Kings Place

Sunday, September 11, 2011

On Thursday evening went to 2 mini concerts at Kings Place

- it's the >Kings Place Festival

and London Sinfonietta played 3x45mins concerts there

Mark van de Wiel starting to play a piece of Julian Anderson

"Julian Anderson's music provided the focus of the second concert,

again consisting of solo works, duos or trios.

What was striking was how well his sense of instrumental colour and character,

so vividly displayed in his large-scale orchestral canvases,

transfers to an intimate scale.

Works such as Prayer for Viola and the four Etudes for Piano

succeed through an intensity of expression

that combines inner coherence with a brilliantly articulated surface."

Review by Guardian

Mark playing Elliot Carter

"Throughout the evening, a host of Sinfonietta stalwarts appeared

– too many to name here,

but heard at their most vigorously virtuosic in the final instalment

of music by the 102-year-old Elliott Carter,

the culmination of three valuable mini-retrospectives.

Whether in the solo display of two of the Eight Pieces for Four Timpani

and the cello piece Figment,

or the tightly interlocked ensemble

playing of the two Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux

tribute pieces to Boulez,

the Sinfonietta's musicianship remained compelling."

Review by Guardian

Excellent drums!

A piece of Elliott Carter

Walked from Islington along the canal to Kings Place

Kings Place

90 York Way

London N1

Ari's Salon Concert

Friday, January 9, 2009

Went to Ari's Salon Concert on Thursday night

The night's guest star was clarinetist

Mark van de Wiel

Mr van de Wiel is established as one of Britain´s leading clarinettists, Principal Clarinet of the Philharmonia Orchestra and of the London Sinfonietta.

He performs at major venues throughout the world. Solo highlights this season included a concert with the London Sinfonietta at the Proms.

Mr van de Wiel has recorded chamber music for EMI, ASV, NMC and Finlandia records, and as a soloist for Olympia and NMC.

His services to music have been recognised with an Honorary Associateship from the Royal Academy of Music, where he is a Professor, and with an Honorary Doctorate from Northampton University.

Mr van de Wiel will be accompanied by the fine Hungarian pianist,

Associate Professor of the Liszt Academy of Music

Hilda Hernádi