Was a lot of fun to sit in last night for one tune with thereminist Lydia Kavina…and more classical music on Saturday. I’m accompanying scarily good young oboist Eleanor Tinlin in a Vivaldi Oboe Concert at St Michael and All Angels Church on Lonsdale Road in Summertown, Oxford, at 7.15pm. This one is in aid of an outreach project in Kenya, so a good cause…do come along!
Back to ‘normal service’, as it were…on Sunday I have the privilege of playing again in duo with the great Tony Marsh…our first performance since a really fun gig at the Freedom of the City festival at the Conway Hall in May. This one is at the Vortex, as part of October’s Mopomoso programme. Also on the bill the superb trio ‘Barrel’ (Ivor Kallin, Alison Blunt, Hannah Marshall), Pat Thomas and John Jasnoch, and the Brazilian trio of Marilza Gouvea, Ricardo Montoya, and Marcio Mattos. The Vortex is a great place to play, and I say it every time I play there, but a gorgeous piano…so it should be good…