Iain Ballamy, The Pepper Street Orchestra, Matthew Sweeney, Dave McKean
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An Ape's Progress
The world première of a major new commission created to celebrate the 20th mjf and the 10th Manchester Literature Festival. This unmissable festival highlight brings together three critically acclaimed artists for this unique, multi-media performance which combines words, music and visual art/film to mesmerising effect.
Saxophonist and composer Ballamy – ‘the fantastic Englishman’ – is internationally recognised as a free-thinking and uncompromising musician producing eclectic work, unencumbered by formality and tradition.
Irish poet and storyteller Sweeney’s poems for this piece are inspired by time spent in Manchester absorbing and reflecting on its people and places. McKean is an illustrator, photographer, comic book artist and filmmaker. His collaborators have included Richard Dawkins, Alice Cooper, Neil Gaiman, Tori Amos and Michael Nyman.
The music is brought to life by an exceptional international group of musicians, including the dazzling Norwegian virtuoso Carstensen, the pure-toned Swedish vocalist Mårtensson and the young British Mercury contender and keyboard maestro Downes.
Iain Ballamy
Award-winning British saxophonist and composer with a worldwide reputation and whose musical interests embrace both jazz and music from cultures…
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Matthew Sweeney
'Sweeney's poems are like shards of glass. As you look closely, they cut.' - Helen Dunmore, The Observer.
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Also Appearing
The Pepper Street Orchestra, Dave McKean
Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)
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Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)
- Disabled Booking:
- 0161 907 5555
See all events at Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)