Maki Sekiya (piano) in conversation with Jeremy Arden
Piano Works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schumann, Gershwin, Bach, Brahms, Schillinger and Jeremy Arden
We are delighted to host Oxford-based pianist Maki Sekiya's new Tête-à-Tête with Composers series in the coming years. Maki,
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repertoire, with a specific interest in contemporary music. In each of her Tête-à-Tête programmes, Maki invites a composer to present their own works for piano alongside the music that most inspired them, to form a kind of pianistic Private Passions recital. The first of these concerts focusses on the work of composer Jeremy Arden, who celebrates his 60th birthday this year. schillingers music Teatures In the programme ana Jeremy nas Kinaty orterea to give a pre-concert talk tocussing on the Schillinger System of Musical Composition at 6.30pm, something that should be of great interest to composers and theorists alike.
pre-concert talk, 6.30pm: The Musical Theories of Joseph Schillinger (Jeremy Arden)
Inside Outside
Contemporary and classical piano trios by Arden and Shostakovich with the sensational Paddington Trio.
Star singer, Lore Lixenberg and virtuoso accordionist Bartosz Glowacki perform new and old music by Arden, Bach and McBurney.
Ruah part 2: 3000 realms in a single moment of life
Ruah is an immersive multimedia oratorio. Live chamber music, immersed in an electronic aura and a continuously developing video takes the audience on a psychological and mystical journey.
True Self
The programme includes the premier of my piano trio, True Self, with a just-completed finale, played by pianist Ilya Chetverikov, violinist Natasha Sachsenmeier and cellist Timothée Botbol.
Inventions In Solitude
Inventions in Solitude was born during the great pandemic lockdown of 2020. Only days before the concert was to take place, a lockdown was announced and our concert was cancelled!
Im Freygish
Im Fregyish is a new string quartet, inspired by the idea that traditions and objects, and in the case of music, scales and melodic forms are passed between the generations and travel with the diaspora across the world.
Colourscape
Colourscapes are large air-supported colour sculptures where colour is used to make space active, to make an ambiguous space beyond measurement.