KINO-TEATR

Kino-Teatr Ltd are pleased to announce The Kino-Teatr Open, our annual open submission exhibition.

This event will be held in the Baker Mamonova Gallery space, Kino-Teatr, Norman Road, St Leonards on Sea TN38 0EG.

The exhibition will run for two months

1 October – 1 December 2026.

The Theme for 2026 is “Within A Landscape”.

Whilst this loosely indicates the work must include a landscape and subiect matter within, the focus is not on traditional landscape painting. The work can be painting, collage or original prints (not digital). The dimensions must not exceed 60 x 60cm. Works must be offered for sale.

Prizes given for outstanding work.

Visitors' Choice prize to be announced.

Judges’ Favourite prize to be announced.

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Click on link to apply

A 2025 adaptation of the novel of the same name by David Gilbert, directed by Pablo Trapero, about the estranged sons of a reclusive novelist who are called to meet him after he becomes convinced he is about to die. The film has an ensemble cast starring Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, George MacKay, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West and Noah Jupe.

An Italian-French film based on the 2008 novel Stabat Mater by Tiziano Scarpa, starring Tecla Insolia and Michele Riondino. Directed by Damiano Michieletto, the film follows a talented violinist, Cecilia, confined in an orphanage who meets Vivaldi who becomes her teacher. Under his mentorship and through his music, she gains courage to break free from the life she was destined for and pursue her passion.

Shot in Rome and Venice, the film's soundtrack includes thirteen original pieces by Fabio Massimo Capogrosso, performed by the orchestra and choir of the Teatro La Fenice and also includes pieces by Vivaldi himself, performed by the Solisti Aquilani.

A 2026 American biographical comedy-drama directed by Matt Johnson (Nirvanna the Band the Show).    In 1975, a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain wants to be a writer but takes a summer job at a Cape Cod restaurant, learning under the tutelage of a Brazilian-born restaurateur. The plot is based on the  stories featured in his 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential.

The film stars the BAFTA nominated Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) as Bourdain, alongside Emilia Jones, Dagmara Domińczyk, Rich Sommer, Stavros Halkias, Leo Woodall and Antonio Banderas.

Kevin Armstrong has played guitar for some of the biggest names in music from the mid 1980s to the present day. From David Bowie to Morrissey, Thomas Dolby to Prefab Sprout, from Sinead O'Connor to Iggy Pop, his range of experience as a musician has brought him into contact with some of the most interesting and diverse talents on the planet. His fifty-year career as a music producer and guitar player to the stars shows no sign of slowing down.  

Kevin played for David Bowie at Live Aid in 1985. As well as albums and tours with Iggy Pop and the soundtrack for Absolute Beginners and Labyrinth, He was a ‘fifth member’ of Tin Machine and collaborated with Bowie on the Outside album. He co-wrote songs with Morrissey in the early post-Smiths phase. Kevin has continued to tour and record with a huge variety of famous, as well as up-and-coming artists and produces critically acclaimed solo work.

His book and highly entertaining one man show Absolute Beginner, give an insight into how to survive in the fickle music world, and tell stories and sing songs from half a century as a professional musician, writer, producer and bandleader. He continues to tour and collaborate with a wide range of world-renowned musicians.
 

Featuring works by Johan Sebastian Bach, Gioachino Rossini, Reinhold Glière and Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

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Matthew Quenby is a versatile performer, he has performed in prestigious halls and festivals including: Vienna Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Salzburg Festival, Lucerene Festival, Edinburgh Festival and regularly at the BBC Proms. As a soloist Matthew has performed at the Berliner Philharmonie and with many London Chamber Orchestras. Chamber Music has always been a major part of Matthew’s musical output and recorded for EMI with the Lunel Quartet. Whilst living in France Matthew was Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at the Masters de Pontlevoy Academie Internationale de Musique. Currently Matthew performs with Ensemble Reza across the south east concert series and educational programs as well as being a member of the St Martins in the Field Chamber Ensemble.

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Pavlos Carvalho has performed as a solo and chamber musician in venues including The Purcell Room, The Royal Albert Hall, The Cadogan Hall and Teatro dal Verme, Milan. Pavlos has recorded for the BBC and recently released the Bach Suites for Willowhayne Records. He annually performs these suites, together with the Beethoven Sonatas at both the Brighton and Chichester Festivals. He has performed concertos with many orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic. As a founding member and Artistic Director of Ensemble Reza, Pavlos has been involved in many outreach and community projects including Music for Life, Pied Piper and Live Music Now. He is a Director of Pro Corda Cello Courses and has given master classes and workshops for the London Cello Society and Cambridge University.

Middle class married life in San Francisco is satirised in the personae of two couples having an excruciating dinner party. A failed musician and his wife, played by Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde (who also directs), extend the invitation of the title to their stylish neighbours, a therapist and ex-firefighter played by Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton. Owen Gleiberman of Variety deemed the film to be 'marvelously entertaining' and compared it to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 

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'Seth Rogen adds zest and bite to fruity dinner party comedy' **** The Guardian

A critically acclaimed satirical dark comedy/slasher about a director who, filming a sequel, becomes obsessed with casting the original film's 'final girl,' leading both women into psychological and sexual chaos. Directed by Jane Schoenbrun and starring Gillian Anderson, Hannah  Einbinder, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Jack Hanlen. 

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Robbie Collin of The Telegraph rated the film 5 out of 5 stars, lauding it as a 'an extravagantly funny, recklessly bizarre and unsettling satire of/paean to 'problematic cinema''
 
Richard Brody of The New Yorker deemed the film to be 'the richest in terms of the multiple dimensions of cinematic experience that it dramatizes, critiques, and illuminates'.

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‘Witty, gory slasher-romance’ LA Times

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'Funny, charming, even breezy at times’ Time

With a career now spanning six decades, Robyn Hitchcock remains a truly one of a kind artist – surrealist rock ‘n’ roller, iconic troubadour, guitarist, poet, painter, and performer. An unparalleled, deeply individualistic songwriter and stylist, Hitchcock has traversed many genres with humour, intelligence and originality over 30 albums and seemingly infinite live performances.

From The Soft Boys’ proto-psych-punk and The Egyptians’ Dadaist pop to solo masterpieces like 1984’s milestone I Often Dream of Trains and 1990’s Eye, Hitchcock has crafted a strikingly original oeuvre rife with sagacious observation, astringent wit, recurring marine life, mechanized rail services, cheese, Clint Eastwood, and innumerable finely drawn characters, real and imagined.

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Support comes from multi-instrumentalist Terry Edwards.

Two fantastic Italian pianists bring to Kino-Teatr exciting new symphony arrangements such as music from Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov and the Rhapsodie Espagnole by M. Ravel!

The Misanthrope by Martin Crimp (after Molière), directed by Indhu Rubasingham.

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.

Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her. 
 
Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.
 

Riyad is an international pianist and multiple prize-winner, described as one of the most exciting artists of his generation. He has received compliments from artists such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mitsuko Uchida, and Daniel Barenboim, who wrote that 'Riyad reached an impressive level of musicianship and has a very high level of music sensitivity'.

Riyad has recently made his debuts at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues, including Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Cadogan Hall, The Barbican and St. John’s Smith Square in London, as well as Bridgwater Hall and Stoller Hall in Manchester. He has performed in the USA at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Dame Myra Hess/Chicago Cultural Center and Princeton University. In Europe, Riyad has appeared at the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Switzerland and performed at numerous venues across France, Spain, Germany, Holland, Lebanon and Syria. 

Riyad Nicolas has performed as a soloist with many renowned orchestras, such as the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Young Musician Symphony Orchestra, the Emirates Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Syrian National Symphony Orchestra.

Riyad has been selected as an Artist by both The Countess of Munster Trust and The Tillett Trust in London. He won many international piano competitions, including 1st Prize at the Françaix International Piano Competition in Paris, 1st Prize at the Liszt Ferenc International Piano Competition, and the Norah Sande Award in the UK. He won a Gold Medal at the Berliner International Music Competition and has been awarded prizes at the Seiler International Piano Competition in Greece, the London International Piano Competition and the Ciutat de Carlet International Piano Competition in Spain. He was a finalist at the Busoni International Piano Competition in Italy.

This is Riyad's premier performance at Kino-Teatr!

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Franz Schubert & Frederic Chopin 

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Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 1 

Mazurka, Op. 63 No. 2 

Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 3 

Mazurka, Op. 7 No. 4 

Moments Musicaux, D. 780 No. 6 

Mazurka, Op. 6 No. 2 

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Erik Satie & Claude Debussy 

Gnossienne No. 1 

Clair de Lune 

Je Te Veux 

The Snow Is Dancing 

Gnossienne No. 4 

Minstrels 

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This recital pairs Schubert with Chopin, and Satie with Debussy — composers who found remarkable expression in intimate musical forms.

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Schubert’s Moments Musicaux and Chopin’s Mazurkas share a quixotic nature and the spirit of experiment. Both explore surprising turns of harmony and rhythm: Schubert through shifting moods and unexpected modulations, and Chopin through subtle rhythmic inflections that transform the Polish dance into something deeply personal and poetic.

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In the second half, Satie and Debussy reflect a friendship marked by both admiration and tension. Satie’s Gnossiennes and Je te veux reveal his spare, unconventional style, while Debussy’s Clair de lune, The Snow Is Dancing, and Minstrels expand these ideas with greater colour and nuance — shaped, too, by the lingering influence of Chopin. 

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Together, these works trace a path from Romantic intimacy to modern refinement, showing how small forms can hold entire worlds of imagination.

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Based on the life of Michael Peterson, also known as Charles Bronson and Charles Salvador, this production is Francis Saunders’ own theatrical interpretation and is not intended to be a factual or documentary account.

What creates a man? The child he was, the violence he witnessed, the system that imprisoned him, or the masks he wore to survive?

Bronson is a powerful one-man theatre play that explores the life, mythology and humanity of one of Britain’s most talked-about prisoners. Through six compelling characters, Francis Saunders brings to the stage his own interpretation of the events, emotions and personalities that shaped the man behind the legend, by examining identity, trauma, isolation, art, survival and redemption through dramatic storytelling.

Written and performed by Francis Saunders, whose acclaimed Monologues of Men (directed by Dean Stalham) played to sold-out audiences in London, Bronson continues his exploration of masculinity, mental health and the stories that exist behind public perception.

The Russian Classics: Pieces by Tchaikovsky, Glinka-Balakyrev, Lyadov, Skryabin, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.

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​Born in Kazakhstan, Evgenia has enjoyed an international concert career both as a soloist, chamber music player and recording artist. She collaborated with Maxim Vengerov and has also featured in numerous broadcasts for ITV and Sky Arts TV (UK),Südwestrundfunk, ORF2 (Vienna), RTE (Ireland) & Saarlländischer Rundfunk(Germany). ​​

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Two of opera’s most extraordinary artists return to The Met: Live in HD for Verdi’s thrilling take on the immortal Shakespearean tale of the scheming couple determined to seize power at any cost. Baritone Quinn Kelsey is the Scottish king haunted by the ghosts of his murderous ascent to the throne, opposite soprano Lise Davidsen as the power-mad Lady Macbeth, whose ruinous ambition damns them both. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for a penetrating production by Louisa Proske. Rounding out the all-star cast are tenor Freddie De Tommaso as Macduff and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Banquo.

Approximate runtime: 210 mins, one Interval.
Sung in Italian with English subtitles.

Curated by violinist Jane Gordon, this year’s ‘Transfiguration’
programme features outstanding international artists, rising talent and extraordinary music shaped by change, reflection, conflict and pacifism.

Elmore String Quartet: Unfurling

‘The Elmore Quartet played with the ferocity of musicians determined to make an impact.’ The Guardian

Music by Haydn , Bridge, Ravel, ’Unfurling’ Leo Geyer.

Haydn’s Op. 74/1 opens a programme that celebrates the extraordinary range and imagination of the string quartet. Leo Geyer’s new work, Unfurling, brings a fresh contemporary voice to the programme, while Bridge’s evocative setting of ‘Londonderry
Air’ offers a brief glimpse into his deeply personal response to the world around him. At its heart is Ravel’s extraordinary String Quartet, a work of colour, imagination and astonishing
refinement, and one of the great masterpieces of the repertoire.

Winners of the prestigious Royal Over-Seas League International Music Competition (2026), the Elmore Quartet are quickly gaining recognition as one of the leading British Quartets of their generation. They hold the position of Hans Keller Chamber Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, following a Fellowship position at the Royal Northern College of Music teaching chamber music to Undergraduate and Postgraduate students.

Over the past three years, the Elmore Quartet have recorded multiple times for BBC Radio 3 and performed at esteemed venues throughout the UK and Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place London, Brighton Dome and Bridgewater Hall. In 2024, they were
awarded Third Prize at the 13th edition of the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Upcoming plans include an album release with Rubicon Classics in Autumn 2026 and further album projects with Heritage Records over the next few years.

Full Programme
Haydn op.74/1
‘Unfurling’ Leo Geyer
Bridge ‘Londonderry Air’
Ravel String Quartet
+ Artists in Conversation: Meet the musicians and composer Leo Geyer in a pre-concert talk.

Alba Nova is the voice of a new century — restless, inventive, and alive. Music that entrances and unsettles, inviting you to hear the guitar as if for the very first time.  Translating as “New Dawn” in Catalan, this bold project presents sixteen world-premiere recordings and highlights collaborations with four of Spain’s leading contemporary guitar composers: Marco Smaili, Maria Camahort, Javier Salvador and Pablo Grau.

Alba Nova weaves fresh innovation with some of the guitar’s most cherished repertoire, creating a dialogue between tradition and modernity. Paired with Jonathan’s engaging style, his love for
audience interaction, and his ability to share his passion, listeners are sure to be captivated throughout the performance. 

Jonathan Ross Parkin, born in Teesside in the northeast of England, has established himself as a sensitive and highly versatile musician of the highest caliber. Jonathan has performed
in prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Palau les Arts (Valencia), The Barbican, and L’Auditori (Barcelona).

Jonathan’s expressive, colourful, and virtuosic playing has brought him success in more than fifteen major international competitions, including the Certamen Llobet (2nd Prize, Audience Award 2018,
and Llobet Prize 2020), the London International Guitar Competition (2nd Prize 2020), the Concurso Ciudad de Elche (Audience Award 2023), and the Ivor Mariants Prize (3rd Prize
2017), among others.

Currently based in Valencia, in 2025 he recorded his debut album, Alba Nova, with JSM Records, set for release in 2026 and is a professor at the Escuela Superior de Música Alto Rendimiento.
 

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Curated by violinist Jane Gordon, this year’s ‘Transfiguration’
programme features outstanding international artists, rising talent and extraordinary music shaped by change, reflection, conflict and pacifism.

Programme: 
Voices Across Time - Amy Beach; World Premiere of Akhmatova Requiem by J. Rautio

Violinist Jane Gordon brings her critically acclaimed Rautio Piano Trio with special guests Hannah Deans-Williams, soprano and Steve Williams, clarinet, for the festival finale, bringing together the voices of two remarkable women and celebrating creative voice,
resilience and the power of artistic expression.

At the heart of the programme are two distinctive creative voices that emerged in very different circumstances. Amy Beach forged a path as a composer in a musical world largely closed to women, while Anna Akhmatova gave voice to individual and collective
suffering under repression. Separated by time and circumstance, their work shares a profound sense of resilience and a belief in the enduring power of artistic expression. This concert sees the world premiere of Jan Rautio’s Requiem, a setting of Akhmatova’s
poetry for soprano and ensemble.

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) was one of Russia’s most important poets of the twentieth century. Her poetry combines emotional intensity with an extraordinary economy of language, exploring love, loss, memory and the passage of time. As Soviet repression
intensified, her work became a powerful witness to personal and collective suffering, shaped by war, persecution and the imprisonment of her son. Despite censorship and suppression, Akhmatova continued to write, and her poems were memorised and passed from person to person.

Amy Beach (1867–1944) was the first successful American woman to make a career as a composer and concert pianist. Largely self-taught as a composer, she overcame the restrictions placed on women in musical life at the time to establish an international
reputation. Her music combines the harmonic language of late Romanticism with influences from American folk music and her own experiences as a pianist.
 
Hannah Deans-Williams is a London-based soprano working across Europe as a soloist and ensemble singer, specialising in contemporary music. From 2026 she is an Equilibrium Young Artist and was also selected for Glyndebourne Opera Lab. Recent highlights include her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in Nono’s Io Frammento del Prometeo, performances with London Sinfonietta and EXAUDI, and Brett Dean’s Wolf Lieder with Riot Ensemble, conducted by the composer.

Clarinettist Steve Williams has performed with many of the UK’s leading symphony, chamber and opera orchestras and ensembles including the Britten Sinfonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, English Touring Opera, Manchester Camerata, Haffner Wind Ensemble, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Sinfonia among others.

The Rautio Piano Trio is a London-based ensemble that has performed extensively across the UK and Europe for over a decade. The Trio is currently recording the complete Beethoven piano trios on fortepiano for Resonus Classics, with the first volumes receiving
five stars in BBC Music Magazine. Their repertoire spans 18th- and 19th-century works on period and modern instruments, alongside contemporary music and an increasing focus on works by women composers.

Full Programme:
Amy Beach Piano Trio in A minor Op. 150
‘Requiem’ by J. Rautio for soprano, piano trio & bass clarinet. *World premiere*
Artists in Conversation: Composer Jan Rautio discusses setting Akhmatova’s poetry for his new work, Requiem.

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In the seedy underbelly of 18th-century Paris, money is king. Nothing is sacred – even love itself can be bought for the right price. A native of this hedonistic underworld, Manon is caught between twin desires when she falls in love with the student Des Grieux. Steadfast and devoted, he offers the possibility of an honourable life. Yet, the riches promised by the world of Parisian society remain tempting...

Manon’s inner turmoil and struggle for survival lie at the devastating heart of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s novel. In this signature work of The Royal Ballet, MacMillan’s nuanced understanding of human psychology makes for an unflinching look into the moral degradation of Manon’s Paris, while all its decadence and decay are brought to life through Jules Massenet’s score and Nicholas Georgiadis’s designs. 

190 mins
2 intervals

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Brook Tate is a British painter, writer and musical theatre maker based in Bristol. His production, Birthmarked, premiered on the main stage of the Bristol Old Vic in 2021 and has since had a month's run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023 - receiving high praise and recognition as one of the ‘Best Shows At Fringe’ by The Stage.

His breakthrough teaching system of Multicolour Maths is a new method designed to help children and adults learn the foundations of mathematics using only colours and shapes, removing numerals and symbols that can at times trigger anxiety for many students. 

The Multicolour Maths method came to Brook Tate in a dream after being inspired by mathematician Alan Turing. He has since trialled it in schools and presented it on the BBC, to PhD students, Oxbridge professors and engineers and is now convinced it will "open doors in education" for millions of people.

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Josh O’Connor (The Crown; Challengers) leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic.

1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with a future in music, until a chance at fame and fortune lures him into the brutal world of professional boxing. He must confront what he’s willing to sacrifice, who he’s willing to become and how to find his place in a world that demands he choose a side.

Filmed live from the Almeida Theatre and featuring a live string quartet, Olivier Award-winner Sam Yates (Vanya) directs this propulsive drama exploring ambition, identity, and the high price of success. 

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180 Mins
Cert. 15

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Under the oppressive heat of the Spanish sun, the fiercely independent Carmen attracts the attention of Don José. She warns him not to fall in love with her, but his obsession knows no bounds. Damiano Michieletto’s searing production returns, casting scorching light on the lust, violence and destructive desire of Bizet’s ever-popular opera. 

An all-star cast brings this white-hot drama to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas as the jealous and despairing Don José. Following his 2023 Royal Opera debut, Sesto Quatrini returns to conduct Bizet’s electrifying and sensual score.

Approximate runtime 215 mins, one Interval
Sung in French with English subtitles

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Turkish born Birsen Ulucan went to Dobri Hristov Music School in Varna and studied at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, University of London. An established concert pianist, Birsen performed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra and a variety of leading  Philharmonic Orchestras and Opera Houses in Turkey and worldwide. Birsen is based in Istanbul. 

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Ozcan Ulucan is an Istanbul based violinist. He studied at Mimar Sinan University Music Department in the class of Salim Akcil. During 1993-95 he received a scholarship from the Turkish Educational Foundation (TEV) and did his postgraduate studies at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in the violin class of Prof. Yfrah Neaman.
 

An exciting new quintet - Jacob Garside, Lucine Musaelian, Nathan Giorgetti, Samuel Ng and  Gavin Kibble launch ‘Republic of Viols’, bringing together the UK’s finest young viola da gamba players. Each a soloist in their own right, we have a shared passion for bringing a dynamic and fresh energy to the repertoire, informing our work with a deep understanding of historical performance practice. This group of friends champions the consort music of England’s musical golden-age with a vivid sense of discovery, inviting new listeners into its enduring beauty.

“The violls bore all an equall share in the consort, and carrying the same aire, there was no reason to choose one part before another. But of the late that republica among the consortiers is dissolved, and there is always some violin spark, that thinks himself above all the rest, and above the musick itself also, if it be not screwed up to the top of its capability [...] How far this unsociable and malcreate behaviour is an hindrance to the best use of consort musick, is easily conceived."
Roger North, Writings on Music (c.1728)
 

Clay Pipe Music is thrilled to welcome back Oliver Cherer with a new Gilroy Mere album ‘Furlongs’.

Since his 2023 album Gilden Gate, Ollie has kept himself busy. He has recorded an album and toured internationally with the Miki Berenyi Trio, and played bass in Lol Tolhurst’s band. Alongside this, he has made three albums with Hastings-based group Aircooled, and performed live with them in support of The Jesus and Mary Chain and Suede. He has also collaborated with long-time writing partner Riz Maslen on the soundtrack for Magick Hastings, a film by Michael Smith. In early 2025, Ollie was diagnosed with cancer and had to cut short a tour to return home, travelling daily to Brighton Hospital for radiotherapy treatment. 

“Every day for six weeks I made the forty mile train journey from my home in St-Leonard's-on-Sea along the foot of the Downs, passing the Long Man twice a day. With my laptop and some headphones, I filled the journey time making music. Cutting through the landscape that Ravilious had painted 90 years earlier, the muted colours and undulations became textures, tempos and modulations. After more than a month immersed in his scenery, my laptop sketches crystalized into something that began to sound like a record, and by the end of the six weeks, I had more than enough material for this album.

Many of the pieces on this record were inspired by specific paintings that were already familiar to me, while others are reactions to the landscape gently swooshing past the windows of the train and which I knew from walking its footpaths with an ordnance survey map in hand. Furlongs is the name of the cottage where Eric and his wife Tirzah often stayed, and where he created many of his paintings. Beachy Head and Chalk Paths are tributes to well-known Ravilious works, whereas Hope Gap is an exploration of a place with an isolated coastal bleakness that I felt reflected the sadness of his early death in 1942, on an RAF search and rescue mission over the Icelandic sea.

While finishing the recordings I called on friends to help out on a few pieces which lead to contributions from Helen Edwards on clarinet, Hutch Demoulpied on trumpet and flute and stalwart collaborator Riz Maslen on flute and vocal. It was all written on the train and recorded in my studio, The Laundry, in St Leonard's on Sea.”

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Almost a year after diagnosis, Ollie was given the all clear, and is now back at work touring, recording and playing music. 

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Performing live at the Kino-Teatr with Ollie are Hutch Demouilpied, Riz Maslen, Maria Marzaioli, Darren Morris and Helen Edwards.

Fenella Humphreys, winner of BBC Music Magazine Awards in 2025, 2023 and 2018, has attracted critical admiration and audience acclaim with the grace and intensity of her remarkable performances. 

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Artist in Residence at London’s Wigmore Hall for the 2025/6 season, Fenella has been enjoying premieres of new works by Sally Beamish, Tom Coult, Stephen McNeff and Anna Berg as well as performances with orchestras including CBSO and London Mozart Players. Fenella performs widely as a soloist.

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Her recent album of Sibelius’ solo works with BBC National Orchestra of Wales has been featured in BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library and Gramophone Magazine’s Guide to the Concerto. BBC Music Magazine wrote of the recording: “Fenella Humphreys’s playing is a genuine revelation in the way it brings out the music’s dark and introspective qualities, with no shortage of technical panache.”

Released in 2024, her Chandos recording of Adrian Sutton’s Violin Concerto with BBC Philharmonic won BBC Music Magazine’s 2025 Premiere Award, with the Strad Magazine writing “Humphreys brings her endlessly unfurling violin lines taut, silvery weightlessness.” The concerto was written for her in 2023, and premiered at the Southbank Centre with the RPO.

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Fenella plays on a beautiful G.B. Guadagnini violin kindly on loan from Jonathan Sparey. She will be performing a versatile programme for solo violin including pieces by Paganini.

At a cosy Christmas party, young Clara meets the mysterious magician Drosselmeyer, who gives her a nutcracker doll. When the guests have departed and the house is asleep, Clara sneaks downstairs in search of the doll. Instead, she finds Drosselmeyer, who whisks her away on a journey into a whole world of enchantment: fantastical landscapes of flurried snow and glittering confection where toys come alive and the magic never stops. 

Peter Wright’s production of this festive family favourite sparkles to the wondrous swell of Tchaikovsky’s orchestral score, alongside the glow and grandeur of Julia Trevelyan Oman’s period designs.

Approximate runtime: 140mins, one interval

Songs from the folk traditions of Bulgaria, Georgia and beyond.

Shelagh Davis, Jilly Hall, Lotte Risbridger and Nicky McDonald are the Acappella Bellas. Based in Hastings and St Leonards, they met at a community choir discovering a shared love of the haunting harmonies of Eastern European music and started singing together in 2013.

The 2026 documentary Andy Goldsworthy in Conversation with Andrew Graham-Dixon captures an exclusive dialogue between the land artist and the acclaimed art historian.

Filmed on-site at the National Galleries of Scotland during Goldsworthy's 2025 retrospective, Andy Goldsworthy: 50 Years, the film is an insight at Goldsworthy's largest indoor exhibition to date, where the artist  discusses the environmental philosophies, sculpting natural materials, and the inspiration  behind his 50-year career.

Mike Hatchard and Django Chutney combine forces for another spectacular night of Gypsy Jazz!

Mike Hatchard is one of the best jazz pianists in the south of the UK. Always a delight to listen to, he is able to switch to playing in any style instantly, adapt to and work with any melody, adapt to any mood, play with sensitivity and feeling, or sparkling flowing energy.
No wonder he is constantly working with top flight jazz professionals and impressing audiences wherever he plays, creating memorable, magic music nights.

Django Chutney is a virtuosic gypsy-jazz band with equal parts due respect for the genre, unruly chaotic energy, and a huge dose of tongue-in-cheek humour.

Combining tightly woven three part vocal harmonies reminiscent of 30’s and 40’s American vocal groups the Mill’s Brothers and the Ink Spots; ridiculous guitar show-offery that draws as much from Django Reinhardt as it does from Guthrie Govan; Double bass solo’s that drag Pop’s Fosters slap technique kicking and screaming into the 21st century; and a repertoire that’s seemingly firmly rooted in the 30’s Hot Club era, but will suddenly transport you through decades and styles, from New Orleans jazz, to Chicago blues and Parisian Musette, effortlessly, respectfully, but most importantly: with true joie de vivre!

Hungarian violinist Dominika Fehér studied at the Franz Liszt Music Academy Budapest specialising in historically informed performance practice of 17th – 19th century music.

Dominika has appeared at the BBC Proms and also performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Royal Festival Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New York and La Scala in Milan.

 Beatrice Nicholas is a British concert pianist and composer. She has performed solo programmes in France, Germany and Italy and is further scheduled to perform in the USA in 2027. She has had regular airplay on BBC Radio 3.

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