City of London Festival 2011 - 26 June to 16 July
Our final Australia related post (with a good dose of New Zealand and the Pacific thrown in) focuses on the City of London Festival. This year there is a theme looking at Australasia and music and arts from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific will "animate the cathedrals, livery halls, gardens and squares of the City of London - with added birdsong!"
Premiéres include the orchestral version of Brett Dean's Between the Spaces in the Sky by the City of London Sinfonia, Elena Kats-Chernin's River's Lament for The King's Singers, the Royal New Zealand Ballet at the Barbican and Liminal's outdoor music installation Organ of Corti.
Music and culture from Australasia are celebrated throughout this year's Festival as part of Festival Director Ian Ritchie's annual Trading Places theme. The Festival opens on 26 June with A Fifteen Piano Salute to Grainger - Luke Jerram's Street Pianos ring out some of the Australian maestro's best-known works in a promenade performance at Peter's Hill, St Paul's and Paternoster Square.
It is an unprecedented array of music from Australia and New Zealand with over 30 living composers represented. World-renowned Australian guitarist John Williams and the English Chamber Orchestra present works by Peter Sculthorpe and Ross Edwards at Guildhall Old Library (27 June). Australia's foremost didjeridu player William Barton joins the Choir of Southwark Cathedral to give the London premiére of a new version of Peter Sculthorpe's Requiem conducted by Peter Wright at Southwark Cathedral (4 July) and appears with pianist Piers Lane at Apothecaries' Hall (1 July) and the Goldner String Quartet at Goldsmiths' Hall (6 July). The King's Singers give the world premiére of Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin's River's Lament at Mansion House (7 July). New Zealand-born organist Dame Gillian Weir and soprano Anna Leese perform with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young at St Paul's (12 July). Maori instrumentalist Richard Nunns performs with The New Zealand Quartet String Quartet at Haberdashers' Hall (13 July) and the NZTrio at Butchers' Hall (14 July).
More information can be found at the City of London Festival website
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Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Ururangi: Celebration of the Pacific at Union Chapel on Sunday 20 June 2010
We're pleased to help promote the following event:
Ururangi: Celebration of the Pacific
Union Chapel, London on Sunday 20 June 2010
Ngāti Rānana, the London Māori cultural group, in association with Spacific, is proud to present a one-off concert, at the Union Chapel on Sunday 20 June.
The line-up for the event is something very rarely available to a larger audience in London, as it shows, maybe for the first time, how vibrant and active traditional and contemporary Polynesian culture is in the city.
The event feature talents drawn from across the South Pacific region: log drums and dancing by Beats of Polynesia; the soulful sounds of LA Mitchell; spoken word from Sistar Spacific; art by George Nuku; a dance performance by Ana Lavekau and the grand finale by Ngāti Rānana themselves.
Ngāti Rānana has been invited to compete in an International Māori Song and Dance Competition, Te Manahua, where they will be performing against other groups from Hawai'i, Sydney and the Pacific Islands. The concert at Union Chapel is one of many events the Club are holding to raise funds to help pay for the travel to Hawai'i.
Tickets are on sale now for £12.50 +b/f from TicketWeb – tinyurl.com/ururangi
Door sales will be available for £20 on the day.
Location: Union Chapel, Compton Avenue, London, N1 2XD
Date: Sunday 20 June, Doors open at 16:00pm to begin 16:30pm
Websites:
Ngāti Rānana - http://www.ngatiranana.co.uk/
Beats of Polynesia - http://www.beatsofpolynesia.co.uk/
LA Mitchell - http://www.laurenmitchell.co.nz/
Sistar Spacific - www.tautai.org/rosanna-raymond
George Nuku - www.pasifikastyles.org.uk/artists/george-nuku.php
Ururangi: Celebration of the Pacific
Union Chapel, London on Sunday 20 June 2010
Ngāti Rānana, the London Māori cultural group, in association with Spacific, is proud to present a one-off concert, at the Union Chapel on Sunday 20 June.
The line-up for the event is something very rarely available to a larger audience in London, as it shows, maybe for the first time, how vibrant and active traditional and contemporary Polynesian culture is in the city.
The event feature talents drawn from across the South Pacific region: log drums and dancing by Beats of Polynesia; the soulful sounds of LA Mitchell; spoken word from Sistar Spacific; art by George Nuku; a dance performance by Ana Lavekau and the grand finale by Ngāti Rānana themselves.
Ngāti Rānana has been invited to compete in an International Māori Song and Dance Competition, Te Manahua, where they will be performing against other groups from Hawai'i, Sydney and the Pacific Islands. The concert at Union Chapel is one of many events the Club are holding to raise funds to help pay for the travel to Hawai'i.
Tickets are on sale now for £12.50 +b/f from TicketWeb – tinyurl.com/ururangi
Door sales will be available for £20 on the day.
Location: Union Chapel, Compton Avenue, London, N1 2XD
Date: Sunday 20 June, Doors open at 16:00pm to begin 16:30pm
Websites:
Ngāti Rānana - http://www.ngatiranana.co.uk/
Beats of Polynesia - http://www.beatsofpolynesia.co.uk/
LA Mitchell - http://www.laurenmitchell.co.nz/
Sistar Spacific - www.tautai.org/rosanna-raymond
George Nuku - www.pasifikastyles.org.uk/artists/george-nuku.php
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