Classical and Jazz: Latest Listings > September 30
Published: 30 September, 2010
Friday October 1
Royal Over-Seas League music competition: prizewinners, National Portrait Gallery, Trafalgar Square, 020 7306 0055, 6.30pm, free
Saturday October 2
World’s leading trumpet virtuoso: Hakan Hardenberger, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £12
Blues Night: Akili Trust fundraiser, Free Church Hall, Northway, NW11, 188 194, 7.30pm, £20 inc. dinner
Kings Place: Hall One: Schumann songs: Mezzo Ann Murray, 7pm / Schumann part songs & cello concerto, 8.15pm
Hall Two: Django Bates’s 50th birthday gala, 8pm All concerts: online super-saver £9.50
Sunday October 3
Jazz & grub: Lesley Grant sings with Joe Bickerstaff, Bar Elixir, 162 Eversholt Street, NW1, 020 7383 0925, 1pm, £5
Jazz & jam: Tom Millar Trio/ Cai Marle-Garcia, Map Café, 1.30pm, £4/musicians £2
Glorious jazz veteran: Dick Pearce joins Pete Chapman Trio, Princess of Wales, 22 Chalcot Road, NW1, 0207 722 0345, 2pm, free
Piano recital: Yung-Yee Chen, St George’s, Bloomsbury Way, WC1, 020 7242 1979, 4pm, free Barbirolli Quartet, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1, 07732 040 615, 6.30pm, £8/students & under-18s £4, no advance booking
London Chamber Music Series: Wihan Quartet, Kings Place, 6.30pm, online £16.50
Double bill: Joe Wright/James Madden plus Josh Arcoleo Quartet, North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road, NW6, 07941 962 356, 7pm, £5
Jazz & jam: Nat Steele Quartet, Positively 4th Street, 119 Hampstead Road, NW1, 020 7388 5380, 8pm, free
Monday October 4
Bizet’s Pearl Fishers: concert performance, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 020 7304 4000, 7.30pm, from £4.50, (also Tuesday) Sam Crockatt, The Oxford, 256 Kentish Town Road, NW5, 0207 485 3521, 8.30pm, £5
Dorian Ford Trio, Lower Ground Floor Bar, 269a West End Lane, NW6, 020 7431 2211, 9.30pm, £5
TUESDAY OCTOBER 5
Rehearsal/listeners welcome: Dan Spanner Big Band, Kings Cross Social Club, 2 Brittania Street, WC1, 020 7278 4252, 8pm, free
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 6
Trumpeter Damon Brown joins Leon Greening Quartet, Map Café, 7pm, £10
Master drummer: Tony Allen, Barbican, 7.30pm, from £13.50
THURSDAY OCTOBER 7
Schubert’s Dichterliebe sung by baritone Thomas Humphreys accompanied by Raya Kostova, St Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, NW1, 020 7388 1461, 1.15pm, free
Classic jazz ballads: Tazina Frank with guitarist Barry Langton, St George’s Bloomsbury, 6pm, free
Handel’s Radamisto: new Christopher Alden production, ENO, Coliseum, Trafalgar Square, 0871 472 0600, 7pm, from £17, seven perfs till November 4
Leopold String Trio & pianist Aleksander Madzar, play Borodin/Schnittke/Taneyev, Wigmore Hall, 7.30pm, from £12/under-25s free
Thomas Arne’s Alfred: Classical Opera Co, Kings Place, 7.30pm, on-line £9.50
Venues:
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2, 020 7638 8891, www.barbican.org.uk
Kings Place, York Way, King’s Cross, N1, 0844 254 0321, www.kingsplace.co.uk
Map Café, 46 Grafton Road, NW5, 0207 916 0544, www.mapmusic.net
Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street, W1, 020 7935 2141, www.wigmore-hall.org.uk