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Passionate and accomplished playing of vital new music
One of the world's most innovative and diverse pianists performs the work of groundbreaking composers who shaped and reshaped contemporary music. The programme includes the distinctive sparse beauty of Harold Budd's 'The Midnight Winds of London', György Ligeti's intricate and incredibly challenging 'Études pour piano', John Cage's '4'33"', plus Howard Skempton, Thomas Adès, Frédérick Chopin, Charles Ives, Cornelius Cardew, Gerald Barry and Astor Piazzolla.
"Joanna MacGregor is one of contemporary music's great individualists, a uniquely enlivening presence who slices her way through all the barriers she sees as false and limiting" The Independant
A co-promotion with Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, in association with the University of Oxford Music Faculty.
Tracks on this page are from Joanna MacGregor's album Play. Full details available at www.warnerclassicsandjazz.com
Workshop with Joanna MacGregor Fri 11 March, 1.30-4.30pm
In advance of her OCM concert at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building in the evening, Joanna MacGregor gives feedback and plays extracts from the piano works of six Faculty of Music composition students. Free.
Bookings: 01865 305 305 / Online (right hand side of this page)
Image: Pal Hansen
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