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A BRIT award-winning performer is set to take to the stage alongside a local orchestra this weekend – which is jam-packed with other events including a short film that explores Jersey's maritime trading voyages, and a concert featuring three female-fronted local bands...
Every weekend, Express presents a selection of exhibitions, performances, workshops, events and other historic, creative and delicious content to help islanders get their weekly dose of culture.
Here's this week's offering...
One of the UK's leading violinists is appearing with the Jersey Chamber Orchestra this Saturday.
Chloe Hanslip joins the orchestra for a performance of Max Bruch's celebrated first violin concerto.
This is the second opportunity for Jersey audiences to hear the work in recent weeks, following Cristian Grajner de Sa's performance with the Jersey Symphony Orchestra last month.
The concerto features in a mixed programme which also includes Brahms' first symphony, Kuhlau's Elverhoj Overture and performances of two songs by Brahms and Mendelssohn given by the Jersey Youth Choir.
Chloë Hanslip, who made her BBC Proms debut at the age of just 14, has performed at some of the world's leading venues including the Vienna Musikverein, New York's Carnegie Hall, and London's Royal Festival and Wigmore Halls.
She has recently been guided by ten years of study with the esteemed Russian pedagogue Zakhar Bron, having won her BRIT award for a performance of the Bruch with the London Symphony Orchestra.
The concert will be directed by the JCO's chief conductor Eamon Dougan, principal guest conductor of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and choral director of Britten Sinfonia Voices. The concert also provides a platform for the Jersey Youth Choir, established in 2022 to bring young singers together from across the island.
The concert takes place on Saturday 27 January at 19:30, and on the same day there will be a matinee performance from 12:30 to 13:30 featuring the slow movement of the Bruch concerto, and performances by Music in Action Young Artists with strings from the Jersey Chamber Orchestra
Further details of the performances with links to purchase tickets are available from the Music in Action website.
The Broad Street-based Blue Note Bar will be welcoming three female-fronted local bands tonight.
Under-18 all-girl alt-rock band Jeans on the Floor, pop-punk band the Kickbacks, and indie-rock band INTERMISSION will take to the stage to celebrate the new year this weekend.
Tickets can be purchased on the door from 19:30 for £5 and more information can be found HERE.
An art exhibition showcasing artists from Jersey and Guernsey with practitioners from around the world launched last week.
The Channel Islands Contemporary Art Show – a partnership between ArtHouse Jersey, Art for Guernsey and Les Champs Libres in Rennes – is being exhibited at Capital House until 25 February.
The exhibition aims to offer new perspectives on how the Channel Islands relate to their pasts and a wider global future.
It explores the inspiration that the Channel Islands have offered to artists through history, particularly from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century and one that reflects the more complex social realities of the islands today.
ArtHouse Jersey said: "With stunning landscape and portrait photography, exquisite and subtly layered painted works alongside sculptural and video pieces, it will both question and invite the viewer to reflect on themselves and the complex global histories of these Islands.
"The show promises to be mysterious and experiential for the visitor, with shifting and changing perspectives, much like the Islands themselves when seen from close-up and afar, as visitors walk through the gallery environment."
The work will be showcased first at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House between 19 January and 25 February 2024 followed by a month-long exhibition at Art for Guernsey in St Peter Port opening on Thursday 7 March 2024.
For more information, click HERE.
Over the past seven years, Martin Toft has covered more than 60,000 kilometres across land and sea, exploring the history of
Jersey's cod-fishing trade in Canada in the footsteps of those pioneers.
One of the fruits of his labours is a short film, The Seaflower Venture, based on the life of one of the trade's most successful exponents, Charles Robin, who set up business on the Gaspé Coast in 1766.
Premiering at the opening of ArtHouse Jersey's Channel Islands Contemporary Art Show last week and part of the research
for a larger project called Entrepôt, it reimagines the merchant triangle linking Jersey with South America.
ArtHouse Jersey said: "Through the prism of colonialism and family history, Martin looks at how Jersey's original wealth generated by the proceeds from the North Atlantic fisheries and maritime trade lay the foundation for the island's future prosperity."
His film can be seen at the Capital House Gallery in Church Street until 25 February.
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