Conductor Richard Balcombe, Graham Bickley, Abbie Osmon, Stuart Matthew Price, Patrick Smyth, and pianist George King join Royal Northern Sinfonia for a spectacular celebration of the music of Elton John. March 28th, 7.30pm, Sage Gateshead,
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Philharmonic Hall George King, Patrick Smyth, Abbie Osmon, Graham Bickley, Stuart Matthew Price, Richard Balcombe “In a wonderful journey through the celebrated music of Sir Elton, we are not only delighted with all those hits but discover some overlooked gems on the way too. Superbly put together by Richard Balcombe and Graham Bickley
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Half a century after he released his debut album, Sir Elton Hercules John is having a moment – driven by the success of flamboyant big screen biopic Rocket Man and an imminent ‘farewell’ tour. And Rocket Man the song was one of 22 numbers featured in this buoyant celebration from GRB Concerts (conductor/orchestrator Richard Balcombe
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Our final London rehearsal now completed, we are all ready to premiere of our new concert programme at the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic orchestra. It’s a very different style of concert for GRB, but one we are very excited to present. Next Spring, we will take it to the CBSO
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On Tuesday 14th May, Louise and I perform our ‘Couple of Swells’ programme at Sage Gateshead, with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, conducted by Richard. A wonderful venue, it is always a delight to perform there. This will be our 4th performance of this programme, so it is beginning to look a little more familiar but
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Yesterday we played our Bacharach programme at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Concert Orchestra. Gareth Hudson conducted and Mary Carewe, Abbie Osmon and Katie Birtill joined me for another celebration of the magic of Burt Bacharach. This was Katie’s first outing for this programme, but you would have never known it. We were
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Looking ahead to 2019 and beyond, we are particularly excited about a new symphonic concert featuring the music of Elton John. Contractually, dates, orchestras and details must remain under wraps for the moment – but we hope to be able to tell you more in the coming months. But we can announce that several major
Next Saturday evening, 12th January 2019, Louise Dearman, Richard and I will be repeating our Couple of Swells programme at The Festival Theatre in Chichester with the mighty BBC Concert Orchestra. This performance is being recorded for a future ‘Friday Night Is Music Night’ broadcast. It will be a joy to once again sing this
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The heat was oppressive, but two concerts with our great friends, The BBC Concert Orchestra, in Austria and Germany were performed with great aplomb fuelled by gallons of drinking water (at least before the concert). This was a new programme with a new (to GRB) if extremely established leading lady in Louise Dearman. The programme
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On 26 July, GRB Concerts were joined by the fabulous Louise Dearman to perform a celebration of the iconic movie duo – Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. “Conductor Richard Balcombe leads through the evening in simple but charming German. His orchestra succeeds exceptionally well to switch between sonorous strings and big band swing.” Frankfurter Rundschau
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