with Jo Foote | Programme featuring works from What Shapes A Soul? A Spiritual Celebration

featuring Wight Sax

featuring Wight Sax

with Jan Willem Nelleke, Catrin Roberts, Lauren Peck, Joe Pollard and Hebe Cooke | Private event for Guildhall students and professors only   Programme: Roger Boutry - Divertimento - II. Andante - for alto saxophone and piano Darius Milhaud - Scaramouche - II. Modéré - for alto saxophone and piano Abel Selaocoe arr. Samuel Beddard […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Presented by Ian Clarke and Justyna Szynkarczyk Programme includes: Ka Bohaleng from Suite after Abel Selaocoe for Saxophone Septet Featuring: Samuel Beddard - Solo Soprano Saxophone Catrin Roberts - Alto Saxophone Lauren Peck - Alto Saxophone Joe Pollard - Tenor Saxophone Emily Plumb - Tenor Saxophone Hebe Cooke - Baritone Saxophone Charles Curtin - Baritone […]

What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a journey from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. Opening with the music of the present day, Steven Banks’s monumental Come As You Are integrates the religious hymns of gospel and Romantic classical music, a piece given its UK […]

Featuring new interdisciplinary works by composers Lucy Holmes and André Serra, and choreographers Rocio Palmero and Emma Edwards.

Featuring new interdisciplinary works by composers Lucy Holmes and André Serra, and choreographers Rocio Palmero and Emma Edwards.

Featuring Samuel Beddard, Hebe Cooke, Lauren Peck, Joe Pollard, Emily Plumb, Catrin Roberts

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Presented by saxophonists Samuel Beddard & Emily Plumb and pianist Jo Foote   Programme: La Muerte Del Angel by Astor Piazzolla for soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone and piano Alpine Sonata by Lawson Lunde for soprano saxophone & piano A Change is Coming by Alastair Penman for soprano saxophone and electronics Takamba by Abel Selaocoe for […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

The Guildhall Saxophone Ensemble is joined by internationally acclaimed saxophonist Jess Gillam MBE for a special performance at Milton Court Concert Hall. The programme includes two works featuring Jess Gillam as soloist, showcasing the versatility and expressive range of the saxophone, alongside Barbican Snapshots. Directed by John Harle, Barbican Snapshots celebrates the Barbican’s bold, utopian design through an immersive programme […]

Presented and curated by Jo Foote

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]

Praised as "absolutely sensational" and "a fabulous evening of music", What Shapes A Soul? explores spirituality in music and takes the listener on a grand adventure from American gospel and spiritual hymns to their routes in African folk music. The first half of the programme centres around the music of the present day, where Steven […]