Concert SeriesConcert SeriesAlvorada + Marco Ruviaro | The Music of PixinguinhaDescriptionWednesday 26 April, 2023, 6.30pm start La Linea presents… Alvorada + Marco Ruviaro The Music of Pixinguinha Award-winning Brazilian quintet Alvorada will be joined by Brazilian mandolin virtuoso Marco Ruviaro for a unique show at SOAS as part of La Linea festival. They will be performing the music of Pixinguinha (1897-1973), one of the most important composers of choro, a lively and uplifting style of instrumental music from Rio de Janeiro. Choro emerged in the late 1800s when European salon dances (polkas, waltzes, mazurkas) reached Brazil and were infused with Afro-Brazilian rhythms. For further details on the musicians, click the 'more info' tab
Calonarang Transformed | An evening of Indonesian music and filmDescriptionWednesday 29 March, 2023, 6.30 start (Doors and bar open from 6pm) An evening of Indonesian music together with the screening of a new film Calonarang Transformed, a retelling of a Balinese tale of transformation and magic. The film is part of a collaborative project by choreographer and dancer Ni Madé Pujawati, composer Nick Gray, anthropologist Mark Hobart, and Lila Bhawa Indonesian dance troupe, exploring fluidity and transformation in Balinese music and thought. The concert features SOAS-based group Segara Madu playing gendér wayang, a quartet of bronze metallophones used in Bali to accompany the shadow play (wayang kulit).
Morgan SzymanskiDescriptionThursday 27 April, 2023, 7.30pm start The multi-award winning virtuoso Mexican guitarist performs a programme of great guitar music from Latin America. Presented with SOAS and Iberian & Latin American Music Society, in celebration of ILAMS 25th anniversary. “The whole of this programme is very much influenced by folk music from Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Yes, some of the works are written or arranged by ´classical´ composers but I have chosen the pieces because they clearly show a perfect marriage/crossover of styles between academic and folk idioms.” Morgan Szymanski The programme includes pieces by Mexican composers Julio César Oliva and Manuel M. Ponce; Leo Brouwer from Cuba; Agustín Barrios Mangoré from Paraguay; Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos; and the Argentinian composers Jorge Cardoso and Astor Piazzolla. Morgan started playing the guitar at the age of six. Early studies at the National Music School in Mexico and the Edinburgh Music School led to a scholarship to study under Carlos Bonell and Gary Ryan at the Royal College of Music.
Ustad Wajahat Khan | Sound of the SarodDescriptionWednesday 31 May, 2023, 6.30pm start We welcome one of India’s great sarod maestro/composer of world-renown Ustad Wajahat Khan, to perform with the internationally acclaimed tabla virtuoso Pandit Sanju Sahai. Also accompanying on the tanpura will be two of Ustadji’s disciples Dr Richard Williams and Dr Samia Khatoon, Head of Music and Senior Lecturer at SOAS respectively. This concert is in memory of Ustadji’s late father, India’s legendary sitar & surbahar maestro Ustad Imrat Khan. Raags to be performed will be announced on the evening of concert, depending upon the artist’s mood along with the mood of the evening.
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