Join Music in Offices to hear the City and see the City. This autumn, the City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge celebrates the City’s unique environment, beauty and creativity through a two-week programme of live music and performance.
As the birthplace of London, the City is a place with an ever-changing skyline – modern creations set against Christopher Wren’s baroque churches. We invite you to experience iconic City spaces in new ways.
Festival highlights:
British jazz pianist Julian Joseph in Mansion House, with a stellar new quintet and state-of-the-art surround sound
Italy’s innovative Eklectric Duo, performing a playlist from hot Paganini to Coldplay
Music of Paganini, Rossini and Verdi by Genoa's guitar maestro Josè Scanu
The Flower of Cities, a musical tour of City destinations and Paganini variations, set in architectural beauty
Bach, Paganini and the music of bees from Benjamin Marquise Gilmore and Tenebrae
Free lunchtime concerts from emerging new talent
Vivaldi singing workshop
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Paganini & improvisation. FREE – walk-ins welcome, but to guarantee your seat & stay in touch, please register below.
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Julian Joseph presents an exciting new band, with music specially written and improvised versions of Bach and Paganini, for the audience to experience sound in a totally new way:emotion and drama enhanced by immersive technology, marrying acoustic sound with split second digital processing capability, featuring the brand new ‘d&b Soundscape’ system.
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Matteo Cimatti (violin), Gabriel Francis-Dehqani (cello) & Zany Denyer (piano): works by Paganini, Elgar, Busoni & Britten. FREE – Walk-ins welcome, but to guarantee your seat & stay in touch, please register below.
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Sonas Quartet: Yente Lottman & Isabelle Allan (violins), Eve Quigley (viola) & Alice Abram (cello). FREE – Walk-ins welcome, but to guarantee your seat & stay in touch, please register below.
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Eklectric Duo Elisa Tomellini (piano) & Alberto Casadei electric (cello): eclectica, ranging from hot Paganini to Coldplay.
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Paganini inventions & variations. FREE - Walk-ins welcome, but to guarantee your seat & stay in touch, please register below.
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José Scanu (19th C guitar): Genoa’s living maestro presents Paganini’s virtuoso sonatas and arrangements of contemporaries, Rossini and Verdi.
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Paganini chamber music. FREE – Walk-ins welcome, but to guarantee your seat & stay in touch, please register below.
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The Flower of Cities Ensemble: Francisco Correa & Xuefei Yang (guitars) / Max Baillie (violin) / Oscar Perks (viola) / Ben Hughes (cello) / Laurence Ungless (bass) / Matthew Brett (Percussion) Introduced by special guest, John Williams (speaker)
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Prof Milton Mermikides: Bach, Paganini & variations (Gresham Lecture). FREE – Walk-ins welcome, but to guarantee your seat & stay in touch, please register below.
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Workplace choirs open workshop and short performance, led by Nigel Short (conductor of Tenebrae Choir). FREE – Walk-ins welcome, but to guarantee your seat & stay in touch, please register below.
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Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin) / Tenebrae (choir) / Stephen Disley (organ) / Prof. Milton Mermikides (speaker).