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Kings Place Festival 2013
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Travel to Kings Place
Artists
Elena Dabul was born in Mendoza, Argentina. She began music studies in her native city at an early age. In 1989 she earned the degree of "Licenciada en Piano" from the School of Music of the Faculty of Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina, under the direction of Dora De Marinis. She received the Gold Medal distinction from the Faculty of Arts for academic excellence, and an Honorary Mention from the Argentine Federation of University Women.Dabul has attended workshops and master...
After more than a decade of enormous success in his home country, Kjell Ola Dahl - the master of Norwegian crime writing - is now gaining wider recognition abroad with his intelligent crime novels. Dubbed ‘the Norwegian Mankell', his skilful plots, literary prose and dark, drily humorous stories have scooped the country's most prestigious crime novel award, The Riverton Prize, as well as helped his fictional Detective Inspectors Gunnarstranda and Frølich achieve cult status. He has published two novels in...
At his debut at the BBC Proms in 1992, when in his twenties, The Sunday Times described Nicholas Daniel as one of the greatest exponents of the oboe in the world. Today, one of the UK's most distinguished soloists as well as an increasingly successful conductor, he has become an important ambassador for music and musicians in many different fields.
Educated at Salisbury Cathedral School, where he was a chorister, the Purcell School for gifted young musicians and at the Royal Academy of Music, Nicholas...
Winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music in 2007 and the Chamber Music section of the BBC Music Magazine Awards in April 2009, the Dante Quartet (Krysia Osostowicz violin, Giles Francis violin, Judith Busbridge viola, Bernard Gregor-Smith cello) is known for its imaginative programming and the emotional intensity of its performances. The group was founded in 1995 at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall, and chose the name of...
Trained by the legendary Sarod maestro Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta, the young Soumik Datta plays his Sarod with an elegant, poignant style of his own. Having authored three albums, he is recognised as a major young British talent within the Indian classical music world. His solo performances and collaborations have led to him winning several awards globally. He has also collaborated and toured with Talvin Singh, Beyonce, Shankar Mahadevan, Bill Bailey and has his own world fusion band 'Samay' (www....
In recent years, Tansy Davies has established herself at the vanguard of the new wave of young British composers. Following initial studies at Colchester Institute (French horn and composition), she later freelanced professionally in orchestras and rock bands whilst studying composition with Simon Bainbridge at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and then, later, for her PhD with Simon Holt at Royal Holloway College, London (where she is Composer in Residence). In June 2006, the BBCSO and Zsolt Nagy...
London-born, New Zealand-bred, and now UK-based, pianist Stephen de Pledge is much in demand as both soloist, chamber musician, and song accompanist. A regular at the Wigmore Hall (where he made his debut in 1999), he has performed there with such groups as the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, the English Chamber Orchestra Ensemble and Chamber Domaine. Recent far-flung engagements have included New York, Shanghai, Bogota and Beijing. Stephen de Pledge’s repertoire spans over 4 centuries, but he is...
New BeginningsIn November 2005 Rohan de Sarambid farewell to the Arditti Quartet in order to pursue his own artistic vision. He works now with a variety of artists, friends and composers, bringing together music from a range of musical periods and parts of the world, both eastern and western, classical and contemporary, composed music and improvisations, with players from many musical backgrounds.Young Prodigy"There are few of his generation that have such gifts" Pablo Casals"A rare genius,...
Composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist Max de Wardener is an arch-experimentalist whose work weaves an atmospheric tapestry of gentle oratorio, tonal grandeur and shimmering, cut-up electronics. An explorer in the worlds of contemporary composition, instrument making, electronica and sonic art, Max's work can be heard in a variety of fields covering live performance, recorded music, sound design and film and television. Classically trained, Max studied music at York University then...
Robin Deacon is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in the UK. Working since the early 1990's, much of his work encompasses live performance with a series of performed lectures that have explored journalistic and documentary approaches to arts practice. His work is characterised by a humorous and often satirical approach to the subject matter. His performances and videos have been presented in the UK and internationally in venues such as The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1996), The Young Vic...
Claude Debussy (born Achille-Claude Debussy) was among the most influential composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His mature compositions, distinctive and appealing, combined modernism and sensuality so successfully that their sheer beauty often obscures their technical innovation. Debussy is considered the founder and leading exponent of musical Impressionism (although he resisted the label), and his adoption of non-traditional scales and tonal structures was paradigmatic for...
Formed at the Royal College of Music (RCM) in January 2006, the Delphinia Quartet comprises violinists Sophie Locket and Charis Jenson, viola player Bryony Mycroft, and cellist Jonathan Rees, who has recently joined the ensemble. In 2007 the Delphinia Quartet won the Helen Just and Susan Connell Prize for Chamber Music at the RCM, and performed at the Wigmore Hall as part of the Royal College String Player of the Year competition.
The Delphinia Quartet's concert programme has taken it to venues all around...
Born in Dublin, Donnacha Dennehy has received commissions from the BBC, WNYC (Public Radio New York), RTÉ, Amsterdam Funds Voor der Kunst, the Arts Councils of both England and Ireland, and from many individual ensembles. Noted performers of his work include Bang On A Can All-Stars, Orkest de Volharding, London Sinfonietta, Percussion Group of the Hague, Ensemble Integrales, Electra, Prism Saxophone Quartet, Joanna MacGregor and Jenny Lin among others. He has also collaborated with artists working in video...
Helmut Deutsch studied piano, composition and musicology in his home city of Vienna and was awarded the "Vienna Composition Prize" for his creative achievements. From the time he was a student, he specialized in chamber music and Lied Accompanying and has since played for many world renowned instrumentalists, involving himself in all forms of chamber music. His career as Lied accompanist began with the famous soprano Irmgard Seefried. Mr.Deutsch has since played for such renowned singers as...
Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas was born in Havana, Cuba. He graduated from the Superior Institute of Art (Havana) in Guitar and graduated a year early with a first-class honours degree. He went on to study at the Royal College of Music with Carlos Bonell and Chris Stell. In 2006, supported by the Kramer-Chappell Scholarship and the Mad Hatters Club, he commenced studies with Professor Robert Brightmore at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
In the UK he has performed in prestigious venues such as the...
DJ Strangefruit is widely recognised as one of the leading Norwegian DJs of the past ten years, playing a broad mix of cutting edge dance music, obscure classics and unexpected flavours. He has been an important figure on Norway's music scene, developing the on-going dialogue between club culture and jazz, co-producing cuts for Nils Petter Molvaer and collaborating with well known musicians such as Bugge Wesseltoft. His sounds are fresh, exciting, sometimes leftfield, taking in the whole gamut of musical...
Roger Doyle was born in Dublin and studied composition on scholarships at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht and the Finnish Radio Experimental Music Studio. He has worked extensively in theatre, film and dance, in particular with the music-theatre company Operating Theatre, which he co-founded with actress Olwen Fouéré. Babel, his magnum opus, was begun in 1990 and had its first public showing in an entire wing of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1992...
Danny Driver was educated at Cambridge University and at the Royal College of Music, winning several awards including the Royal Over-Seas League Competition Keyboard Award and the title of BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year on completing his studies in 2001. Danny Driver appears frequently at the Wigmore Hall and has given several performances at the South Bank Centre, Manchester's Bridgewater Hall and Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician at...
Mary Dullea is from Cork, Ireland and studied at the Royal College of Music, London on the Edith Best Scholarship. Her Masters degree in Contemporary Music Studies is from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Much in demand as a soloist and chamber musician, Mary has performed throughout Ireland, England, Europe, USA, Hong Kong and South Africa at festivals including Brighton, Huddersfield, Corsham, Aldeburgh, Reggello (Italy) and National Arts Festival (South Africa) and was the Irish pianist at EU...
Dune Music was established in 1997. It is a multi-award winning platform for professional jazz artists giving them opportunities to perform, compose and record. To date, its artists and directors have earned around 30 awards, including two Mercury Music Prizes for An Album Of The Year, three MOBO awards for Best Jazz Act, and a cluster of BBC and other awards. Janine Irons, co-founder and Managing Director, was awarded the MBE for Services To The Music Industry in 2006, and Artistic Director, Gary Crosby,...
The oud, one of the most beautiful and oldest of instruments in the world is brought into the 21st Century in Smadj's new project . DuOud mix the North African lute with electronic technology, and do it with an imaginative freedom that sets them apart from their contemporaries. They build a musical cycle that looks both to African roots while absorbing elements of contemporary French music - break beats, jazz grooves and metal guitar are all invited to join the party.
Wild Serenade (Label Bleu, France) is...
Born in 1983 in Troyes, Laurène Durantel studied the double bass with Sandrine Vautrin (second soloist at the Orchestre de Paris), Catherine Robin (second soloist at the Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Paris), Daniel Marillier (first soloist at the Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Paris) and with Philippe Noharet (double bassist with the Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Paris). She studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (SNSMDP) in 1999 and obtained her diploma of superior...
"Alan introduced Tony to me. Tony came round to see me, never having heard me play. Alan brought Tony round three times before I finally agreed to take part and put a band together with other musicians. I insisted that I would have control and all kinds of ridiculous things, which was just silly."
Vini Reilly explains in his most recent interview (for Scream City fanzine) how The Durutti Column was born.
Alan was Alan Erasmus and Tony was Tony Wilson. In 1978 they were looking for a band their...
Michael Dussek has led an exceptionally varied and successful career, performing throughout the world as soloist, chamber musician and singer's accompanist. He has partnered many of today's leading instrumental and vocal soloists, including violinists Ryu Goto, Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Akiko Meyers, Gil Shaham, Antje Weithaas and Xue Wei; cellist Ofra Harnoy, flautist James Galway, oboist Douglas Boyd; and singers Susan Bullock, Bernarda Fink, Christopher Maltman, Ian Partridge and Jean Rigby. Michael...
Will Dutta, pianist and collaborator, is noted for his unique and intelligent programming skills, connecting the dots between modern dance music and classical, contemporary and experimental art music for a 21st century audience. He is committed to developing new repertoire for piano and electronics and forthcoming collaborations include Warp veterans Plaid, multimedia artist Scanner and award winning composers Gabriel Prokofiev and John Richards. On graduating from Trinity College of Music in 2007, Will...
