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Jess Gillam (saxophone)

ECHO Rising Stars

,LSO St Luke's
Jess Gillam smiling happily in anticipation of her concert at the lso

Brilliant saxophonist Jess Gillam opens a new ECHO Rising Stars series featuring Europe’s most vibrant young musicians, performing a selection of classics spanning four centuries.

As the first saxophonist to reach the final of BBC Young Musician, as a radio presenter and as the star of the 2018 Last Night of the Proms, Gillam is a musician bursting with charisma – and her programme reflects that.

So music from 18th-century Venice and 20th-century Paris jostles with a brand new commission, a British minimalist classic, and the dazzling RANT! – which John Harle tailored specially to Gillam’s personality and playing. It’s a gloriously colourful selection, but whatever Gillam chooses to play, from the moment she picks up her sax it’s impossible to imagine it being played on any other instrument.

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The performance will finish at approximately 2pm.

Nominated by Sage Gateshead. 

Programme

  • Pedro Itturalde   Pequeña Czarda
  • Poulenc   Sonata for Oboe and Piano
  • Graham Fitkin   Gate
  • Marcello   Oboe Concerto
  • Meredith Monk   Early Morning Melody
  • Edmund Finnis   New work (ECHO commission)
  • John Harle   RANT!

Performers

  • Jess Gillam   saxophone
  • Leif Kaner-Lidström   piano

Reviews

‘The uniquely mercurial saxophonist was exhilarating‘
The Times

LSO St Luke's

Location
161 Old St
London
EC1V 9NG

Nearby public transport
The closest London Underground station is Old Street.The nearest National Rail station is Old Street (for Great Northern services), with Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Blackfriars and City Thameslink all within walking distance. Bus services running to LSO St Luke's are 55, 243 (stop nearest to LSO St Luke's), 43, 76, 141, 205, 214, 271. 

Car and bicycle parking
The nearest paid car parking is at the Barbican. There are occasionally disabled parking spaces available at the venue, but these must be booked in advance by calling LSO St Luke's on 020 7490 3939. The nearest TfL Bicycle Hire docking station is at Old Street tube station.