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First Person: Héloïse Werner on a live collaboration with fellow composers and performers
New music in a trio concert with a difference
by Héloïse WernerMonday, 28 June 2021
A rich line-up for 3 July: Kit Downes, Colin Alexander and Héloïse Werner feature music by Shiva Fesharek, Love Ssega, Errolyn Wallen, Jonathan Cole and Jasmin Kent Rodgman
It’s not every day that you have the opportunity to perform with musicians like the ones I’ll be sharing the St John’s Smith Square stage with on Saturday 3 July; organist Kit Downes and cellist Colin Alexander are some of the best musicians I know. I say “share the stage”, but that’s not technically correct.
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uring lockdown, the Bush theatre joined forces with the BBC to film Phoebe Eclair-Powellâs razor-sharp monologue about social media toxicity and trolling. It was a standout drama, not only for Leanne Bestâs delicious performance as a lonely estate agent who becomes an obsessed âfrenemyâ to a social media influencer but also for the intimacy it conjured on screen. It was hard to imagine a staged version, with a different actor, that could better this gloweringly brilliant film.
Yet here it is, live at the Bush, this time starring Kelly Gough in a performance that has the same twisted relish as the film, but with added physicality. Tense, heady and full of savage laughter, it is intoxicating from beginning to end. Eclair-Powellâs script still glints and her barbed wit stings. But the production is filled with viscerality and visual thrills, from the creepy shifts in Lee Curranâs lighting to Jasmin Kent Rodgma
When the first lockdown hit in March 2020, composer-cellist Colin Alexander was finally inspired to write multi-layered solo music for his own instrument - something he had never tried before, as he explains here
A TOP music festival will be going virtual for the first time this year when the audiences will be treated to a quintet of world premieres. While focusing mainly on contemporary music, the Bangor Music Festival has been a cultural highlight on the city s calendar for more than 20 years and it is due to go ahead on March 12-13. This year the series of concerts under the theme of ‘the environment’ will be streamed online, with organisers committed to ensuring those watching and listening can still enjoy the festival s repertoire of musical delights, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the highlights will be a tribute concert on the first evening to acclaimed Welsh composer John Metcalf, featuring his new string quartet.