ZOE MARTLEW PRESENTS REVUE Z
- When?
- Thursday 24 November 2011, 19.30
- Where?
- Ivy Arts Centre
- Open to:
- Staff, Students, Public
- Admission price:
- £12, £10 senior citizens, University staff, £7 students, concessions
- Tickets:
- Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk
Unhinged, uncensored, underwired, a blonde, a cello, a mattress and a lot of digital playback…..
Entertaining, utterly off-the-wall, sensitive and at times extremely beautiful, this one-woman cabaret revue sweeps its audience from jazz funk to delicate string harmonics, Arabic lullaby to blues, minimalist intensity to shamanic thrash, soulful lyricism to serene baroque.
Musical pieces vie with theatrical interludes, linked together by the shimmering virtuosity of Martlew’s cello playing laced with the extended techniques of the avant-garde. Live performance blends with multi-layered vocal, instrumental and computer sample recordings.
Zoë Martlew studied at the Royal College and Academy of Music, Clare College, Cambridge and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw.As soloist she has performed at many festivals around the world, giving premieres of many pieces written for her. She has also worked with many contemporary music groups, rock, pop, improvisation and electronica artists including Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Composers Ensemble, Lontano, Birmingham Contemporary Music Ensemble, Radiohead, Plaid, Impropera, Dagmar Krause, Super Furry Animals, Butch Morris, and Marc Ribot/Ceramic Dog.
Zoë was a judge on BBC2 TV’s Maestro and Young Musician of the Year; has been a regular commentator/presenter for the BBCTV Proms and Radio 3’s Hear and Now; was featured on BBC4’s documentary Classic Britannia, BBC 2 Newsnight Review and was on the UK panel for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.
For more information on Zoë Martlew, please visit her website.