braimah kanneh-mason + plínio fernandes
6 august 2023 / 4pm / the speakeasy, dalston
100% funded (sold out)
Braimah Kanneh-Mason is joined by classical guitarist Plínio Fernandes to play Paganini, Piazzolla, and more in a hidden Dalston beer garden.
2.30pm: doors open
4pm: braimah kanneh-mason + plínio fernandes set
6pm: live samba and choro, followed by DJs until late
noisenights summer residency:
noisenights are our vision for the future of classical music: informal crowdfunded events featuring international soloists in bars, warehouses, and clubs.
For summer 2023 we're taking them outdoors, with a series of five festival-style gigs in the beer garden of The Speakeasy, Dalston. The noisenights summer residency will feature cross-genre artists performing music inspired by Western European, West African, and South American classical music.
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Live music needs your backing more than ever. Becoming a noisenight backer means getting tickets to hear the world's best performers up close while becoming part of a community working for a positive future for live music.
After a noisenight reaches its funding target, we'll e-mail all backers to confirm the event and a small amount of extra tickets will be made available. Tickets are released in four stages, with the first release always being the cheapest. Book early for the best price.
Please note that due to the venue's license, all those under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. A full list of dates in the noisenights summer residency can be found here.
the venue:
The Speakeasy is a family run cocktail bar located in the heart of Dalston. The cosy indoor bar opens up to a huge hidden pub garden at the back, nestled between high rises and warehouses.
Featuring a retractable roof and outdoor heaters, you can be confident it'll be comfortable whatever the weather. It's also a special venue for us, as it's just round the corner from through the noise HQ.
the music:
After Plínio Fernandes' sold out solo sets at The Jago in December, he returns to Dalston with a new programme featuring violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason. They'll perform their favourite duets, with music by Sérgio Assad, Niccolò Paganini, Mauro Giuliani, and Astor Piazzolla.
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the programme:
Sérgio Assad - Menino
Niccolò Paganini - Cantabile
Mauro Giuliani - Grand Sonata in A Major, Op. 85
- 2nd movement - Andante molto sostenuto
- 3rd movement - Scherzo-Vivace
Astor Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango
- Bordel
- Cafe 1930
- Nightclub
plínio fernandes:
From São Paulo, Brazil, classical guitarist Plínio Fernandes takes his inspiration from a long line of greats - Antônio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Jacob do Bandolim, Violeta Parra, Edu Lobo, Cartola and Laurindo Almeida - the guitar being so central to the Brazilian folk tradition.
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Adding to that cannon, his six years of studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London have opened up a whole world of Western Classical Music to his repertoire.
Recently signed to Decca Records, New York, his debut album will feature duets with Braimah Kanneh-Mason and legendary Brazilian artist María Rita. Fernandes will also reunite with long time collaborator Sheku Kanneh-Mason after Fernandes appeared on Sheku’s acclaimed 2020 album Elgar for their duet of ‘Scarborough Fair’ which has since featured on the BBC’s Imagine documentary ‘This House is a full of Music’. With a flare of youthful excitement, enchanting lyricism and dancing rhythm, Plínio’s debut album is an entrancing collection of works for solo guitar weaving together all his musical loves and telling his complex and captivating international story in sound. “I chose songs that I grew up listening to,” Fernandes explains, “and in many cases I fell in love with the guitar through them.”
Born into a family of musicians, Fernandes received his first guitar lessons from his father. At the age of 12, after winning national youth guitar competitions, he played as a guest soloist with the Campo Grande Symphony Orchestra and took private lessons in São Paulo from the renowned teacher Henrique Pinto and later, at 16, from Pinto’s student and protégé, Fabio Zanon. Fernandes then received a full scholarship to attend the International Campos do Jordão Winter Festival from 2011-2014. During that period, he gave recitals and performed in chamber concerts in some 35 cities throughout Brazil and Chile. Encouraged by his family and teachers, he made the move to London to pursue a career as a concert musician. His teachers at the Royal Academy of Music (2014-2020) included Zanon, Prof. Michael Lewin, Steve Goss, and David Russell, under a full scholarship funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education. Fernandes is also committed to music education and was recently invited to join the Music Masters charity as an ambassador.
braimah kanneh-mason:
Braimah Kanneh-Mason is a dynamic and versatile young violinist. He has performed throughout the UK, Europe, USA and the Caribbean. An avid chamber musician, Braimah is a member of the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio, Cassadó Ensemble and Kaleidoscope Collective.
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He has performed at venues and festivals such as the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Kings Place, Highgate International Chamber Music Festival, Leicester International Chamber Music Festival and collaborated with artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Tom Poster and Priya Mitchell. Braimah is a passionate advocate for equal opportunity and diversity in music education and is a Junior Ambassador for Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST). He has been a mentor at Sistema England, Junior Music Works and a violin tutor for consecutive years at the Antigua Music Camp. He is currently an artist in residence at Brighton College.
Braimah is currently studying with Barnabás Kelemen and Eszter Perenyi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where he was a scholarship student with Mateja Marinkovic and Jack Liebeck, winning the Harold Craxton Prize, the John McAslan Prize and the Dame Ruth Railton Chamber Music Prize.
Braimah currently performs on a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, kindly lent to him by the Beare’s International Violin Society.
Rewards: unallocated standing tickets to noisenight28 at 4pm on Sunday 6 August 2023. Part of the noisenights summer residency at The Speakeasy, Dalston. First-come, first-served for the best views.
In order to qualify for a concession ticket, you must be in receipt of Universal or Pension Credit, in full-time education, or under the age of 21. There are a strictly limited number of concession tickets available for each event. These are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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