KINO-TEATR

Remi Harris is a jazz, gypsy Jazz, Blues & Rock guitarist  whose playing draws inspiration from artists such as Django Reinhardt, Peter Green, Wes Montgomery, Gerry Mulligan and Jimi Hendrix. He performed at many prestigious events and venues around the world, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, Buckingham Palace, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall with Jamie Cullum, and appeared on national radio and television.
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'He's an absolutely extraordinary musician' Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2​

'Astonishing stuff' Cerys Matthews, BBC Radio 2 & BBC 6 Music

​​'Remi Harris is an astounding player in many styles' ★★★★★

Guitar Techniques Magazine

​'An incredible display of melodic improvisation' 8/10 Guitarist Magazine

​​'A remarkable musician' ★★★★ Jazz Journal

'Remi is a phenomenal player' Martin Taylor MBE
​'One of the UK's brightest guitar talents" Music Radar

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​Remi Harris is joined by double bassist Tom Moore and rhythm guitarist Chris Nesbitt, performing music ranging from the acoustic jazz of the 1930s and 40s to the electric blues of the 60s and 70s. The show features an eclectic mix of jazz and blues standards, original compositions, improvisations and new arrangements of familiar tunes. Remi plays a variety of acoustic and electric guitars, and the ease and warmth of his stage presence, together with his virtuoso talent, will have concert goers captivated by his passion for the guitar.

Perfect Days is a 2023 film directed by the Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Wim Wenders (The American Friend, Wings Of Desire) from a script written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki. A co-production between Japan and Germany, the film stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a public toilet cleaner.

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The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. It was also nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, becoming the first film not directed by a Japanese filmmaker to be nominated as the Japanese entry.

Wim Wenders’s zen Japanese drama is his best feature film in years.

★★★★ The Guardian

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The Beauty of the Everyday - British Film Institute

Nye

A new play by Tim Price, directed by Rufus Norris.

Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS. 

Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.

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Written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small Island), this epic new Welsh fantasia will be broadcast live from the National Theatre. 

Classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage.

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Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her?

Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet classic. Swan Lake remains to this day one of the best-loved works in the classical ballet canon.

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Running time 210 minutes (including two intervals)

Step into the glittering world of fashion, scandal and shameless self-promotion that made John Singer Sargent the painter who defined an era.

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John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.

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Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sargent’s power to express distinctive personalities, power dynamics and gender identities during this fascinating period of cultural reinvention. Alongside 50 paintings by Sargent sit stunning items of clothing and accessories worn by his subjects, drawing the audience into the artist’s studio.

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Sargent’s sitters were often wealthy, their clothes costly, but what happens when you turn yourself over to the hands of a great artist? The manufacture of public identity is as controversial and contested today as it was at the turn of the 20th century, but somehow Sargent’s work transcends the social noise and captures an alluring truth with each brush stroke. Step into the glittering world of fashion, scandal and shameless self-promotion that made John Singer Sargent the painter who defined an era.

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Explore the unique creative process of the late 19th century’s favourite portrait artist and the way in which his portraits captured the spirit of a vibrant and rapidly changing age.

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Directed by David Bickerstaff

Cabrini is a 2024 American biographical drama directed by Alejandro Gómez Monteverde and written by Rod Barr. The film is based on a true story of a Catholic missionary Francesca Cabrini (1850-1917)  as she encounters resistance to her charity and business efforts in New York City in the late 19th century. Cabrini explores the sexism and anti-Italian bigotry faced by Cabrini and others in New York City during that period. 

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'The biopic Cabrini is a beautiful reminder of the human being behind the name...The Italian actress Cristiana Dell'Anna turns in a stunningly effective, movie-star performance' Chicago Sunday Times 

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'Cabrini’s story is rather absorbing and the film offers a lushly mounted portrait of life in 1880s New York, when immigration was just as much of a contentious issue as it is today' The Guardian

Mike Hatchard will be paying tribute to the music of Chet Baker with the help of bass player and singer Will Collier and trumpet player Robbie Robson. Together they will explore the elegant decadence of 1950’s West Coast cool. 

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After the second world war, following Miles Davis and Gil Evans’ lead, Chet Baker along with long term collaborator Gerry Mulligan decided to leave the technical improvisations of bebop behind to create a laid-back melodic style of jazz emphasising composition and arrangement. 

A 1960 crime thriller starring Alain Delon (in his first major role), alongside Marie Laforêt and Maurice Ronet; Romy Schneider, Delon's girlfriend at the time, makes a brief cameo appearance in the film. Directed by René Clément, it is the first adaptation  of the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. The film was lauded by critics and made Delon a star. It enjoys a cult following to this day, its biggest fans being Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa. Re-Released in 4k restoration by StudioCanal. 

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‘Alain Delon puts in a terrifically good performance’ The Guardian ★★★★

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‘Almost every aspect of Rene Clement's 1960 motion picture is superior to Minghella's 1999 version, from the cinematography to the acting to the screenplay. Matt Damon might make a credible Tom Ripley but only for those who never experienced Alain Delon's portrayal’ ReelNews 2022

Damiano Michieletto's sizzling new production evokes all the passion and heat of Bizet's score, which features Carmen’s sultry Habanera and the rousing Toreador song. Antonello Manacorda conducts an exciting international cast, with Aigul Akhmetshina performing the title role.

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Sung in French with English subtitles

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Co-production with Teatro Real, Madrid and La Scala, Milan

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Running time 220 minutes (including one interval)

three4 is a Classical trio of violin, piano and voice based in East London.

These three exceptional musicians will be chatting about the music and putting new twists on pieces by some of the world's greatest classical composers.

It is going to be an evening of sumptuous music, with a programme travelling over 300 years, from Bach to Glass via many of the greats, including Gershwin, Shostakovich, Richard Strauss and more. If you like your classical music delivered with intimacy, passion and with a sprinkling of humour, you will love three4.

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Emma Dogliani: Soprano
Emma graduated with First Class Hons in singing and piano at Trinity College and made her solo debut with the Royal Opera as a Flowermaiden in Parsifal with Placido Domingo. For ROH she also sang Clorinda in Cenerentola with Juan Diego Flórez. Over the last 20 years she has sung many major roles for other companies. Highlights include 3 different productions as Donna Anna Don Giovanni, title-roles in Semele, Lucia di Lammermoor, Maria Stuarda, Armida (Rossini), and Luisa Miller. She won the Art Song Prize in Lyra New York international Vocal Competition in 2019. She has performed on Radio 3’s In Tune and made a CD of Handel Arias with London Mozart Players.

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Kate Conway: Violin
Kate is a freelance professional violinist. She defies categorisation, working across genres and in ways that few other violinists work. She plays everything from classical to live grime and experimental contemporary music. As well as playing in three4, she performs regularly as a soloist and ensemble player. She Artistic Director of concert series the Hackney Proms.

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Stuart Wild: Piano
Stuart’s concert engagements include Purcell Room, St John’s Smith Square,
St George’s Bristol, BBC R3, Belfast Music, Three Choirs and Alba la Romaine festivals. Stuart has been a coach and répétiteur for the Opera Akademiet, Copenhagen, Opera North and BBC Proms. He is a vocal coach at the RCM. He has worked regularly on recordings with Opera Rara, Edinburgh Festival, QEH; RFH. Work as répétiteur includes Aida, La Cenerentola and Don Giovanni: Opera Holland Park, The Enchanted Pig; ROH2, Street Scene, Châtalet, Paris & Liceu, Barcelona. As MD Stuart directed Emma Dogliani and the London Mozart Players in a recording of Handel arias & cantatas and Anon by Errollyn Wallen for Welsh National Opera.

Dom Pipkin: Piano from London, Soul from New Orleans.

Pipkin delivers the most authentic and compelling take on this highly infectious and life affirming blend of blues, gospel, street and jazz that is uniquely New Orleans, with a stellar list of international festivals and radio and TV appearances.

Pipkin was Musical Director for Paloma Faith, and has played for Paul Weller, Laura Mvula, Ray Davies, Pee Wee Ellis and John Newman to name a few, but has always kept a close connection to his second home, New Orleans. A regular visitor to the Crescent City for 15 years, he has performed at the Jazz and Heritage Festival, at the world famous New Orleans “Piano Night”, and alongside its musical legends Allen Toussaint, Lilian Boutte, Jon Cleary, Ellis Marsalis and Marcia Ball.

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‘One of the worlds greatest exponents of New Orleans piano’ — Blues in Britain Magazine

Nominated for the Oscar for Best International Feature, The Teachers’ Lounge is about Carla Nowak who decided to get involved when one of her students was suspected of theft. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her. Inspired by true events. 

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'Incredibly tense...has an almost Hitchcockian edge' Mark Kermode
★★★★ The Times 
★★★★ Telegraph 
★★★★★ The Irish Times

Another night of scintillating flamenco at Kino-Teatr!

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​Adrian Sola - guitar
Rut Santamaria - singing
Demi Garcia - percussion
Araceli Garcia - dancing

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Experience an unforgettable evening of country music and cinema as we present a special screening of the iconic documentary Heartworn Highways  accompanied by captivating live performances from The Longshore Drifters.

Step back in time and immerse yourself in the raw and authentic sounds of the 1970s Texas Songwriting Scene. Heartworn Highways takes you on a soul-stirring journey, capturing intimate moments and performances by legendary artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and Steve Earle.

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Feel the passion and hear the stories behind the songs as these timeless tunes are brought to life on screen and stage with heartfelt renditions and infectious energy, paying homage to the spirit of those remarkable musicians who shaped generations of songwriters to come.

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'Great musicianship, soulful country originals and classics. Wonderful harmonies ..not to be missed!' - LoveHastings.com

The Revolutionary Drawing Room Quartet

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Adrian Butterfield - Violin
Dominika Fehér - Violin
Rachel Stott - Viola
Ruth Alford - Cello

Simon&thePope+ will play some of their trademark hypnotic drum, bass and spoken word grooves to help while away that anticipatory hour before The Bavard Bar. 

The Bavard Bar. "A delightful blend of TED, comedy and Radio 4. Sort of."

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Three passionate speakers. Three distinct passions. From meteorites to crop circles, circuit-bending to the James Bond theme on Kazoo, you never know what you're going to hear as passions are kept secret until the night.

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Interspersed with nonsense including the KP Lite, Oojah Kappivvy, Bohemia Road and 'Make it Stop’. With music from Piano Man Dan playing songs themed around the night's passions, bav-artistry from Maria O’Neill, and all hosted by MC Tim B'vard.

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The Bavard Bar. "Avoiding life’s questions to give you the answers."

King Leontes of Sicilia is crippled with an all-consuming jealousy when his friend, King Polixenes of Bohemia, stays with him and his wife Hermione. What follows is a tale where a marriage is destroyed, a child is abandoned and all hope is seemingly lost for two lovers.

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Celebrating its tenth anniversary, The Winter's Tale is an award-winning modern ballet classic, packed with emotional turmoil heightened by Joby Talbot’s compelling score and Bob Crowley’s atmospheric designs.

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A co-production between The Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.



Running time 200 minutes (including two intervals).

Black Tie event.

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Shunta Morimoto is the  Winner of the Sixteenth Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition, where he gave  a thrilling performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor Op.54 accompanied by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Shunta was born in 2004 in Kyoto, Japan. At the age of twelve, he won the prestigious First Prize of the Piano Teachers Association of Japan, as well as the Fukuda Scholarship Award, one of the most important prizes for a Japanese musician today.  He took part in the Van Cliburn Junior Competition in Dallas, Texas in May 2019 to much public acclaim  and has since gained a large global following of admirers, musicians and critics. 

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He currently studies with Maestro William Grant Naboré at the world famous International Piano Academy-Lake Como and participates in the Masterclasses of the Academy as the youngest student in the history of this venerable institution. He has since been awarded the Yamaha Scholarship for his studies at Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, where he is enrolled in the class of Piano Accompaniment with Maestro Giovanni Velluti. Says Shunta: “Winning Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition has made an enormous change in the direction and meaning of my vocation as a performing artist and human being.'

It is a privilege and an honour to welcome Shunta Morimoto at Kino-Teatr where he will be performing Bach, Schubert, Chopin and Schumann. 

Photo: Hastings International Piano Competition 

Rhapsodising in Blue

Mike Hatchard presents a complete retrospective of the Gershwins with Nils Solberg, Paul Morgan and Kate Daniels.

Mike Hatchard will incorporate a full recital of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ in this show which exclusively covers the music of George Gershwin. Biographical and informative as well as musically captivating, not just the well known Foggy Day, I Got Rhythm, Summertime, Nice Work if you Can Get It...well, the list is almost endless...but also many lesser-known songs including some that Gershwin wrote whilst still in his teens and one or two secret gems that probably haven’t been performed in years.

Based on the songs of Sting
with ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company.



The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive.
 
Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance-theatre show from five-time Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince, inspired by and set to the iconic hits of 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting, including Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, Walking On The Moon and more. With a mix of exhilarating dance styles, high-energy footwork and breath-taking athleticism, Message In A Bottle tells a unifying and uplifting story of humanity and hope.

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Message In A Bottle is the latest masterpiece from the ground-breaking creator behind West End hits Some Like it Hip Hop, Into the Hoods, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (choreography) and SYLVIA (Old Vic), and features the astonishing talents of dance storytelling powerhouse, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company.

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A Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK production co-produced with Birmingham Hippodrome and The Lowry, Salford.

Directed and choreographed by Kate Prince


[This production was filmed in 2022]


Running time 120 minutes (including one interval)

Born in Kazakhstan, Evgenia Startseva is a pianist with an international concert career both as a soloist and as a chamber music player. She studied at The Russian Gnessins’ Academy of Music and has been teaching piano at Eton College. She has also featured in numerous broadcasts for ITV and Sky Arts TV (UK), ORF2 (Vienna), RTE (Ireland) and  Saarlländischer Rundfunk(Germany

After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music, Yana Burova has recorded two CDs. In 2006 she released a CD featuring music for Violin and Piano by 20th century Bulgarian Composers. In 2011 she recorded the world premiere of “Clarinet Quintet” written by Richard Rodney Bennett, with her String Quartet 'Inspirity'.

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This their first recital at Kino-Teatr with a programme of Beethoven.

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andrea Chénier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him... 

Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar’s spectacular staging, under the baton of long-time collaborator Antonio Pappano – who conducts Giordano’s epic historical drama of revolution and forbidden love in his last production as Music Director of The Royal Opera.

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Co-production with China National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing and San Francisco Opera.

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Sung in Italian with English subtitles

Running time 195 minutes (including one interval)


The script writers Louis Mellis and David Scinto have become famous for the 2000 hit movie Gangster Number 1 starring  Malcolm McDowell ( as well as for Sexy Beast and  44 Inch Chest). It may have been  forgotten that the film Gangster Number 1 was originally a 1995 theatre play - it premiered at the Almeida Theatre in  London.  The lead actor and director of the current production, Francis Saunders, had tracked  David Scinto in Brighton and shared  his  fascination with the play and the main character. David Scinto gave his enthusiastic go ahead to revive Gangster #1 on stage. The play is  set in the criminal underworld of the 1960s and features five characters. 

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In his interview to Hastings Independent Francis Saunders said:  ‘My take is that Gangster is a repressed homosexual who has a love for his nemesis, Freddie, but he has not addressed these feelings, or possibly can’t understand them. We forget that the sixties, for all its cliched reputation as ‘swinging’, was actually quite tightly buttoned up. The result is anger, paranoia and violent behaviour. Although I must add that you see no violence in this play; the psychological violence is all in the text. The dialogue will take you to strange places. It’s a tough role to play.' 

Filippo Di Bari
Italian pianist and scholar Filippo Di Bari is a graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Royal Holloway University of London, and the State Conservatory of Ferrara (Italy), and is currently based in London. He regularly appears in piano recitals and chamber music concerts across Europe. He performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto K414 accompanied by the Ensemble Bisentium, and was among the founders of the Ensemble Nuovamusica, with whom he gave première performances of works by living Italian composers under the baton of M° Mauro Bonifacio. As part of Debussy’s 150th celebration, Filippo performed the First Book of Etudes for the Intersezioni Music Festival. Recent highlights include the performance of R. Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor with the Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rebecca Miller for the Royal Holloway International Concert Series.

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Giulia Semerano
Born in Florence (Italy), and currently based in London, Giulia is an active musician, performing on a regular basis throughout Europe, and a ​very passionate music educator and workshop leader, specialising in Early Years and piano teaching. She gave​ concerts in many important venues and festivals including ‘Festival Intersezioni’, ‘Sir James Galway Flute Festival’, St James Piccadilly, Blackheath Halls, ​ARtCEVIA International Art Festival, Soho Theatre for TEDxWhitehall, St Martin in the Fields​. As a soloist with orchestra, she performed Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, accompanied by the L. Cherubini Conservatoire’s orchestra, ​and Beethoven Concerto n. 2 with the Siegfried Camerata.

Very open to 20th Century and contemporary music, she was ​among the founders of ​the Ensemble NuovaMusica and of the CrossContemporary Project, a ​dynamic ensemble formed by classically trained musicians and dancers which ​aimed to give voice to the composers of our time​. Forthcoming projects include premieres and recordings of new compositions for piano duo. She has participated in master classes and worked with renowned musicians such as Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Martino Tirimo, Pascal Rogè, Gabriele Baldocci, Ilaria Maurri, among others. Giulia holds a Master’s Degree and a Postgraduate Artist Diploma from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she studied under the tutelage of Sergio De Simone, with the kind support of Trinity Laban Scholarship Fund.

Dominika Fehér will be performing solo baroque violin.

Baroque Music by JS Bach and Buxtehude with Rebecca Harris - Violin, Jan Zahourek - Viola da gamba & Oliver John Ruthven - Harpsichord

The harmony of the beehive, the geometry of the honey-comb, and the vibrational dance is mirrored in the counterpoint and melodic invention of two composers whose cross-pollination led to the flowering of a style which defines German music of the High Baroque.

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Programme:

Buxtehude trio sonata in a minor, op 1 no 3
Buxtehude suite for harpsichord no 4 BuxWV 231
Bach sonata in D for viola da gamba and harpsichord
Buxtehude trio sonata op 2 no 1 in Bb major
Bach Violin sonata in e minor BWV 1023 for violin and continuo
Bach trio sonata in G for violin, viola da gamba and harpsichord (BWV 1027 arr. Zarek)

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Violinist Rebecca Harris performs on period and modern instruments. Her career is a love letter to the rich history of the violin, from work with leading early music ensembles in both the United States and Europe to collaborations on new repertoire. 

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Like his two fellow musicians Jan Zahourek has performed and recorded with many of the UK's leading early music ensembles. Being part of a trio offers him the luxury and freedom of a deep dive into his chosen repertoire together with his friends and collegues.

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Oliver John Ruthven is an early keyboards specialist and conductor. Equally at home at the harpsichord, chamber organ or conducting, he is making a name for himself as a versatile and dynamic interpreter of early music. 

Hannah Shilvock is a bass clarinetist who has recently played at the Royal Opera House, Chichester Cathedral, St Georges Bristol & Chapel Royal Brighton. She performs alongside a wonderful pianist, Viola Lenzi.  

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​Viola Lenzi was born in Italy and studied at a Conservatoire in Livorno before coming to London and completing her postgraduate advanced diploma at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music.