The Comedy Store Players
Happy New Year!
Improvised-comedy with Rachel Parris, Josie Lawrence, Neil Mullarkey, Ruth Bratt and Lee Simpson.
YP: Keys
Diary
Happy New Year!
Improvised-comedy with Rachel Parris, Josie Lawrence, Neil Mullarkey, Ruth Bratt and Lee Simpson.
YP: Keys
An improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers. In each show the cast conjures up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.
Previous ‘lost’ masterpieces have included Double 0 Darcy, Game of Scones and The Wickham Man.
Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, this is a regency treat guaranteed to delight Austen novices and die-hard fans alike.
More details here
Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys
An improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers. In each show the cast conjures up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.
Previous ‘lost’ masterpieces have included Double 0 Darcy, Game of Scones and The Wickham Man.
Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, this is a regency treat guaranteed to delight Austen novices and die-hard fans alike.
More details here
Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys
You’ll probably know her younger brother, Felix Mendelssohn, from 19th century smash hits like The Wedding March. He was the Cliff Richard of his day and was even asked to play at a personal concert for Queen Victoria. But only if he played her favourite piece of music ever, a song called Italien.
However, we now know that Felix was forced to admit to the Queen that, in actuality, the piece had been composed by his sister, Fanny, and simply published under his name.
FANNY imagines that Fanny intercepts a letter addressed to ‘F. Mendelssohn’ inviting Felix to play for Queen Victoria. As the true composer of Italien, she decides to hide the letter, don her brother’s clothes, and take his place at the palace…cueing a race across Europe and a furious Felix. This fun and irreverent new comedy celebrates classical music and - at last - the work of a composer overlooked because of her sex.
YP: musical supervisor
All ages and abilities are welcome to join in and sing in an opera chorus.
More details here.
YP: conductor
An improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers. In each show the cast conjures up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.
Previous ‘lost’ masterpieces have included Double 0 Darcy, Game of Scones and The Wickham Man.
Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, this is a regency treat guaranteed to delight Austen novices and die-hard fans alike.
More details here
Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys
Details to follow.
Composer Philip Venables
Stage Director Ted Huffman
Musical Director Yshani Perinpanayagam
Dramaturge Scottee
“Step into Ramrod – a fantasy world and empire in decline; where fables and myths become a manifesto for survival. The piece reimagines the history of the world in an explosive baroque fantasia – a celebration of sex, pleasure and queer communities.
“The cult book The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977) by US-born author Larry Mitchell is considered an origin myth of the queer community that addresses and celebrates diversity and sexuality. In their new opera, composer Philip Venables and the author and director Ted Huffman look at the history of music from a different perspective, just like the novel it is based on offers an alternative narration of the history of mankind and opens our eyes to another view of the world.”\
More details here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/performance-dance/faggots-and-their-friends-between-revolutions
Sound your car horn, rise above the world in a hot air balloon, build a train and much more in Aurora’s new immersive storytelling performance.
Featuring new chamber arrangements of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s music and a new original story by Aurora’s Writer-in-Residence Kate Wakeling, the whole family can enter a magical world of music, discovery and play in Aurora’s latest Far, Far Away show.
For children aged 0-5.
YP: piano
Sound your car horn, rise above the world in a hot air balloon, build a train and much more in Aurora’s new immersive storytelling performance.
Featuring new chamber arrangements of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s music and a new original story by Aurora’s Writer-in-Residence Kate Wakeling, the whole family can enter a magical world of music, discovery and play in Aurora’s latest Far, Far Away show.
For children aged 0-5.
YP: piano
Sound your car horn, rise above the world in a hot air balloon, build a train and much more in Aurora’s new immersive storytelling performance.
Featuring new chamber arrangements of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s music and a new original story by Aurora’s Writer-in-Residence Kate Wakeling, the whole family can enter a magical world of music, discovery and play in Aurora’s latest Far, Far Away show.
For children aged 0-5.
YP: piano
All ages and abilities are welcome to join in and sing in an opera chorus.
More details here.
YP: conductor
An improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers. In each show the cast conjures up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.
Previous ‘lost’ masterpieces have included Double 0 Darcy, Game of Scones and The Wickham Man.
Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, this is a regency treat guaranteed to delight Austen novices and die-hard fans alike.
More details here
Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys
Details to follow
Yshani Perinpanayagam, music director / piano
This course will take a close look at compositional process and how aspects such as collaborative composition, quick sketching and non-musical stimuli can be incorporated. Yshani will be bringing a deliberately unfinished piece to the Summer School to be completed and performed by the end of the week; in the open composition sessions, participants will create writing prompts drawn from the School’s new building and its history both towards finishing the new work and for participants to create their own responses to be workshopped in the room. Yshani will candidly discuss the unfolding progress on her work – warts and all – to facilitate open conversations around how to navigate being a creator.
More details here.
YP - course leader
Details to follow.
Composer Philip Venables
Stage Director Ted Huffman
Musical Director Yshani Perinpanayagam
Dramaturge Scottee
“Step into Ramrod – a fantasy world and empire in decline; where fables and myths become a manifesto for survival. The piece reimagines the history of the world in an explosive baroque fantasia – a celebration of sex, pleasure and queer communities.
“The cult book The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977) by US-born author Larry Mitchell is considered an origin myth of the queer community that addresses and celebrates diversity and sexuality. In their new opera, composer Philip Venables and the author and director Ted Huffman look at the history of music from a different perspective, just like the novel it is based on offers an alternative narration of the history of mankind and opens our eyes to another view of the world.”\
More details here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/performance-dance/faggots-and-their-friends-between-revolutions
“A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.
“Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.”
More details here.
YP: Arranger (Nina Simone tracks) & Musical Supervisor
A jealous husband, a mother of three who can no longer pay her rent, an old Jewish communist, young lovers... Street Scene portrays the inhabitants and dramas of a dilapidated New York apartment building on a hot day. In setting playwright Elmer Rice’s play to music, Kurt Weill reveals the tragedy inherent in the daily life of middle-class New Yorkers between the wars. After moving to the United States in 1935 to escape Nazism, the composer created an “American opera” in 1947 that blends European influences and the Broadway musical into a fluid score. This new production of Street Scene, performed by singers from the Paris Opera Academy, is presented at the MC93 in Bobigny, a new chapter in a long-standing partnership between the two institutions.
Duration : 2h30 with 1 interval
Language : English
Surtitle : French / English
YP: conductor
“A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.
“Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.”
More details here.
YP: Arranger (Nina Simone tracks) & Musical Supervisor
“A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.
“Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.”
More details here.
YP: Arranger (Nina Simone tracks) & Musical Supervisor
Patrick Bailey conductor and presenter
Sound Out Young Ensemble instrumentalists from Enfield, Haringey and Waltham Forest Music Services
London Sinfonietta
In our annual concert for schools, presenter Patrick Bailey, London Sinfonietta musicians and our Sound Out Young Ensemble explore how to compose and create new music. Listen to pieces by living composers, join in with the performance and hear new work by young people who have taken part in our Sound Out and Composition Challenge programmes.
YP: piano
“A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.
“Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.”
More details here.
YP: Arranger (Nina Simone tracks) & Musical Supervisor
Mixed Ensembles Prize - Public Final
Details to follow.
YP: panel
“A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.
“Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.”
More details here.
YP: Arranger (Nina Simone tracks) & Musical Supervisor
“A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.
“Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.”
More details here.
YP: Arranger (Nina Simone tracks) & Musical Supervisor
Improvised-comedy with Marcus Brigstocke, Rachel Parris, Josie Lawrence, Lauren Shearing and Lee Simpson.
YP: Keys
Conducting 101 for maestri of all ages - come and have a go at waving a baton!
“A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.
“Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.”
More details here.
YP: Arranger (Nina Simone tracks) & Musical Supervisor
Sound your car horn, rise above the world in a hot air balloon, build a train and much more in Aurora’s new immersive storytelling performance.
Featuring new chamber arrangements of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s music and a new original story by Aurora’s Writer-in-Residence Kate Wakeling, the whole family can enter a magical world of music, discovery and play in Aurora’s latest Far, Far Away show.
For children aged 0-5.
Part of Imagine Festival. More details here: https://www.auroraorchestra.com/event/mendelssohn-and-the-moving-machines/
YP: piano
A piano piano masterclass with me in New Hall School Chapel
Piano and lo-fi machines programme ft. a world premiere by Alex Paxton plus additional sounds from Blak PROTODOME Troise.
Composer Philip Venables
Stage Director Ted Huffman
Musical Director Yshani Perinpanayagam
Dramaturge Scottee
“Step into Ramrod – a fantasy world and empire in decline; where fables and myths become a manifesto for survival. The piece reimagines the history of the world in an explosive baroque fantasia – a celebration of sex, pleasure and queer communities.
“The cult book The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977) by US-born author Larry Mitchell is considered an origin myth of the queer community that addresses and celebrates diversity and sexuality. In their new opera, composer Philip Venables and the author and director Ted Huffman look at the history of music from a different perspective, just like the novel it is based on offers an alternative narration of the history of mankind and opens our eyes to another view of the world.”\
More details here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/performance-dance/faggots-and-their-friends-between-revolutions
Conducting 101 for maestri of all ages - come and have a go at waving a baton!
Welcome to The Magical Forest. As you make your way through it you’ll soon discover that the journey to The Fairy Queen’s Party is not a straightforward path. Strange things happen all around as sprites and pixies enchant and trick, but the only real obstacle is ourselves.
Following on from The Moon Hares in 2022 we return with another family opera created in collaboration with communities from around the UK. Composer James Redwood and writer Hazel Gould transform Henry Purcell’s Shakespeare-inspired 1692 opera into a magical new adventure for the whole family.
This reimagining of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is about wishes that come true, and what happens when they do, as we learn about friendship, love and telling the truth.
More details here: https://oae.co.uk/event/the-fairy-queen-three-wishes-2/
Yshani Perinpanayagam, Children’s Chorus Conductor
One hundred years after Stravinsky and Nijinska created the powerful masterpiece Les Noces, New Movement Collective presents a re-imagining of this iconic ballet with a mass celebration.
Performed in Stravinsky's audacious piano and percussion ensemble, the cast includes the Opera Holland Park Chorus, musicians from the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, and new choreography will be staged by a some of Britain’s best contemporary dancers.
Les Noces is a deeply emotive exploration of what is at the core of human relationships and commitment; New Movement Collective have additionally commissioned three contemporary composers to respond to Stravinsky’s score: the project's music director Yshani Perinpanayagam, emerging RAM composer Andrea Balency-Béarn, and Beatbox Champion MC Zani.
These new compositions will see choreographic explorations on the work’s themes performed by English National Ballet’s ENBYouthCo and Manchester-based Chameleon Youth.
More details and tickets here.
YP: Conductor, commission composer, pianist
Happy New Year!
Improvised-comedy with Rachel Parris, Josie Lawrence, Neil Mullarkey, Ruth Bratt and Lee Simpson.
YP: Keys
Reviewing new releases with Andrew McGregor.
Listen again here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b06w2121
“Do not miss the return of this 'enchantingly staged' family folk opera, following the triumphant, Olivier Award-winning run in 2021.”
More details here.
YP: Consultant Musical Supervisor
Come hear about the music and design for our Olivier-winning ROH Linbury Show Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy.
An improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comic performers. In each show the cast conjures up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.
Previous ‘lost’ masterpieces have included Double 0 Darcy, Game of Scones and The Wickham Man.
Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, this is a regency treat guaranteed to delight Austen novices and die-hard fans alike.
More details here
Yshani Perinpanayagam, keys
Preview of my Cage Letters - settings of love letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham.
Taster event of New Movement Collective’s upcoming show Les Noces: The Departure
More details and tickets here.
Daniel Shelvey, baritone
YP, composer, pianist
CD launch of A Winter Breviary featuring a performance my carol When God Made Eve.
Release on Resonus Classics here.
“A meta dance comedy, full of the turbulence of life and death. Darkly funny and packed with originality.
“Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.”
More details here.
YP: Arranger (Nina Simone tracks) & Musical Supervisor
George Crumb Celestial Mechanics [Makrokosmos IV] Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano, 1979
Claudia Molitor Polymer Hauntings, 2022
Max Syedtollan Electric Organ Duo, 2023 (world premiere)
Njabulo Phungula Playground Postcard, 2020
Gillian Walker Title tbc, 2023 (world premiere)
Uri Agnon Put Your Hands Together [for late capitalism], 2022
With society’s ever-increasing political polarisation, the temptation to shout louder in order to reach those who feel ideologically far from us is immense. However, as the battles over the climate crisis continue to rage on, it is clear that this combative communication structure often results in those in opposition feeling more defensive of their existing view.
In this concert, Yshani Perinpanayagam and Katherine Tinker will explore an alternative way forward, turning to art for one of its strongest powers: bringing people together, through cooperation, collaboration and play. It is no mistake that we play games and play music; the idea of play can make concepts too-messy for words far more accessible. Play is connection. Play demands concentration, imagination and innovation, the very qualities that can lead us towards solutions to the challenges that face us today.
The programme will start with George Crumb’s epic Celestial Mechanics [Makrokosmos IV] Cosmic Dances for Amplified Piano in which a rich and expansive kaleidoscope of sound is created, exploring the timelessness of the universe.The programme then moves to the urgency of the present moment: Claudia Molitor’s Polymer Hauntings is a requiem to fossil fuel, using one of its most day-to-day, visible manifestations: plastic. Ideas of activism, cooperation and play are then investigated in pieces by Max Syedtollan, Gillian Walker, and finally in Uri Agnon’s Put Your Hands Together [for late capitalism]: light-hearted and mischievous in its use of a simple gesture from both performer and audience member – a clap – to affect change.
More details of DEEP TIME festival here: https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/yshani-perinpanayagam-and-katherine-tinker-provocation-vs-play/
Set at the court of the Emperor Nero as he schemes to replace his wife Octavia with his lover Poppea, Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea has a bleak and violent answer to the question, “How far would you go for love?”
With startlingly modern music and characterisation, Monteverdi’s opera was one of the first operatic masterpieces and a fitting showcase for a woman who reportedly said, “I hope I die before I get old” nearly 2000 years before the sentiment was immortalised by The Who.
Robin Norton-Hale directs this new production, with multi-genre musician and composer Yshani Perinpanayagam as conductor and arranger and a new English translation of the libretto from poet and Classicist Helen Eastman. Design comes from the award-winning Basia Bińkowska.
More details soon.
YP: Conductor
Set at the court of the Emperor Nero as he schemes to replace his wife Octavia with his lover Poppea, Monteverdi’s The Coronation of Poppea has a bleak and violent answer to the question, “How far would you go for love?”
With startlingly modern music and characterisation, Monteverdi’s opera was one of the first operatic masterpieces and a fitting showcase for a woman who reportedly said, “I hope I die before I get old” nearly 2000 years before the sentiment was immortalised by The Who.
Robin Norton-Hale directs this new production, with multi-genre musician and composer Yshani Perinpanayagam as conductor and arranger and a new English translation of the libretto from poet and Classicist Helen Eastman. Design comes from the award-winning Basia Bińkowska.
More details here.
YP: Conductor