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Most recent Rare Music Club events:

Monday 13 October 2003 : Triple bill
The Polish Club, 50 St Pauls Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LP [map]
(behind the Victoria Rooms near-opposite Racks Wine Bar. Limited free on-street parking nearby)
8.00pm start, doors open 7.30pm : £8 / £5 : Licensed bar

Katherine Spencer clarinet Matt Sharp cello & acting
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL
Two outstanding young musicians, with biographies, prizes and credits that would fill pages, playing a short suite of modern compositions: Chris Slaski, Celebration (solo cello); Karlheinz Stockhausen, In Freundschaft (solo clarinet); John Tavener, Threnos (solo cello); Mauricio Kagel, Atem (solo clarinet with actor); Phyllis Tate, Duo for clarinet and cello. Where else might you hear a programme as adventurous as this and get to relax at a table with candles and drinks while you listen? All this as just part one of an amazing musical triple bill!

Karen Street accordion
FOLK, JAZZ, TANGO
Karen is a brilliant accordionist (and tenor saxophone player) who has studied classical, folk and jazz. She has worked regularly with Mike Westbrook, Tim Garland, Steve Arguelles and Phil Robson. Two years ago she released her debut album Finally… A Beginning which established her at the forefront of a generation that is forging a new role for the accordion in contemporary music. These compelling compositions range in style from contemporary jazz to folk and tango. [More info]
Paul Dunmall Quartet saxophones/bagpipes, trombone, guitar, drums
FREE IMPROVISATION / CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION
Paul Dunmall's endless creativity and his continuous desire to play with like musical minds has led to the formation of a plurality of small groups in recent years while not disrupting his work with musicians such as Keith Tippett, Brian Irvine and Robin Williamson. Many of the new small groups are ongoing permutations picked from a group of like-minded musicians keen to work with Paul's special talents. This quartet is one such new and exciting combination specially formed to tour for Paul's fiftieth birthday.

Joining Paul's multi-talented saxophone and bagpipe playing is Tony Marsh on drums. Tony worked with the Mike Westbrook Brass Band through most of the Eighties and, like Paul, has worked regularly with Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Barry Guy, Howard Riley, Elton Dean, Simon Picard and Paul Rogers. Phil Gibbs has been a regular guitar partner with Paul over the last few years and has now played and recorded with him many times. The fourth member is trombonist Hilary Jeffery, a regular member of Paul Dunmall's phenomenal Octet. Hilary is involved in several electronics groups in the Netherlands and has recently built the official website for Paul's homegrown CD-R label Duns Limited Edition.

The music tonight will incorporate top-drawer free improvisation and a suite of five 'birthday miniatures' (commissioned by the Rare Music Club with funds from South West Arts) composed for the quartet by Paul. Another outrageously inspiring triple bill concert at the Rare Music Club and not to be missed!

The Paul Dunmall Quartet is performing five UK dates - Check Concerts Diary for other dates and booking information. For lots more information about Paul Dunmall and useful links with sound samples visit the Paul Dunmall homepage at Mind Your Own Music.

‘If you don’t think people are making fresh, strong statements in improvising music today, you’re not listening to the right things’—Robert D. Rusch, Producer, Creative Improvised Music Projects, New York

Friday 31 October 2003
Bristol Music Club, 76 St Pauls Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LP [map]
(adjacent to mini roundabouts at end of Pembroke Road. Limited free on-street parking nearby)
8.00pm start, doors 7.30pm : £8 / £5 : Bring Your Own Drinks - glasses provided

TWO BABY GRAND PIANOS PLUS FOUR OUTSTANDING PIANISTS IN AN EVENING OF FREE IMPROVISATION.
SOLOS, DUOS AND TRIOS … PIANOFORTE! For other Pianoforte tour dates see the Mind Your Own Music Concerts Diary
Howard Riley
Began playing piano at the age of six. Riley began performing in jazz clubs in the sixties, he also gained master's degrees from the University of Wales, Indiana (US) and the University of York (UK). Since establishing himself on the free jazz/improvised music scene his work has broadened and gained considerable repute, working as a soloist and duos with Jaki Byard and Keith Tippett, a trio with Castronari and Marsh and two quartets, co-led respectively with Elton Dean and Art Themen. He has made thirteen solo recordings and 'always the objective is to arrive at freedom through spontaneity'. In addition, his composed works have been performed by the Nash Ensemble, the Welsh String Quartet and the New Jazz Ensemble.

Stephen Grew
Stephen Grew is an instinctive, strikingly unconventional pianist whose aesthetic sensibilities are very much informed by his years spent as a visual artist. He has worked as an improvising pianist since the late 1980s, performing nationally and internationally, and currently works on a regular basis with Mick Beck and Phillip Marks as the Grew Trio. He has also worked with many other improvisers, Phil Minton, Pat Thomas, Andy Sheppard, Paul Hession, Richard Scott to name a few.

Keith Tippett
Started gigging in Bristol as a teenager, playing traditional jazz and bop. In 1967, he moved to London and quickly garnered an outstanding reputation. Since then Tippett has remained one of the most innovative and open-minded musicians, with a career that has spanned jazz-rock, improvised and contemporary music as well as jazz. He has written numerous classical commissions and as a performer has worked internationally with Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Louis Moholo, Howard Riley, Stan Tracey, Mark Charig to name a few. Tippett is also famous for his education work, his solo performances and his various big bands from the legendary fifty-piece Centipede to his current twenty-one piece Tapestry. Tippett is Honorary Fellow of both the Welsh College of Music and Drama and Dartington College of Arts.

Pat Thomas
Started playing at the age of eight, began playing jazz at sixteen after seeing Oscar Peterson on TV. In 1988 Pat was awarded an Arts Council Jazz Bursary to write three electro-acoustic compositions for his ten-piece ensemble Monads. In 1990 he also took part in Company week playing with Phil Wachsman, Henry Kaiser, Eugene Chadbourne and Louis Moholo. Pat has earned himself a reputation as one of the rising stars in the younger generation of British improvisers, has toured England and Europe with the likes of Phil Minton, Roger Turner and Orphy Robinson.

Part of a five-date UK tour with thanks for the financial support of Jazz Services. Check Concerts Diary for other UK dates.

Friday 21 November 2003
Bristol Music Club, 76 St Pauls Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LP [map]
(adjacent to mini roundabouts at end of Pembroke Road. Limited free on-street parking nearby)
8.00pm start, doors 7.30pm : £8 / £5 : Bring Your Own Drinks - glasses provided

ANOTHER AWESOME MIXED-GENRE TRIPLE BILL AND THE LAST RMC CONCERT OF THE SEASON!

Miriam Keogh
harp – traditional Irish music
Miriam Keogh was awarded a Countess of Munster Trust Scholarship at the age of sixteen to study the harp with Osian Ellis at the Royal Academy of Music. After leaving the RAM she continued her studies with Renate Scheffel-Stein who was at that time principal Harp of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Miriam played second harp to her many times and also later when she moved to the London Symphony Orchestra.

Miriam has toured North and South America, Japan and all of Europe with the Philharmonia, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, City of London Sinfonia to name but a few, and has twenty years experience as a full-time freelance harpist.

She is much in demand as a specialist Celtic harpist for the film industry. Recent soundtracks have been The Shipping News and The Gospel according to St John (due for release end of 2003). Miriam is a member of the Philharmonia Education team working with children and adults of all ages and also special needs. In March 2001 Miriam was awarded an A.R.A.M. from the Royal Academy of Music for "achieving distinction in the profession" and in September 2002 was appointed to the Royal Academy of Music to create and develop the Junior Harp Department.

Fazliddin Husanov
piano – contemporary classical
Fazliddin Husanov was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in 1978. He grew up in a musical family and began serious piano study at the age of six. When he was sixteen he studied with Reinhard Becker at the Trossingen state college for music. He complemented his training by taking masterclasses from Ivan Moravec and Eric Heidszieck. Solo appearances led him to the GUS states, Germany, Italy, Hungary and USA. In 1992 he won the piano contest for young pianists in Central Asia and in 1994 first prize in international piano contest in Ashgabad (Turkmenia). In 2001 he won the London International Piano Competition. In 2003 he won the second prize in the Intercollegiate Beethoven Competition and won first prize in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Concerto Competition. In tonight's programme of contemporary music Fazliddin will include Stravinsky's Petrushka.

The Dartington Trio
Keith Tippett piano Julie Tippetts voice Paul Dunmall saxophones, clarinets – free improvisation/jazz
When Keith Tippett founded the Rare Music Club in the early 1990s one major aim was to give the members of the free improvisation collective Mujician a regular musical performance space. Many will remember these concerts as some of the greatest musical experiences of their lives. Whenever any of these musicians are on stage there is always the potential for magic. While it is pleasing to say that they are all still at the peak of their creative powers, and with technical prowess undiminished by the years, their opportunities to perform are all too rare. This is the last Rare Music Club concert for the foreseeable future and we're thrilled to give these very special musicians the opportunity to bring the curtain down in the intimacy of the Bristol Music Club. Last month this as yet unrecorded Trio (founded at Dartington College where all three teach each summer) played to a packed house at the Vortex in London. Do tell your friends and welcome along!

Next RMC concert … who knows? We don't! Click here for previous RMC concerts in 2003

Keith Tippett’s Rare Music Club presents quality special concerts and TRIPLE BILLS embracing the varied musical worlds of FREE IMPROVISATION / CONTEMPORARY JAZZ with CONTEMPORARY / NEW MUSIC and ROOTS / ETHNIC / FOLK MUSIC in a variety of venues in Bristol and the South West of England. It is administered by Mind Your Own Music and is grateful for financial support from the Performing Right Society Foundation.

Why not book an RMC event at your venue or Festival or become a sponsor?

Subscribe to our free informative newsletter for the latest news about our artists, the Rare Music Club and other lively comment about contemporary music and the arts.

RMC – A COUNTERBLAST TO THE MUSICAL MAINSTREAM!

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Pianoforte History and Artist Links Mind Your Own Music & Rare Music Club Concerts Diary
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Next Music Event : see Mind Your Own Music & Rare Music Club Concerts Diary
Most recent Rare Music Club events: Monday 13 October 2003 : Triple bill The Polish Club, 50 St Pauls Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LP [map] (behind the Victoria Rooms near-opposite Racks Wine Bar. Limited free on-street parking nearby) 8.00pm start, doors open 7.30pm : £8 / £5 : Licensed bar Katherine Spencer clarinet Matt Sharp cello & acting CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Two outstanding young musicians, with biographies, prizes and credits that would fill pages, playing a short suite of modern compositions: Chris Slaski, Celebration (solo cello); Karlheinz Stockhausen, In Freundschaft (solo clarinet); John Tavener, Threnos (solo cello); Mauricio Kagel, Atem (solo clarinet with actor); Phyllis Tate, Duo for clarinet and cello. Where else might you hear a programme as adventurous as this and get to relax at a table with candles and drinks while you listen? All this as just part one of an amazing musical triple bill! Karen Street accordion FOLK, JAZZ, TANGO Karen is a brilliant accordionist (and tenor saxophone player) who has studied classical, folk and jazz. She has worked regularly with Mike Westbrook, Tim Garland, Steve Arguelles and Phil Robson. Two years ago she released her debut album Finally… A Beginning which established her at the forefront of a generation that is forging a new role for the accordion in contemporary music. These compelling compositions range in style from contemporary jazz to folk and tango. [More info] Paul Dunmall Quartet saxophones/bagpipes, trombone, guitar, drums FREE IMPROVISATION / CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION Paul Dunmall's endless creativity and his continuous desire to play with like musical minds has led to the formation of a plurality of small groups in recent years while not disrupting his work with musicians such as Keith Tippett, Brian Irvine and Robin Williamson. Many of the new small groups are ongoing permutations picked from a group of like-minded musicians keen to work with Paul's special talents. This quartet is one such new and exciting combination specially formed to tour for Paul's fiftieth birthday. Joining Paul's multi-talented saxophone and bagpipe playing is Tony Marsh on drums. Tony worked with the Mike Westbrook Brass Band through most of the Eighties and, like Paul, has worked regularly with Evan Parker, Paul Rutherford, Barry Guy, Howard Riley, Elton Dean, Simon Picard and Paul Rogers. Phil Gibbs has been a regular guitar partner with Paul over the last few years and has now played and recorded with him many times. The fourth member is trombonist Hilary Jeffery, a regular member of Paul Dunmall's phenomenal Octet. Hilary is involved in several electronics groups in the Netherlands and has recently built the official website for Paul's homegrown CD-R label Duns Limited Edition. The music tonight will incorporate top-drawer free improvisation and a suite of five 'birthday miniatures' (commissioned by the Rare Music Club with funds from South West Arts) composed for the quartet by Paul. Another outrageously inspiring triple bill concert at the Rare Music Club and not to be missed! The Paul Dunmall Quartet is performing five UK dates - Check Concerts Diary for other dates and booking information. For lots more information about Paul Dunmall and useful links with sound samples visit the Paul Dunmall homepage at Mind Your Own Music. ‘If you don’t think people are making fresh, strong statements in improvising music today, you’re not listening to the right things’—Robert D. Rusch, Producer, Creative Improvised Music Projects, New York
Friday 31 October 2003 Bristol Music Club, 76 St Pauls Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LP [map] (adjacent to mini roundabouts at end of Pembroke Road. Limited free on-street parking nearby) 8.00pm start, doors 7.30pm : £8 / £5 : Bring Your Own Drinks - glasses provided TWO BABY GRAND PIANOS PLUS FOUR OUTSTANDING PIANISTS IN AN EVENING OF FREE IMPROVISATION. SOLOS, DUOS AND TRIOS … PIANOFORTE! For other Pianoforte tour dates see the Mind Your Own Music Concerts Diary Howard Riley Began playing piano at the age of six. Riley began performing in jazz clubs in the sixties, he also gained master's degrees from the University of Wales, Indiana (US) and the University of York (UK). Since establishing himself on the free jazz/improvised music scene his work has broadened and gained considerable repute, working as a soloist and duos with Jaki Byard and Keith Tippett, a trio with Castronari and Marsh and two quartets, co-led respectively with Elton Dean and Art Themen. He has made thirteen solo recordings and 'always the objective is to arrive at freedom through spontaneity'. In addition, his composed works have been performed by the Nash Ensemble, the Welsh String Quartet and the New Jazz Ensemble. Stephen Grew Stephen Grew is an instinctive, strikingly unconventional pianist whose aesthetic sensibilities are very much informed by his years spent as a visual artist. He has worked as an improvising pianist since the late 1980s, performing nationally and internationally, and currently works on a regular basis with Mick Beck and Phillip Marks as the Grew Trio. He has also worked with many other improvisers, Phil Minton, Pat Thomas, Andy Sheppard, Paul Hession, Richard Scott to name a few. Keith Tippett Started gigging in Bristol as a teenager, playing traditional jazz and bop. In 1967, he moved to London and quickly garnered an outstanding reputation. Since then Tippett has remained one of the most innovative and open-minded musicians, with a career that has spanned jazz-rock, improvised and contemporary music as well as jazz. He has written numerous classical commissions and as a performer has worked internationally with Chris McGregor, Dudu Pukwana, Louis Moholo, Howard Riley, Stan Tracey, Mark Charig to name a few. Tippett is also famous for his education work, his solo performances and his various big bands from the legendary fifty-piece Centipede to his current twenty-one piece Tapestry. Tippett is Honorary Fellow of both the Welsh College of Music and Drama and Dartington College of Arts. Pat Thomas Started playing at the age of eight, began playing jazz at sixteen after seeing Oscar Peterson on TV. In 1988 Pat was awarded an Arts Council Jazz Bursary to write three electro-acoustic compositions for his ten-piece ensemble Monads. In 1990 he also took part in Company week playing with Phil Wachsman, Henry Kaiser, Eugene Chadbourne and Louis Moholo. Pat has earned himself a reputation as one of the rising stars in the younger generation of British improvisers, has toured England and Europe with the likes of Phil Minton, Roger Turner and Orphy Robinson. Part of a five-date UK tour with thanks for the financial support of Jazz Services. Check Concerts Diary for other UK dates.
Friday 21 November 2003 Bristol Music Club, 76 St Pauls Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1LP [map] (adjacent to mini roundabouts at end of Pembroke Road. Limited free on-street parking nearby) 8.00pm start, doors 7.30pm : £8 / £5 : Bring Your Own Drinks - glasses provided ANOTHER AWESOME MIXED-GENRE TRIPLE BILL AND THE LAST RMC CONCERT OF THE SEASON! Miriam Keogh harp – traditional Irish music Miriam Keogh was awarded a Countess of Munster Trust Scholarship at the age of sixteen to study the harp with Osian Ellis at the Royal Academy of Music. After leaving the RAM she continued her studies with Renate Scheffel-Stein who was at that time principal Harp of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Miriam played second harp to her many times and also later when she moved to the London Symphony Orchestra. Miriam has toured North and South America, Japan and all of Europe with the Philharmonia, London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, City of London Sinfonia to name but a few, and has twenty years experience as a full-time freelance harpist. She is much in demand as a specialist Celtic harpist for the film industry. Recent soundtracks have been The Shipping News and The Gospel according to St John (due for release end of 2003). Miriam is a member of the Philharmonia Education team working with children and adults of all ages and also special needs. In March 2001 Miriam was awarded an A.R.A.M. from the Royal Academy of Music for "achieving distinction in the profession" and in September 2002 was appointed to the Royal Academy of Music to create and develop the Junior Harp Department. Fazliddin Husanov piano – contemporary classical Fazliddin Husanov was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) in 1978. He grew up in a musical family and began serious piano study at the age of six. When he was sixteen he studied with Reinhard Becker at the Trossingen state college for music. He complemented his training by taking masterclasses from Ivan Moravec and Eric Heidszieck. Solo appearances led him to the GUS states, Germany, Italy, Hungary and USA. In 1992 he won the piano contest for young pianists in Central Asia and in 1994 first prize in international piano contest in Ashgabad (Turkmenia). In 2001 he won the London International Piano Competition. In 2003 he won the second prize in the Intercollegiate Beethoven Competition and won first prize in the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Concerto Competition. In tonight's programme of contemporary music Fazliddin will include Stravinsky's Petrushka. The Dartington Trio Keith Tippett piano Julie Tippetts voice Paul Dunmall saxophones, clarinets – free improvisation/jazz When Keith Tippett founded the Rare Music Club in the early 1990s one major aim was to give the members of the free improvisation collective Mujician a regular musical performance space. Many will remember these concerts as some of the greatest musical experiences of their lives. Whenever any of these musicians are on stage there is always the potential for magic. While it is pleasing to say that they are all still at the peak of their creative powers, and with technical prowess undiminished by the years, their opportunities to perform are all too rare. This is the last Rare Music Club concert for the foreseeable future and we're thrilled to give these very special musicians the opportunity to bring the curtain down in the intimacy of the Bristol Music Club. Last month this as yet unrecorded Trio (founded at Dartington College where all three teach each summer) played to a packed house at the Vortex in London. Do tell your friends and welcome along!
Next RMC concert … who knows? We don't! Click here for previous RMC concerts in 2003 Keith Tippett’s Rare Music Club presents quality special concerts and TRIPLE BILLS embracing the varied musical worlds of FREE IMPROVISATION / CONTEMPORARY JAZZ with CONTEMPORARY / NEW MUSIC and ROOTS / ETHNIC / FOLK MUSIC in a variety of venues in Bristol and the South West of England. It is administered by Mind Your Own Music and is grateful for financial support from the Performing Right Society Foundation. Why not book an RMC event at your venue or Festival or become a sponsor? Subscribe to our free informative newsletter for the latest news about our artists, the Rare Music Club and other lively comment about contemporary music and the arts. *RMC – A COUNTERBLAST TO THE MUSICAL MAINSTREAM!*
VisitBristol website Bristol International Airport 0870 121 2747 Go By Coach (National Express) 08705 80 80 80 National Rail Enquiries 08457 48 49 50 Tourist Information Centre Enquiries 0117 926 0767 Tourist Information Accommodation Bookings 0117 946 2222 Traveline (public transport info) 0870 608 2 608
Mind Your Own Music Performing Right Society Foundation

Keith Tippett's Rare Music Club Triple bills of rare music performed live for YOU! Contemporary Classical Free Improvisation Roots Music

Keith Tippett's Rare Music Club
Triple bills of rare music performed live for YOU!
Contemporary Classical Free Improvisation Roots Music