Concert Details
| Title: | St Leonard's Church Seaford Lunchtime Concert Phil Hopkins, Classical Chromatic Harmonica. Rosemary Kemp, Piano |
| Promoted by: | St. Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Time: | Saturday, 18 March 2023, at 1:00pm |
| Place: | St Leonard’s Church, Seaford |
| Description: | Programme Liebesleid (Kreisler) West Side Story suite (Bernstein/Sondheim) Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S.Bach) Libertango (Astor Piazzolla) Salut d’Amour (Elgar) Handel Recorder Sonata Moon River/Last of the Summer Wine (Henry Mancini/Ronnie Hazlehurst) Auf Dem Wasser zu Singen (Schubert) Film Music (Midnight Cowboy/Dances with Wolves/The Entertainer) (John Barry/Scott Joplin) Genevieve (Larry Adler) Phil Hopkins was a music scholar at King’s School Canterbury, graduated from Oxford University and studied chromatic harmonica with the great classical harmonica player, Tommy Reilly. In a thirty-eight year career as a professional musician playing percussion and/or harmonica, Phil has played for more than 120 London theatre productions spanning over 4500 performances across the West End, Royal National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and Royal Shakespeare Company. Chromatic harmonica performances include: the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Sinfonietta at St John Smith’s Square, and West End musicals such as The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Savoy Theatre), Sir Tim Rice’s From Here To Eternity (Shaftesbury Theatre), the London premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, and Gone With The Wind (New London Theatre). Phil has toured the USA many times with various artists including performances at Carnegie Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center and Symphony Hall, Boston. In 2018 he played the percussion part in the worldwide cinema broadcast of the Broadway production of The King and I from the London Palladium. He has recently been working on the Broadway production of Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre. Other West End shows Phil has played for include The Phantom of the Opera, Blood Brothers, Miss Saigon, Matilda, Oklahoma!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. Phil has been performance musical director for 21 productions at Shakespeare’s Globe. Phil has recorded for films such as Iris, Anonymous, The Merchant of Venice and Dance of the Steel Bars, as well as many TV productions including Only Fools and Horses, Wolf Hall and Allo Allo, along with a harmonica solo on This Morning with Phillip Schofield on live TV. Phil’s harmonica recording of the theme from the film Midnight Cowboy has had more than 127,000 plays on the streaming service Spotify. Phil has coached many actors to play harmonica for London theatre shows including The Night of the Iguana, Peter Pan, Girl from the North Country, and Assasins. Phil has played harmonica at many private parties for celebrities including Cameron Mackintosh, Victoria Wood and Sir Mark Rylance. |
| Tickets: | The Lunchtime Concert has free admission with a retiring collection and lasts approximately an hour. |
| Contact: | John Baker |
