2024: UPCOMING
EVENTS + PROJECTS
23.04.2024
Vortex Jazz Club
Royal Academy of Music present:
FREE IMPROV GROUP
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This programme represents the culmination of workshops with this special group of Royal Academy of Music students, connected by a keen interest in delving deeper into individual expression and exploring collaborative forms of real-time music-making.
30.04.2024
Stoller Hall
Nikki Yeoh & NYJO present:
SPEECHMIK X-PLORATION
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NYJO joins forces with the keyboardist and creative free spirit Nikki Yeoh for a special audio-visual performance of new and reworked music - Yeoh’s seminal multimedia work ‘Speechmik X-Ploration’ promotes a message of unity and plurality, which remains poignant today.
02.05.2024
Saffron Hall
Nikki Yeoh & NYJO present:
SPEECHMIK X-PLORATION
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NYJO joins forces with the keyboardist and creative free spirit Nikki Yeoh for a special audio-visual performance of new and reworked music - Yeoh’s seminal multimedia work ‘Speechmik X-Ploration’ promotes a message of unity and plurality, which remains poignant today.
03.05.2024
Cheltenham Jazz Festival
Nikki Yeoh & NYJO present:
SPEECHMIK X-PLORATION
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NYJO joins forces with the keyboardist and creative free spirit Nikki Yeoh for a special audio-visual performance of new and reworked music - Yeoh’s seminal multimedia work ‘Speechmik X-Ploration’ promotes a message of unity and plurality, which remains poignant today.
09.05.2024
Besdales School
NYJO present:
BLUE NOTE
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NYJO presents an 18-strong jazz orchestra to perform a mixture of new and existing arrangements to celebrate the iconic Blue Note Records and its incomparable contribution to jazz music.
25.06.2024
Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music present:
SEEN AND HEARD
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Completing the Royal Academy of Music's festival season is the return of the Seen and Heard festival (25 and 27 June). Now in its fourth year, this festival celebrates diversity in classical music, including a recital from Jess Bull Anderson and Hannah Runting performing together as the acclaimed Solace Duo.
13.07.2024
St. Michael's Church, Sittingbourne
St. Michael's Church present:
SOLACE DUO ​
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An eclectic morning recital of song, original compositions, arrangements of canonic classical repertoire and transcriptions of jazz favourites by the "innovative, fresh and exciting" Solace Duo, comprised of trombonist Jess Bull Anderson and harpist Hannah Runting.
01.08.2024 - 04.08.2024
Wilderness Festival
Wilderness Festival Orchestra present:
GOD'S JUKEBOX
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An audience driven performance, with the programme developed around personal songs that have soundtracked various individuals' monumental moments in their lives.
TBC
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Coheara Collective present:
VISULISATIONS IN MUSIC
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With programming structured around premiering a new commission, 'Three Bursts of Yellow' by Elliot Teo, his beautiful composition is a musical visualisation and realisation of three paintings by Jess Bull Anderson - 'One Day Soon', 'Drawing Circles', and 'Resurrection'.
The Saturday Programme
The Bridge Academy
Brass, Ensemble, and Music Theory Coach:
HMDT MUSIC
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A source of local community pride, the programme also attracts students from across London and beyond - HMDT Music’s Saturday Programme serves over 350 students aged 6 months – 25 years on 30 Saturdays during each academic year, teaching programmes designed to enrich the lives of young people through music making.
2024: PAST
EVENTS + PROJECTS
14.04.2024
Pizza Express Live Holborn
NYJO present:
THE MUSIC OF CHARLES MINGUS
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Charles Mingus was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author - a major advocate of collective improvisation, he was one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history and his work continues to be celebrated to this day.
07.03.2024
Toulouse Lautrec
Empower present:
EMPOWER IWD
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A Celebration of Women in Music & the Arts for International Women’s Day, involving the World Premier of Hannah Runting's work 'A Single Thread' for trombone and harp, developed from Jess Bull Anderson's artwork 'The Beauty of Balance'.
06.03.2024
EartH
Wyatt Sinfonia present:
HACKNEY SCHOOLS SING
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An outreach project made possible through the support of South Hackney Parochial Charity, West Hackney Parochial Charity, Hackney Council and generous individuals - two hundred school children joining together to perform Karl Jenkins' Symphonic Adiemus with Wyatt Sinfonia.
24.02.2024
Isleworth All Saints Church
Aristidean Chamber Orchestra present:
IN VAIN
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A contemporary classical concert with the Aristidean Chamber Orchestra performing Georg Freidrich Haas's spellbinding work, In Vain.
20.02.2024
Ronnie Scott's
Nikki Yeoh & NYJO present:
SPEECHMIK X-PLORATION
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NYJO joins forces with the keyboardist and creative free spirit Nikki Yeoh for a special audio-visual performance of new and reworked music - Yeoh’s seminal multimedia work ‘Speechmik X-Ploration’ promotes a message of unity and plurality, which remains poignant today.
17.01.2024
Royal Academy of Music
Toby Anderson & Sam Woof present:
SATYRS - ACT I
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Composer Toby Anderson and librettist/director Sam Woof present the first act of their new opera, SATYRS, a tale about cults, queer love, hedonism and dance that brings Ancient Greek tragedy to the ritualistic world of queer clubbing.
15.01.2024
Royal Academy of Music
Solace Duo present:
PSYCHOMACHIA
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Psychomachia (Conflict of the Soul) presents the unique duo of harp and trombone in a programme that explores the musicians' personal experiences of disability and inner conflict.