106 Highgate West Hill
London N6 6AP
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival brings together distinguished chamber musicians from around the world for an annual celebration of chamber music. In the intimate setting of St Anne’s Highgate, a stone’s throw from Hampstead Heath, HICMF presents varied programmes with masterworks of the repertoire set alongside lesser-known works, delivered with fresh, energised performances by world-class musicians performing alongside each another in combinations not heard anywhere else.
‘Passion and sheer panache’ – The Strad ‘Serious performers [and] concerts of genuine world class’ – Camden New Journal ‘Top soloists blend to perfection’ – ArtsDesk
Concert 5 – Film Scores & New Works
Caroline Dale – cello, Gavin Greenaway – piano
Icons of the film music world Caroline Dale and Gavin Greenaway present music from ‘Gladiator’, ‘The Mission’ and ‘Atonement’ alongside Greenaway’s new compositions for cello and piano.
Gavin Greenaway is an Emmy ® award-winning pianist, composer and conductor with an extensive catalogue of achievements including conducting 100+ feature film and TV soundtracks. A longtime collaborator of Hans Zimmer, Greenaway’s own compositions, which incorporate a range of influences from jazz to minimalism, have been described as ‘unashamedly melodic, deeply personal… and immediately engaging’. Cellist Caroline Dale has appeared as concerto soloist with multiple orchestras and is a renowned studio and session musician, with film credits including the solo cello for ‘Hilary and Jackie’ , ‘Truly Madly Deeply’, ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, and ‘Pride & Prejudice’.
Close musical collaborators for many years, the lush sound-world of Greenaway and Dale is one to be savoured – join us in this late-night setting and be transported.