Somerville Festival of the Piano: Broad stripes and Bright stars

Saturday 25 January 2025, 7.30pm
Somerville College Chapel
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Tickets £7 - £15

Programme:

Brubeck: Points on Jazz
played by Dan Loach and Owen Thomas (piano)


Andriessen: Hague Hacking
Reich: Piano Phase
Adams: Hallelujah Junction
played by Ian Tindale and Sam Mitchell (pianos)

 

To continue our series in 2025, we hop across the pond for Steve Reich’s seminal ‘Piano Phase’, one of his pioneering early works which kickstarted the Minimalist movement of the 1970s. Oxford-based pianists Sam Mitchell and Ian Tindale also perform John Adams' vibrant and brilliant ‘Hallelujah Junction’, from 1996, which inherits many elements of Reich’s minimal style. It's a kaleidoscope of colour and interlocking rhythms. The programme also includes Andriessen’s ‘Hague Hacking’, and current Oxford University students Dan Loach and Owen Thomas performing Dave Brubeck’s mighty ‘Points on Jazz’.