Indira Román & Ají Pa’Tí will present a stomping live set, of insistent riffs, pure groove and tropical melodies in the Elgar Room. Indira Román, summons up spirits of amor, coaxing people in, then whipping the crowd into a climatic sway of lovers rock. Indira Román is one of the best female Latin artists in the UK. Cuban singer, songwriter …
DEADLINE Finish This… Online and in your school @ English National Opera, London
Finish This… is the English National Opera’s FREE music making programme for schools nationwide; bringing a fusion of opera, film and animation into your classroom, as a creative springboard for collaborative composition work. Finish This… invites students to step into the role of an ENO Composer and respond to, and resolve, a purposefully unfinished operatic piece titled ‘Blue, Red, Yellow…’. …
Relaxed Late Night Jazz: Michèle Drees’ Tap Project @ Royal Albert Hall, London
The acclaimed Michèle Drees’ Jazz Tap Project perform live in the Elgar Room. Michèle Drees Jazz Tap Project is a spectacular mix of rhythm tap dance and jazz. This project works towards helping the revival of the iconic ‘jazz tap’ from Harlem to Hollywood’s silver screen, right up to the present day jazz tap movement in the UK. This project …
The English Concert Relaxed Performance @ Barbican, London
In 1749 George Frederic Handel gave a benefit concert for London’s Foundling Hospital. Vocal stars come together with The English Concert to recreate that first concert in a relaxed setting, including favourite moments such as the Music for the Royal Fireworks and the Hallelujah Chorus. The concert will last approximately 60 minutes.
Relaxed Late Night Jazz: Bryony Jarman-Pinto @ Royal Albert Hall, London
DETAILS Bryony Jarman-Pinto performs live in the Elgar Room. Bryony draws influence from the likes of Hiatus Koyote, Solange, Zara Macfarlane and Lianne La Havas. She finds herself increasingly merging elements of folk music with the jazz and world influences of her youth, for a sound that is truly her own. Since releasing her debut LP, Bryony has been remixed …
Working with SEND Learners at The Red House
A Partnership Project between Autism in Nature and Britten-Pears Arts Joe Carr, Collection and Learning Curator Background The Red House is the historic home of the composer Benjamin Britten and his partner the singer Peter Pears, located in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. It comprises the historic house, kept as Britten and Pears knew it; Britten’s composition studio, similarly in its original state; …