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Royal Festival Hall
Friday 12 February 2010
A one-off night at Royal Festival Hall, bringing together a host of pioneers from the worlds of experimental electronics and avant-garde music.
The Front Room at QEH
Friday 12 February 2010
WorldService Project (WSP) are a contemporary quintet formed in 2008, largely playing the music of pianist and composer Dave Morecroft.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sunday 14 February 2010
Led by composer and artist Jamie McDermott, The Irrepressibles are a ten-piece performance orchestra that take pop melodies and inject them with dramatic arrangements, soaring vocals and stories of love, anger, lust and loss.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Music Through Unconventional Means presents Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra
Friday 19 February 2010
Southbank Centre Artist in Residence and beatboxer Shlomo works with Anna Meredith and a specially created orchestra to perform the world premiere of the Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.
Foyer Bar - level 2
Guillermo Rozenthaler & Rioplatenses
Friday 19 February 2010
Versatile Argentine vocalist-guitarist Guillermo joins forces with three of London's top Latin musicians - Javier Fioramonti (bass), Andres Ticino (percussion) and John Turville (piano) - to present a powerful, evocative, refined take on contemporary songs from Argentina, Uruguay and beyond.
The Front Room at QEH
Friday 19 February 2010
Specially invited by Shlomo for this Tonic debut, Submotion Orchestra is a live six-piece project from Leeds, incorporating deep bass-driven grooves and dense textures in their progressive live dubstep sound.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Beatbox Concerto for Kids Featuring Shlomo
Saturday 20 February 2010
Southbank Centre Artist in Residence and beatboxer Shlomo works with Anna Meredith and a specially created orchestra to perform a special children's version of Concerto for Beatboxer and Orchestra.
The Front Room at QEH
Saturday 20 February 2010
After a sell-out summer show Riz MC, British Underground and Ctrl.Alt.Shift host the second United Underground, a music and activism party across the foyers of Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 22 February 2010
Norwegian trumpet player, composer and producer Nils Petter Molvaer connects multiple music styles - jazz, ambient, house, electronic and break beats, as well as elements from hip hop, rock and pop music - and effortlessly melts them into convincing soundscapes of deep intensity.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Ian Carr - Celebration of a Life in Music
Tuesday 23 February 2010
In celebration of the hugely respected hero of British jazz, who died last February, this concert features a re-formed edition of Carr's seminal electric band, Nucleus; the London premiere of 'Northumbrian Sketches' with soloist Guy Barker and string ensemble conducted by Mike Gibbs....
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Lisa Ekdahl is a Swedish singer, composer, lyricist and recording artist who has recorded albums both in English and Swedish.
Purcell Room
Friday 26 February 2010
Singer-songwriter Judith Owen is best known to UK audiences as the exquisite voice of Richard Thompson’s 1000 Years of Popular Music, and most recently as one half of the two-woman theatrical performance and charity event Live From the Priory (pairing her emotionally insightful music with the true and poignantly funny story of comedienne Ruby Wax's road to recovery)
Foyer Bar - level 2
Friday 26 February 2010
Specially invited by Bellowhead, who will be performing in Queen Elizabeth Hall across the weekend, singer Mary Epworth with her Jubilee Band (the name stolen from her great great grandfather's Norfolk brass band) is an emerging singer-songwriter who makes music influenced by traditional English song and 1960s British psychedelia.
The Front Room at QEH
Friday 26 February 2010
Soprano saxophonist John Law's new group comprises several great musicians at the top of their game.
The Front Room at QEH
Saturday 27 February 2010
One of the founding fathers of the world music scene and a legendary Afro-pop band, Osibisa play a hugely-anticipated London gig.
Royal Festival Hall
John Cale & the Heritage Orchestra perform Paris 1919
Friday 5 March 2010
Legendary member of The Velvet Underground and acclaimed composer John Cale performs his seminal solo album Paris 1919, accompanied by The Heritage Orchestra
Foyer Bar - level 2
Friday 5 March 2010
Anita Wardell's singing is exciting and breathtaking.
The Front Room at QEH
Friday 5 March 2010
In just a few short years UK-based Swiss guitarist Nicolas Meier has carved a reputation out as one of the UK's most original guitarists.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 6 March 2010
Baby Dee performs tracks from her new album Book of Songs at this much-anticipated London show.
Purcell Room
Saturday 6 March 2010
Softly expressed and beautifully arranged, Kathryn Williams' songs stand out as some of the most intimate and acclaimed of the last decade.