Bruno Heinen's The W ft. Maria Chiara Argirò - Mikrokosmos Album Launch

Doors 7:45 pm, music 8:30 pm - 2 sets of music
Line-up:
- Bruno Heinen - piano
- Heidi Vogel - voice
- Andrea Di Biase - double bass
- Gene Calderazzo - drum kit
- Maria Chiara Argirò - piano

About:
Drawing on twentieth-century classical compositions as well as the jazz tradition, Dr Bruno Heinen is a German-born, London-based pianist and professor of jazz piano and composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Coming from three generations of classical musicians, Bruno started playing piano at the age of four. His compositional voice has been informed by his love of composers from Duke Ellington to Béla Bartók and from Wayne Shorter to György Ligeti.
His work follows on from his studies with John Taylor, Fred Hersch, György Kurtág and Sir Simon Rattle, and his doctoral investigation of improvised counterpoint.
His quartet, The W, is a newly established contemporary jazz group. As vocalist for the Cinematic Orchestra for over 15 years and collaborator with acts such as Thundercat and Soweto Kinch, Heidi Vogel has extensive experience. On drums is London-based New Yorker Gene Calderazzo, who has worked with Pharoah Sanders, Radiohead and Freddie Hubbard. On double bass is Italian Andrea Di Biase, who has performed with Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler. Like the four equal lines that make up the letter W, the four members of the group come together to learn the music by heart and shape Bruno’s compositions together.
Tonight they will be launching the new album inspired by Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos, which Bruno studied as a child. Bartók composed these books of short pieces as an educational tool to teach his son at the piano. In this album, Bruno uses cells and ideas taken from book 6 of Bartók’s work, as well as lyrics in the form of quotes from Bartók, to create a new suite.
The album has been produced by jazz/electronica artist Maria Chiara Argirò, with whom Bruno has also been working for many years in their two-piano project and who will feature as special guest for this concert.