In April 2017 we toured around central London, Croydon and Brighton during the Easter bank holiday!
Thursday 13 April: Brighton
British Airways i360
Pavilion Gardens
Brighthelm Centre
The Haunt Brighton – opening act for ‘Ephemerals’
Friday 14 April: Croydon & Merton
Croydon Shopping Precinct
Boxpark Croydon
New Addington Market
Morden Park Bandstand
Saturday 15 April: London
Salvation Army Deptford: Easter Festival
Greenwich Market
Tall Ships Festival: Woolwich Arsenal
Hackney Showroom – orchestral club night hosted by Nonclassical with special guests and DJs including Gabriel Prokofiev.
Sunday 16 April: London
Wiilliam Temple Church, Abbey Wood
London Bridge Station
Akwaaba Refugee Centre
The theme of the tour was Music & Migration: all the works we performed were written by refugee and migrant composers – from Handel to Kurt Weill and Bartók to The Fugees – including a UK premiere by Aftab Darvishi, an Iranian composer.
We were very excited to welcome Jean Paul Samputu, a Rwandan refugee and one of the world’s most prominent African artists, as our vocal soloist.
On Saturday April 15 we performed at Hackney Showroom as part of Nonclassical’s infamous classical club-night, fusing live contemporary classical music with electronic beats.
Music
Bandstand
Toranj
Ricercar
Romanian dances
Candide overture
In the Steppes of Central Asia
Symphony No. 9, 1st movement
Symphony No. 104, 4th movement
Can Can
Violin Concerto No. 2, 2nd movement
Petite Fleur
Anitra’s Dance
Geographical Fugue
Dance of the tumblers
Migrant Medley
Maghreb mix
Karibu Mungu
Mundeke Nyirimbire
Simba
Gone till November
Smack Dab in the middle
Roof Garden
Coconut Woman
Premieres
Freya Waley-Cohen
Aftab Darvishi
Classical
J.S. Bach/A. Webern
Béla Bartók
Leonard Bernstein
Alexander Borodin
Antonín Dvorák
Joseph Haydn
Jacques Offenbach
Sergei Prokofiev
Non-classical
Sidney Bechet (arr. Konrad Koselleck)
Edvard Grieg (arr. Nestico/Rubingh)
Ernst Toch
Kurt Weill (arr. Marc Kaptijn)
Var. Composers (arr. de Gruchy-Lambert)
Var. Composers (arr. Marijn van Prooijen)
With Jean Paul Samputu
arr. Marijn van Prooijen
arr. Lewis Wright
arr. Nicolas Kent
Wycleff Jean (arr. Declan Seachoy)
Jesse Stone (arr. Martin Fondse)
Al Jarreau (arr. Geert Rubingh)
Harry Belafonte (arr. Marco C. de Bruijn)
