WORLD CLASSICS CONCERT SERIES AT ST IVES ARTS CLUB
GENESIS OF THE SERIES AND INITIAL CONCERTS
The original plan was to present a series of occasional concerts of European classical music, bringing top-class musicians to St Ives. The first concert – in May 2007 – was in collaboration with 'Live Music Now!', a concert agency for young and emerging musicians. Somewhat fortuitously, the agency proposed for this pilot recital the Rosewood Duo, a Chinese ensemble featuring the talented young Chinese cimbalom player Ying Han.
The great success of this event demonstrated a clear interest in ethnic music, so we followed it up in July 2007 with a recital of Senegalese music by the griot and kora player Kadialy Kouyate, which sold out – indeed it was oversubscribed. These initial two concerts established that there was an enthusiastic audience for ethnic music in West Cornwall, and we decided that we should continue in the same vein. Thus was the World Classics Series born.
PLANS FOR SPRING 2010
We are hoping to present Music of Iran for santoor (Farshad Mohammadi) and Music of Serbia II for accordion duet (MilošMilivojević & Živorad Nikolić) in March/April/May. Watch this space!
– The Indian and Azeri concerts are part of Asian Music Circuit UK tours, and we are once again hugely indebted to Viram Jasani of the AMC for his organisational and financial support. See <www.amc.org.uk> regarding all the Indian and Azeri artists.
PAST CONCERTS
2007:
1. Ying Han, Chinese cimbalom & Jia Luo, harp (Rosewood Duo) (China I) Friday May 18
2. Kadialy Kouyate, kora (Senegal) Friday July 13
3. Viram Jasani, sitar & Hanif Khan, tabla (N. India I) Friday October 19
4. Ahmed Mukhtar, oud (Iraq) Friday November 23
2008:
5. Kiku Day, ji-nashi shakuhachi (Japan) Friday January 11
6. Ruth Wall, harps (Scotland) Friday February 22
7. Tarun Jasani, sarod & Hanif Khan, tabla (N. India II) Friday April 18
8. Bireshwar Gautam, thumri vocal & abhinaya gestural expression, Murad Ali, sarod, Hanif Khan, tabla & Nida Hussain, harmonium (North India III) Friday June 27
9. Zeng Chengwei, guqin & Qiu Zenghui, erhu (2-string fiddle) (China II) Friday July 25
10. Dr Jyotsna Srikanth, violin & Ravishankar Sharma, mridangam (S. India) Friday October 17
11. Miloš Milivojević, accordion (Serbia) Friday November 21
2009:
12. Craig Ogden, guitar (Spain) Friday March 13
13. Huong Thanh, vocal, Hong Nguyen & Daniel Nguyen, lutes, 2-string fiddle, monochord, percussion (Vietnam) Friday June 12
14. Uday Bhawalkar, dhrupad vocal and Manik Munde, pakhavaj (N. India) Friday July 17
15. Piu Sarkhel, khyal vocal and Akbar & Babar Latif, tablas (N. India) Friday October 2
16. Ulhas Kashalkar, khyal vocal and Suresh Talwalkar, tabla (N. India) Tuesday November 3
17. Gochaq Askarov, vocal and Azer Maharramov, saz (ashiq and mugham music of Azerbaijan) Friday November 13
18. William Butt, solo cello - Music of England, Germany & Hungary - Saturday February 6 2010