Event details

Ad-lib is a monthly improvised and experimental music series. The line up for the September session features The London Improvisers Orchestra

Saturday 7 September

Doors open at 7.30pm

Music starts at 8pm

£10 (£5 Students and Unwaged)

Bring your own refreshments

The London Improvisers Orchestra

The London Improvisers Orchestra, established in 1998, is dedicated to the art of conducted improvisation, or ‘Conduction’, and free improvisation.

Since it started, the group has had hundreds of members pass through its ranks, including Evan Parker, Pat Thomas, Byron Wallen, John Edwards, Lol Coxhil, Caroline Kraabel, and Mark Sanders. To this day, the group is led by founding member Steve Beresford, an icon of the UK’s improvisation movement.

The orchestra currently performs monthly, featuring a rotating cast of the finest improvisers from the UK and beyond, never failing to deliver a unique experience.

‘I am continually astonished by the degree of musical empathy that can exist between different instrumentalists.

This musical telepathy is evident in both the freely improvised and the conducted pieces played by the orchestra.

In a very positive way the music made by the orchestra defies categorisation. You could say that it was simply pure sound and rhythm, the essence of music torn up and reassembled in ANY way that the conductors/players have the vision and desire to re invent it.  

Really there is no way to describe or explain what this music is like, the only way to “get it” is to HEAR IT!’

Robert Flather, April 2013.

7 September Players

• Martin Hackett – Melodica
• Teresa Hackel – Recorders
• Olga Ksendzovska – Piano, Melodica
• John Eyles – Alto Saxophone, Sopranino Saxophone
• Keisuke Matsui – Cello
• Douglas Benford – Glockenspiel (St Marys), Toy Piano (Ealing)
• John Bisset – Lap Steel Guitar
• Aurelie Freoua – Voice & Drawing
• Oliver Jarvis – Tenor Saxophone
• Susanna Ferrar  – Violin
• Pascal Marzan  – Microtonal Guitar
• Steve Beresford – Melodica,
• Luiz Moretti – Violin
• Julian Woods – Microtonal Guitar
• Sam Eastmond – Trumpet
• Susanna Ferrar  – Violin

7 September Conductors

• Julian Woods
• Martin Hackett
• Olga Ksendzovska
• Ashley Wales
• John Bisset
• Aurelie Freoua
• Steve Beresford

We look forward to seeing you at this memorable Ad-Lib event.