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NEW FOCUS Jazz – The Classical Connection
July 13, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Price: £16
Venue: The Hub at St Mary’s
“…musicians with an instinctive desire to communicate…the audience went home royally entertained” The Herald
Award-winning piano-sax duo Euan Stevenson & Konrad Wiszniewski’s New Focus: The Classical Connection gives fascinating insights into the relationship between classical music and jazz.
Discover why romantic composers like Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Ellington all loved the same key and why Miles Davies and Satie were kindred spirits – all alongside brilliantly performed jazz standards, an improvised Bach-style invention and an arrangement of the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s signature tune, Take the A Train, in the style of Mozart.
As well as being a superb pianist, Stevenson is a composer who has premiered works on both sides of the Atlantic; Wiszniewski is one of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s star soloists and twice winner of the Best Instrumentalist title at the Scottish Jazz Awards.
