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Greek music is always related to dance, with interesting rhythms and harmonies. Organized by EKON (see http://www.ekon.org.uk/) it promises to be an interesting concert. The Ivory Duo piano ensemble will take to the stage from 1:30pm-2:00pm with music by Constantinides, Skalkottas, and an arrangement of film score Spartacus. Tickets on the door: £5

An exciting charity concert in a beautiful, newly renovated church in Canterbury.
Canterbury College presents a piano duet charity concert. The recital will feature music by Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin, as well as arrangements of classics of film music (Citizen Kane, North by Northwest, Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus). The Ivory Duo husband-and-wife ensemble with pianists Natalie Tsaldarakis and Panayotis Archontides has performed in such venues as St-Martin-in-the-Fields, St John's, Smith Square, the Sibelius Academy, Athens Concert Hall (Megaron) etc.
The concert will benefit both the Footlights Trust Canterbury and ClassicFM's Music Makers and is sponsored by Steinway&Sons.
Both the Lord Mayor of Canterbury and her Consort have confirmed their attendance at the concert.

On August 15, an important celebration date in the Greek calendar, the Ivory Duo, a London-based husband-and-wife duet with Greek pianists Natalie Tsaldarakis and Panayotis Archontides, will offer a four-hand piano recital with works by major Greek composers Nikos Skalkottas (Peloponnese and Epirotikos Dances from the orchestral 4 Greek Dances; arranged by Dave Smith) and Yannis Constantinides (8 Dances from the Greek Isles; arr. P. Archontides), as well as their own arrangements of film music by Alex North and Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, Spartacus, North by Northwest, A Streetcar Named Desire). In collaboration with Trinity College of Music. Entrance free.

Greek pianist Natalie Tsaldarakis (the Piano Meetup organizer) will be performing Yannis Constantinides' 44 Children Pieces - Volume 3 (nos. 31-44). The pieces are all based on folklore dances from around Greece. The recital appropriately coincides with the great Greek celebration of national independence (from the Ottoman empire). This is a free lunchtime concert with a retiring collection in aid of the church.

Conversational Concerts
are Back!!

Sunday, February 17 at 3pm

Gabrielle Painter & Karl Lutchmayer

PROGRAMME:

Walton Sonata for Violin and Piano

Berners Trois Petites Marches Funèbres

Alkan Etude pour la Main Gauche Seule Op76

Busoni Second Sonata for Violin and Piano Op36a

Much refreshed, our founder and Artistic Director, Karl Lutchmayer, returns to England?s shores, with a briefcase full of thought-provoking new programmes. Having retired entirely unequal to his self-appointed mission of imparting the subtle art of irony to his American students, it comes as no surprise to find that the first half of this concert celebrates Englishness and satire.

Perhaps best remembered for Façade, the manifestation of his attachment to the Sitwells and all things satirical, Walton later developed an impassioned and brooding voice, perhaps nowhere more evident than in his rarely heard violin sonata written for Yehudi Menuhin. As for Lord Berners, where else, but at Conversational Concerts, would you have the opportuity to hear the music of the last of the gentlemen amateurs, who combined lives as a diplomat, author, painter and composer, as well as being a well-known eccentric? A beacon of British Modernism, and a friend and inspiration to the Sitwells and Walton (to whom he was also a patron), his dissonant and witty funeral marches were some of the most critically acclaimed works of any British composer of the period.

Our second half panders to Karl?s twin obsessions, opening with Alkan?s extraordinary etude for left hand alone, which he first heard in his teens, and has been summoning up the courage to play ever since! The concert ends with one of Busoni?s most haunting works, written in the shadow of the death of his mentor, Brahms, and perhaps the finest late-Romantic violin sonata of them all. All this, and cake too ? definitely an afternoon not to be missed.

Tickets £12 (concs £10)

The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, Southbank, London SE1 8ST

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