DISS 2015: Silent Classics with Live Music

Neil Brand with students from Improvising and Composing for Film Course

7.45pm
£14 unreserved / £7 unreserved

Introduced and presented by Neil Brand, the celebrated pianist, composer and scintillating presenter (BBC’s Sound of Cinema and Sound of Song), this will be an entertaining and illuminating demonstration of the power of film music, with students performing their new scores to famous silent film clips.

Having trained originally as an actor, Neil has been accompanying silent films for over 25 years, performing regularly at the National Film Theatre on London's Southbank, and at film festivals and special events throughout the world. He is considered one of the finest exponents of improvised silent film accompaniment in the world. He is also a fine composer, with an enormous range of orchestral film scores, TV and theatre work. Neil is also strikingly funny, entertaining and knowledgeable – prepare to enter film buff’s heaven!

Part of the Dartington International Summer School 2015 concert and events programme.

For more information visit https://www.dartington.org/whats-on/event/?id=88800