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The Eclectic Harp

Event: The Eclectic Harp

Date: 2 May 2008 - 13:10

Event details: Christina Rhys has appeared as a soloist throughout the country and in Germany and the USA. She has played as far afield as Las Vegas and as close to home as Buckingham Palace. She has premiered the solo works of a number of eminent British composers and is the only player to have recorded Elliot Carter's solo Bariolage for Radio 3. Christina has worked with many of the country's leading symphony and chamber orchestras and has toured with the Northern Sinfonia Ensemble performing all the major chamber music repertoire. A founder member of Sonor Contemporary Music Ensemble in the USA, Christina is also a member of London Debussy Trio, Gemini Ensemble and Arpège, and has a duo with the flautist Susan Milan. She is also a music therapist working for the two hospices of Acorns Children's Hospice Trust.

Mumford Theatre, The

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Situated in the heart of the Anglia Ruskin University Campus (off East Road, Cambridge), the Mumford. . . more>>

Messiaen the surrealist

Event: Messiaen the surrealist

Venue: Kettle's Yard

Date: 8 Jun 2008 - 12:00

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Claire Booth was educated at Trinity College Oxford where she gained a Double First Class degree in Modern History. She subsequently trained at the English National Opera Studio's Bayliss Programme and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and she continues to study with Rudolf Piernay. Recent operatic roles include Hero Béatrice et Benedict, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro and the title roles in both Cavalli's La Didone and Rossi's Orfeo. Other performances have included Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia for ONME, Fiordiligi Cosi fan Tutte for Handmade Opera, Angelica Orlando for New Chamber Opera and Romilda Xerses for the Cheltenham Festival.

Composer/conductor Ryan Wigglesworth has recently made debut appearances with Ensemble Intercontemporain; Ensemble Modern; London Sinfonietta; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Avanti!; Britten-Pears Orchestra; Birmingham Opera Company; and Aldeburgh Almeida Opera. He has performed at many of the leading European festivals, and at venues such as the Barbican Hall; Queen Elizabeth Hall; Wigmore Hall; Snape Maltings; CBSO Centre; Cité de la Musique and Centre Pompidou, Paris; Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Porvoo (Summer Sounds Festival), Finland; and Bregenz Festspielhaus. Other recent projects include the Johannes-Passion, Cosí fan tutte, Ariadne auf Naxos, The Rape of Lucretia, and the premiere performances of Harrison Birtwistle's The Io Passion.

Emmanuel United Reformed Church

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Emmanuel United Reformed Church is in the central area of Cambridge city. We consider ourselves to b. . . more>>

St Pauls Comunity Centre

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The Centre at St Paul's on Hills Road was created in 1996. In 2006, it celebrated its 10th anniversa. . . more>>

Heart Of The World presents the Postico Quartet with Basquiat Strings

Event: Heart Of The World presents the Postico Quartet with Basquiat Strings

Venue: Junction 2, The

Date: 4 May 2008 - 19:00

Event details: When London jazz club The Vortex first opened its doors to the public, members of Portico Quartet hadn't even started school. Now 20 years on the college graduates are the first signing to the new Vortex label.

Remarkably refreshing and difficult to pinpoint, Portico Quartet have been compared to Ben Allison, Esbjorn Svennson Trio and The Cinematic Orchestra. Blurring contemporary jazz with modern classical tendencies, their approach gives a nod to the work of Steve Reich and Philip Glass, whilst their melodic rhythms are reminiscent of Penguin Café Orchestra.

The inspiration for Basquiat Strings came from the raucous rhythmically driving traditional Hungarian string groups of Transylvania, the luxuriously rich Brahms sextets, and the wild, at times, unruly compositions and workshop arrangements of Charles Mingus.