Friday Nov 23rd

Gonville & Caius College Chapel

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Times: 6:00-7:00pm

Tickets: £8 / £6 students and under 18s

Unreserved seating available.

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“Enticingly strange and wonderful sounds, so odd you can hardly believe it’s an organ making them.. a lightening musical intelligence”  The Telegraph

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“It testifies to his world-class stature” The Guardian

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Kit Downes is joined by by frequent improvising partner Tom Challenger (tenor sax).

 

This ethereal, forward-thinking music evokes symbols of nature, from the earth all the way up to the skies. Kit Downes is a composer, pianist and organist from London who experiments with simple and elegant harmonies using his organ. As he juggles with pipes, he explores sounds capable of raising our spirits and soothing our souls. This concert is a must for everyone out there whose hearts are filled with delight.

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Downes brings a new and highly personal approach to an instrument steeped in history and tradition, while exploring its sonic possibilities and idiosyncrasies in improvisations and compositions both melodic and textural.

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This will be a rare chance to see Kit performing this outstanding work.

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Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award winning, Mercury Music Award nominated, solo recording artist for ECM Records who has toured the world with groups such as Squarepusher, Troyka, Empirical and Nostalgia 77, as well collaborative projects such ‘ENEMY’, ‘Vyamanikal’ and duo projects with Lucy Railton and Aidan O’Rourke. His first album, entitled Obsidian, came out in 2018.