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Shoreditch Church, Shoreditch
High Street
February 24th 8.30
pm start
admission £6/£5
concessions
The Intercessions series explores an
unusual musical format which intersperses short passages of
written music by contemporary, classical or baroque composers
with passages of free improvisation, separated by short
silences. This will be the second Intercessions event. The
format produces startling and extreme contrasts of style, but
beyond this it can also result in subtle influences that
impact on the process of improvisation, casting sudden shafts
of illumination on to the extemporised responses of the
musicians. The lively acoustic of Shoreditch Church generates
a very special atmosphere in which shifts of mood and musical
form can touch the listener in unexpected ways, granting the
instruments a sumptuous tonal richness.
Intercessions – written music
from:
Astor Piazzolla, J S Bach (Satoko
Fukuda, violin)
John Cage (Noel Taylor, clarinet)
György
Ligeti (Niko Meinhold, piano)
Intercessions- the improvisers
Free Improvisations &
extemporised responses performed by:
Niko Meinhold, grand piano
Satoko
Fukuda, violin
Noel Taylor, clarinet
Guillaume Viltard,
contrabass
Steve Noble, percussion
About the musicians:
The disparate backgrounds of the
quintet masks a shared sensibility, finely tuned to the nature
of the occasion. Satoko Fukuda is an award winning classically
trained violinist who has performed all over the world under
the auspices of the Concordia Foundation, but she is also that
rare creature – a classical musician who can improvise her
socks off. Here she is joined by Niko Meinhold, a composer and
pianist from Berlin, trained in everything from jazz piano to
12 tone improvisation. Niko recently stunned a Café Oto
audience when he was the guest performer for a ‘piano
concerto’ with the London Improvisers Orchestra. Noel Taylor,
on clarinet, is the instigator of this series, bringing
together musicians that he has performed with in completely
different situations for this specific project. Guillaume
Viltard has put down some outstanding performances in the past
months, both as a soloist and with the Tony Marsh Trio. He
plays with his whole body in a highly physical style that
moves from the abstract to the lyrical. Finally, the
percussive brilliance of Steve Noble – high priest
of the illuminati of fine UK drummers that grace the jazz and
improv scene.r content here