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Joanna MacGregor archiveMacGregor is one of the world's most wide ranging and influential musicmakers. As a concert pianist she has worked with such eminent figures as Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Colin Davis, and has premiered landmark works from Django Bates to John Adams. A restless innovator, she has continued to break down musical barriers throughout her career, including cross-genre collaborations with Brian Eno, Nitin Sawhney and, at this year's London Jazz Festival, virtuoso oud player Dhafer Youssef.

Archive listings for Joanna MacGregor

Work type: Concert.

Jack Dowland and Blind Joe Death - T01523658186

MacGregor explores the idea of John Dowland as an early travelling blues musician, interweaving his beautiful lute songs, pavanes and galliards transcribed for piano with transcriptions of the legendary guitarist John Fahey. Like Dowland's lute, Fahey explored myth, love and death, with the help of his alter-ego, Blind Joe Death.
16 Mar 15Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165
listing details L0245896919

Cross Border - T0480553661

This concert will be a musical sketch of Joanna MacGregor's life. Join her musical journey spanning across time and continents; from Bach Preludes and Gospel songs that she played as a child through to her first love, Thelonius Monk, and her first 'difficult' composer, Charles Ives. Experience the unique sounds collected from her travels across the Deep South and Latin America.
1 Feb 15Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165
listing details L1392371082

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Joanna will be playing a programme of Mozart and Ravel alongside St John's Chamber Orchestra.
8 Jun 14Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead :: V1294444431
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12 Oct 12Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442
listing details L585925251
13 Nov 11New Wimbledon Theatre, Outer London :: V341
listing details L1248803793

+ Scanner - T0212515230

Pianist and stellar artist Joanna MacGregor joins with conceptual artist Scanner in a live, improvised collaboration around Bach chorales, concertos and arias in an entirely visionary and original way.Performer Joanna MacGregor (piano). Performer Scanner (conceptual artist).
5 May 10Barbican Centre, West End :: V371
listing details L0399764091

T0701288216

Pianist, conductor, composer and writer Joanna MacGregor performs in the second of a series of very special Brighton Dome recitals'. The series, which began with Radu Lupu (Oct 09) and continues later this year with Imogen Cooper, spotlights major figures on the international scene.
11 Apr 10Brighton Dome, Brighton :: V655
listing details L01414474781

and Britten Sinfonia - T01482719255

Pianist Joanna MacGregor directs Britten Sinfonia in a wide-ranging and innovative programme, including her own arrangements of Dowland’s haunting English songs alongside music from Brazil (Gismonti) and Argentina (Piazzolla), and timeless works by Bach and Stravinsky.
23 Jan 10Roundhouse, West End :: V242
listing details L01720379256

T885627694

Joanna Macgregor returns for a very special Christmas concert including the most grandly conceived works in the piano literature, Messiaen’s Vingt Regards sur L’Enfant-Jésus
19 Dec 09Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds :: V975
listing details L0234247935

T01858829131

Joanna performs the music of Bach, drawing on keyboard works: a selection of Preludes and Fugues from Book 1, the French Suite no.5, parts of the Goldberg Variations and The Art of Fugue. The programme features live, improvised collaboration with conceptual artist Scanner, touching on Bach’s Chorales and Cantatas. Scanner’s works experiment between sound, space, image and form and his albums are hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. He has previously collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Radiohead and Steve McQueen, among others.
21 Feb 09De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea :: V651
listing details L040625148

Pictures at an Exhibition - T1428503887

One of the world’s most wide-ranging, innovative and imaginative musicians, pianist Joanna MacGregor performs an eclectic programme that includes Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, six mazurkas by Chopin, six dances by Bartók and Bach’s French Suite No.5.
17 Jan 09Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds :: V975
listing details L038493882

American Journeys, North and South - T558487264

24 Mar 06Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead :: V1294444431
listing details L1494025403

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Music Bach (Goldberg Variations). Music Schubert (Impromptus). Music Piazzola (Six Tangos).
13 Mar 05Theatr Clwyd, Mold :: V810
listing details L1247001774

T0746643150

Joanna performs her own arrangements of Lost Highway and Piazzolla's Six Tangos, and Beethoven's Variations on a Theme by Diabelli.
16 May 04Corn Exchange, Newbury :: V732
listing details L0224891499

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Performer Joanna MacGregor (piano). Music Schubert (4 Impromptus D899). Music Piazzolla (Arr MacGregor - 6 Tangos). Music Beethoven (33 Variations in C Major on a Waltz by Diabelli Op 120). Music Schubert (Dances from the New World).
15 May 04Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead :: V1294444431
listing details L1055991287

T1454741067

Music Beethoven (Bagtelles Op 119). Music Django Bates (Three Jazz Pieces). Music Bartok (Sonata Sz 80). Music Bach (The Goldberg Variations).
26 Apr 03Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead :: V1294444431
listing details L1454741426

T1956454704

Company Britten Sinfonia. Director Joanna MacGregor (piano). Performer Pauline Lowbury (violin). Performer Miranda Dale (violin). Performer Martin Outram (viola). Performer Caroline Dearnley (cello). Music Bartok (6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm). Music William Byrd (Hugh Ashton's Ground). Music Alasdair Nicolson (42nd Street Stomp). Music Skalkottas (5 Greek Dances). Music Piazzolla (arr MacGregor - 3 Tangos). Music Shostakovich (Piano Quintet).
14 Nov 02Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham :: V0165922284
listing details L1710340683

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Company Britten Sinfonia (soloists). Music Bartok (6 Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm 8). Music William Byrd (Hugh Ashton's Ground 7). Music Alasdair Nicolson (42nd St Stomp). Music Skalkottas (5 Greek Dances). Music Piazzolla (arr MacGregor - 3 Tangos). Music Shostakovich (Piano Quintet).
10 Nov 02Chelmsford Theatre, Chelmsford :: V32
listing details L02050138592

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Music Chick Corea (Children's Songs). Music Gyorgy Ligeti (Disorder Rainbow and Autumn in Warsaw). Music Piazolla (Milonga del Angel and LIbertango). Music Bartok (Sonata for Piano Sz 80). Music Ives (The Alcotts). Music Beethoven (Sonata No 32 in C Minor Op 111).
17 Mar 02Blackheath Halls, Outer London :: V1490866190
listing details L01040944986

Street Music - T430106204

Tango-boogie-counterpoint-radio. A multimedia piano show for young people. Age 8+Performer Joanna MacGregor (piano).
15 Dec 01Southbank Centre, West End :: V423
listing details L0606200921

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Company Britten Sinfonia. Music Schnittke (Piano Concerto). Music Arvo Part (Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten). Music Lou Harrison (Piano Concerto). Music Nitin Sawhney (specially commissioned orchestral work).
4 Nov 01Brighton Dome, Brighton :: V655
listing details L467439434

T0479649318

Company Britten Sinfonia. Company Ensemble Bash.
18 Oct 01Chelmsford Theatre, Chelmsford :: V32
listing details L0917159459

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Performer Joanna MacGregor. Performer Ultramarine. Performer Kathy Hinde (visual artist). Performer Matthew Fairclough (sound diffusion).
23 May 01Hackney Picturehouse (formerly Hackney Ocean), Outer London :: V01995268682
listing details L01897045063

T062130760

Music Samuel Barber (Excursions Op 20). Music George Crumb (A Little Suite for Christmas). Music Stravinsky (Three pieces from Petruschka). Music Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition - Suite for piano).
6 Apr 01Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910
listing details L74710515

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Performer Joana McGregor (piano). Music Samuel Barber (Excursions op 20). Music Crumbs (Little Suite for Christmas AD1979). Music Trad / Russian (Folk Songs). Music Stravinsky (3 Movements from Petrouchka).
2 Apr 01Wigmore Hall, Inner London :: V01709318027
listing details L5759259

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Music Samuel Barber (Excursions Op 20). Music George Crumb (A Little Suite for Christmas). Music Stravinsky (Three pieces from Petruschka). Music Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition - suite for piano).
22 Oct 00Lighthouse (previously known as Poole Arts Centre), Poole :: V910
listing details L01157169175

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Music Kurtag (Spiele). Music Scriabin (Sonata No 9 in F Black Mass). Music Stravinsky (Three Pieces from Petrushka). Music Debussy (Three Studies). Music Messiaen (Le Baiser de L'enfant Jesus). Music Rzewski (Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues).
9 Mar 00Hall for Cornwall, Truro :: V1183
listing details L653843994

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Perilous Night.
19 Feb 00Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne :: V568
listing details L01765460976

T063411596

Performer Joanna McGregor (piano). Performer Andrew Stones (digital artist). Music Bach. Music Dowland. Music Byrd.
17 Nov 99Southbank Centre, West End :: V423
listing details L01124559073

Other listings

14 Jan 15Capstone Theatre, Liverpool :: V0538369222
listing details L01568952987
7 Feb 09Blackheath Halls, Outer London :: V1490866190
listing details L1071185500
21 May 04Cabot Square, Outer London :: V1094
listing details L01839134442
18 May 03Corn Exchange, Newbury :: V732
listing details L0637492333
15 Dec 98Southbank Centre, West End :: V423
listing details L0172494929
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