In the midst of a burgeoning British independent music scene, Miles Hunt formed The Wonder Stuff. The band went on to score four Top 20 albums and seventeen Top 20 singles, including the number one hit ‘Dizzy’ with Vic Reeves.
Miles returns to Liverpool to perform an intimate acoustic show of hits, rarities and classics songs from his huge catalogue.
All the right notes in rather more than just the right order! Grieg’s Piano Concerto is one of those pieces that absolutely everyone knows.
The real skill is making it sound as fresh as new – and when the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition winner Anna Tsybuleva joins forces with guest conductor Erina Yashima, we think the results will be magical. As for Humperdinck’s fairytale prelude and Dvořák’s New World symphony…well, enough said, really. It’s just tune after tune after tune.
It’s time to relax on the sofa with a cuppa, put your feet up and switch on the telly to watch your favourite show – only this time, all of the classic theme tunes from throughout history have been rearranged for full jazz big band!
The full array of Liverpool Philharmonic’s Youth Orchestras and Youth Choir come together for a Sunday afternoon concert.
Ludwig van Beethoven was an idealist – and when his hero Napoleon betrayed the revolution, he tore up the score of his Eroica symphony.
That same energy pulses through every bar of this game-changing work, and Domingo Hindoyan certainly won’t hold back tonight. But Beethoven was a poet, too, and when Veronika Eberle plays his radiant Violin Concerto, you’ll hear just how beautiful music can be.
Jörg Widmann’s love of Schumann impelled him to reflect, reconsider and then weave his own instrumental tapestry in and around Schumann’s great song cycle Dichterliebe, sung tonight by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Artist in Residence, Benjamin Appl.
Geoffrey Paterson returns to Ensemble 10:10 to guide us through this and the contrasting musical landscapes of Alexander Goehr and Pierre Boulez(to honour his 100th anniversary), and introduce new music from Liverpool-born former Rushworth Composition Prize winner, Nneka Cummins.
There’s nothing like thinking big. “The symphony should be like the world,” said Gustav Mahler, “it should embrace everything”.
But even by his own epic standards, his Third Symphony is extraordinary: a whole concert, complete with distant trumpets, children’s songs, glittering marches and lofty mountaintop meditations. Domingo Hindoyan conducts it tonight, and with two choruses, a colossal orchestra and Liverpool’s own Jennifer Johnston joining the adventure, this should be a night and a half.
Arthur Jeffes founded Penguin Cafe in 2009, after bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians – including members of Suede and Gorillaz – to perform his late father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe Orchestra music.
Soon after, he began to create new and unique genre-defying music, with the spellbinding philosophy of his father always in mind.
Arthur will be performing solo piano versions of Penguin Cafe music plus other original compositions.
Dubbed the ‘UK’s queen of jazz-fusion’, critically acclaimed and supremely talented singer-songwriter and producer Emily Saunders takes any stage by storm and returns to the Music Room for International Women’s Day 2025 with her spellbinding set of original songs.
Emily’s music has hit the Top 10 in international streaming charts including the UK and the US, and earned multiple 4-star reviews from papers including The Guardian, Evening Standard and The Independent.
Jake Vaadeland is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and songwriter from Saskatchewan, Canada.
His traditional sound and unique style blends bluegrass and 50s rockabilly, with Jake also specializing on guitar and banjo in addition to his impressive vocals. Jake strives to write and play with a focus on storytelling, and messages that he hopes his audience can relate to, all packaged in foot stomping, high energy performances with The Sturgeon River Boys.