Music at  ST MARY'S   Perivale


Friday June 10th 7.30 pm

Karim Said (piano)
and
The Da Vinci Players

Clara Pérez Sedano (oboe)
Anna Hashimoto (clarinet)
Sinéad Frost (bassoon)
Kirsty Howe (horn)

Mozart: Quintet for piano and wind in E flat K 452

Beethoven : Quintet for piano and wind in E flat Op 16

Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand

Karim Said (piano) was born in Jordan in 1988. He joined the Purcell School in 2000, and gained a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He launched his professional career in 2009, with performances with the English Chamber Orchestra in London's Barbican Centre under the late Sir Colin Davis, and a BBC Proms debut at the Royal Albert Hall with Daniel Barenboim and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra. He was the subject of a 7 year film project by Christopher Nupen, broadcast on BBC4 in November 2008. He made his Southbank Centre debut with a sold out recital as part of ‘The Rest Is Noise'. His debut CD 'Echoes from an Empire' was releasedin January 2015 to considerable acclaim. He is now based in Berlin. He has regularly toured as soloist with the West Eastern Divan orchestra, under Daniel Barenboim, performing at the Philharmonie in Berlin, Musikverein in Vienna, La Scala in Milan, Royal Albert Hall in London and the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. In August 2015, he performed with them at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires playing Boulez's Sur Incises. Said has been hailed in International Piano magazine as a 'modern-day musical polymath', reflecting his understanding of music in a wider context. His founding of the Da Vinci Players, with whom he performs as pianist and conductor, builds on his passion for chamber music.

The Da Vinci Players was founded in late 2013. Their performances have explored repertoire ranging from Mozart Piano Concertos to a World Premier by Edward Longstaff, mostly, though not exclusively, through music with the keyboard at its core. Unlike many ensembles that play without a traditional conductor, the majority of Da Vinci Players' performances are led from the keyboard by Karim Said. Although it is common for conductors to direct from the keyboard occasionally or to have keyboard players lead an ensemble in a concerto, Da Vinci Players pride themselves in being members of a rare breed of democratically run ensembles who are dedicated to musical direction from the keyboard as an art form in itself. Their repertoire includes a wide range of chamber and small ensemble music by such composers as Boulez, Charpentier, Field, Boyce, Kraus, Rameau and Schoenberg, as well as mainstream classical music.

 

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