| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|
| 19-May-2013 Kings Place: Hall Two | Bruce Brubaker plays Alvin Curran at Kings Place | Paul Kilbey |
 (1).jpg) Sixteen minutes of mercilessly pummelling the piano keys, alternating shimmering, dissonant chords between right and left hands, as fast as humanly possible or maybe slightly faster. This fleet, beguiling whoosh of texture left the Kings Place audience in no doubt as to Bruce Brubaker’s technical prowess, nor his astonishingly delicate, sensitive touch at the keyboard. If we’d been after proof of his commitment to championing interesting new music, at whatever personal cost – well, he had that covered too.
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| 16-Mar-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | Nico Muhly with the Britten Sinfonia and Friends | Paul Kilbey |
 To call last night’s Nico Muhly extravaganza at the Barbican a concert of two halves would not go far enough. It was more like two concerts, with a surprisingly short gap between them. The first was made up of three new classical works played by the Britten Sinfonia, and the second was a set of arty folk numbers and other chamber miniatures by Muhly and others. The whole evening was a provocative mixture of styles – if not always a successful one.
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| 24-Jan-2012 Hackney Empire | Kronos Quartet at the Hackney Empire | Arthur Keegan-Bole |
 Mark Allan.jpg) Cool venue – cool ensemble – cool concert! The Kronos quartet are successful where so many fail in bringing the often-too-distinct worlds of pop/rock and classical together. This concert highlighted their commitment to forging their own performance aesthetic by only programming music that has been written specifically for them. The only exception was the piece that inspired first violinist David Harrington to form the group in the first place – George Crumb’s Black Angels.
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