Classical music and jazz: Latest listings> May 13
Published: 13 May 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
FRIDAY MAY 14
Swing/mainstream: Phil Brown Swingtet, Spice of Life, Cambridge Circus, Soho, 020 8647 2114, 12.30pm, £5
Recital: international pianist Bobby Chen plays Bach, Zhang Zhao & Chopin, Hinde Street Methodist Chapel, W1, 01494 580 439, 7,30pm, £10/students £5.0
Melodic trumpeter: Kevin Davy Quartet, Map Café, 46 Grafton Road, NW5, 020 7916 0544, 8pm, £10 in adv
SATURDAY MAY 15
Glorious jazz veteran: French pianist Claude Bolling Trio, Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1,
020 7388 8822, 7.30pm, £20
SUNDAY MAY 16
Family Friendly: horns and strings, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, N6, 020 8348 8716, 11.30am, £7/con£5/ schoolchildren £1
Jazz veteran: tenor titan Willie Garnett joins Pete Chapman Trio, Princess of Wales, 22 Chalcot Rd, Primrose Hill,
020 7722 0354, 2pm, free
Versatile trumpeter: Angus Moncrieff Quartet, The Engineer, 66 Gloucester Avenue, Primrose Hill,
020 7722 0950, 7pm, free
Double bill: Jess Berry Qt/Tom Hewson’s ‘Treehouse’, North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road, NW6,
07941 962356, 7pm, £5
Opera Viva: Llucia di Lammermoor, 020 8202 4573 & david@2morris.co.uk,
Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, N6, 7pm, £15/con £12
Highgate Choral Society: Anthems with brass & organ, St Michael’s Church, South Grove, N6, 07952 508234, 7.30pm, from £11/con £8
MONDAY MAY 17
Southbank Sinfonia, Crush Room, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 020 7304 4000, 1pm, free/seats 10am RoH box office
Album launch: jazz singer Georgia Mancio, PizzaExpress, 10 Dean Street, Soho, 08456 027 017, 7pm, £15
Pianist Mike Gorman and drummer Matt Skelton join the Steele brothers, Positively 4th Street, 119 Hampstead Road, NW1, 020 7388 5380, 8pm, £2
Cool jazz: saxist Martin Speake’s Quartet, The Con Bar, 42 St Pancras Way, NW1, 07830 255 958, 8.30pm, £5
TUESDAY MAY 18
First night: new Tosca, ENO, Coliseum, St Martin’s Lane, 0871 472 0600, 7.30pm, from £20, (till June 27)
Jazz pianist Sam Leake’ Aquarium, The Oxford, 256 Kentish Town Road, 020 7485 3521, 8.30pm, £5
Guitar feast: Hannes Riepler Quartet/Andy Manndorff Trio, The Forge, 3 Delancey Street, Camden Town,
020 7383 7808, 7.30pm, £10
WEDNESDAY MAY 19
Ravel’s piano concerto played by Hélène Grimaud and LSO conducted by Valery Gergiev,
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2, 0845 120 7501, 7.30pm, £7-£32
THURSDAY MAY 20
Piano recital: Maria Razumovskaya plays Schumann and Liszt, St Pancras Parish Church,
Euston Road, NW1, 020 7388 1461, 1.15pm, free
Jazz in the House: top-knotch Harrison Smith Quartet, Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, N6,
020 8348 8716, 8.30pm, £9/con£7.50
Norma Winstone, Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1, 020 7520 1490, 7.30pm, from £9.50 online saver-seat www.kingsplace.co.uk
• Friends of the Music in association with Hampstead Church Music Trust are presenting a Robert Schumann soirée, with Martin Oxenham, baritone; and Lee Ward, piano, Music Room, 40 Netherhall Gardens, NW3, 7.30pm. (No tickets on door.)