Cultural Programme

March / April 2015

Ballades from Brahms to Sumera by Emanuele Torquati

Thursday, 19 March – 8:00pm

ECM | CD Launch ConcertGiovanni Guidi Trio: This is the Day

Thursday, 2 April – 8:00pm

Although a contemporary gallery, rosenfeld porcini values a multidisciplinary approach both through its curated yearly themed exhibitions and the initiation of a cultural program focusing on one off niche events. rosenfeld porcini’s ongoing cultural programme features performance, debates and talks where the public is invited to experience and explore contemporary genres and topics in art. A rich variety of events has already punctuated 2014; A dance performance created by artist Bongsu Park; Haiku by CONTROLUCE Teatro d’Ombre, which combined dance wit shadow theatre; an evening of music by string quartet ‘Quartetto Prometeo’; a panel discussion on Video Art with invited guests David Gryn, Tabish Khan and Mark Westall alongside director Ian Rosenfeld; and more recently an evening of jazz by acclaimed pianist Giovanni Guidi.

rosenfeld porcini is proud to present a two exclusive performances to launch its 2015 cultural programme:

Ballades from Brahms to Sumera by Emanuele TorquatiThursday, 19 March – 8:00pm

ECM | CD Launch ConcertGiovanni Guidi Trio: This is the Day Thursday, 2 April – 8:00pm

Tickets:- Early-birds (limited quantity) £10- Regular admission £15

All tickets can be purchased at rosenfeld porcini directly or on internet via Eventbrite –advance booking recommended.

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Ballades from Brahms to Sumera by Emanuele Torquati

Thursday, 19 March – 8:00pmDoors open at 7:30pm

Commencing this season’s series of events the gallery presents an exclusive performance by Emanuele Torquati. The pianist will play ballades ranging from Furrer, Brahms, Sumera, Zemlinsky, Douglas and Grieg, a programme specially tailored for this unique evening of music at rosenfeld porcini.

Emanuele Torquati (b. 1978, Milan) is rapidly gaining international recognition for his poetic and passionate music making, communicative performances and engaging programming. He has been hailed as “a thoughtful musician and a champion of contemporary music” by the New York Times and as “a vibrant pianist, excellent overall” by the Boston Globe. His flourishing career has taken him to some of Europe, Canada, America and Africa’s most illustrious venues, in such diverse cities as Addis Abeba, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon), San Francisco, Banff, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, Boston, Paris, Lyon, Frankfurt, Berlin, Leipzig, Berlin, Prague, Krakow, Munich, Graz, Ljubljana, Kiev and Oslo.

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ECM | CD Launch ConcertGiovanni Guidi Trio: This is the Day

Thursday, 2 April – 8:00pmDoors open at 7:30pm

Rosenfeld porcini is proud to partner up with ECM records for an exclusive concert by Giovanni Guidi Trio – Guivanni Guidi (piano), Thomas Morgan (bass), João Lobo (drums)– for the launch of their new album This is the day (out March 2015). The unique London concert ends the Trios extensive promotional tour for This is the day.

This Is The Day is Giovanni Guidi’s second album as a leader for ECM, following on from the 2012 recording City of Broken Dreams. The young Italian pianist (b.1985, Foligno) was launched on the international stage in the groups of Enrico Rava. After being struck by the concentrated, impassioned qualities of the young pianist’s playing during the summer courses of Siena Jazz, Rava invited him into his band, and has since recorded with him on the ECM albums Tribe (with the Rava quintet) and On The Dance Floor, a live album with the Parco della Musica Jazz Lab in Rome.

This Is The Day again features Guidi’s international trio, with US bassist Thomas Morgan and Portuguese drummer João Lobo. Morgan recorded for the first time on ECM with guitarist John Abercrombie in 2008 on Wait Till You See Her and has since participated in albums of strikingly diverse character. Morgan’s style, melodic and essential, characterized by the fullness of touch, has been likened to that of Charlie Haden.

João Lobo came out from the school of the Hot Club de Portugal in Lisbon before moving to The Hague. Like Giovanni Guidi, he played with Enrico Rava in 2002 at Siena Jazz and the Guido-Lobo association has been firm since.

This Is The Day was recorded in the Auditorium Stelio Moro of the Swiss Radio and Television, in Lugano, in April 2014 and produced by Manfred Eicher. Artwork on the front cover of the record is by rosenfeld porcini gallery artist Emmanuel Barcilon.

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About the galleryFounded in June 2011 rosenfeld porcini occupies a prime location in the heart of the dynamic gallery district of London’s Fitzrovia. With 3,000 square feet of gallery space, directors Ian Rosenfeld and Dario Porcini are committed to showing international contemporary artists with an innovative monographic and themed exhibitions calendar.

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