What's on this week: classical music in London
Shunya (aka Alan Keary) at OSLO Hackney, June 2022
We’re now over half-way through the summer concert season, with three of five gigs in the noisenights summer residency and 39 of the 72 BBC Proms already over.
Before festival season comes to a close and the gig season begins next month, there’s still plenty of time to get stuck in whilst we’ve got some summer-y weather back again…
Friday 18 August, 7.30pm
Gemma New makes her BBC Proms debut conducting Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Pavel Kolesnikov and Stravinsky’s The Firebird
Saturday 19 August, 7.30pm
Two of the UK’s finest young contemporary chamber musicians present experimental music for piano-percussion at Bold Tendencies, Peckham
Sunday 20 August, 4pm
Shunya performs an exclusive improvised live set in Dalston, melding Irish-tinged spiritual jazz with West African grooves and electronics
Sunday 10 September, 4pm
Djembe and kora virtuoso Sidiki Dembélé is joined by Aboubakar Konate and Momo Sangaré for a set in a hidden Dalston beer garden
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