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The Count Basie Orchestra, with current director, Dennis Mackrel, is one of the most thriving big bands in history. With 19 performers, 17 sidemen, 1 vocalist, and 1 bandleader, they've become the premier jazz band. They have also played to broadcast the premiere of JAZZ-FM London with Ella Fitzgerald, performed at the Presidential Inauguration of Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy, played in a Royal Command Performance for her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, recorded the Wall Street movie sound track accompaniment to Frank Sinatra, and participated in television advertising campaig
Ens consisting of vn, tpt, sax and pno which, with an actor/actress as narrator, gives perfs combining music, text and visuals. W/shops are undertaken for all age groups exploring music with film, poetry and storytelling. Projects can be developed to suit specific requirements based on coursework or other topics.
7 Grove Park, London, E11 2DN, United Kingdom
Informal concerts for schools performed in period costume, using a large number of mediaeval or renaissance insts which introduce and demonstrate the history and social use of the insts and music. Suitable for GCSE courses that inc the Elizabethan Pavan and Galliard and for jrs studying the Tudors. Participation in both music and dance as appropriate.
38 Downs Park Ave, Totton, Southampton, SO40 9GX
The Covent Garden String Quartet is a London based group, available for hire, to add a touch of elegance to your event, wedding, civil partnership, or any other special celebration.
Prepare to be blown away: hear the passionate melodies, wild harmonies and richly textured arrangements of these ten inspiring vocalists and you will know this is something new from Cuba, the most original vocal sound to come out of the island in a long while. The Creole Choir’s Cuban name Desandann means literally ‘descendents’ and with songs like Papa Danbala, Tandé or Liman Casimir they tell the stories of their Haitian ancestors who were brought to Cuba to work in the near slave conditions in the sugar and coffee plantations until the 1959 Revolution.
String quartet for hire, with over fourteen years experience providing live music for all kinds of events. Huge repertoire, tours worldwide.
9 Waltham Court, Garner Road, London, E17 4HF, United Kingdom
Tony Moffat/violin,
Robert Irvine/cello,
Mario Montore/piano
4 Bute Crescent, Bearsden, Glasgow, G61 1BS, United Kingdom
Innovative programming for concerts and charity events. Folk song, opera and songs from the shows.
29 Doods Rd, Reigate, RH2 0NT
Acclaimed jazz quartet playing swing, bebop, Latin & blues. Daniel Smith is winner of the Music Industry Association 'Best Concerto album of the Year' (The Complete 37 Vivaldi Bsn Concertos), and the 2011 Jazz Station Poll, Miscellaneous Instruments category. He was a finalist for the Jazz Journalists Association 'Player of the Year' in 2008 and 2010, and was nominated for Downbeat Magazine's 'Rising Star' award in 2010.
c/o Concert Jazz & Classical Productions (UK), 2 Plowden Park, Watlington, OX49 5SX
Quartet in residence, University of Birmingham. Concerts and w/shops for children, students up to tertiary level and adults. Composition w/shops. Projects combining music and literature.
73 Stradella Road, Herne Hill, London, SE24 9HL, United Kingdom
Through music, words and action, Defleo is a group of distinguished performers who bring to life the sights and sounds of seventeenth and eighteenth century performance. In opera, masque, oratorio, cantata, scene and song, their work recreates the rich relationship between multiple disciplines that characterised and completed Renaissance and Baroque spectacles. By exploring historical sources and contexts, Defleo unites instruments, voices, gesture and staging to captivate, involve and move audiences today.
London, United Kingdom
