Classical and Jazz: Latest Listings>July 15
Published: 15 July 2010
FRIDAY JULY 16
Sinatra Under the Stars: swing with Willie Garnett’s 17-piece big band plus singer Attila Hussein, Parliament Hill Bandstand, 7pm, free
Bela Fleck banjo/ Zakir Hussain tabla/Edgar Meyer bass, Barbican Hall, 7.30pm, from £10
Bach & Vivaldi violin concertos: Violinist Michael Gershwin plays with LMA Orchestra conducted by John Lander, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 7.30pm, from £6
SATURDAY JULY 17
Young opera singer showcase: Jette Parker Artists, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
020 7304 4000, 1pm, from £5 Italy
The Bach Players, St John’s Downshire Hill, Hampstead, NW3, 020 7272 7651, 8.10pm, £15/students & school-children £8
SUNDAY JULY 18
Bandstand concerts: free
Golders Hill Park, Piano-led jazz, blues & swing played by TJ Johnson’s Band, 3pm
Kensington Gardens, Essex Concert Band, 2pm, & 3.45pm
Parliament Hill, Classics to pop: Harrow Concert Wind Band, 3pm
Regent’s Park Melodic alto sax & flute player: Allison Neale & rhythm section, 3pm
St James’s Park, London & Southern Champion Band (12 times!): Redbridge Brass Band, 3pm
Other Sunday concerts/gigs
Trumpeter Henry Armburg-Jennings joins Cai Marle-Garcia & co, Map Café, 1pm, £4/musicians £2
Song recital: Brazilian duo baritone Victor Sgarbi and pianits Ivan Pires, St George’s, Bloomsbury Way, WC1, 020 7242 1979, 4pm, free
MONDAY JULY 19
Helen Bamber fund-raiser: mezzo Catherine Hopper, pianist Julius Drake, & Endellion String quartet, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £12
TUESDAY JULY 20
Catch rising piano star Christina Lawrie playing Brahms & Rachmaninov, St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1pm, free
Period fortepiano recital: Malcolm Bilson, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £12
WEDNESDAY JULY 21
Gould Piano Trio play Beethoven, Ireland & Dvorak, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £12/under 25s free
Alto saxist Bob Martin, Map Café, 7pm, £10
Guitarist Ed Riches joins young vocalist Deborah Carew’s Quinetet, Charlie Wright’s, 45 Pitfield Street, N1, 020 7490 8345, 8.30pm, £5/ cons £3
Russian post-bop altoist Zhenya Strigalev, Round Midnight, 13 Liverpool Road, N1, 020 7837 8758, 9pm, free
THURSDAY JULY 22
Performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Paula Martinez violin and Mikako Sugamura piano, St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, NW1, 020 7388 1461, 1.15pm, free
Venues:
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC1, 0844 848 8443 • www.barbican.org.uk/101
Map Café, 46 Grafton Road, NW5, 020 7916 0544 • www.map.music.net
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, 020 7766 1100 • www.smitf.org
Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street, W1, 020 7258 8292 • www.wigmore-hall.org.uk