Macho magicians of the Maxwell - by Julia Meredith
I could have filled this entire review with a list of their extraordinary accomplishments – from First Prize and Audience Prize winners of the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, sellout performances at Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room, to accolades in the New York Times etc etc –…
by Julia Meredith
Anyone at St James this Saturday night would have been struck by two things. The buzz of anticipation beforehand, and then, when the St James Sinfonia took their seats, how young many of the players were. Of the 44 musicians, 31 were products of the Schools Music Service, the youngest all of 12…
a review by Tom Girard
On paper my second experience of live comedy at St James in recent months looked rather similar to my first (Marcus Brigstocke and Rob Rouse) with two stand up performers, one big name and one lesser known to warm up the audience, within these confines though this show from Phill Jupitus and Marion…
‘Here is a poet of the keyboard’
The Guardian’s phrase, not mine, but entirely true of Wednesday night’s young pianist who seemed to be playing from another world, far away, breathing a rarer, finer air than we mortals in St James.
Pavel Kolesnikov lived in Siberia until he was 18. When he emerged on stage, he seemed…