Bristol Keyboard Festival at St George's Bristol from Tuesday 30th October to Wednesday 7th November 2018
Posted on: 22 Oct 2018Tickling the ivories is the name of the game - and the very basis for an entire week of celebrations, events and performances - at St George's in Bristol for its inaugural Keyboard Festival, which runs from Tuesday 30th October to Wednesday 7th November 2018.
Pianos and keyboards have played a crucial role in the venue's life from the very beginning but, bizarrely, there's never been a festival to celebrate the magnificence of the instrument until now. Expect, then, a week long riot of keyboard-related (organised) chaos looking at the incredible history of this most amazing of instruments from its earliest incarnations to the tantalizing possibilities of its future.
The festival will include jazz legend Tord Gustavsen, a Debussy-dedicated show by Lucy Parham with Simon Russell Beale, multi-media piano maestro Zubin Kanga, a Leeds competition finalist, renowned classical pianist Paul Lewis to bring things to a masterly close, and loads of other great events and performances in between.
Of course, the piano makes up only one element of the larger magical keyboard family, so there will also be a show by harpsichord rebel Mahan Esfahani, a performance of Mozart by David Owen Norris on a fortepiano once owned by Florence Nightingale, and a performance by Will Gregory with his awesome out-of-this-world Moog Ensemble.
For more info and a full programme of events for Bristol's first-ever Keyboard Festival, head here.
St George's Bristol is located at Great George Street (off Park Street), West End, Bristol, BS1 5RR. Tel. 0845 40 24 001
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Jamie is a writer, blogger, journalist, critic, film fan, soundtrack nerd and all-round Bristolian good egg. He loves the music of Philip Glass, the art of Salvador Dali, the writings of Charles Bukowksi and Hunter S Thompson, the irreverence of Harry Hill, and the timeless, straw-chomping exuberance of The Wurzels. You can sometimes find him railing against a surging tide of passing cyclists, or gorging himself senseless on the Oriental delights of a Cosmos all-you-can-eat buffet.
