Callaloo, perhaps best known as a popular Caribbean dish, is also a virtuosic tour de force for piano and orchestra composed by young American composer/pianist, Stewart Goodyear. Full of driving jazz rhythms and colourful orchestration, Callaloo is an immediately appealing work.
Having opened the last Birmingham Classical season, Chineke! make a welcome return as the final orchestra to perform in this season. With Wayne Marshall at their helm, Chineke! bring their joy and energy to Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite and Dvořák’s dramatic Seventh Symphony.
The extraordinary Chineke! Orchestra, Europe’s first orchestra to feature a majority of black and minority ethnic musicians, continues to fulfil its mission to champion, change and celebrate diversity in classical music.
Grieg Peer Gynt: Suite no. 1
Goodyear Callaloo – Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra
Dvořàk Symphony no. 7
Stewart Goodyear piano
Wayne Marshall conductor
Chineke! Orchestra
Tickets: £12.50-£48.00
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