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	Holywell Music Room, Oxford July and August 2010 JACK GIBBONS' 23rd annual Summer Piano Series Nine concerts, beginning Sunday 18th July 2010, featuring the music of some of the greatest composers in history and celebrating the bicentenaries of the births of Chopin and Schumann   An Evening of Beethoven An Evening of Gershwin The Life of Chopin, part 1 Mozart & Bach Celebration Liszt & Alkan: Keyboard Legends The Romantic Piano The Life of Chopin, part 2 Gershwin & friends Farewell Piano Party     TICKETS Advance tickets for Jack Gibbons' 2010 Summer Piano Series are on sale at the discount rate of £15 each direct from this website up to 24 hours before each concert A special season ticket for all 9 concerts can be also be purchased for only £50 direct from this website (less than £6 a ticket if attending all 9 concerts) Tickets at the above rates can also be purchased in person (or by phone or internet) from Tickets Oxford, Oxford Playhouse, Oxford (tel 01865 305305) Full price tickets will also be on sale on the door of the concert halls from 6.45PM on concert days at £18 each Scroll down for more information on each concert and to purchase tickets...   CONCERT 1: SOLD OUT AN EVENING OF BEETHOVEN Holywell Music Room, Oxford Sunday 18th July 2010 at 7.30PM       Described by the renowned Beethoven scholar Denis Matthews as “an extraordinary talent with a distinct and distinguished recreative gift and artistic personality”, award-winning pianist Jack Gibbons opens the 23rd annual season of his acclaimed Summer Piano Series with a concert of some of Beethoven’s finest piano music, including the Moonlight, Pathétique & Appassionata Sonatas.     "Jack Gibbons opened his 18th summer season at the Holywell last week amid a mild outbreak of Gibbons-mania. The start of the concert was delayed by ten minutes as staff struggled to cope with the demand for seats. Gibbons' affinity with Beethoven's music is such that he transcends mere recital; rather, he becomes one with the composer, absorbing his moods and passions, and recreating his bravura technique." Oxford Times       CONCERT 2: SOLD OUT AN EVENING OF GERSHWIN Holywell Music Room, Oxford Thursday 22nd July 2010 at 7.30PM       Jack Gibbons, “THE Gershwin pianist of our time” (BBC), recreates the original breathtaking virtuoso piano style of George Gershwin through his famous note-for-note recreations of the composer’s original recordings of Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, I Got Rhythm, The Man I Love, Fascinating Rhythm, Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off, etc.     "To listen to Gibbons' performances is to marvel afresh at his astonishing virtuosity, his rare control of the music's rhythmic vigour and his supreme relish for its melodic richness... Gershwin does not come more exhilarating than this" Classic CD       CONCERT 3: SOLD OUT THE LIFE OF CHOPIN part 1: Young Virtuoso Holywell Music Room, Oxford Sunday 25th July 2010 at 7.30PM       The first of 2 recitals tracing the remarkable life of Frédéric Chopin through words and music to celebrate the bicentenary of the composer’s birth. Tonight’s programme focuses on the composer’s early virtuoso years in Poland and his brilliant first successes in Paris in the 1830s. Music includes Ballades, Scherzos, Waltzes, Preludes, Mazurkas, Studies, Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Op.22, and the famous Funeral March Sonata, Op.35.     "As I listened, enthralled, to his glorious playing – now melting, now almost terrifying in its ferocity there flashed across my mind that much quoted remark of Schumann's concerning Chopin: 'Hats off, gentlemen, genius. 'Surely there was more than a touch of genius in Jack Gibbons." Croydon Advertiser       CONCERT 4: SOLD OUT MOZART & BACH CELEBRATION Holywell Music Room, Oxford Thursday 29th July 2010 at 7.30PM     Jack Gibbons plays Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E flat minor ('The 48' Book I)   Jack Gibbons celebrates the genius of Chopin’s two great idols: Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Tonight’s concert includes Mozart’s Sonata in A minor K.310, Adagio from his Concerto K.488, Alla Turca from K.331 and Bach’s majesterial Goldberg Variations.     "Jack Gibbons won a rapturous ovation from the audience for playing that demonstrated a formidable technique, true musicianship and sheer poetry" Oxford Times review of Gibbons playing Mozart's K.488 "Gibbons' revealed a freshness of manner [in his performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations], everything he did making a musically valid point" The Times       CONCERT 5: LISZT & ALKAN: LEGENDS OF THE KEYBOARD Holywell Music Room, Oxford Sunday 1st August 2010 at 7.30PM         An unusual programme featuring the music of two of the greatest piano virtuosos of the 19th century, romantic icon Franz Liszt and reclusive genius Charles-Valentin Alkan, whose music both Liszt and Chopin greatly admired. Programme includes Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies, La Campanella, etc. and Alkan’s legendary Concerto for solo piano whose pages contain some of the most spectacular and haunting piano music of the 19th century.       "Staggering... this ranks among the most exhilarating feats of pianism I've heard ... Gibbons is an Alkan interpreter of exceptional authority" The Gramophone Full price tickets (£18 each) can be purchased from the Holywell Music Room box office before the concert (box office opens at 6.45PM)     CONCERT 6: THE ROMANTIC PIANO: including a bicentennial tribute to SCHUMANN Holywell Music Room, Oxford Thursday 12th August 2010 at 7.30PM       The first half of tonight’s concert traces the remarkable but tragic life of the romantic composer Robert Schumann in celebration of the bicentenary of his birth (with musical selections from Kinderszenen, Waldszenen and Carnaval). The 2nd half includes romantic music by Rachmaninov (Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Preludes, etc), music by Gibbons and Sainsbury’s thrilling Andalusian Fantasy.     "Jack Gibbons is a genius. And like most genuine geniuses he doesn't need to enhance his image with mystery or posturing. By the interval we were in awe, by the end of the evening I felt like Salieri in the presence of Mozart." Zimbabwe Upbeat Magazine Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 9 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £50:         CONCERT 7: THE LIFE OF CHOPIN part 2: Nohant & Swan Song Holywell Music Room, Oxford Sunday 15th August 2010 at 7.30PM       The second of 2 recitals tracing the remarkable life of Frederic Chopin through words and music. Tonight’s programme focuses on the composer’s mature years spent at Nohant in the French countryside and the composer’s last poignant visit to Britain a year before his death. Music includes Scherzo no.3, Polonaise Op.44, Barcarolle, Ballades, Waltzes, Studies, Mazurkas, etc., including works played by Chopin at concerts he gave in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, & Glasgow in 1848.     "Jack Gibbons himself is a pianist of genius, with an endearing Jimmy Stewart-like awkwardness, a charming smile and about forty hands. His delight in and enthusiasm for the music is almost tangible in the haze of nervous energy that radiates from him." Daily Information, Oxford Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 9 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £50:         CONCERT 8: GERSHWIN & friends Holywell Music Room, Oxford Wednesday 18th August 2010 at 7.30PM       Jack Gibbons, described by Classic FM as “one of the world’s greatest Gershwin exponents”, performs the programme that regularly sells out London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall: a recreation of music played at Gershwin's legendary parties in New York in the 1920s.     Tonight's programme includes the Rhapsody in Blue, plus music by those closely associated with Gershwin including Ravel, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Rachmaninov, Irving Berlin, etc.. "A remarkable recreation of Gershwin's unique style. Hearing Jack Gibbons perform is like being with Gershwin" Edward Jablonski, biographer of Gershwin, New York, 1998 Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 9 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £50:         CONCERT 9: JACK GIBBONS' FAREWELL PIANO PARTY Holywell Music Room, Oxford Wednesday 25th August 2010 at 7.30PM       Jack Gibbons concludes his 23rd annual Summer Piano Series with his traditional end of summer mix of both serious and light hearted music, including requests chosen on the night by the audience. Music to include works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Alkan, Liszt, Gershwin & Gibbons himself!     "Gibbons' enthusiasm was evident from the start and made all the more clear in his interesting and at times humorous commentary. They gave the performances a stamp of authority that made the evening memorable." Worcester Telegram & Gazette, USA Buy e-tickets for this concert at the on-line discount price of £15 each: Buy a season ticket to all 9 Summer Piano Series concerts for just £50:
	HOW TO FIND THE CONCERT HALLS IN OXFORD: The map below shows the location of popular concert locations in the city including the historic Holywell Music Room, as well as the location of the Oxford Playhouse's Tickets Oxford box office. The Holywell Music Room is well served by nearby pubs, being a few yards from both the Kings Arms and Turf Tavern pubs (see second image below).
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