Tina May, Enrico Pieranunzi

One of Europe’s finest jazz singers, Tina May, and Italy’s outstanding, internationally acclaimed pianist Enrico Pieranunzi bring their 2015 album, Home is Where the Heart Is, to the stage in this evening of warm, intimate entertainment. Recognised for her abilities as a musician as much as she is for being a classy interpreter of lyrics and melody, Tina May is the consummate jazz performer and her partnership with Enrico Pieranunzi places her with a supremely sensitive accompanist and a brilliantly creative improviser.

May has worked with a kaleidoscope of talents including the great American jazz players Nat Adderley, Joe Henderson and Ray Bryant, French bassist extraordinaire Renaud Garcia-Fons and comedian Rory Bremner and Pieranunzi, as well as winning France’s coveted Django d’Or award, counts gigs with jazz legends Chet Baker and Lee Konitz among his experiences. Together, they present familiar songs from the jazz and chanson canons – May is a fluent French speaker – and original compositions in those same traditions, and with May’s natural and engaging onstage personality and witty between-song chat, they transport, delight and above all completely involve their audience.