CHARLTON FINE ARTS SEASON 02 ends with a bang!
By special request, Helen Crayford brings her virtuoso piano show to Dover. Join her for a whistle-stop tour from Ragtime to early jazz.
This amazing one-woman show has taken Helen far afield, including New York and Italy, and is not to be missed.
HELEN CRAYFORD After graduating in music from Newnham College, Cambridge, Helen spent two years at the RCM, subsequently winning a French Government Scholarship to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. On her return to London, she developed a busy freelance career as keyboard player with London orchestras, principally the BBC and Philharmonia. With the Britten Sinfonia she also played a solo role in such works as Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano & Wind, Britten’s “Young Apollo” and Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” Variations. Her virtuoso one-woman show, Rags to Riches, has taken her from the Edinburgh Festival to Italy and New York, whilst, as a duo partner, she has been invited to perform in venues as diverse as Princeton University ( with violinist sister Marcia) and the Caribbean (with flautist Nancy Ruffer). On her return to Kent in 2010, Helen was invited to join the Kentish Piano Trio. Since then, she has been actively pursuing her first-love, chamber music , with groups such as the Orsay Piano Quartet and the Ringlemere Ensemble. CFA audiences will remember Helen from her recitals with singer Penelope Turner (The Lighter Side of Weill), bass Alan Ewing (In the Lowest Deep) and the brilliant young cellist Butterfly Paterson.
They are thrilled that Helen returns to Charlton Fine Arts, in the midst of her busy schedule.
Performed in period costume!
The church will be open from 2.30pm for drinks, including festive bucks fizz, and after the show.
Parking nearby at Morrisons.
Toilets including disabled in church hall next door.
Tickets £10 / £7 (Champions of Charlton) / free to under-18s
Show starts at 3pm.