**Due to new local restrictions, this concert will no longer take place with an audience. It will, however, still be live-streamed.**
the performers:
Aurora Orchestra + Nicholas Collon (conductor) + Louis Schwizgebel (piano)
the programme:
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 26 + Scott (world premiere) + Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
about the music:
This unusual and unique concert is going to be great - we’re absolutely sure of it.
These three pieces have never been performed together in one concert before. Partly, that’s because one of them is a new piece written specially by Sasha Scott, winner of the BBC Proms Young Composer Competition. This is also a one-off chance to hear one of the world’s great pianists play a Mozart piano concerto and some of the most beautifully intimate chamber music in one short concert.
The concert opens with a version of Mozart’s piano concerto adapted for small orchestra. Written in 1788, this concerto can be uplifting, fun and delicate all at once when played by someone as good as Louis Schwizgebel. Listen to the beautiful simplicity of the beginning of the second movement: it’s calmly playful and beautiful. Especially if you’ve not heard much live music recently, walking into a concert and hearing this will be really something.
Then follows Sasha Scott’s new piece. Of course, we’ve got no idea how it’s going to sound, but safe to say that it’ll be fresh, engaging and worth hearing. She’s won loads of awards, and is one of the big up-and-coming composers working at the moment.
Sasha Scott won the BBC Prom’s Young Composer Competition in 2019
To finish, Ravel’s incredible piano trio. This is one of our favourite pieces of chamber music. It’s been used in numerous film soundtracks including, most recently, Academy Award-winning Birdman.
Ravel was inspired to write the first movement after watching ice-cream vendors dancing at Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Believing their dancing-song to be a Basque folk song, he borrowed the tune and rhythm for the first movement. Ravel was known to feel a deep connection to his mother’s Basque heritage, and so perhaps that’s why this movement sounds so touchingly personal.
about the venue:
Kings Place is a young, independently-funded arts venue in the heart of King’s Cross which aims to have a programme just as diverse, engaging and innovative as the city we live in.
It’s perfectly placed in the heart of the new King’s Cross quarter - across the canal from Granary Square, and around the corner from Coal Drops Yard.
They also have a great young people’s programme in place. For some specially selected concerts at the venue you can pick up tickets for around half the price, and with no booking fee.
These tickets aren’t available to select on the booking page, and they can only be collected at the Box Office with proof of ID - give them a ring to check availability and reserve if you’re not able to drop in before the event.
the price:
£24.50 (£8.50 for under 30s, £6.50 for under 14s)