Guildhall Jazz Orchestra with Billy Childs
- 7.30pm
Tickets
About this event:
- Category:
- Jazz
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- £15 (£8 concessions)
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Nikki Iles, is proud to present a collaboration with one of the most important contemporary American composers marrying jazz with Western neoclassical music, Billy Childs.
This event features three of Childs’ original compositions: Rejoice, Dreams and Maybe Later, alongside his arrangements of songs by revered and influential songwriter Laura Nyro orchestrated by Jim McNeely – including New York Tenderberry, And When I Die and Stoned Soul Picnic.
Over the course of a glittering career, Childs has worked with, amongst many others, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, LA Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Wayne Shorter, Alison Krauss, Dianne Reeves, Chris Botti, Esperanza Spalding, Lisa Fischer, Susan Tedeschi, Rickie Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin, Ledesi, Becca Stevens, Chris Potter, Brian Blade, Steve Wilson and Jerry Douglas.
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Approx. running time: 1 hour 45 minutes, including interval
Performers
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra
Nikki Iles director
Billy Childs composer and pianist
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
