London Mozart Players and Jess Gillam perform two electrifying concerts on Thursday 24 June at Croydon's Fairfield Halls, after the covid 19 restrictions ease.
Former BBC Young Musician finalist and now BBC broadcaster Jess Gillam joins the London Mozart Players at Fairfield Halls in June, performing two spectacular works for saxophone including Nyman’s electrifying Where the bee dances. Gillam brings virtuosity and ‘life-affirming talent’, as described in the BBC Young Musician final, to an evening that takes in Glazunov’s romantic and beautifully lyrical Saxophone Concerto. The programme, under the baton of Jonathan Bloxham, is completed by an LMP favourite – Mozart’s Symphony No 35 ('Haffner').
Gillam burst onto the music scene in 2016 as the first saxophonist ever to reach the final of the BBC Young Musician competition. She has wowed audiences and inspired young musicians with her passion for music ever since – her first album, Rise, released in April 2019, shot to No.1 in the UK’s Official Classical Charts, while her second album Time was released in autumn 2020. If you thought the saxophone was just for jazz, think again: this will be an extraordinary night of music-making from a Classical Brit-winning soloist and an internationally celebrated orchestra.
There will be two concerts on the same day to accommodate social distancing 4pm and 7.30pm.
This concert will be filmed for later release on the LMP website.
As part of its 100k Challenge (to reach 100,000 children and young people through music in 2021), London Mozart Player is working with schools and music hubs across the UK to make its four 'Spotlight On...' concert films (also featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Isata Kanneh-Mason and Leia Zhu) available to schools for a limited time, for free, along with listening guides for different age groups. If you would like your schools to be part of this initiative, please contact Tegan Eldridge at London Mozart Player via tegan@lmp.org for more information.