{"title": "ResearchWorks: Bridging Two Musical Worlds Through Improvisation", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall School of Music and Drama", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DT London", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bridging-two-musical-worlds-through-improvisation-in-person-tickets-1999379683455?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*p0c6zd*_up*MQ..*_ga*Nzc0NDk3MTg0LjE3ODg0MjkzMjI.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3ODg0MjkzMjEkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODg0MjkzMjEkajYwJGwwJGgw", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "ResearchWorks: Bridging Two Musical Worlds Through Improvisation is a free, in-person and online event with discussion, experiment and performance exploring improvisation between jazz and classical musicians. Pianist and classical improvisation professor David Dolan and Greek jazz saxophonist Dimitrios Vassilakis improvise together while keeping their own musical languages, joined by an AI component reacting to what they play. With the audience, they ask what listening and a meaningful musical response are, where creativity and surprise arise, and who leads or follows. It is part of ResearchWorks, Guildhall School's programme sharing its research with students, staff and the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/researchworks-bridging-two-musical-worlds-through-improvisat-80629/", "official_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/researchworks-bridging-two-musical-worlds-through-improvisation", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ade4208292c7d1455c86180eb4d85493b7d02daf199182e4f73924cf80982f45-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Guildhall School of Music and Drama", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DT London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "London Ambient Orchestra Presents: An Evening of Improvised Music and Sonic Exploration", "start": "2026-11-03T19:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T22:30:00Z", "place": "Vortex Jazz Club", "address": "Gillett Square 11, N16 8AZ London", "price": "General Admission £17.50", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london-ambient-orchestra-tickets-2002421727290?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/contemporary-classical"], "description": "London Ambient Orchestra Presents: An Evening of Improvised Music and Sonic Exploration is a large-ensemble concert of orchestral improvisation rooted in stillness and sound exploration. 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Pianist and composer Finn Carter, a fixture of London's jazz scene who has also worked with Loyle Carner, Olivia Dean and Rex Orange County, leads a new project as part of his monthly residency. He is joined by Stephanie Burrell, an artist whose dance and choreography practice fuses improvisation with theatrical modes of performance shaped by jazz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/finn-carter-stephanie-burrell-40201/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/finn-carter-stephanie-burrell/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3879cadd82a272eb27b71b21b85b5e0dcbb1dc303a0885aa9d4093f4dfcb022b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Julian Faultless / Martin Hackett / Julian Woods", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "A music event at Hundred Years Gallery bringing together three performers: Julian Faultless, Martin Hackett and Julian Woods. 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Their work in large-group improvisation seeks to free themselves and their listeners from default assumptions built up through the centuries-long predominance of cis men in music. 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Webster and Williams are two of London's most prolific improvisors, working with many key figures in experimental music, while Grigg is an exciting guitarist from Bristol creating his own language and style, and Neubauer, a Wuppertal-based multi-instrumentalist, combines electronics and acoustic drums.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/colin-webster-matthew-grigg-caius-williams-fabian-neubauer-40194/", "official_url": "https://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/colin-webster-matthew-grigg-caius-williams-fabian-neubauer/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6981c06e2c5e869ac1cae7886b55daf889765921362ceb6171a92df1b13f1d65-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Performance: felix taylor & Chloe Filani", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tzkrti.com/en/checkout/5044", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "An improvised one-off performance of sound and poetry at The Mosaic Rooms. 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It is performed by lovemusic, a Strasbourg-based ensemble, and continues the WACK x lovemusic project supported by the Diaphonique fund. The programme includes a bass flute in dialogue with sign language, violin and cello as extensions of the performers' bodies, an abstract city portrait, a piece for flute, screens and ASMR, an audience participation work using the public's own phones, and an excerpt from Neil Luck's Respect for Reality. No expertise is needed to enjoy it, just curiosity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lovemusic-74175/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/lovemusic/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4d30ac15be2f90ed2c6b770c5e497857ba9b6104dc185e27a68ba1b92e9b4209-2000.webp"}, {"title": "David Berkman: Masterclass and Concert", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Morley College London", "address": "Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HT London", "price": "Masterclass + concert: £20.00, Concert only: £15.00, Masterclass only: £15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-berkman-masterclass-and-concert-tickets-2003604006519?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*vuar10*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjA1NDMxMzI5NC4xNzkyNTEwMTQ4*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3OTI1MTAxNDckbzEkZzAkdDE3OTI1MTAxNDckajYwJGwwJGgw", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "A masterclass and concert at Morley College London featuring David Berkman, a New York pianist, composer, educator and bandleader who has been a major presence on the New York jazz scene for more than three decades. The open workshop welcomes everyone regardless of instrument, style, level or previous jazz experience, offering insights into creativity, improvisation, composition, listening and practising. In the evening concert, the David Berkman Trio — Berkman on piano, Tom Farmer on bass and Flavio Li Vigni on drums — performs music full of harmony, rhythm, romance and mystery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/david-berkman-masterclass-and-concert-46171/", "official_url": "https://morleycollege.ac.uk/event/david-berkman-masterclass-and-concert-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d4d2fc260f0d4db29bed26294c37cd35f674961d369d431fa1148bec44a9a1f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "New River Improvisations: A Workshop with Seijiro Murayama", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T21:00:00Z", "place": "New River Studios", "address": "Eade Road 199, N4 1DN London", "price": "£30 (Covers the full two-day workshop)", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "A two-evening workshop conceived as a single unit, based on improvisational practice. It is led by Seijiro Murayama, an improviser-percussionist born in 1957 in Japan who has released around fifty albums and co-authored the book Idioms and Idiots. The sessions use a simple yet effective method he has developed over the past 20 years from an outsider's perspective, as both a non-Westerner and a non-musician. Open to all levels, participants bring their instrument and a notebook, and Murayama improvises the process of the workshop itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/new-river-improvisations-a-workshop-with-seijiro-murayama-37335/", "official_url": "https://newriverstudios.com/event/new-river-improvisations-a-workshop-with-seijiro-murayama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3441cdc45f12290054da77dc1b4ce6f8952a3f03744e4779e088d1bb152b6344-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Piano Masterclass with Pedja Muzijevic", "start": "2026-11-05T10:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Milton Court Concert Hall", "address": "Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/guildhall-school-masterclasses", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music/classical/piano"], "description": "A free, open piano masterclass in which visiting pianist and curator Pedja Muzijevic works with Guildhall keyboard players. He is celebrated for imaginative programming, interdisciplinary collaborations and performances bridging new and old music, and has appeared with orchestras including the Atlanta Symphony and Dresden Philharmonic. The session lasts three hours, and audience members may drop in at any time and will be admitted at an appropriate moment. No tickets are required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/piano-masterclass-with-pedja-muzijevic-80623/", "official_url": "https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/piano-masterclass-with-pedja-muzijevic", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ef70a090f0423eaa41e6c9cd0c0783e0dc7dc17d5eab20b8f7b5ee74052c3c51-2000.webp"}]}