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October
13
Saturday,
7:30 pm $10 - $15 adult;
$6 - $11 student
Upper level seats are listed first. Includes all fees.
ZUM first stormed the UK in 2001 with its stunning fusion combining the fire and brilliance of Eastern European gypsy fiddle music with the hot-blooded passion of
Argentinean Tango. Since then, the band has enjoyed sell-out tours and performances at major music festivals throughout the UK and Europe (touring to Croatia and Italy), as well as being five-time sell-outs at the South Bank in London.
ZUM performs ‘Nuevo Tango’ masterpieces by Astor Piazzolla and music from the golden era of tango, alongside addictive traditional gypsy melodies and dazzling virtuoso fiddling. The band adds their own compelling original material, inspired by both gypsy and tango - sophisticated threads of jazz connect with gypsy, celtic, salsa, bluegrass, klezmer, arabic, calypso and tango to create a stunning new sound.
ZUM brings audiences phenomenal fiddling from Adam Summerhayes, sensational jazz soloing from Dave Gordon, thundering bass power from Jani Pensola, stunning accordion mastery from Eddie Hession, and supreme lyricism from cellist Chris Grist.
Adam Summerhayes – (Violin) is an internationally acclaimed soloist, chamber musician and a compulsive composer. He has toured widely in Eastern Europe and spent a great deal of time in smoky cellar bars after concerts listening to and playing alongside gypsy musicians.
In his spare time, when not writing music for ZUM, Adam spends the majority of his time driving - breaking his journeys to perform with Zum, his duo and trio, to direct London Concertante (one of the UK's busiest chamber orchestras), or to give concerto performances.
When not performing or writing, Adam has recently found himself working with teams from York Museum to recover an Opthalmosaur and filming whales and dolphins in the Sea of Cortez for a film company. His current ambition is to live on a south-facing hillside with a large enough greenhouse to grow his own apricots
Chris Grist – (Cello) specializes in chamber music which has taken him throughout the UK, to Europe and to the Americas. He is an acclaimed lyrical cellist and has given solo recitals, concerto performances and chamber concerts all over the world. He is also a principal cellist of a renowned chamber ensemble. Miraculously, despite giving over 100 concerts a year, he still finds time to run his own orchestra and associated chamber groups, as well as dabbling in graphic design, photography, mountain climbing and teaching down hill skiing.
Chris brings to ZUM the quickness of ear of a top record producer and an unrivalled breadth of taste to complement his vast traveling experience: from sub-Saharan singers to Hawaiian Blues and the latest dance music to Schoenberg and Biber. Above all though, he is a powerhouse of ideas and crazy projects - of which ZUM is one of the most exciting.
Jani Pensola – (Bass) Finnish double bass virtuoso Jani Pensola brings his unique talents to ZUM. Equally at home in the fields of classical, jazz and tango, Jani has already
achieved a prodigious reputation as a member of the London Symphony Orchestra, as
well as through his concerto performances and solo and chamber music recordings &
concerts. As soon as Jani first played with ZUM, the combination of the band's slightly
off-the-wall musical approach and Jani just simply being Finnish (let's face it,
they're an off-the-wall nation) we knew it was a match made in heaven.
David Gordon – (Piano) has degrees in mathematics and logic, but retains enough sense of humor to perform and compose music. Jazz piano has taken him from Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London to the Red Sea Jazz Festival and the Copenhagen Jazzhouse, with any number of smoky dives on the way. He plays at international jazz festivals and on four critically acclaimed CDs with the Theo Travis Band. He tours and has made recordings with a trio of his own as well as with the Christian Garrick quartet. He recently started working in a duo with jazz singer Jacqui
Dankworth.
As a harpsichordist, David has toured Australia, South America and Europe as recitalist and orchestral continuo player. He plays with baroque violinist superstar Andrew Manze and was the musical director on a recording project of 17th century English dances with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has recently become harpsichordist with the English Concert. As a composer, he has had a number of works broadcast on Radio 3, and won a competition with his “The Alchemist and the Catflap.” He manages to combine his interests in his innovative cross-over band Respectable Groove with whom he toured Switzerland in 2003, but above all would like to become a world expert on Ceylon tea, and to run his own tea-importing business.
Eddie Hession – (Accordion) Despite being one of Europe's master accordionists, Eddie spent the first year with ZUM insisting that he had nothing to put on his biography. However, painstaking research and intense interrogation have revealed that he has played on films that include
Lord of the Rings, Chocolat, Mickey Blue Eyes, Evita, Shrek, Chicken Run, Gosford Park, Shipping News and
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (where he even makes a screen appearance),
although he considers the highlight of his career to be the recording of the theme tune for Captain
Pugwash!
He has also worked with an endless list of stars from the Three Tenors to Westlife, including The Corrs, Chris Rea, Ronan Keating, George Martin, Ute Lemper, Andrea Bocelli, Bill Wyman, Lesley Garret and Russell Watson to name but a few.
As well as performing with all of UK’s finest orchestras (including the London Symphony Orchestra, English National Opera, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, and the Royal Opera House), he acts as the Fat Controller on his son Patrick's railway and can often be seen running around his local park, in a vain attempt to tire out his border collie.
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