This event is SOLD OUT but if you like jazz there are still tickets available for epic trombonist Callum Au and his TrombaFonics this Friday night at 7pm. Four of the country’s busiest trombonists join forces in a brand new, all singing, all sliding jazz and vocal extravaganza.

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James Pearson – Artistic Director of Ronnie Scott’s – performs Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and takes us on a journey through the Golden Age of Hollywood and its intersection with classical music. Featuring Music@Malling favourite Lizzie Ball on violin and vocals.

James Pearson – Piano
Lizzie Ball – Violin/Vocals
Jeremy Brown – Double Bass
Jon Shenoy – clarinet/sax
Will Riby – percussion
Matt Skelton – Drums

Refreshments will be served in the interval

The Fidelio Trio perform Beethoven and Brian Elias alongside Schoenberg’s luminous Verklärte Nacht in an arrangement by his student Eduard Steuermann for piano trio.

Fidelio Trio

Beethoven – Piano Trio, Op.70 The Ghost
Brian Elias – Duo
Brian Elias – Three Duets
Schoenberg arr. Steuermann – Verklaerte Nacht, Op.4

Four of the country’s busiest trombonists join forces in a brand new, all singing, all sliding jazz and vocal extravaganza. Come along on a whistle stop tour through the Great American Songbook inspired by some of the world’s most popular jazz musicians including Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Count Basie. Led by top trombonist and arranger Callum Au and featuring the sublime vocals of Louise Balkwill – TrombaFonics promises to be a unique, nostalgic and uproarious night out! Performance includes “side-by-slide” with local jazz musicians.

TrombaFonics

Callum Au – Trombone/vocals
Felix Fardell – Trombone and vocals
Tom Dunnett – Trombone and vocals
Matthew Lewis – Trombone and vocals
Sam Watts – Piano
Chris Hill – Double bass
Ed Richardson – Drums
Louise Balkwill – Vocals

*Includes “Side-by-Slide” with local secondary schools.

Refreshments will be served in the interval.

Long time collaborators Gavin Bryars and the Smith Quartet premiere his Fifth String Quartet based on texts by Petrarch with soprano Else Torp. This concert includes the groundbreaking Schoenberg String Quartet No.2, Op.10 which includes the moment where Schoenberg enters a new musical realm: one that was to radically alter the course of music in the 20th century.

Smith Quartet
Else Torp – Soprano

Schubert – Quartettsatz, D.703
Gavin Bryars – String Quartet No.5 (world premiere)
Schoenberg – String Quartet No.2, Op.10

A concert of old and new music by the world’s pre-eminent viol consort, Fretwork. Sir George Benjamin and John Woolrich introduce their works for this brilliant ensemble and place them into their historic context.

Fretwork
Susan Bickley – Mezzo Soprano
Thomas Kemp – Conductor

Lawes – Consort Set in F – Fantasia, Pavan, Aire
John Woolrich – Three Arias from “The Book of Disquiet”
Gibbons – Two In Nomines
Wolf – Auf ein altes Bild
John Woolrich – Three Fantasias from “The Book of Disquiet”
Purcell – O Solitude
Purcell – Two Fantasias in Four Parts
George Benjamin – Upon Silence