Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 set(s) of music
Line-up:
Robert Mitchell – Piano
About
Robert Mitchell is an award-winning pianist, keyboard player, composer, songwriter, festival curator, poet, and author. The Vortex performance celebrates the 2024 piano solo release “A Study (In The Key Of Now)”, recorded as part of a solo concert given in the King’s Hall at Newcastle University in November 2023. It is the second solo EP from Robert Mitchell and the second live recording after the 2020 CD “The Rainbow Mountain/Can We Care”. He will perform original music, improvisation, left hand only music and some music by legends.
“Robert Mitchell is one of Britain’s finest and most versatile pianist-composer-improvisors” The Wire Magazine
“Mitchell is possessed of possibly the most prodigious technique I’ve heard in any pianoman and he used it to the full” – Lance Liddle, Bebop Spoken Here
Over his 30 years entrenched in the art of music, Robert Mitchell has recorded thirteen albums of his own projects, 2 poetry collections and participated in over 100 projects as a sideman and has performed in more than 40 countries. Apart from being a pianist, composer and innovator, he is a festival creator and curator as well as a highly respected educator. Robert leads TRUE THINK and Epiphany3. He is a professor at Guildhall School Of Music And Drama (Jazz Piano), Mentor/Task Force Member at Black Lives In Music, YMM teacher, Steinway Artist, EDI Lead at Music HE. Robert has won awards – BBC Jazz Awards (Innovation, as part of the F-ire Collective), Best Jazz Album (BBC DJ Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards) and has been nominated for many more including 2017 British Jazz Composer Award.
Photo credit: Carl Hyde