Saturday 19 October 2024
The Chopin Festival 2024 - Chopin Jazz: Chopin’s music interpreted and played through the medium of Jazz with the John Donegan Quintet.
John Donegan is a modern jazz pianist and composer, UK based but originally from Cork. His music has been featured on the BBC, Jazz FM, RTE and independent radio stations in the UK and Ireland. He has performed with a variety of UK, Irish and International artists, including Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Barney Kessel and Greg Abate, Louis Stewart and many more. He has also performed in France, Spain, Portugal and at Birdland in New York, as well as being a regular performer for Global Music Foundation, who held online concerts during Lockdown. In 2022, he performed at The Chopin Festival, playing his arrangements of Chopin pieces, and we welcome him back by popular demand in 2024.
The Jazz Mann **** review “an impressive offering from Donegan in which he demonstrates his command of a variety of styles, as both pianist and composer , as a writer he also demonstrates an unfailing gift for melody”
All About Jazz
“Donegan… delivered a memorable straight ahead album of vintage calibre.”
Jazzwise Magazine ****
“ ..His compositional flair is well demonstrated and his pianism intriguing yet poised. More please! “
The John Donegan Quintet is -
John Donegan - Piano & Arranger
Adam Bishop - Flute and Alto sax
Riley Stone - Lonergan - Tenor sax
Alec Dankworth - Bass
Matt Fishwick - Drums
Other Festival Events
This event is part of The Chopin Festival 2024, a captivating programme of events taking place at the Polish Social and Cultural Centre POSK, in London, on 19 October 2024:
• 3.30-4.15pm - FREE - Talk by Lady Rose Cholmondeley “Mysteries surrounding Fryderyk Chopin" - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../the-chopin-festival-2024...
• 4.30-5.15pm - FREE - Talk by Prof. John Rink “The Young Chopin" – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../the-chopin-festival-2024...
• 6.30-8.30pm - Gala Concert - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../the-chopin-festival-2024...
• 8.30-10.30pm - Chopin Jazz - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../the-chopin-festival-2024...
19 - 28 October 2024 – FREE EXHIBITION - “The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition”, presented by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw and the POSK Library, on display 19-28 October 2024 - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../the-chopin-festival-2024...
