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| Martin James Bartlett |
World Piano Day is celebrated on the 88th day of the year to honour the 88 keys of the piano, so Saffron Hall is planning a celebratory Piano Day on Saturday 29 March 2025 with a variety of piano from classical to jazz to DIY in an around the hall.
Brad Kella, known for winning Channel 4’s The Piano, will be giving to free concerts at Saffron Walden Town Hall. Martin James Bartlett, winner of the 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year, is giving an afternoon concert at Saffron Hall performing music by Bach, Schumann, Debussy and Gershwin, plus a selection of Schubert’s Impromptus and ending with Ravel’s La Valse.
Back at Saffron Walden Town Hall, jazz pianist and composer James Beckwith brings his unique blend of innovation and artistry to a relaxed evening of jazz. Whilst at Saffron Saffron in the evening, there is a showing of the film The Pianist, based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman.
Throughout the day, there are open sessions giving people the opportunity to play the Steinway at Saffron Hall or the piano at Audley End House.
Full details from the Saffron Hall website.
