Concertino with Gerard McChrystal
November 24 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Tickets £12, available from 1 October.
We are delighted to be joining with our Patron Gerard McChrystal to perform a findraising concert in November!
The Sunday afternoon concert will combine solo pieces from Gerard and ensemble pieces from the orchestra, culminating in a performance of ‘Concertino’, a modern concerto by Australian composer Matthew Orlovich, that Phoenix will be performing with Gerard taking the lead on solo alto saxophone.
Through its three movements, Concertino ebbs and flows between buoyant, sparkling music and slower, more introspective lyricism. The soloist’s narrative draws on a variety of musical ideas, including some courage-inducing fanfares, a heart-felt aria and some altissimo register tightrope walking. The sax orchestra’s fingers are kept busy throughout, with soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones creating a kaleidoscopic setting for the soloist, by layering snippets of melody, trills, drones, some pizzicato-like punctuations and occasional slow-burning chord progressions.
Tickets for the concert are £12 each (£5 for under 16s), and all profits will go to the St Hugh’s Cygnet Fundraising Project, which aims to build a welcoming, safe space for church and community to meet. Partly funded by proceeds from the sale of the nearby church hall, the Cygnet Project aims to provide a larger community space within St Hugh’s Church, separated from the worship area by a movable glass screen, along with a meeting room, kitchen, accessible toilets and storage, all reconfigured on one level for ease of access.
The Cygnet Project is so named because the Church’s patron saint St Hugh is known to have had a swan as a pet. The Church is starting with a cygnet so that, over time, when the project is finished, it will have grown into a swan. For more more information about St Hugh’s and the Cygnet Fundraising Project, see harborough-anglican.org.uk.
Tickets will be available from 1 October 2024 by emailing transfig@harborough-anglican.org.uk.
About Gerard McChrystal
Multi award winning saxophonist Gerard McChrystal was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and now lives in Leicester, He has played with leading musicians and orchestras in more than 35 countries worldwide and has recorded 15 CDs.You can find more information about Gerard McChrystal at saxsaxsax.com.