The Capstone Theatre Liverpool’s International Arts Venue Spring Season January - May 2020 Events Calendar January February 31 Friday 7.30pm Phil Shotton Quartet ‘Straight Down’ 19 Wednesday 7.30pm Pierrot x Three Album Launch

ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 2020 LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2020 February February 6 Thursday 7pm Drift Chamber 27 Thursday 7.30pm Cykada (+Yaatri) 6 Thursday 8pm The Hive: A New Opera 28 Friday 7.30pm Tin Men and the Telephone (+ Hippo) 7 Friday 9am Refractive Pool 5 - Contemporary Painting 29 Saturday 1pm Milapfest and LIJF Presents: Sarathy Korwar In Liverpool Symposium 29 Saturday 3.30pm Hope Swings Eternal 7 Friday 7.30pm Cabaret From The Shadows 29 Saturday 7.30pm Blow 3.0 (+ Beyond Albedo) 8 Saturday 3pm Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra March 8 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: Classical Horizons 1 Sunday 10am Liverpool Saxophone Day 2020 9 Sunday 3pm Student Theatre Double Bill: 1 Sunday 2.30pm Martin Archer's Anthropology Band Give Us A Second / The Last Album (+ Moonmot) 10 Monday 7.30pm Dance Double Bill: Stilled Bones / Stuck 1 Sunday 7.30pm Tony Kofi Quartet (+ Blind Monk Theory?) 11 Tuesday 1pm Film Screening: La Strada (1954) 11 Tuesday 3pm Maps - MA Performance Platform 11 Tuesday 6pm The Composer’s Symposium 19 Thursday 7.30pm Vula Viel (+ Rafe's Dilemma) 11 Tuesday 8pm Pixels Ensemble 20 Friday 7.30pm Court And Spark - The Joni Mitchell Songbook 12 Wednesday 7.30pm Henry V: The King’s Knickers 26 Thursday 7.30pm Blackheart Orchestra (Or Made In England) May 13 Thursday 6pm Double Bill: The Stories of the Firefly / 5 Tuesday 7.30pm Square Chapel Arts Centre Presents Navarasa Mohana Outrageous Fortune by Debs Newbold 13 Thursday 8pm Figures in a Floating Landscape [Hamlet Reclaimed] 14 Friday 6.30pm This is Not a Magic Show 9 Saturday 7.30pm Allerton Brass: Movie Connections by Vincent Gambini 16 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: 14 Friday 8pm Phil Shotton Big Band Valentines Concert Continental Landscapes PHIL SHOTTON QUARTET 3 ‘STRAIGHT DOWN’ ALBUM LAUNCH Friday 31st January 2020, 7.30pm £11.50 Phil Shotton - tenor saxophone Tom Sykes - piano Matt Lawton - double bass Jez Finch - drums

Phil Shotton and his quartet will be playing, in their typically swinging, melodic style, tracks from their debut album Straight Down alongside other tunes from the Great American Songbook.

Straight Down was inspired by Phil’s admiration of the Blue Note recordings of the 1950’s in which a band would meet in the recording studio, call some tunes and perform in a live situation. So for their debut album, after choosing the tunes from their recent live repertoire (over a cup of strong coffee), the band went straight into recording with no overdubs, all the tracks captured in one take, and nothing overly produced.

Phil says, "I believe this gives the album an honesty and empathy in the playing, more of a conversational feel between the musicians. We were keen to record everything in one take just like a live gig. I feel it gives the album a real sense of energy. Matt (Lawton) and I had talked about recording in this way for a while, which is different to the usual studio sessions we do with other ensembles. We were keen to capture the moment with all its thrills in real time."

CDs will be on sale during the evening and can be signed by Phil and the band. ART | MUSIC | PERFORMANCE | FILM | WORKSHOPS | DISCUSSION

4 LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: THE HIVE: A NEW OPERA ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 “ALL THE THREES” Thursday 6th February 2020, 8pm Saturday 9th February 2019, 7.30pm Venue: The Warehouse Theatre, Liverpool Hope (pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) University Creative Campus Venue: The Great Hall £6.50 £15 (Senior Citizen £13.50, Harvey Brough - music Student 17 and over £5, 16 and under FREE) Carole Hayman - words Beethoven - Leonore Overture No.3 Saint-Saëns - Violin Concerto No.3 We all have dark thoughts, but some are deadly dark. DRIFTBrahms - Symphony CHAMBER No.3 Combining violent real life crimes with magical realism; The Hive shows a world in which forensic doctors, barristers and detectives meet ThursdaySergej Bolkhovets 6th February - conductor 2020, 7pm Hansel, Gretel and Cinders in the other-worldly forest of Arden. Sophie Rosa - violin £6.50 From grim tales to the real thing, we are fascinated with violent crime, on TV, in the media, in films, and particularly when the perpetrators Drift Chamber is a collaboration between composer/arranger Joe are women. Duddell and producer/sound designer Lex Shellard combining ambient classical and electronic soundscapes. Their debut album “Women kill within a small area. Where they have most influence –within Pulse Nocturnes was released in 2019 following live appearances at their domestic coral. You might say… (he smiles) Women kill close to the Festival No.6 and for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction. hive”. This is the first full performance of The Hive, an opera as beguiling as it Joe Duddell has written many concert works for major festivals is shocking. It is presented as a Scratch Performance. and performers worldwide. Over the last ten years he has become renowned for his collaborative projects with artists such as Elbow, Richard Hawley, Nero, Steve Mason and New Order, amongst others, to wide critical acclaim.

Composer and sound designer Lex Shellard has produced not only his own film production music and sound design but also worked as a producer and mix engineer for other artists and companies including Deadly Avenger. REFRACTIVE POOL CABARET FROM THE SHADOWS 5 ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 - CONTEMPORARY Friday 7th February 2020, 7.30pm PAINTING IN LIVERPOOL Venue: The Warehouse Theatre SYMPOSIUM £12 (£10 concessions) Friday 7th February 2020, 9am Political, comic, sexy and strange, Free Admission Cabaret From The Shadows is a kaleidoscope of dark comedy, satire Refractive Pool is a project exploring and live music that will take you on a contemporary painting-based practice in journey through a crazy hall of mirrors. the Liverpool city region, through events, In an increasingly hostile world, Teatro exhibitions and critical writing. The project Pomodoro offers a cathartic escape into is led by Liverpool based artists Josie Jenkins the crazy, twisted and perverse. Tonight and Brendan Lyons and is currently in a no subject is taboo. research phase. Teatro Pomdoro’s Cabaret From The Refractive Pool has partnered with Liverpool Shadows has been developed entirely in Hope University to bring you a symposium Liverpool receiving support from the that will explore aspects of Liverpool's Lantern Theatre, the Unity Theatre, contemporary painting scene, through Merseyside Arts Foundation, Hope presentations from Liverpool-based artists Street Limited, Physical Fest and the and a panel discussion, focusing on the Arts Council England. It is a fresh and experience of painters working in the city. shameless show with an eclectic mix of The symposium will encourage discussion about contemporary painting in Liverpool, theatre, dark comedy and live music.

informing Refractive Pool's research. A‘‘ mind bending, thought ‘‘ provoking feast for the soul! Fringe Review Brighton Fringe Award Winner 2017 6 PAGODA CHINESE LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 YOUTH ORCHESTRA CLASSICAL HORIZONS Saturday 8th February 2020, Saturday 8th February 2020, 7.30pm (pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) 3pm £15 (Senior Citizens £13.50, Students 17 and over £5, 16 and under FREE) Venue: The Great Hall, Liverpool Hope University Lennox Berkeley - Sinfonietta Creative Campus Ian Stephens - Clarinet Concerto Robin Wallington - conductor Mozart - Symphony No.40 in E flat major Mandy Burvill - clarinet Free Admission

The Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra Liverpool Mozart Orchestra is delighted to welcome, for the (PCYO) is the first and largest first time, up and coming conductor Robin Wallington to direct Chinese Youth Orchestra in Europe. them in their February concert. The centrepiece of the concert is PCYO has adopted an experimental the northern premiere of local composer Ian Stephens’ Clarinet Photo credit: Adam Shawyer Adam credit: Photo and somewhat audacious approach in Concerto. For those who have heard Ian’s work performed its innovative music fusions with folk by the RLPO, amongst others, know that his music is always songs, reggae and hip-hop. They have inventive and engaging, and teaming up with erstwhile RLPO collaborated with world acclaimed clarinettist Mandy Burvill makes for a scintillating prospect. musicians as diverse as The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; The concert begins with music from a British composer Jah Wobble, MC Jin and noted from a bygone era, Lennox Berkeley. His Sinfonietta of 1950 professional musicians from China has classical period influences and offers the orchestra a not and the USA. During the past 35 inconsiderable challenge. The opening movement is energetic years the Orchestra has appeared on and airy with the hunting horn adding to its outdoor style. international stages and television on numerous occasions, such as the UK, After the interval comes Mozart’s most famous symphony, China, Italy, Burma, Australia, the No.40. Instantly recognisable from the first notes, the USA and Canada. symphony is one of Mozart’s most melodic orchestral works, with a charming first movement, beautiful second movement, an unusually serious minuet and spritely finale - an absolute must for Mozart fans. STUDENT THEATRE DOUBLE BILL: Angel Field Festival presents a double bill of 7 GIVE US A SECOND / two short student plays: ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 THE LAST ALBUM Give Us a Second Give Us A Second is a devised play, directed by second year Hope Drama and Sunday 9th February 2020, 3pm Theatre students, Ella Kirk and Amy-Leigh Mills. The audience is invited Venue: The Warehouse Theatre to follow the journey of four young men of differing backgrounds, Sam Free Admission (Jacques Granier), Oscar (Oliver Preston), Jamie (Robert Hardman) and Teddy (Connor Newdick), all of whom are struggling to find their place in an abrasive modern society that allows for little masculine self-expression. However far apart these young men are economically, they are united by their shared desire to be heard. With influences from the works of Frantic Assembly and Gecko Theatre Co. the piece encapsulates various discussions of what comes with being a man today and explores this through the use of physical theatre with the aim of generating more debate about the subject. The Last Album The Last Album is a play written and directed by Robert Hardman. A man known as Tiger (Zach Bradbury) comes home from a long and eventful day at work and simply decides that he wants to kill himself. He is done with life, so why not? When he tells his eccentric flat mate Elsta (Robert Hardman) that he wants to kick the bucket she decides to give him the night of his life. However, events do not turn out as intended and go a little down-hill, fast. They do every drug under the sun and it doesn’t help with anyone’s issues. Tiger is also visited by: his religiously confused American friend (Shae Kelly), an angry European landlord (Jacques Granier), his homophobic Mother (Ella Kirk) and his demented Grandma (Amy-Leigh Mills). So, it is quite an eventful evening. We see the play through Tiger’s eyes and after all the drink and drugs, would you be able to tell a clear story? The play also explores many themes such as: Religion, identity, suicide, racism, homophobia, dementia, mental illness, friendship, domestic abuse, rape, divorce, sex and finally love. So, there is something for everyone. Despite how bleak the play may sound; it is in fact a comedy. 8 DANCE DOUBLE BILL: Angel Field Festival presents ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 STILLED BONES / STUCK a double bill of new Dance: Stilled Bones Monday 10th February 2020, 7.30pm Developed by Liverpool based dancers Rachel Sweeney £6.50 and Melisa Pasut in collaboration with Cuban singer and percussionist Guillermo Luis Horta Betancourt and musician Andre Leslie Hooker, Stilled Bones is based on North Wales’s seventh century abbess and martyr, Saint Winnifred, (Gwenfrewi in Welsh), told through contemporary storytelling blending Celtic song, Japanese butoh dance, Cuban percussion and electro acoustic composition. The title refers to the longstanding religious tradition of digging up and removing a Saint’s bones within contested landscapes in order to recover their symbolic significance and, often, to state territorial claims. 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To mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of director Liverpool Hope University is delighted to present a thrilling and inspiring Federico Fellini, the Angel Field Festival is screening his 1954 showcase of works by emerging artists, alumni of the MA Performance filmLa Strada. at Liverpool Hope University. This event celebrates performance as a multidisciplinary platform within which to explore the condition of being When Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a naïve young woman, human in contemporary life and culture. is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto (Richard Basehart), the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò. 10 THE COMPOSER’S PIXELS ENSEMBLE ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 SYMPOSIUM Tuesday 11th February 2020, 8pm Tuesday 11th February 2020, Venue: The Great Hall 6pm £11.50 (£6.50 concessions) Free Admission Johann Sebastian Bach - Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering Fiona Fulton - flute Olivier Messiaen - Le Merle Noir, for flute and piano Thelma Handy - violin In this free concert, undergraduate Tristan Murail - Feuilles à travers les cloches Alex Holladay - cello students from Liverpool Hope Sofia Gubaidulina - Rejoice! Sonata for violin and cello Ian Buckle - piano University will be showcasing their original compositions, ranging in style from 18th century folk Pixels Ensemble’s programme reflects diverse composers’ expressions of spirituality. From Bach’s late dances to modern harmony- contrapuntal style, through Messiaen’s devoted use of birdsong to Gubaidulina‘a fiendishly virtuosic cantered pieces. Scored for an ‘Rejoice!’ Sonata; these iconic works are at the heart of their composers’ musical philosophy. The eclectic ensemble of student concert is completed by a sublime exploration of musical textures by Tristan Murail and pieces by performers, each of the pieces has composition students at Liverpool Hope University. it's own special idiosyncrasies.

One‘‘ of the punkiest storytellers I know. Really cheeky and HENRY V: THE KING’S KNICKERS ‘‘ 11

always properly in the room and talking to actual people who ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 (OR MADE IN ENGLAND) get on buses and eat pizza and shout at the telly. Wednesday 12th February 2020,7.30pm Alys Torrance, Story Jam Venue: The Warehouse Theatre £6.50

What does England mean to you? Henry V kicking ass at Agincourt? Or great big M&S knickers?

Part history, part story-set, and part straight-up rant, The King’s Knickers wilfully picks at the fraying knicker elastic of national identity.

Back by (base, common and) popular demand after a sell-out premiere in 2019, The King’s Knickers asks what a mythic hero king - and really huge pants - can tell us about being English today.

Stephe Harrop is a contemporary storyteller, spitting out new words and re-spinning old tales to try and make sense of a crazy world. 12 DOUBLE BILL: THE STORIES OF THE FIREFLY / NAVARASA MOHANA ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 Thursday 13th February 2020, 6pm Venue: The Warehouse Theatre £6.50 Angel Field Festival presents a double bill of new work: The Stories of the Firefly Navarasa Mohana Storytelling, accordion, drumming and vocalisations. Choreography and live dance by Santosh Nair. Written by Silvia Battista Performed by Silvia Battista with special guest Steve Boyland The Bhagavatam is one of Hinduisms’ eighteen great puranas, traditional Hindu texts that took form during the medieval period. The Stories of the Firefly brings together visuals, experimental storytelling Navarasa Mohana relates to the tenth chapter of The Bhagavatam and and sound. Written through the use of what Battista refers to as ritualistic translates as "Nine Emotions (Nava = Nine and Rasa = Emotions)". writing, the resulting performance is a visceral, hypnotic, visionary journey. Inspired by the work of artists such as Laurie Anderson, Pauline The Navarasa, in the scriptures therefore refer to the nine expressions Oliveros, Kimmo Pohjonen and Patti Smith it reflects on the poetics of that humans often show. These are love (shringaara), laughter (haasya), active imagination, Buddhist philosophies, and animistic ecologies. This kind-heartedness or compassion (karuna), anger (roudra), courage specific version of the performance is accompanied by the vocal artist (veera), fear (bhayaanaka), disgust (bheebhatsya), wonder or surprise Steve Boyland. (adbhutha) and peace or tranquility (shaantha). FIGURES IN A FLOATING Figures in a Floating Landscape is a dance, music, sonic soundscape performance from 13

composer Peter Coyte and choreographer Dora Frankel featuring two musicians and four ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 LANDSCAPE dancers. The piece is Coyte and Frankel’s third collaboration and the second part of their Turner Trilogy, the first piece beingThe Unfolding Sky: Turner in the North. Thursday 13th February 2020, 8pm £12 (£10 concessions) Figures in a Floating Landscape delves deep into the later improvisatory sketches of JMW Turner when he resided in Kent, and re-contextualises this work in relation to today’s climate change, the damage to the coastline and the evolution of the towns Turner knew so well.

In preparing the score, Peter Coyte, along with musician colleague Martin Elliott, retraced Turner’s steps making field recordings. Coyte then spent time experimenting and developing the score using these materials. In February 2018 musicians, dancers, visual artists and photographers were invited to Whitstable’s Horsebridge Arts Centre to continue development of the piece. In these sessions the basic form took shape and, with funding from Arts Council England, the artists have now developed it as a full length piece, an exciting new abstract

work that packs an emotional punch. Waddington Luke credit: Photo 14 THIS IS NOT A MAGIC PHIL SHOTTON BIG BAND VALENTINES CONCERT ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020 SHOW BY VINCENT Friday 14th February 2020, 8pm GAMBINI £11.50 Friday 14th February 2020, 6.30pm Phil Shotton and his big band, which features Basie, Duke Ellington and more contemporary Venue: The Warehouse Theatre some of the finest jazz musicians from the big band composers. Joining Phil and the Big £6.50 North West of England, regularly perform Band will be vocalist Corinne Andrew, a regular alongside many national and international jazz singer with the Phil Shotton Big Band and Phil's Forget everything you know about magic artists and have appeared at major jazz festivals, own quartet. Corinne will be singing repertoire and magicians. venues and music festivals throughout the synonymous with romance, love and all things Now remember it all again. country and abroad. Valentines related!

Vincent Gambini's This is not a Magic Show In high demand as a both a jazz soloist and A talented bandleader and conductor, Phil is a performance of and about sleight-of-hand musical director of jazz ensembles Phil will comperes performances fluently, eloquently lead his swinging big band through the most and with great humour! You can expect a real magic: its invisible mechanics, its clichés, romantic of big band repertoire for this special romantic, jazzy treat with a few surprises along and what it tells us about live theatre and Valentines concert! Expect the most romantic the way! make-believe. In a conversational yet crafted of music from the likes of Stan Kenton, Count approach, Gambini presents astonishing close-up magic that invites us to question how wonder is produced in a theatrical situation. Possibly the first of its kind, This is not a Magic Show is part performance-lecture, part deconstructed showbiz, and part magic tricks that leave you, like, omg.

Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning PIERROT x THREE 15 Wednesday 19th February 2020, 7.30pm £10 (£8 concessions)

Directed by Joan Laage (Kogut Butoh) with Melissa Pasut and Rachel Sweeney Music by Scott Adams Costumes by Shoko Zama and Joan Laage

Liverpool Hope University faculty members Melissa Pasut and Rachel Sweeney join Seattle- based Joan Laage in a work inspired by the famous Commedia dell’Arte figure known for its naivete and tragic/comedic escapades. The black and whiteness of the costumes and the interweaving of the dancers suggest the yin/yang Chinese symbol as they alternately dissolve into each other and separate. This work premiered as a trio in Italy in Spring 2018 with Kea Tonetti and Maruska Ronchi, then in duet form with Shoko Zama at the Seattle International Dance Festival and with Kea and Maruska in Italy in Winter 2019, and most recently as a duet with Kea in the Paris Butoh Festival in June. The whimsical and plaintive sound score by Seattle composer Scott Adams was commissioned specially for this piece. Photo credit: Sara Meliti Sara credit: Photo 16 CYKADA (+YAATRI) Cykada is supported with an opening

Liverpool International set by Jazz North Introduces winners, Thursday 27th February 2020, 7.30pm Yaatri, a five-piece jazz crossover quintet formed in Leeds in September £11.50 of 2018. Their blend of complex composition and ethereal soundscapes Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020 opens with a concert headlined by Cykada, an captivates the heart as well as the mind. innovative and energetic collective of musicians from the new London jazz scene. Cykada is Influenced by the emotive quality of an energetic bomb of unique style. It engages distant poles, analogue worlds crashing with the Scandinavian jazz tradition, the electronics, eastern influences crossing with western, harmonising nostalgic moments with dance momentum of the rhythms of India floor bangers. It seems that Western Africa is just bordering with Eastern Europe, where Turkish and the energy of rock and roll, their music high fives Flamenco and all of this is wrapped up with the fundamentals of the London music has a strong sense of purpose club scene. There are so many inspirations that it may seem impossible to unite them, however and journey. they make it happen, creating layers of devastation, beauty and intrigue. Photo credit: DWoodfield credit: Photo

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Think Michael Bublé with a hint of rebel in his past and you have Chris James, the king of big band swing! The Flintshire Leader TIN MEN AND THE TELEPHONE (+ HIPPO) Tin Men and the Telephone will 17

be supported with an opening set Liverpool International Friday 28th February 2020, 7.30pm by Bristol based contemporary jazz trio, Hippo. In the lineage of Donny £11.50 McCaslin and STUFF, Hippo's music buries a jazz aesthetic in a nest of beefy Described by The Times in a 5 star review as“a 21st-century gig in which multimedia electronics and bouncing rhythms. The gadgetry and a sense of mischief combine to create something fresh and unexpected”, Tin earnest muscular sound debuted on Men and the Telephone have made a name for themselves with their cutting edge use of their 2018 release caught the attention technology and multimedia, as well as their unique interactive performances. of BBC Radio 3, Introducing, and Fresh on the Net. Playing live, their The group now present their new albumWorld Domination Volume 1: FURIE (Federal hybrid music has seen them entertain Union for Restoring Intergalactic Equilibrium) which is a return to activism and politics diverse crowds across the UK - from in jazz. Far more than just a collection of tunes, the album follows a science fiction techno raves to basement jazz clubs story, a humorous and provocative look at our modern world through the lens of fake and everything in between. news and alternative facts. The music is a combination of acoustic jazz and futuristic Jazz electronic sounds, all composed around the speeches of various populist politicians.

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allows you to enjoy a whole new and unique‘‘ experience. BBC 18 MILAPFEST AND LIJF PRESENTS: HOPE SWINGS Liverpool International SARATHY KORWAR ETERNAL Saturday 29th February 2020, 1pm Saturday 29th February 2020, £10 3.30pm Venue: The Capstone Foyer Sarathy Korwar has established himself as one of the most original and compelling voices in the UK Free Admission jazz scene, leading the UPAJ Collective, a loose band of South Asian jazz and Indian classical musicians brought together through a love of collaboration and improvisation, who set up a residency at the Jazz Under the direction of Phil Shotton, Café in London. Korwar has collaborated with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings (The Comet Is Coming), jazz saxophonist and professional clarinettist Arun Ghosh and producer Hieroglyphic Being, as well as groups Penya and Ill Considered. tutor in music performance at He has toured with Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal and Moses Boyd. Liverpool Hope University, Music students from the Liverpool Hope

His daring debut album, Day To Day, recorded with the support of the Steve Reid Foundation,

Jazz University Big Band form smaller, was released by Ninja Tune in 2016. The album fused traditional folk music recorded with the Sidi more intimate, ensembles to community in India (combining East African, Sufi and Indian influences) with contemporary jazz entertain the festival audience with

and electronics.

Festival 2020 an eclectic mix of swing, bebop, He released his second studio album, More Arriving, through The Leaf Label in July 2019. With this fusion and straight-ahead mainstream latest release, Korwar blasts out his own vibrant, pluralistic narrative for the world to hear. The album is jazz. Vocalists will be featured a reflection of Korwar’s experience of being an Indian in Britain, and incorporates rappers from Mumbai alongside the instrumentalists singing and New Delhi, spoken word and Indian classical and jazz performances. More Arriving is a record born songs from both the Great American of confrontation; one for our confrontational times. Songbook and modern pop songs arranged in a jazz style. BLOW 3.0 (+ BEYOND ALBEDO) Since arriving on Earth in 2017, retro- 19

futuristic quartet Beyond Albedo have Liverpool International Saturday 29th February 2020, 7.30pm performed at Lancaster Jazz Festival; collaborated with Chris Sharkey (of £15 Roller Trio) on their single Arrival; been selected to take part on Jazz Young, anonymous, Belgian band Blow 3.0 are one of the latest hot exports from the North’s 2019 Northern Line artist continent, fusing jazz, punk and dance music in their superb live stage shows. Sometimes support scheme, and participated referred to by fans as ‘Drum n Sax’, the band cut their teeth in underground clubs across in the Sage Gateshead’s Summer Belgium and the Netherlands and have performed in some very unusual settings including Studio 2019 programme. The band’s rooftops and forests. music combines drum machine grooves, driving synth basslines, Their pioneering style and appearance quickly gained them notoriety online where in no explosive drumming, pulsating guitar, time at all they had amassed over 10,000 followers for their outlandish shows and soon they and effects-laden saxophone. They had caught the attention of major national promoter Live Nation who instantly snapped weave intricate dance music with them up for representation in their home country. The band went on to electrify audiences at improvisation, conjuring a sound that Jazz festivals in France, England, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and even Brazil playing to doesn’t quite belong on this planet thousands at the legendary Copacabana Beach in Rio.

Festival 2020 20 LIVERPOOL SAXOPHONE MARTIN ARCHER'S The concert features an opening set by

Liverpool International UK-Swiss collaboration Moonmot. In DAY 2020 ANTHROPOLOGY BAND 2017, Cath Roberts and Dee Byrne, (+ MOONMOT) saxophonists from London, were Sunday 1st March 2020, 10am invited to take part in Jazzwerkstatt, Venue: The Cornerstone Building, Sunday 1st March 2020, 2.30pm Bern. From their quartet, Word of Liverpool Hope University Creative Moth, they brought over bassist Seth £11.50 Campus Bennett and drummer Johnny Hunter £25 to work with Swiss musicians Oli Taking the electric music of Miles Davis Kuster (piano) and Simon Petermann as its starting point, Anthropology Band (trombone). Following a stint at Liverpool Saxophone Day is back in 2020 is about finding the atmosphere through a London Jazz Festival and a Swiss tour with an action-packed day for all sax deep rhythm, a searing blues run, a delicate they have recently released their debut players. In collaboration with the prestigious melody, or a cascading solo statement. self-titled album. annual Liverpool International Jazz Festival,

Band leader Martin Archer has kept the Newcombe Andy credit: Photo Jazz Liverpool Saxophone Day will bring you music as simple as possible – often driven seven sax workshops and ensembles, three live by the bassline – and the structures loose, performances and plenty of sax trade stalls.

to enable this who’s who of UK creative Festival 2020 Whether you're a novice or pro, into jazz, musicians to let the music breathe in a classical, big band, electronic, funk, Liverpool different way each time it is played. There Saxophone Day has got it covered. are multiple chordal instruments in the centre of the sound, allowing each soloist to The day-long event includes performances by sit on a kaleidoscopic wave of inter-crossing Skeltr and Blind Monk Theory?, and a ticket figures which push the music forward. for the day includes free entry to Tony Kofi’s evening concert taking place in The Capstone

Theatre that evening.

Martin‘‘ Archer's aesthetic is an intriguing and transformative one - whatever‘‘ enters his world comes out changed, if not utterly, then beautifully Duncan Heining, All About Jazz TONY KOFI QUARTET 21 (+ BLIND MONK THEORY?) Liverpool InternationalLIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2020 Sunday 1st March 2020, 7.30pm £15 Tony Kofi - alto saxophone Byron Wallen - trumpet Larry Bartley - double bass Rod Youngs - drums

The Tony Kofi Quartet was formed four years ago as a result of Tony Kofi being asked in 2010 by Ornette Coleman’s former Prime Time bass player

Jamaaladeen Tacuma to go to New York to record Jazz on his new album For the Love of Ornette which featured the great man himself. The influence has

inspired Kofi to put together this collective of Festival 2020 world-class musicians who have all been touched and inspired by the music of Ornette Coleman. Expect to hear all the classic Ornette Coleman compositions from The Shape of Jazz to Come, This is our Music, Something Else, Tomorrow is the Question and Beauty is a Rare Thing.

Tony Kofi Quartet will be supported with an opening set by Liverpool based quartet Blind Monk Theory? Blind Monk Trio formed early 2012 playing arrangements of Thelonious Monk tunes without a pianist! Now expanded to a quartet featuring The Weave's Martin Smith on trumpet, the latest incarnation of the band, Blind Monk Theory? performs music that forges wide-ranging influences - jazz, folk, beats, african, asian, classical, cinematic, rock, electronic into a unique sound firmly steeped in the legendary chordless groups of Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and the compositions of Thelonious Monk. 22 VULA VIEL (+ RAFE'S DILEMMA) Following the acclaimed release of Do Not Be Afraid and a busy tour that took them from UK to Europe and back, including a stellar performance at Thursday 19th March 2020, 7.30pm Womad captured by BBC Radio 3, Vula Viel return with a new album. The band continue their sonic explorations around the gyil, the wooden xylophone £11.50 of the Dagaare from Upper West Ghana, on their brand new set, What’s Not Bex Burch - gyil Enough About That. Ruth Goller - bass Jim Hart - drums Picking up from early 2019’s Do Not Be Afraid, the new album breaks new ground as Bex Burch (gyil), Ruth Goller (bass) and Jim Hart (drums) continue to forge their own unique fusions. While Do Not Be Afraid developed ideas around disciplined ‘rhythm wheels’, rhythm patterns in regular cycles set to the band’s angular instrumentation, the new tracks stretch out the band’s sound, at times delicate and at others moving into raw post-punk soundscapes.

This concert will include an opening set from Leeds-based quartet Rafe's Dilemma. Featuring Nel Begley, Jamil Sheriff, Katie Patterson and Pete Turner, Rafe's Dilemma pull together influences from jazz, electronica and rock. Originally formed in 2017 as a commission for Bolton Worktown Festival (2018) the band went on to release their debut album Rafe’s Dilemma with an accompanying Arts Council England supported tour (2019). They are currently part of Jazz North’s Northern Line Scheme 2019/20. COURT AND SPARK - BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA 23 THE JONI MITCHELL SONGBOOK Thursday 26th March 2020, 7.30pm Friday 20th March 2020, 7.30pm £15 (£13 concessions) £17.50 (£15.50 concessions) Inspirational electronic folk pioneers The Blackheart Orchestra take folk to a new unexplored dimension. Described as “a mesmerizing powerhouse” (Xune “Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel Magazine) , “an avant-garde musical utopia” (No Depression) and “one of the That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal”. most extraordinary voices singing anywhere today” (Rock Society Magazine), - Joni Mitchell - Judgement of the Moon and Stars vocalist Chrissy Mostyn along with multi-instrumentalist Rick Pilkington combine their classical influences with vintage synths and ultra-contemporary Singer, songwriter, painter, poet, activist and voice of electronica to create music that takes over the senses. a generation, Joni Mitchell is an essential part of the soundtrack to the twentieth-century. She grew up As emotionally charged as it is musically accomplished, expect sublime with folk music in the 60s, she railed against injustice harmonies, virtuoso guitar, piano and synthesiser playing and song writing, in the 70s - she turned her autobiography into song in and arrangements that take the audience “from heart-breaking to uplifting in a the 80s and reinvented herself in the 90s. Court and single song”. With awards including Best British Duo, Limelight Progressive Spark - the Joni Mitchell Songbook will take you on a Music Award Nomination and being voted in the UK’s Top 4 Best New musical journey that will probably mirror your own Bands, The Blackheart Orchestra are two voices and thirteen instruments journey through life, from Ladies of the that create a unique musical experience that is truly ground-breaking.

Canyon, Clouds, For the Roses, Blue and Court and Spark, to the cool, evocative ‘‘ sounds of The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Mingus and Turbulent Indigo. A‘‘ great band BBC Radio 2

‘‘ Genuinely profound‘‘ and evocative. A life-enhancing listening event Louder Than War 24 SQUARE CHAPEL ARTS CENTRE PRESENTS OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE BY DEBS NEWBOLD [HAMLET RECLAIMED] Tuesday 5th May 2020, 7.30pm £10 (£8 concessions)

Gertrude: Wife. Mother. Queen of Denmark.

A fearless woman whose power was consistently undermined by the men around her. In the 400 years since Hamlet was written, what - if anything - has changed?

Welcome to purgatory. Where everything we know about Gertrude is torn apart, reimagined and reclaimed by one woman and a jazz drummer in a funny and fierce act of rebellion. There’ll be tea. There’ll be a visit from Joan of Arc. There will be noise.

Fusing original narrative and Shakespearean verse with bold physicality and thunderous sound, award-winning performance storyteller Debs Newbold places Shakespeare’s iconic text under a 21st century lens to offer an alternative perspective; putting a woman front and centre in this notorious story of male revenge. ALLERTON BRASS: LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: 25 MOVIE CONNECTIONS CONTINENTAL LANDSCAPES Saturday 9th May 2020, 7.30pm Saturday 16th May 2020, 7.30pm (pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) £10 (£8 concessions) £15 (Senior Citizens £13.50, Students 17 and over £5, 16 and under FREE) Tickets available by calling 07752 678224 Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor Capstone regulars Allerton Brass Sibelius - Symphony No.2 in D major return to present an evening Teresa Riveiro Böhm - conductor of movie music in their latest Luke Jones - piano performance Movie Connections. Liverpool Mozert Orchestra is taking a trip to the Steppes of Central Asia and the If you have ever wondered what Finnish Tundra for the final concert of their season. Borodin’s symphonic poem, inspired the blockbuster movie In the Steppes of Central Asia, is one of his most popular works and depicts an scores, who and what have interaction between a caravan of Central Asians and a group of Russian troops as influenced our great film composers, they accompany them across the steppe lands of the Caucasus. how film music actually works and how it has developed and evolved The orchestra welcomes back Luke Jones after his stellar performance over time, then join us for an of Chopin’s Second Concerto, to perform Schumann’s ever popular entertaining evening of film music Piano Concerto, a work that amply demonstrates Schumann’s classics and all will be revealed. capacity for virtuosity and melody in equal measure.

The concert ends with Sibelius’s glorious Second Symphony, a work which Sibelius himself said was a “confession of the soul”. You can picture the Finnish landscape as Sibelius takes us on a journey from a pastoral opening to an evocative slow movement, a bustling scherzo and one of the most uplifting finales of any symphony in the repertoire.

LMO's season finale will be deftly directed under the baton of Teresa Riveiro Böhm, Leverhulme Conducting Fellow from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. GREAT EVENTS START WITH HOPE

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