Ikon Arts News

The Tippett Quartet will perform the opening concert of the new Swedish Hall Concerts series, based at the Swedish Church near Edgware Road.

Swedish Hall Concerts has been recently set up in order to showcase the best of Swedish classical music, and will feature some of today's finest established musicians and young stars. The opening concert will be on Tuesday 9 September at 7pm, and the quartet will be performing music by Haydn, Tippett, Ravel and one of Sweden's most loved composers Lars-Erik Larsson.

Programme:

• Haydn String Quartet Op. 20 No. 2
• Tippett String Quartet No. 2
• Ravel String Quartet Op. 11
• Larsson Intimate Miniatures for String Quartet Op. 20

Please visit swedish-hall.org.uk for more information about the concert series, or ikonarts.com for more details about the Tippett Quartet.

Ikon Arts Management takes on management of two outstanding pianists, Oleg Marshev and David Owen Norris, from September.

Russian pianist Oleg Marshev caught the attention of the classical music world with his authoritative recordings of the complete solo piano music of Prokofiev. He has since recorded over thirty CDs and is now firmly established as among the most talented Russian pianists performing today. His most recent recording of Pabst, Rimsky-Korsakov and Scriabin has been highly recommended by Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.

David Owen Norris is one of the most innovative and brilliant British pianists of our generation, being an authority and leading performer on early pianos, rare piano concertos (especially those by 20th century English composers), as well as being the pianist of choice for many world-class singers. He recently received a Gramophone recommendation for his new CD recording of Montague Phillips Piano Concertos with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Following the success of last year's concerts, British early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico will join Sting on a tour of Australia and Asia, bringing music from Sting's critically acclaimed album 'Songs from the Labyrinth', to a further two continents. The tour, which opens at the Sydney Opera House on 30th November, includes performances in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Tokyo and Osaka (tour itinerary included below).

'Songs from the Labyrinth' began as a Deutsche Grammophon recording project in 2006 which surpassed all expectations by debuting at the top of the classical charts in the US, UK, France, Canada & Germany. It is Sting's personal tribute to the lute songs of British composer John Dowland (1563-1626). Stile Antico accompanied Sting in all his European tour dates since the release of the album, which has seen performances at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Berliner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Vienna, among many others. They will be joined again for this tour by esteemed lutenist, Edin Karamazov.

STING TOUR ITINERARY

Nov 30th Sydney Opera House

Dec 1st Brisbane Town Hall

Dec 3rd Melbourne Hamer Hall

Dec 5th Perth Concert Hall

Dec 7th Kuala Lumpur Planery Hall

Dec 8th Singapore Esplanade Hall

Dec 10th Hong Kong Jockey Club

Dec 12th Dubai Palladium

Dec 16th Tokyo Orchard Hall

Dec 17th Tokyo Orchard Hall

Dec 18th Tokyo Orchard Hall

Dec 20th Osaka Festival Hall

For more information, images and press materials please contact Holly Skelton: holly@ikonarts.com or call +44 (0)20 7354 9199

Read the announcement on Sting's blog page.