Stefano Bollani Trio

Date

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Time

8:00pm

Venue

LONDON Kings Place
90 York Way
London
N1 9AG
020 7520 1490
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Tickets

£29.50/ £24.50 /£19.50 / £9.50

Series

Kings Place Residency

Following the resounding success of last year’s Scene Norway at the Festival, the state of the art surroundings of Kings Place once again play host to a Festival series – this year, the farsighted, boundary-shattering artistic vision of maverick Italian piano maestro Stefano Bollani. A child prodigy, Bollani left home to pursue his dream of playing music aged just 15, with encouragement from his mentor, trumpeter Enrico Rava. Now 36, Bollani’s mercurial skills see him combine irrepressible humour, vaudevillian showmanship and jaw-dropping technique with wild imagination.

Following the resounding success

of last year’s Scene Norway at

the Festival, the state of the art

surroundings of Kings Place once

again play host to a Festival

series – this year, the farsighted,

boundary-shattering artistic vision

of maverick Italian piano maestro

Stefano Bollani. A child prodigy,

Bollani left home to pursue his

dream of playing music aged just

15, with encouragement from his

mentor, trumpeter Enrico Rava. Now

36, Bollani’s mercurial skills see

him combine irrepressible humour,

vaudevillian showmanship and

jaw-dropping technique with wild

imagination.

He takes up residence for four

exclusive concerts that explore his

separate but simultaneous creative

paths.

Opening with the trio that features on

his latest ECM CD Stone in the Water,

Bollani and the Danish bass’n’drum

team of Jesper Bodilsen and Morten

Lund combine free-wheeling jazz

with a quirky musical wit.

The same trio will then reunite

with old friend and highly creative

trumpeter Enrico Rava on Thursday

19 November for a lithe quartet

concert.

This is followed on Friday 20

November by a veritable firework

display of high-wire improv, Bollani’s

solo piano flights complemented

by a duet with exuberant Italian

accordionist Antonello Salis.

The residency concludes in suitably

rousing fashion on Saturday 21

November with Bollani’s expansive

sextet I Visionari, revealing the true

breadth of his musical universe.

A one-off opportunity to savour the

vast stylistic range of an artist who

was awarded European Musician of

the Year in 2007, was named as one

of the five most important musicans

of 2007 by All About Jazz, alongside

Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman

– and this year won the prestigious

Paul Acket Award at the Northsea

Jazz Festival.

“Playful, cerebral and virtuosicFollowing the resounding success of last year’s Scene Norway at the Festival, the state of the art surroundings of Kings Place once again play host to a Festival series – this year, the farsighted, boundary-shattering artistic vision of maverick Italian piano maestro Stefano Bollani. A child prodigy, Bollani left home to pursue his dream of playing music aged just 15, with encouragement from his mentor, trumpeter Enrico Rava. Now 36, Bollani’s mercurial skills see him combine irrepressible humour, vaudevillian showmanship and jaw-dropping technique with wild imagination.

He takes up residence for four exclusive concerts that explore his separate but simultaneous creative paths.

Opening with the trio that features on his latest ECM CD Stone in the Water, Bollani and the Danish bass’n’drum team of Jesper Bodilsen and Morten Lund combine free-wheeling jazz with a quirky musical wit. The same trio will then reunite with old friend and highly creative trumpeter Enrico Rava on Thursday 19 November for a lithe quartet concert.

This is followed on Friday 20 November by a veritable firework display of high-wire improv, Bollani’s solo piano flights complemented by a duet with exuberant Italian accordionist Antonello Salis.

The residency concludes in suitably rousing fashion on Saturday 21 November with Bollani’s expansive sextet I Visionari, revealing the true breadth of his musical universe.

A one-off opportunity to savour the vast stylistic range of an artist who was awarded European Musician of the Year in 2007, was named as one of the five most important musicans of 2007 by All About Jazz, alongside Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman – and this year won the prestigious Paul Acket Award at the Northsea Jazz Festival.

"Playful, cerebral and virtuosic in equal measures." Mojo

Read John Fordham's review of Stefano Bollani's latest ECM release, Stone in the Water