Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival is back! Click here to check out our line-up, with more authors to be announced.
Nelly Ben-Or was imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto as a child and subsequently escaped to Warsaw where she spent years living under a false-identity, narrowly evading recapture by the Nazis. She would eventually settle in England and find international success as a concert pianist and as a leading exponent of the Alexander Technique.
This evening recounts her story with her first-hand testimony, alongside live music for piano and violin, performed by Alex Metcalfe and Katharine Gorsuch Johns, including works by Chopin, Bach and Bloch.
*Change of line-up - Please note that Katherine Gorsuch Johns will be the violinist performing instead of Patricia Calnan*
7.00pm
Full Price: £15
Alex Metcalfe – Pianist
Alex Metcalfe studied at the Royal College of Music and has performed extensively around Europe and the UK. He has played with the London Sinfonietta and the London Symphony Orchestra. His piano playing has been featured on BBC Radio 3's In Tune and BBC 2's The Culture Show.
His composition work has been described as “British songwriting at its best” by The Sun. and has been used by companies including Gucci, Givenchy and Prada
*Change of line-up - Please note that Katherine Gorsuch Johns will be the violinist performing instead of Patricia Calnan*
Katharine Gorsuch Johns - Violinist
American violinist Katharine Gorsuch Johns studied with Miriam Fried at Indiana University before being taught by Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music. She then embarked on a playing career which has taken her to venues such as Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and St David's Hall. As a member of the prize-winning Bronte String Quartet from 2001 to 2006 she performed at IMS Prussia Cove and on BBC Radio 3. Since working as a freelance violinist, she has played with Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells and the English Chamber Orchestra. Following a move to Sussex with her family, she has enjoyed taking opportunities to perform chamber music locally as well as in London. She has performed works by Sibelius at the invitation of the Sibelius Society, recorded Schubert's Rondo for violin on the Champs Hill label, and plays favourites from the piano trio and duo repertoire at concerts in Tunbridge Wells and other local venues such as Hammerwood Park.
This musical evening is generously supported by Association of Jewish Refugees.
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