Guildhall Big Band: Portraits in Jazz
- 7.30pm
Tickets
About this event:
- Category:
- Jazz
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- Tickets: £15 (£8 concessions)
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
Guildhall Big Band welcomes Helen Sung - acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow - for the UK debut performance of her new multi-movement work for solo pianist and big band, Portraits in Jazz. The project stems from Helen's 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship and one of the movements, 'Wayne's World' won the 2022 BMI Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize.
"...what is undeniable is that this was piano playing at a quite unbelievably jaw-dropping level." – London Jazz News on Helen Sung
Booking information
Priority booking for Guildhall Circle members and Patrons opens at 10am on Tuesday 26 November. Public booking opens at 10am on Tuesday 3 December.
Performers
Helen Sung is an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. A native of Houston, Texas, and graduate of its High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), she eschewed her classical piano upbringing after a jazz epiphany during undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Helen went on to become part of the inaugural class of the Thelonious Monk Institute (now the Herbie Hancock Institute) at the New England Conservatory of Music. Her newest album Quartet+ (Sunnyside Records), garnered a 4.5 star DownBeat review and inclusion in its "Best of 2021 Albums" list, and a JazzTimes cover story (January 2022 issue), while previous releases Sung With Words (Stricker Street), a collaborative project with renowned poet Dana Gioia, and Anthem For A New Day (Concord Jazz) topped the jazz charts.
In addition to her own band, Helen has performed with such luminaries as the late Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Regina Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and the Mingus Big Band.
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
