Two Unmissable Waltons World Masters Series Concerts in 2019
We are delighted to announce the next two concerts in our Waltons World Masters Series, Tigran Hamasyan + Special Guests on 22 January 2019 and Lizz Wright on 21 March 2019, both in the National Concert Hall.
Currently-enrolled New School students (and parents of students) can receive 20% discounts when booking tickets (up to four) for either of these concerts. Please contact us with the subject/day/time of your (or your child’s) lesson or course, and the concert that you would like to attend. We will send you a discount code, which you should then provide when booking online, by phone or in person.
Tigran Hamasyan + Special Guests
When Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Where National Concert Hall, Main Stage
World-renowned pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan draws on a wide range of influences, including classical, jazz, Armenian folk music, rock, electronica, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and more. Just 30 years old, he has amassed an extraordinary body of work and has been lauded by the likes of Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Brad Mehldau. This unique event will blend Tigran’s solo piano with the great Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and an Irish choir. Supported by Irish folk sensation Brona McVittie, who will be performing music from her acclaimed debut album, We Are the Wildlife, with her group.
Tigran
‘He plays piano like a raga – the next Keith Jarrett’
– Trilok Gurtu
‘This was a virtuosic tour de force, the wealth of ideas
matched by genuine craft in his songwriting.’
–The Irish Times
Arve
‘absolutely sublime’
– The Independent
‘Henriksen’s solo concert was a thing of beauty,
akin to a spiritual experience’
– The Irish Times
Brona
‘Heavenly debut…Simply gorgeous’
– Uncut
‘an exquisite listen from this post-folk electronic chanteuse’
– BBC Music
Lizz Wright
When Thursday, 21 March 2019
Where National Concert Hall, Main Stage
Acclaimed American vocalist Lizz Wright is a truly extraordinary singer, with a musical palette that encompasses gospel, folk, jazz, pop, blues and spirituals.
The daughter of a minister and music director in rural Georgia and now living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Wright grew up playing piano and singing in her father’s church. Her music is imbued with the lively passion of Southern sacred tradition, connecting the texture of church music with the groove of jazz and endowing both with new depth and radiance. Her extraordinary voice ‘simmer[s] with midnight heat and the cadences of gospel music’ (The Guardian).
Every one of Wright’s six albums to date has been critically acclaimed, from her debut album Salt (Verve Records), released when she was just 23, to her most recent, Grace (Concord Records). Through this body of work and her extraordinary live performances, Wright has cemented her place as one of the most captivating vocalists of the past century.
‘spellbinding’
– The Guardian
‘graceful, grounded and unmistakably cool’
– NPR
‘one of the most moving and powerful concerts of the year’
– The Arts Desk
‘an effortlessly capacious voice, both whispery and resounding’
– The New York Times
‘One of Wright’s greatest gifts is that she has
the ability to make you feel like you’ve never really
heard a song until you’ve heard her sing it.’
– Rebellious Magazine
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