At 8pm on Friday 2^nd July 2010, Neil Campbell and Perri Alleyne-Hughes will be performing an intimate concert of their new music at the beautiful new Hope Theatre (part of Liverpool Hope University’s new Creative Campus) on Shaw Street, Liverpool. As part of the programme Neil will also be playing a set of some of his original music for solo guitar.

Neil says: ‘The concert on 2^nd July will be an intimate experience in a brand new state of the art theatre space at Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus. Aside from playing a set of my music for solo guitar (which is always great fun) what is personally so very special to me is that, in collaboration with composer and vocalist Perri Alleyne-Hughes, we will be presenting some of the new music we have written together. These new songs are emotional, impressionistic, jazz tinged compositions with expressive vocals and instrumental excursions for guitar. The new music has also given me the opportunity to explore technology such as loops and digital effects to allow one guitarist (i.e. me) to create the impression of an entire ensemble.’

Perri Alleyne-Hughes is a vocalist, composer, choral music director and arranger. Her role as arranger and choir director with Sense of Sound Choir has helped to lead them to prestigious performances in collaboration with an ever impressive series of artists including Seal, Paco Pena, Damon Albarn, David Coulter and Brian Eno. In 2006 the choir were runners up in BBC Radio 3’s Choir of the Year competition. They were also significantly involved in performance projects related to Liverpool’s 2008 Capital of Culture and in the same year came in the top six of the BBC’s choral competition ‘Last Choir Standing’. Perri herself is an incredibly gifted vocalist and song writer in her own right.

Supporting the concert will be a short performance from the ensemble of the newly formed Liverpool Guitar Society, which promotes classical guitar music to enthusiasts on Merseyside.

Tickets are £8 (£6 concessions) and are available at the venue on the door …. please click here for a map

At 7pm on Saturday 26th June a performance of Neil Campbell’s Frankenstein recorded at BBC Radio Merseyside on Thursday 17th June will be broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside.

Neil Campbell’s Frankenstein is a musical realisation based on the Mary Shelley novel composed by Neil Campbell and scored for choir, ensemble and narrator. The performance features actor Gary Mavers (Peak Practice), Sense of Sound Choir (led by Perri Alleyne-Hughes) and The Neil Campbell Collective (featuring Neil Campbell (guitar), Anne Taft (soprano), Vicky Mutch (cello), Chris Bradshaw (keys), Andy Maslivec (bass) and Mark Brocklesby (drums)).

Listeners on Merseyside can tune in to the station at 95.8FM. Those listening around the world can listen to the show at the BBC web site which you can access at: the BBC Radio Merseyside web site. It will be possible to listen again to the performance after the broadcast using the Listen Again facility at this site.

Before the broadcast of Frankenstein, from 6-7pm, Neil will be appearing on BBC Radio Merseyside as a guest on Spencer Leigh’s ‘On the Beat’. This will give the opportunity to talk further about the Frankenstein project and its realisation as a piece for radio.

Programme notes accompanying the performance can be downloaded here.

(Many Thanks to David Munn for these photographs of the performance)

Three movements (2, 5 and 4) from Neil’s composition ‘Rotations’ for six pianos will be performed at Liverpool Hope University’s Capstone Building on the evening of Monday 21st June in a Midsummer Concert, a special invitation-only event to mark the opening of the spectacular Gardens (Angel Field) and the opening of the Capstone Building as a Steinway Centre. The music will be performed on six Steinway upright pianos in a programme which includes music by Debussy, Brahms, Grainger and Steve Reich (Six Pianos). This will be the first ever live performance of music from ‘Rotations’, which was written and recorded by Neil in 2003.

At 7.30pm on Saturday 19th June 2010, Perri Alleyne-Hughes and Neil Campbell will join the bill of a charity musical evening playing a short set in aid of the Women for Women charity, an organisation that funds better health for women and babies across the country. The event will take place at the new Hope Theatre, in the new Capstone Building on Hope’s Creative Campus on Shaw Street. All money raised from the concert will go to this worthwhile charity supporting research into problems affecting women and their babies such as miscarriages, still births, genetic disorders and cancer.

Other performers that evening will include Harmony Belles (a capella group), Caroline Smith and Helen Milne Duet (piano duet), pianists Lewis Coenen Rowe and Leo Casimo and sopranos Mary Black and Rachel Harland, Sophie Fraiser (from ‘Our Day Out’ at the Royal Court), HNC Music (Jazz Band) and Kikosi (Soul Band). Tickets are £7 (£5 concessions). For more information or ticket requests call Katie on 07779 298 025 or email katiespall@hotmail.com.