in g minor, Op. 10 – for Simon
Since they joined forces as a quartet in 2020, courtesy of the Royal Academy, the Kyans have held residencies with the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, the European String Teachers Association and the Borromeo Music Festival. They are also members of the very glamourous Le Dimore del Quartetto which arranges chamber concerts in stunning houses around Italy and elsewhere in Europe.
To book for the concert (in London!), supper and accompanying wines – go here.
6.30 for drinks, the concert starts at 7pm.
And then on Thursday, 7th….
Rush Hour concert with William Jack
William Jack, classically trained guitar-playing cellist-song writer, launches of his second album, The Old Cello Box Volume 2.
To hear some of William’s music for yourself go to his You Tube channel or his website.
To book for William’s Rush Hour concert – 6pm on November 7th – cost £15 for an hour’s music and a glass (or several) of wine – go here – or pay on the door.
Aurora’s Firebird
Aurora Orchestra enthusiasts will remember their spectacular memorised Rite of Spring at the Proms last year. Well, they have just done it again – with a memorised performance of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. In fact, with three performances – one at the Proms, one at Drumsheds in Tottenham, an ex Ikea warehouse now arts centre – and the third at the QEH last week. Here it was paired with Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen’s The Ring of Fire and Love, an other wordly portrayal of a solar eclipse, a volcanic belt, and the birth of a baby – and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G played with wonderful panache by Alexandre Tharaud.
As with the Rite of Spring, the QEH audience were given a hands on introduction to the Firebird by Radio 3’s Tom Service, conductor Nicholas Collon and members of the orchestra – elucidating Stravinsky’s fiendishly complex rhythms and his use of fourth, fifth and tritone intervals to create the scary vibes of the ‘Infernal dances’. And this was followed by a really amazing performance of the piece itself – played from memory and standing, both of which somehow lent extra urgency to the Firebird’s dramatic adventures.
As with many of Aurora’s concerts, when the applause had slightly died down the musicians left the stage to file up through the auditorium to give the audience, as Nicholas Collon said, a taste of what it is like to be in the centre of an orchestra in full flow. A very different and quite intoxicating experience as they replayed the last thrilling bars of the Firebird suite.
For other future happenings in at Hampstead Lane and elsewhere – see our Upcoming Events page.
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