FESTIVAL 2011

The 8th Planet Tree Music Festival runs between Wednesday 16 November and Sunday 20 November 2011.

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Sunday 20 November 3.30pm Lawrence Ball at 60

Red Hedgehog £12/£9 concessions

Lawrence Ball, founder/director of the Planet Tree Music Festival, invites you to hear compositions performed by some of his most dedicated collaborators and spontaneous piano improvisations (such as he's performed over 4 decades).

Programme

Programme to include:
Songs on haiku poems (2004 op.143) - Rosie Forbes-Butler, soprano
with tba, piano
Cathedral (1978 op.10) - Rosie Forbes-Butler, soprano (with resonating piano)
Improvisations on raga scales: Manickam Yogeswaran, voice and
Lawrence Ball, piano
New work* (2011) and music from Piano Suite 6 (2007 op.144) - Mark
Swartzentruber, piano
New work* (2011) or Fractal Study no.2 (1985 op.62) Alessandra
Celletti, piano
Pieces, semi-improvisations and improvisations - Lawrence Ball: Piano,
synthesizer

* world premiere

Performers

Lawrence Ball piano, synthesizer Alessandra Celletti, piano Rosie Forbes-Butler, soprano Mark Swartzentruber, piano Manickam Yogeswaran, voice (with accompanying musicians)

Commentary links

The Infinite Piano: Lawrence Ball plus 8 further articles