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1st - 1.00 Church of Christ the Cornerstone, Milton Keynes Recital with Cristian de Sa (violin) http://www.cristiangrajnerdesa.com/concerts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12th - 7.30 The Actors' Church, Covent Garden, London CD launch recital of "Scenarios" - piano music by Richard Harvey http://actorschurch.org/event/?show=1&id=873591956 ________________________________________________________________________ 14th - 7.30 St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda Recital with Emma Johnson http://droghedaclassicalmusic.com/september/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21-22 York Chamber Music Festival Friday 21 September 1.00pm Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate Recital with Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) Saturday 22 September 1.00pm Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate Recital with Tim Lowe (cello) Saturday 22 September 7.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Chamber Music programme with Martyn Jackson and Simon Blendis (violins), Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) and Tim Lowe (cello) http://ycmf.co.uk/site/2017-programme/ ________________________________________________________________________ 25th - United Reformed Church, Main Street, Cockermouth Recital with Emma Johnson http://www.cockermouth-music-society.org.uk/concerts-and-events#Emma-Johnson-clarinet-John-Lenehan-piano ________________________________________________________________________ 29th - recording in Henry Wood Hall. Music of Helen Habershon arranged and performed by John Lenehan with "Primavera" ________________________________________________________________________ 30th - Gresham's School, Norfolk "Clarinet goes to town" with Emma Johnson and Paul Clarvis http://audentheatre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Gresham-Arts-Michaelmas-2018-WEB.pdf
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 It was a great pleasure and privilege to record this, my second album of piano music by Richard Harvey. Scénarios is a beautifully conceived and written collection of miniatures mostly in a contemplative style. The disc was recorded in the Menuhin Hall last Summer. "Pianist" magazine has published a feature on the disc....(excerpt below - the full article can be read here)
Hailing from a musical family, whose father was a composer and woodwind player, Richard Harvey studied at the Royal College of Music, including composition classes with the late Stephen Dodgson, and was a member of the British Youth Symphony Orchestra. He formed his first group in the early 1970s, the progressive rock band ‘Gryphon’, famous both for its unique sound-world that successfully melded English folk with medieval and Renaissance elements and for touring regularly with ‘Yes’ both in the UK and the USA. Richard Harvey is renowned for the breadth and depth of his work as a composer, which includes the famous guitar concerto ‘Concerto Antico’, written for leading guitarist John Williams, and for which he was entered into the Classic FM Hall of Fame and also for his large-scale choral works, including the popular ‘Kyrie for the Magdalene’, co-written with Hans Zimmer and which was a musical highlight of Ron Howard’s notable film ‘The Da Vinci Code’, starring Tom Hanks. I am delighted that "Reflections" the new CD with the Saxophonist Huw Wiggin has made it to number 2 in the specialist classical music chart! Classic FM recorded a short recital of music from the album which was streamed live on facebook and can also be viewed here......
https://www.facebook.com/ClassicFM/videos/10156713143979260/?t=23  This month sees the release of "Reflections" a disc in which I partnered the marvellous Huw Wiggin in works for Saxophone and Piano. My first two CDs (way back in 1988!) were for sax and piano (with John Harle). I really enjoyed getting back into this sound world (one of the most natural instrumental combinations of all in my view). Here's an interview with Huw and myself. The CD is to be released on 15th June and Huw and I will be giving 2 launch concerts in London - 6th June at St Mary's, Perivale and 28th June at the Royal Overseas League in Central London. For details follow the links below.
http://www.st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2018-06-06.shtml https://www.rosl.org.uk/events/event/764-reflections-album-launch I recently visited Almaty in Kazakhstan to perform tracks from a new album of music by Yerkesh Shakeyev. The gift of melody is a wonderful and often underrated quality in so-called "serious" music circles. Yerkesh has that gift and, just as Saint-Saens described his abilities, they come to him easily "like an apple tree produces apples."  Shakeyev is a pop superstar across all former Soviet countries and recently begun writing in a more "classical" style. The album of piano music I recorded last year at Abbey Road (with some superb arrangements by Dimitriy Varelas), has just been released. The whole album can be listened to on spotify here I have also arranged and recorded two tracks with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and an album of cello music with Alexander Baillie. Both will be released in the near future. Here is the London Symphony Orchestra playing Shakeyev's "London" from a concert at Luke's in 2015. and here he sings one of the ballads that made him such a popular artist in all Russian-speaking countries. Miloš Karadaglić Guitar
Jess Gillam Saxophone Alexander Sitkovetsky Violin Ksenija Sidorova Accordion Martin James Bartlett Piano A star-studded line-up will perform this new quintet arrangement of Piazzolla's Libertango in March. Also in March, a recording with Saxophonist Huw Wiggin will feature new arrangements of music by Piazzolla, Grieg, Schubert and others. Maksim Mrvica's new album featuring Nutcracker Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra will be available soon. John Lenehan will be performing some of his arrangements of the music of Yerkesh Shakeyev with the RPO at Cadogan Hall in May. Here is my arrangement of "My Princess", recorded with the RPO earlier this year - with thanks to its composer Yerkesh Shakeyev and his Daughter Meru who created the video. Happy New Year!  My Nutcracker Fantasy -an unashamedly Lisztian virtuoso piece was recorded by "crossover" pianist Maksim Mrvica with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra earlier this month. I have worked on numerous projects with Maksim in the past but this is the first completely classical work since our very first collaboration - the "New World Concerto" - a reworking of Dvorak's 9th Symphony (last movement) for piano and orchestra. Since then Maksim has gone on to develop an incredible following in Asia and will be performing the new piece regularly next year. Never has the title of this post been truer than during these last few months. Presenting silent films to primary school children in Wales, playing the magnificent Elgar quintet for the first time, adjudicating final degree recitals at the Royal Academy of Music, exploring the music of Benny Goodman with Emma Johnson, playing Brahms on TV with Tasmin Little, teaching at the Menuhin and Chethams Music Schools and appearing with jazz legend Jason Rebello in a new 2 piano programme which just happens to be called "No Boundaries". Just some of the things I have been involved in lately. You can't get much more varied than that and the most exciting thing for me is that I feel energised and stimulated by this crazy variety of work. Stretching one's boundaries is good for you!  Performing Brahms' Sonatensatz at the Savoy Hotel, London with Tasmin Little during the South Bank Show's Sky Arts Awards Ceremony.  Performing with Jason Rebello at Manchester's brand new Stoller Hall during the Chethams Piano Summer School. The programme included our own improvised arrangements of the music of Bill Evans and John Ireland. |
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