The 2 Pianos Steinway Festival 2013: Gwilym Simcock & Kit Downes / Alex Hutton & James Pearson March 22, 2013

Gwilym Simcock & Kit Downes: Two outstanding musicians each with their own distinctive voices play together for the first time. With a huge amount in common - both are graduates with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, BBC Jazz Award winners and Barclaycard Mercury nominees - this promises to be a spectacular pairing of two of the UK's most brilliant piano talents.
Alex Hutton / James Pearson: Innovative pianist and composer Alex Hutton teams up with acclaimed Tour de Force James Pearson in this unique collaboration to bring you a condensed history of jazz piano from Art Tatum through to Brad Mehldau. Both connoisseurs of jazz history, the pair focus on 8 pioneers from the 1930's to the present day, finding a common thread through this lineage.
This colourful and varying exploration of styles, celebrating 80 years of Jazz piano, is not to be missed.
Doors Open 7:30pm / Show Time 9:00pm