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| Peter Wiegold and notes inégales in 2016 (Photo: Frederique Bellec) |
Club Inégales is back! Peter Wiegold’s genre-defying evening is returning to its Euston home for four evenings from 14 November. The events take place thanks the extraordinary sponsorship of a firm of lawyers at Euston who provide Club Inégales with the use of their basement bar. One of the senior lawyers is also an amateur pianist, so they have commissioned five new 2’ pieces for him for the event on 20th November. His remarkable support extended to joining Club Inégales in the purchase of the piano, the lights, the PA and he offers all his staff free piano lessons!
The resident ensemble is the fluid and eclectic Notes Inégales, which Peter Wiegold directs. Evenings take the form of Notes Inégales doing a set, then guests doing a solo set with the evening finishing with guests and Notes Inégales joining together for something more improvisatory. Out of this free-thinking atmosphere sprung Peter Wiegold’s The Third Orchestra.
The series opens on 14 November with the genre-defying GOKUMI ensemble performing new pieces by an eclectic array of young artists, fresh out of three months intensive work at The Alternative Conservatoire, a new multi-disciplined accelerator course for young music creators who both defy and feel alienated by institutional/traditional conservatoire categorisation. The performances will feature Faraz Eshghi, kemanche (an Iranian bowed string instrument) and Beibei Wang, percussion. The evening will be preceded by the Symposium, What is needed for true multi-cultural, multi-genre learning in the 21stC? with Gillian Moore, Georgie Pope (SOAS/Global Music Academy/Marsm), Keran Kaur Virdeem (SAA-UK), Gary Crosby (Tomorrow’s Warriors), Sally Currie (Drake Music) and Joel Bell and Bushra El-Turk of the AC.
The second evening (20 November) will feature Notes Inégales with Zena Edwards performance poet, soprano Sarah Gabriel, countertenor Iestyn Morris and sound artists Christophe Fellay as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Including new piano commissions from Stevie Wishart, Jenni Roditi, Orlando Gough, Martin Butler and Peter Wiegold.
The third evening (28 November) features sets from Héloïse Werner, voice, Colin Alexander, cello, Beibei Wang, percussion and Shri Sriram, bass and is preceded by another Symposium, So you want to get funded? This is chaired by Peter Wiegold and Arts Council England Senior Relationship Manager, Adam Jeanes, joined by Ed Mckeon of 3rd Ear, and will include speakers from other major funders. The event is especially looking to help emerging artists frame their work and devise and manage their curation.
The fourth evening, on 5 December, features The Third Orchestra. This has musicians from across world traditions, and appears fresh from opening Classical:NEXT in the Boulez Saal in Berlin, where they collaborated with three other ensembles, this show brings together UK and Berlin members.
There is also a chance to join Peter, Martin and members of Notes Inégales as they are hosting two Open Improv Workshops, on 16 and 30 November.
Full details of the events from the Club Inégales page at EventBrite
