Mayfield Promotions

From Schubert To Gershwin

Jack Gibbons & special guest Sarah Beth Briggs play beloved duets

Tickets £23 (Any tickets remaining on the night will be sold on the door of the venue - £30 per ticket)

The artist sitting at a piano, facing the camera, with a title treatment on the right hand side listing the composers featured in the series

SCHUBERT: Marche Militaire no.1 in D major
FAURÉ: Dolly Suite
GIBBONS: From Piano Suite: Musette & Tarantella
DEBUSSY: Petite Suite
SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet Op.44 (arranged piano 4 hands Clara Schumann)
J.S. BACH: Schafe können sicher weiden (Sheep may safely graze) (arranged piano 4 hands Mary Howe)
GERSHWIN: Girl Crazy Overture (arranged piano 4 hands Jack Gibbons) – world premiere

The acclaimed pianist and composer JACK GIBBONS is joined by award-winning pianist SARAH BETH BRIGGS for an evening of much loved piano duets including Fauré’s Dolly Suite, Debussy’s Petite Suite, Schumann’s masterly Piano Quintet Op.44 in a rarely performed piano duet transcription by Clara Schumann, and the world premiere of a new transcription for piano duet by Gibbons of Gershwin’s dazzling Girl Crazy Overture (featuring the classic songs I Got Rhythm and Embraceable You). The youngest-ever finalist in the BBC Young Musician at 11, Sarah Beth Briggs went on to win the prestigious International Mozart Competition in Salzburg at just 15, and has since played with leading orchestras around the world.

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An artist of extraordinary magnetism

Michael Kennedy on Sarah Beth Briggs, Daily Telegraph

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High-spirited and historically informed

Paul Griffiths on Jack Gibbons, The New Yorker


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