Friday, April 24th 2009 7.30pm – Canterbury Cathedral Quire
The great virtuoso trumpeter John Wallace and Principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama directs the principal brass players of the Philharmonia Orchestra together with some of Scotland’s finest young talent.
Friday, April 24th 2009 8.45pm – Orange Street Music Club
The crème-de-la-crème of Kentish jazz. KYJO is the county’s top youth Big Band with a repertoire ranging from Swing to Funk and Fusion.
Saturday, April 25th 2009 1pm - St. Peter’s Methodist Church
Michael Bonaventure is as an indefatigable advocate of new music. Inspired by the work of such pioneers as Karl-Erik Welin, Guy Bezancon and Jean-Pierre Leguay...
Saturday, April 25th 2009 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
Oren Marshall is a pioneering player of acoustic and electric tuba who crosses between classical - jazz - improvised- world music. He has collaborated with the likes of Derek Bailey, Keith Tippet, the Pan-African Orchestra and the London Philharmonic.
Sunday April 26th 2009 7.30pm – St. Gregory’s Centre for Music
The London Sinfonietta is renowned worldwide for its work at the leading edge of new music and the quality and excitement of its performances and recordings.
(Free to students aged 8-22 as part of Cavatina Ticket Scheme, available at the door)
Sunday April 26th 2009 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
This exciting event takes the idea of the nocturne, the intimate form of night music so loved by Chopin, and updates it for 2009, the 160th anniversary of the composer's death.
Monday 27th April 10.30am-12.30pm – St. Peter’s Methodist Church
The start of a far-reaching composition project which will connect composers of different nationalities, experience, ability and ages. Today, young composers from schools across Kent present their compositions in the presence of eminent composers Krzysztof Penderecki and Paul Patterson.
Monday 27th April 1pm – St. Gregory’s Centre for Music
Nicholas Reed is one of the brightest talents of his generation and is a passionate advocate of contemporary music. Only 24 years old, he has already given many high profile performances in venues such as London’s Cadogan Hall and Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.
Monday 27th April 7.45pm – St. Gregory’s Centre for Music
Rolf Hind has worked closely with living composers across a broad range of styles: from John Adams and Tan Dun, to Ligeti and Kurtág; Xenakis and Messiaen.
Monday 27th April 8.45pm - Orange Street Music Club
Welcome to the multi-coloured world of Cibelle, a Brazilian chanteuse currently residing in Dalston, who's been tipped, alongside Portishead and Bjork, as one of the three most important live acts in her genre.
