(Newswire Today) —  London, United Kingdom, 2009-11-18 - DJ Switch: G Prokofiev Concerto for Turntables Leon Michener: Prepared Fender Rhodes & Piano The Post Trio: Cornelius Cardew & more + rare performance of John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 1 resident DJs: Richard Lannoy & Gabriel Prokofiev.

This month, Nonclassical features the very first and the most recent uses of both Turntables and Prepared Piano. Gabriel Prokofiev's Concerto for Turntables (recorded by DJ Yoda and the Heritage Orchestra and recently released on Nonclassical) will be performed in a specially reworked format by DJ Switch. The evening will also feature John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No1, the first piece of music ever to use Turntables as a musical instrument. Leon Michener will be performing some of John Cage's seminal works for prepared piano as well as his own compositions on prepared Fender Rhodes. Also performing on the night will be The Post Trio, and DJ support from G Prokofiev & Richard Lannoy.

DJ Switch is the reigning DMC World Supremacy Champion and considered to be one of the best scratch DJs on the planet. He recently performed the concerto live with the Heritage Orchestra @ The De La Warr Pavilion.

Leon Michener (leonmichener.com) is a British pianist who explores experimental structured improvisation and its links with classical composition.
"a young pianist with extraordinary control of the instrument" Wire
"truly original" Observer newspaper
"innovating and absorbing" Gramophone.

The Post Trio, an offshoot of the Post Quartet (thepostquartet.org), focuses predominantly on experimental & indeterminate music post-1945, with an emphasis on living British composers. Their programme will include Levels for String Trio by Michael Parsons, Trio by Tom Johnson and First String Trio by Cornelius Cardew.
"This brief but powerfully uplifiting tapestry of echoing chords tumbling over each other just a couple of yards in front of me made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up." Richard Pinnell.

Be part of a new approach to classical music.
Monday 7th December 2009 8pm - 1am
£5/4 conc
@ The Macbeth 70 Hoxton St. London N1 6LP.

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