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The Capstone Theatre
Liverpool’s International
Arts Venue
Spring Season
January - May
2020
Events Calendar
January February
31 Friday 7.30pm Phil Shotton Quartet ‘Straight Down’ 19 Wednesday 7.30pm Pierrot x Three
Album Launch
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 2020 LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2020
February February
6 Thursday 7pm Drift Chamber 27 Thursday 7.30pm Cykada (+Yaatri)
6 Thursday 8pm The Hive: A New Opera 28 Friday 7.30pm Tin Men and the Telephone (+ Hippo)
7 Friday 9am Refractive Pool 5 - Contemporary Painting 29 Saturday 1pm Milapfest and LIJF Presents: Sarathy Korwar
In Liverpool Symposium 29 Saturday 3.30pm Hope Swings Eternal
7 Friday 7.30pm Cabaret From The Shadows 29 Saturday 7.30pm Blow 3.0 (+ Beyond Albedo)
8 Saturday 3pm Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra March
8 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra: Classical Horizons 1 Sunday 10am Liverpool Saxophone Day 2020
9 Sunday 3pm Student Theatre Double Bill: 1 Sunday 2.30pm Martin Archer's Anthropology Band
Give Us A Second / The Last Album (+ Moonmot)
10 Monday 7.30pm Dance Double Bill: Stilled Bones / Stuck 1 Sunday 7.30pm Tony Kofi Quartet (+ Blind Monk Theory?)
11 Tuesday 1pm Film Screening: La Strada (1954)
11 Tuesday 3pm Maps - MA Performance Platform
11 Tuesday 6pm The Composer’s Symposium 19 Thursday 7.30pm Vula Viel (+ Rafe's Dilemma)
11 Tuesday 8pm Pixels Ensemble 20 Friday 7.30pm Court And Spark - The Joni Mitchell Songbook
12 Wednesday 7.30pm Henry V: The King’s Knickers 26 Thursday 7.30pm Blackheart Orchestra
(Or Made In England)
May
13 Thursday 6pm Double Bill: The Stories of the Firefly /
5 Tuesday 7.30pm Square Chapel Arts Centre Presents
Navarasa Mohana
Outrageous Fortune by Debs Newbold
13 Thursday 8pm Figures in a Floating Landscape
[Hamlet Reclaimed]
14 Friday 6.30pm This is Not a Magic Show
9 Saturday 7.30pm Allerton Brass: Movie Connections
by Vincent Gambini
16 Saturday 7.30pm Liverpool Mozart Orchestra:
14 Friday 8pm Phil Shotton Big Band Valentines Concert
Continental Landscapes
PHIL SHOTTON QUARTET 3 ‘STRAIGHT DOWN’ ALBUM LAUNCH Friday 31st January 2020, 7.30pm £11.50 Phil Shotton - tenor saxophone Tom Sykes - piano Matt Lawton - double bass Jez Finch - drums Phil Shotton and his quartet will be playing, in their typically swinging, melodic style, tracks from their debut album Straight Down alongside other tunes from the Great American Songbook. Straight Down was inspired by Phil’s admiration of the Blue Note recordings of the 1950’s in which a band would meet in the recording studio, call some tunes and perform in a live situation. So for their debut album, after choosing the tunes from their recent live repertoire (over a cup of strong coffee), the band went straight into recording with no overdubs, all the tracks captured in one take, and nothing overly produced. Phil says, "I believe this gives the album an honesty and empathy in the playing, more of a conversational feel between the musicians. We were keen to record everything in one take just like a live gig. I feel it gives the album a real sense of energy. Matt (Lawton) and I had talked about recording in this way for a while, which is different to the usual studio sessions we do with other ensembles. We were keen to capture the moment with all its thrills in real time." CDs will be on sale during the evening and can be signed by Phil and the band.
ART | MUSIC | PERFORMANCE | FILM | WORKSHOPS | DISCUSSION
4 LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: THE HIVE: A NEW OPERA
“ALL THE THREES”
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
Thursday 6th February 2020, 8pm
Saturday 9th February 2019, 7.30pm Venue: The Warehouse Theatre, Liverpool Hope
(pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) University Creative Campus
Venue: The Great Hall £6.50
£15 (Senior Citizen £13.50, Harvey Brough - music
Student 17 and over £5, 16 and under FREE) Carole Hayman - words
Beethoven - Leonore Overture No.3 We all have dark thoughts, but some are deadly dark.
Saint-Saëns - Violin Concerto No.3
DRIFT CHAMBER
Brahms - Symphony No.3 Combining violent real life crimes with magical realism; The Hive
shows a world in which forensic doctors, barristers and detectives meet
Sergej Bolkhovets
Thursday - conductor
6th February 2020, 7pm Hansel, Gretel and Cinders in the other-worldly forest of Arden.
Sophie
£6.50 Rosa - violin
From grim tales to the real thing, we are fascinated with violent crime,
on TV, in the media, in films, and particularly when the perpetrators
Drift Chamber is a collaboration between composer/arranger Joe are women.
Duddell and producer/sound designer Lex Shellard combining
ambient classical and electronic soundscapes. Their debut album “Women kill within a small area. Where they have most influence –within
Pulse Nocturnes was released in 2019 following live appearances at their domestic coral. You might say… (he smiles) Women kill close to the
Festival No.6 and for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction. hive”.
This is the first full performance of The Hive, an opera as beguiling as it
Joe Duddell has written many concert works for major festivals is shocking. It is presented as a Scratch Performance.
and performers worldwide. Over the last ten years he has become
renowned for his collaborative projects with artists such as Elbow,
Richard Hawley, Nero, Steve Mason and New Order, amongst
others, to wide critical acclaim.
Composer and sound designer Lex Shellard has produced not only
his own film production music and sound design but also worked
as a producer and mix engineer for other artists and companies
including Deadly Avenger.
REFRACTIVE POOL CABARET FROM THE SHADOWS 5
- CONTEMPORARY
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
Friday 7th February 2020, 7.30pm
PAINTING IN LIVERPOOL Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
SYMPOSIUM £12 (£10 concessions)
Friday 7th February 2020, 9am Political, comic, sexy and strange,
Free Admission Cabaret From The Shadows is a
kaleidoscope of dark comedy, satire
Refractive Pool is a project exploring and live music that will take you on a
contemporary painting-based practice in journey through a crazy hall of mirrors.
the Liverpool city region, through events, In an increasingly hostile world, Teatro
exhibitions and critical writing. The project Pomodoro offers a cathartic escape into
is led by Liverpool based artists Josie Jenkins the crazy, twisted and perverse. Tonight
and Brendan Lyons and is currently in a no subject is taboo.
research phase.
Teatro Pomdoro’s Cabaret From The
Refractive Pool has partnered with Liverpool Shadows has been developed entirely in
Hope University to bring you a symposium Liverpool receiving support from the
that will explore aspects of Liverpool's Lantern Theatre, the Unity Theatre,
contemporary painting scene, through Merseyside Arts Foundation, Hope
presentations from Liverpool-based artists
Street Limited, Physical Fest and the
and a panel discussion, focusing on the
Arts Council England. It is a fresh and
experience of painters working in the city.
shameless show with an eclectic mix of
The symposium will encourage discussion
about contemporary painting in Liverpool, theatre, dark comedy and live music.
informing Refractive Pool's research.
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A mind bending, thought
‘‘
provoking feast for the soul!
Fringe Review
Brighton Fringe Award Winner 2017
6 PAGODA CHINESE LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA:
YOUTH ORCHESTRA CLASSICAL HORIZONS
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
Saturday 8th February 2020, Saturday 8th February 2020, 7.30pm (pre-concert talk at 6.45pm)
3pm £15 (Senior Citizens £13.50, Students 17 and over £5, 16 and under FREE)
Venue: The Great Hall,
Liverpool Hope University Lennox Berkeley - Sinfonietta
Creative Campus Ian Stephens - Clarinet Concerto Robin Wallington - conductor
Mozart - Symphony No.40 in E flat major Mandy Burvill - clarinet
Photo credit: Adam Shawyer
Free Admission
The Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra Liverpool Mozart Orchestra is delighted to welcome, for the
(PCYO) is the first and largest first time, up and coming conductor Robin Wallington to direct
Chinese Youth Orchestra in Europe. them in their February concert. The centrepiece of the concert is
PCYO has adopted an experimental the northern premiere of local composer Ian Stephens’ Clarinet
and somewhat audacious approach in Concerto. For those who have heard Ian’s work performed
its innovative music fusions with folk by the RLPO, amongst others, know that his music is always
songs, reggae and hip-hop. They have inventive and engaging, and teaming up with erstwhile RLPO
collaborated with world acclaimed clarinettist Mandy Burvill makes for a scintillating prospect.
musicians as diverse as The Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; The concert begins with music from a British composer
Jah Wobble, MC Jin and noted from a bygone era, Lennox Berkeley. His Sinfonietta of 1950
professional musicians from China has classical period influences and offers the orchestra a not
and the USA. During the past 35 inconsiderable challenge. The opening movement is energetic
years the Orchestra has appeared on and airy with the hunting horn adding to its outdoor style.
international stages and television on
numerous occasions, such as the UK, After the interval comes Mozart’s most famous symphony,
China, Italy, Burma, Australia, the No.40. Instantly recognisable from the first notes, the
USA and Canada. symphony is one of Mozart’s most melodic orchestral
works, with a charming first movement, beautiful second
movement, an unusually serious minuet and spritely
finale - an absolute must for Mozart fans.
STUDENT THEATRE DOUBLE BILL: Angel Field Festival presents a double bill of
two short student plays:
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GIVE US A SECOND /
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
THE LAST ALBUM Give Us a Second
Give Us A Second is a devised play, directed by second year Hope Drama and
Sunday 9th February 2020, 3pm Theatre students, Ella Kirk and Amy-Leigh Mills. The audience is invited
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre to follow the journey of four young men of differing backgrounds, Sam
Free Admission (Jacques Granier), Oscar (Oliver Preston), Jamie (Robert Hardman) and
Teddy (Connor Newdick), all of whom are struggling to find their place in
an abrasive modern society that allows for little masculine self-expression.
However far apart these young men are economically, they are united by their
shared desire to be heard. With influences from the works of Frantic Assembly
and Gecko Theatre Co. the piece encapsulates various discussions of what
comes with being a man today and explores this through the use of physical
theatre with the aim of generating more debate about the subject.
The Last Album
The Last Album is a play written and directed by Robert Hardman. A man
known as Tiger (Zach Bradbury) comes home from a long and eventful day
at work and simply decides that he wants to kill himself. He is done with life,
so why not? When he tells his eccentric flat mate Elsta (Robert Hardman)
that he wants to kick the bucket she decides to give him the night of his life.
However, events do not turn out as intended and go a little down-hill, fast.
They do every drug under the sun and it doesn’t help with anyone’s issues.
Tiger is also visited by: his religiously confused American friend (Shae Kelly),
an angry European landlord (Jacques Granier), his homophobic Mother
(Ella Kirk) and his demented Grandma (Amy-Leigh Mills). So, it is quite an
eventful evening. We see the play through Tiger’s eyes and after all the drink
and drugs, would you be able to tell a clear story? The play also explores many
themes such as: Religion, identity, suicide, racism, homophobia, dementia,
mental illness, friendship, domestic abuse, rape, divorce, sex and finally love.
So, there is something for everyone. Despite how bleak the play may sound; it
is in fact a comedy.
8 DANCE DOUBLE BILL: Angel Field Festival presents
a double bill of new Dance:
STILLED BONES / STUCK
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
Stilled Bones
Monday 10th February 2020, 7.30pm
Developed by Liverpool based dancers Rachel Sweeney
£6.50 and Melisa Pasut in collaboration with Cuban singer
and percussionist Guillermo Luis Horta Betancourt and
musician Andre Leslie Hooker, Stilled Bones is based
on North Wales’s seventh century abbess and martyr,
Saint Winnifred, (Gwenfrewi in Welsh), told through
contemporary storytelling blending Celtic song, Japanese
butoh dance, Cuban percussion and electro acoustic
composition. The title refers to the longstanding religious
tradition of digging up and removing a Saint’s bones
within contested landscapes in order to recover their
symbolic significance and, often, to state territorial claims.
Stuck
I’m sat opposite my mother watching her as she sleeps
slumped in the chair, hair unwashed, clothes unclean and
a pained expression etched into her face. She was born on
the day the Second World War broke out, September 3rd
1939. My Mum doesn’t remember her birthday anymore.
It’s too painful for him to think of her dying, fading out
of his life each morning, each day, knowing that the
little he has left of her is soon to be lost down a great big
black hole that once was a place filled with memories.
She now is a much smaller part of her own life, a life that
was larger, stronger, and more important and that life
still exists in our memories of her. We are stuck and she is
stuck waiting for a memory to come calling…
UNIVERSAL. PARENTAL GUIDANCE Suitable only for persons of
Suitable for all General viewing, but some 12 years and over
scenes may be unsuitable
for young children
Not to be supplied to any person below that age
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12 years and over 15 years and over 18 years and over
FILM SCREENING: LA STRADA (1954) MAPS - MA PERFORMANCE PLATFORM 9
Not to be supplied to any person below that age Not to be supplied to any person below that age Not to be supplied to any person below that age
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SEX / NUDITY
VIOLENCE
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
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To mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of director Liverpool Hope University is delighted to present a thrilling and inspiring
Federico Fellini, the Angel Field Festival is screening his 1954 showcase of works by emerging artists, alumni of the MA Performance
film La Strada. at Liverpool Hope University. This event celebrates performance as a
multidisciplinary platform within which to explore the condition of being
When Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a naïve young woman, human in contemporary life and culture.
is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus
strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) to be his wife and
partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse
as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon
Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings
about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto
(Richard Basehart), the carefree circus fool, and contemplates
leaving Zampanò.
10 THE COMPOSER’S PIXELS ENSEMBLE
SYMPOSIUM
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
Tuesday 11th February 2020, 8pm
Tuesday 11th February 2020, Venue: The Great Hall
6pm £11.50 (£6.50 concessions)
Free Admission Johann Sebastian Bach - Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering Fiona Fulton - flute
Olivier Messiaen - Le Merle Noir, for flute and piano Thelma Handy - violin
In this free concert, undergraduate Tristan Murail - Feuilles à travers les cloches Alex Holladay - cello
students from Liverpool Hope Sofia Gubaidulina - Rejoice! Sonata for violin and cello Ian Buckle - piano
University will be showcasing their
original compositions, ranging
in style from 18th century folk Pixels Ensemble’s programme reflects diverse composers’ expressions of spirituality. From Bach’s late
dances to modern harmony- contrapuntal style, through Messiaen’s devoted use of birdsong to Gubaidulina‘a fiendishly virtuosic
cantered pieces. Scored for an ‘Rejoice!’ Sonata; these iconic works are at the heart of their composers’ musical philosophy. The
eclectic ensemble of student concert is completed by a sublime exploration of musical textures by Tristan Murail and pieces by
performers, each of the pieces has composition students at Liverpool Hope University.
it's own special idiosyncrasies.HENRY V: THE KING’S KNICKERS
‘‘
One of the punkiest storytellers I know. Really cheeky and 11
always properly in the room and talking to actual people who
(OR MADE IN ENGLAND) ‘‘
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
get on buses and eat pizza and shout at the telly.
Wednesday 12th February 2020,7.30pm Alys Torrance, Story Jam
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
£6.50
What does England mean to you? Henry V kicking
ass at Agincourt? Or great big M&S knickers?
Part history, part story-set, and part straight-up rant,
The King’s Knickers wilfully picks at the fraying
knicker elastic of national identity.
Back by (base, common and) popular demand after
a sell-out premiere in 2019, The King’s Knickers asks
what a mythic hero king - and really huge pants - can
tell us about being English today.
Stephe Harrop is a contemporary storyteller, spitting
out new words and re-spinning old tales to try and
make sense of a crazy world.12 DOUBLE BILL: THE STORIES OF THE FIREFLY / NAVARASA MOHANA
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
Thursday 13th February 2020, 6pm
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre
£6.50
Angel Field Festival presents a double bill of new work:
The Stories of the Firefly Navarasa Mohana
Storytelling, accordion, drumming and vocalisations. Choreography and live dance by Santosh Nair.
Written by Silvia Battista
Performed by Silvia Battista with special guest Steve Boyland The Bhagavatam is one of Hinduisms’ eighteen great puranas,
traditional Hindu texts that took form during the medieval period.
The Stories of the Firefly brings together visuals, experimental storytelling Navarasa Mohana relates to the tenth chapter of The Bhagavatam and
and sound. Written through the use of what Battista refers to as ritualistic translates as "Nine Emotions (Nava = Nine and Rasa = Emotions)".
writing, the resulting performance is a visceral, hypnotic, visionary
journey. Inspired by the work of artists such as Laurie Anderson, Pauline The Navarasa, in the scriptures therefore refer to the nine expressions
Oliveros, Kimmo Pohjonen and Patti Smith it reflects on the poetics of that humans often show. These are love (shringaara), laughter (haasya),
active imagination, Buddhist philosophies, and animistic ecologies. This kind-heartedness or compassion (karuna), anger (roudra), courage
specific version of the performance is accompanied by the vocal artist (veera), fear (bhayaanaka), disgust (bheebhatsya), wonder or surprise
Steve Boyland. (adbhutha) and peace or tranquility (shaantha).FIGURES IN A FLOATING Figures in a Floating Landscape is a dance, music, sonic soundscape performance from
composer Peter Coyte and choreographer Dora Frankel featuring two musicians and four
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LANDSCAPE dancers. The piece is Coyte and Frankel’s third collaboration and the second part of their
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
Turner Trilogy, the first piece being The Unfolding Sky: Turner in the North.
Thursday 13th February 2020, 8pm
£12 (£10 concessions) Figures in a Floating Landscape delves deep into the later improvisatory sketches of JMW
Turner when he resided in Kent, and re-contextualises this work in relation to today’s climate
change, the damage to the coastline and the evolution of the towns Turner knew so well.
Photo credit: Luke Waddington
In preparing the score, Peter Coyte, along with musician colleague Martin Elliott, retraced
Turner’s steps making field recordings. Coyte then spent time experimenting and developing
the score using these materials. In February 2018 musicians, dancers, visual artists and
photographers were invited to Whitstable’s Horsebridge Arts Centre to continue development
of the piece. In these sessions the basic form took shape and, with funding from Arts Council
England, the artists have now developed it as a full length piece, an exciting new abstract
work that packs an emotional punch.14 THIS IS NOT A MAGIC PHIL SHOTTON BIG BAND VALENTINES CONCERT
SHOW BY VINCENT
ANGEL FIELD FESTIVAL 6 - 14 FEBRUARY 2020
Friday 14th February 2020, 8pm
GAMBINI £11.50
Friday 14th February 2020, 6.30pm Phil Shotton and his big band, which features Basie, Duke Ellington and more contemporary
Venue: The Warehouse Theatre some of the finest jazz musicians from the big band composers. Joining Phil and the Big
£6.50 North West of England, regularly perform Band will be vocalist Corinne Andrew, a regular
alongside many national and international jazz singer with the Phil Shotton Big Band and Phil's
Forget everything you know about magic artists and have appeared at major jazz festivals, own quartet. Corinne will be singing repertoire
and magicians. venues and music festivals throughout the synonymous with romance, love and all things
Now remember it all again. country and abroad. Valentines related!
Vincent Gambini's This is not a Magic Show In high demand as a both a jazz soloist and A talented bandleader and conductor, Phil
is a performance of and about sleight-of-hand musical director of jazz ensembles Phil will comperes performances fluently, eloquently
lead his swinging big band through the most and with great humour! You can expect a real
magic: its invisible mechanics, its clichés,
romantic of big band repertoire for this special romantic, jazzy treat with a few surprises along
and what it tells us about live theatre and Valentines concert! Expect the most romantic the way!
make-believe. In a conversational yet crafted of music from the likes of Stan Kenton, Count
approach, Gambini presents astonishing
close-up magic that invites us to question
how wonder is produced in a theatrical
situation. Possibly the first of its
kind, This is not a Magic Show
is part performance-lecture,
part deconstructed
showbiz, and part magic
tricks that leave you,
like, omg.
Photo credit:
Hugo GlendinningPIERROT x THREE 15
Wednesday 19th February 2020, 7.30pm
£10 (£8 concessions)
Directed by Joan Laage (Kogut Butoh)
with Melissa Pasut and Rachel Sweeney
Music by Scott Adams
Costumes by Shoko Zama and Joan Laage
Liverpool Hope University faculty members
Melissa Pasut and Rachel Sweeney join Seattle-
based Joan Laage in a work inspired by the
famous Commedia dell’Arte figure known
for its naivete and tragic/comedic escapades.
The black and whiteness of the costumes and
the interweaving of the dancers suggest the
yin/yang Chinese symbol as they alternately
dissolve into each other and separate. This
work premiered as a trio in Italy in Spring 2018
with Kea Tonetti and Maruska Ronchi, then
in duet form with Shoko Zama at the Seattle
International Dance Festival and with Kea and
Maruska in Italy in Winter 2019, and most
recently as a duet with Kea in the Paris Butoh
Photo credit: Sara Meliti
Festival in June. The whimsical and plaintive
sound score by Seattle composer Scott Adams
was commissioned specially for this piece.16 CYKADA (+YAATRI) Cykada is supported with an opening
set by Jazz North Introduces winners,
Yaatri, a five-piece jazz crossover
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020
Thursday 27th February 2020, 7.30pm
quintet formed in Leeds in September
£11.50 of 2018. Their blend of complex
composition and ethereal soundscapes
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020 opens with a concert headlined by Cykada, an
captivates the heart as well as the mind.
innovative and energetic collective of musicians from the new London jazz scene. Cykada is
Influenced by the emotive quality of
an energetic bomb of unique style. It engages distant poles, analogue worlds crashing with
the Scandinavian jazz tradition, the
electronics, eastern influences crossing with western, harmonising nostalgic moments with dance
Photo credit: DWoodfield
momentum of the rhythms of India
floor bangers. It seems that Western Africa is just bordering with Eastern Europe, where Turkish
and the energy of rock and roll, their
music high fives Flamenco and all of this is wrapped up with the fundamentals of the London
music has a strong sense of purpose
club scene. There are so many inspirations that it may seem impossible to unite them, however
and journey.
they make it happen, creating layers of devastation, beauty and intrigue.
Think Michael Bublé with a hint of
rebel in his past and you have Chris
James, the king of big band swing!
The Flintshire LeaderTIN MEN AND THE TELEPHONE (+ HIPPO) Tin Men and the Telephone will
be supported with an opening set
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by Bristol based contemporary jazz
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020
Friday 28th February 2020, 7.30pm
trio, Hippo. In the lineage of Donny
£11.50 McCaslin and STUFF, Hippo's music
buries a jazz aesthetic in a nest of beefy
Described by The Times in a 5 star review as “a 21st-century gig in which multimedia electronics and bouncing rhythms. The
gadgetry and a sense of mischief combine to create something fresh and unexpected”, Tin earnest muscular sound debuted on
Men and the Telephone have made a name for themselves with their cutting edge use of their 2018 release caught the attention
technology and multimedia, as well as their unique interactive performances. of BBC Radio 3, Introducing, and
Fresh on the Net. Playing live, their
The group now present their new album World Domination Volume 1: FURIE (Federal hybrid music has seen them entertain
Union for Restoring Intergalactic Equilibrium) which is a return to activism and politics diverse crowds across the UK - from
in jazz. Far more than just a collection of tunes, the album follows a science fiction techno raves to basement jazz clubs
story, a humorous and provocative look at our modern world through the lens of fake and everything in between.
news and alternative facts. The music is a combination of acoustic jazz and futuristic
electronic sounds, all composed around the speeches of various populist politicians.
‘‘
The best kept secret in Jazz.
‘‘
Downbeat Magazine
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Interactive innovation
allows you to enjoy a
whole new and unique
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experience.
BBC18 MILAPFEST AND LIJF PRESENTS: HOPE SWINGS
SARATHY KORWAR ETERNAL
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020
Saturday 29th February 2020, 1pm Saturday 29th February 2020,
£10 3.30pm
Venue: The Capstone Foyer
Sarathy Korwar has established himself as one of the most original and compelling voices in the UK Free Admission
jazz scene, leading the UPAJ Collective, a loose band of South Asian jazz and Indian classical musicians
brought together through a love of collaboration and improvisation, who set up a residency at the Jazz Under the direction of Phil Shotton,
Café in London. Korwar has collaborated with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings (The Comet Is Coming), jazz saxophonist and professional
clarinettist Arun Ghosh and producer Hieroglyphic Being, as well as groups Penya and Ill Considered. tutor in music performance at
He has toured with Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal and Moses Boyd. Liverpool Hope University, Music
students from the Liverpool Hope
His daring debut album, Day To Day, recorded with the support of the Steve Reid Foundation, University Big Band form smaller,
was released by Ninja Tune in 2016. The album fused traditional folk music recorded with the Sidi more intimate, ensembles to
community in India (combining East African, Sufi and Indian influences) with contemporary jazz entertain the festival audience with
and electronics.
an eclectic mix of swing, bebop,
He released his second studio album, More Arriving, through The Leaf Label in July 2019. With this fusion and straight-ahead mainstream
latest release, Korwar blasts out his own vibrant, pluralistic narrative for the world to hear. The album is jazz. Vocalists will be featured
a reflection of Korwar’s experience of being an Indian in Britain, and incorporates rappers from Mumbai alongside the instrumentalists singing
and New Delhi, spoken word and Indian classical and jazz performances. More Arriving is a record born songs from both the Great American
of confrontation; one for our confrontational times. Songbook and modern pop songs
arranged in a jazz style.BLOW 3.0 (+ BEYOND ALBEDO) Since arriving on Earth in 2017, retro-
futuristic quartet Beyond Albedo have
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performed at Lancaster Jazz Festival;
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020
Saturday 29th February 2020, 7.30pm
collaborated with Chris Sharkey (of
£15 Roller Trio) on their single Arrival;
been selected to take part on Jazz
Young, anonymous, Belgian band Blow 3.0 are one of the latest hot exports from the North’s 2019 Northern Line artist
continent, fusing jazz, punk and dance music in their superb live stage shows. Sometimes support scheme, and participated
referred to by fans as ‘Drum n Sax’, the band cut their teeth in underground clubs across in the Sage Gateshead’s Summer
Belgium and the Netherlands and have performed in some very unusual settings including Studio 2019 programme. The band’s
rooftops and forests. music combines drum machine
grooves, driving synth basslines,
Their pioneering style and appearance quickly gained them notoriety online where in no explosive drumming, pulsating guitar,
time at all they had amassed over 10,000 followers for their outlandish shows and soon they and effects-laden saxophone. They
had caught the attention of major national promoter Live Nation who instantly snapped weave intricate dance music with
them up for representation in their home country. The band went on to electrify audiences at improvisation, conjuring a sound that
festivals in France, England, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia and even Brazil playing to doesn’t quite belong on this planet
thousands at the legendary Copacabana Beach in Rio.20 LIVERPOOL SAXOPHONE MARTIN ARCHER'S The concert features an opening set by
UK-Swiss collaboration Moonmot. In
DAY 2020 ANTHROPOLOGY BAND 2017, Cath Roberts and Dee Byrne,
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2020
Sunday 1st March 2020, 10am (+ MOONMOT) saxophonists from London, were
invited to take part in Jazzwerkstatt,
Venue: The Cornerstone Building, Sunday 1st March 2020, 2.30pm Bern. From their quartet, Word of
Liverpool Hope University Creative Moth, they brought over bassist Seth
£11.50 Bennett and drummer Johnny Hunter
Campus
to work with Swiss musicians Oli
Photo credit: Andy Newcombe
£25 Taking the electric music of Miles Davis Kuster (piano) and Simon Petermann
as its starting point, Anthropology Band (trombone). Following a stint at
Liverpool Saxophone Day is back in 2020
is about finding the atmosphere through a London Jazz Festival and a Swiss tour
with an action-packed day for all sax deep rhythm, a searing blues run, a delicate they have recently released their debut
players. In collaboration with the prestigious melody, or a cascading solo statement. self-titled album.
annual Liverpool International Jazz Festival, Band leader Martin Archer has kept the
Liverpool Saxophone Day will bring you music as simple as possible – often driven
seven sax workshops and ensembles, three live by the bassline – and the structures loose,
performances and plenty of sax trade stalls. to enable this who’s who of UK creative
Whether you're a novice or pro, into jazz, musicians to let the music breathe in a
classical, big band, electronic, funk, Liverpool different way each time it is played. There
Saxophone Day has got it covered. are multiple chordal instruments in the
centre of the sound, allowing each soloist to
The day-long event includes performances by sit on a kaleidoscopic wave of inter-crossing
Skeltr and Blind Monk Theory?, and a ticket figures which push the music forward.
for the day includes free entry to Tony Kofi’s
‘‘
evening concert taking place in The Capstone
Theatre that evening.
Martin Archer's aesthetic is an intriguing
and transformative one - whatever enters
‘‘
his world comes out changed, if not
utterly, then beautifully
Duncan Heining, All About JazzTONY KOFI QUARTET 21
(+ BLIND MONK THEORY?)
Liverpool
LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL
Sunday 1st March 2020, 7.30pm
£15
Tony Kofi - alto saxophone
Byron Wallen - trumpet
International Jazz
Larry Bartley - double bass
Rod Youngs - drums
The Tony Kofi Quartet was formed four years ago
as a result of Tony Kofi being asked in 2010 by
Ornette Coleman’s former Prime Time bass player
Jamaaladeen Tacuma to go to New York to record
on his new album For the Love of Ornette which
JAZZ FESTIVAL
featured the great man himself. The influence has
inspired Kofi to put together this collective of
Festival 2020
world-class musicians who have all been touched
and inspired by the music of Ornette Coleman.
Expect to hear all the classic Ornette Coleman
compositions from The Shape of Jazz to Come,
This is our Music, Something Else, Tomorrow is the
2020
Question and Beauty is a Rare Thing.
Tony Kofi Quartet will be supported with an opening set by Liverpool based quartet Blind Monk Theory? Blind Monk Trio
formed early 2012 playing arrangements of Thelonious Monk tunes without a pianist! Now expanded to a quartet featuring
The Weave's Martin Smith on trumpet, the latest incarnation of the band, Blind Monk Theory? performs music that forges
wide-ranging influences - jazz, folk, beats, african, asian, classical, cinematic, rock, electronic into a unique sound firmly steeped
in the legendary chordless groups of Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and the compositions of Thelonious Monk.22 VULA VIEL (+ RAFE'S DILEMMA) Following the acclaimed release of Do Not Be Afraid and a busy tour that
took them from UK to Europe and back, including a stellar performance at
Thursday 19th March 2020, 7.30pm Womad captured by BBC Radio 3, Vula Viel return with a new album. The
band continue their sonic explorations around the gyil, the wooden xylophone
£11.50 of the Dagaare from Upper West Ghana, on their brand new set, What’s Not
Bex Burch - gyil Enough About That.
Ruth Goller - bass
Jim Hart - drums Picking up from early 2019’s Do Not Be Afraid, the new album breaks new
ground as Bex Burch (gyil), Ruth Goller (bass) and Jim Hart (drums) continue
to forge their own unique fusions. While Do Not Be Afraid developed ideas
around disciplined ‘rhythm wheels’, rhythm patterns in regular cycles set to
the band’s angular instrumentation, the new tracks stretch out the band’s
sound, at times delicate and at others moving into raw post-punk soundscapes.
This concert will include an opening
set from Leeds-based quartet Rafe's
Dilemma. Featuring Nel Begley, Jamil
Sheriff, Katie Patterson and Pete
Turner, Rafe's Dilemma pull together
influences from jazz, electronica and
rock. Originally formed in 2017 as
a commission for Bolton Worktown
Festival (2018) the band went on to
release their debut album Rafe’s Dilemma
with an accompanying Arts Council
England supported tour (2019). They
are currently part of Jazz North’s
Northern Line Scheme 2019/20.COURT AND SPARK - BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA 23
THE JONI MITCHELL SONGBOOK Thursday 26th March 2020, 7.30pm
Friday 20th March 2020, 7.30pm £15 (£13 concessions)
£17.50 (£15.50 concessions) Inspirational electronic folk pioneers The Blackheart Orchestra take folk to a
new unexplored dimension. Described as “a mesmerizing powerhouse” (Xune
“Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel Magazine) , “an avant-garde musical utopia” (No Depression) and “one of the
That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal”. most extraordinary voices singing anywhere today” (Rock Society Magazine),
- Joni Mitchell - Judgement of the Moon and Stars vocalist Chrissy Mostyn along with multi-instrumentalist Rick Pilkington
combine their classical influences with vintage synths and ultra-contemporary
Singer, songwriter, painter, poet, activist and voice of electronica to create music that takes over the senses.
a generation, Joni Mitchell is an essential part of the
soundtrack to the twentieth-century. She grew up As emotionally charged as it is musically accomplished, expect sublime
with folk music in the 60s, she railed against injustice harmonies, virtuoso guitar, piano and synthesiser playing and song writing,
in the 70s - she turned her autobiography into song in and arrangements that take the audience “from heart-breaking to uplifting in a
the 80s and reinvented herself in the 90s. Court and single song”. With awards including Best British Duo, Limelight Progressive
Spark - the Joni Mitchell Songbook will take you on a Music Award Nomination and being voted in the UK’s Top 4 Best New
musical journey that will probably mirror your own Bands, The Blackheart Orchestra are two voices and thirteen instruments
journey through life, from Ladies of the that create a unique musical experience that is truly ground-breaking.
Canyon, Clouds, For the Roses, Blue and
‘‘
Court and Spark, to the cool, evocative ‘‘
sounds of The Hissing of Summer Lawns,
Hejira, Mingus and Turbulent Indigo. A great band
BBC Radio 2
‘‘
Genuinely profound and
‘‘
evocative. A life-enhancing
listening event
Louder Than War24 SQUARE CHAPEL ARTS CENTRE PRESENTS
OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE BY DEBS NEWBOLD
[HAMLET RECLAIMED]
Tuesday 5th May 2020, 7.30pm
£10 (£8 concessions)
Gertrude: Wife. Mother. Queen of Denmark.
A fearless woman whose power was consistently undermined by the men
around her. In the 400 years since Hamlet was written, what - if anything
- has changed?
Welcome to purgatory. Where everything we know about Gertrude is torn
apart, reimagined and reclaimed by one woman and a jazz drummer in
a funny and fierce act of rebellion. There’ll be tea. There’ll be a visit from
Joan of Arc. There will be noise.
Fusing original narrative and Shakespearean verse with bold physicality
and thunderous sound, award-winning performance storyteller Debs
Newbold places Shakespeare’s iconic text under a 21st century lens to
offer an alternative perspective; putting a woman front and centre in this
notorious story of male revenge.ALLERTON BRASS: LIVERPOOL MOZART ORCHESTRA: 25
MOVIE CONNECTIONS CONTINENTAL LANDSCAPES
Saturday 9th May 2020, 7.30pm Saturday 16th May 2020, 7.30pm
(pre-concert talk at 6.45pm)
£10 (£8 concessions)
£15 (Senior Citizens £13.50, Students 17 and over £5, 16 and under FREE)
Tickets available by calling
07752 678224 Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia
Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor
Capstone regulars Allerton Brass Sibelius - Symphony No.2 in D major
return to present an evening Teresa Riveiro Böhm - conductor
of movie music in their latest Luke Jones - piano
performance Movie Connections.
Liverpool Mozert Orchestra is taking a trip to the Steppes of Central Asia and the
If you have ever wondered what Finnish Tundra for the final concert of their season. Borodin’s symphonic poem,
inspired the blockbuster movie In the Steppes of Central Asia, is one of his most popular works and depicts an
scores, who and what have interaction between a caravan of Central Asians and a group of Russian troops as
influenced our great film composers, they accompany them across the steppe lands of the Caucasus.
how film music actually works and
how it has developed and evolved The orchestra welcomes back Luke Jones after his stellar performance
over time, then join us for an of Chopin’s Second Concerto, to perform Schumann’s ever popular
entertaining evening of film music Piano Concerto, a work that amply demonstrates Schumann’s
classics and all will be revealed. capacity for virtuosity and melody in equal measure.
The concert ends with Sibelius’s glorious Second Symphony, a work
which Sibelius himself said was a “confession of the soul”. You can picture
the Finnish landscape as Sibelius takes us on a journey from a pastoral
opening to an evocative slow movement, a bustling scherzo
and one of the most uplifting finales of any symphony in the repertoire.
LMO's season finale will be deftly directed under the baton of
Teresa Riveiro Böhm, Leverhulme Conducting Fellow from the
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.GREAT EVENTS START WITH HOPE Liverpool Hope’s exciting range of conferencing, events and meeting venues offers you choice and flexibility. Choose between Hope Park, our leafy 37-acre campus in the suburb of Childwall or The Creative Campus; home to the Grade II-listed Cornerstone and modern Capstone buildings. • Conference and meeting rooms • Lecture theatres and syndicate rooms • Excellent audio visual facilities • Quality in-house catering • Overnight accommodation* • On-site car parking* For more information contact our designated team: T: 0151 291 2147 | E: conferences@hope.ac.uk www.hope.ac.uk/conferences *Overnight accommodation and parking is limited.
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Directions from the M62: At the end of the M62, follow
signs for City Centre, continuing straight ahead for about
2 miles. Turn right onto Low Hill (also signposted for
City Centre) continuing straight ahead at the traffic lights
leading onto Erskine Street. Turn right at the next traffic
lights [Office Outlet store on right] onto Shaw Street. The
Capstone Theatre is almost immediately on the left.
Directions from the M56: From Junction 15 join the M53.
Continue to Liverpool via the Wallasey Tunnel (Kingsway).
Exit straight ahead toward Scotland Road/Byrom Street.
Keep in the left-hand lane and at the traffic lights follow to
left (signposted Warrington, Manchester and M62) on to
New Islington. Stay in the left-hand lane to the second set of
traffic lights and turn left on to Shaw Street. The Capstone
Theatre is almost immediately on the left.
By Public Transport
Bus: From Liverpool City Centre (Queen Square)
the Arriva and Stagecoach bus services travelling to the
Creative Campus are the 12, 13 and 14 which stop on The Capstone Theatre
Brunswick Road (near to Office Outlet). A two minute Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus
walk from Office Outlet down Shaw Street will lead to the 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP
venue (on the left opposite the Collegiate). The 21 from T: 0151 291 3578
Queen Square travels along Shaw Street and can drop you E: capstone@hope.ac.uk
directly in front of the venue.
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Rail: The Creative Campus is around ten minutes’ walk
from Liverpool’s largest and main railway station, Liverpool Capstone Theatre
Lime Street. The main entrance to Liverpool Lime Street is
opposite Queen Square Bus Terminal from where you can
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