Date: Wednesday 12 February 2025
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
Booking required. Tickets: £15 (£8 concessions)
Annette Walker performs as a featured tap dancer with the ‘Improvisers’ Workshop,’ a Guildhall School group focusing on creative jazz improvisation. A concert that features original compositions by and for the group directed by saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes and singer and composer Clare Wheeler.
About this event
The ‘Improvisers’ Workshop’ is a Guildhall School group focusing on creative jazz improvisation, approaching the jazz ensemble as a malleable vehicle for contemporary composition.
Guildhall Improvisers’ Workshop (2025)
This performance, directed by saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes and singer and composer Clare Wheeler, will feature original compositions by and for the group.
We are delighted to welcome one of the leading exponents of a generation of tap dancers, Annette Walker, to feature as special guest.
The programme includes Clowes’ own vocal music, a piece by pianist-composer Nikki Iles, Awakening, which was commissioned by Clowes in 2018, and a rendition of the haunting folk melody The Month of January.
This concert is a continuation of two previous collaborations: between Clowes and Wheeler in 2024 for a concert at Wigmore Hall, and between Clowes and Walker in 2023 for a concert at Guildhall School with students from the Jazz course.
Join us to absorb this exploration of sound, colour and texture.
Previously at Guildhall School of Music and Drama: Guildhall Improvisers’ Workshop: The Music of Geri Allen featuring Annette Walker, 5 December 2023
