- Doors: 10:30 AM
- Price: £9/7 online, £10/8 on the door
- Entry: All Ages
- Room: Main Room
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Forge Venue presents:
Keys and Coffee Concert Series
Sunday 20 May @ The Forge, London
A wonderful and contrasting programme this morning from the highly-acclaimed violinist Simon Hewitt Jones.
Programme:
Vivaldi – Four Seasons
Piazzolla – Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Performance Details:
This concert runs from 11am-12pm with no interval
Tea and coffee will be available in the glazed courtyard from 10:30-11:00am
The Forge can accept only cash on the door
Loyalty Card Holdlers – this concert applies to our loyalty card scheme
Sunday Roast after the concert?
The Foundry Restaurant offer a delicious weekend roast, making a visit to us the perfect family get-together. The weekend menu also includes a fantastic brunch and lunch selection. To book a table, please ring 02073875959.
Simon Hewitt Jones performs, records and broadcasts widely as a solo performer, concertmaster, teacher, writer, chamber musician, music researcher and leader of the Fifth Quadrant (5Q) music collective. His work is strongly influenced by the legacies of Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Casals, Leonard Bernstein and Daniel Barenboim, and he is involved extensively with projects that explore the intersection of music, technology, education, and cultural diplomacy.
Simon’s solo and chamber music performances have been featured internationally in festivals and TV/Radio throughout Europe, the USA and the Middle East, including NPR’s Performance Today and BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4. He tours extensively in the UK, and has appeared at most of the UK’s major venues, including the Bridgewater Hall and the South Bank Centre. Simon’s string section has recorded sessions for EMI, Virgin, Naxos and the BBC.
In 2011, Simon and 5Q were Musicians-in-residence at the Henley Festival. They opened this year’s Spitalfields Festival with their ‘Road to Jericho’ project, a tour and recording (coming 2012) featuring contemporary British and Palestinian music for string quartet and middle eastern instruments. This summer, Simon gave a debut performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Diego Masson and the Ramallah Orchestra in Jerusalem.
Other projects this season include a UK tour featuring Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the music of Piazzolla, performances with the Medici Quartet in Scotland of John Tavener’s ‘Towards Silence’, a piece for four string quartets and a tibetan bowl, and a performance at the Wired 2011 conference on a ’3D-printed violin’.
Simon is currently working on a PhD at the Royal Academy of Music, exploring the relationship between musicians, music and technology.
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