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Jan Kopinski’s Mirrors – Polish Jazz Focus

Saturday, 5th June, 8pm

The Sage Gateshead

An amazing audio-visual performance by Jan Kopinski, UK-based saxophonist of Polish ancestry.

Prompted by ideas of identity and loss, Mirrors is a musical reflection upon themes of displacement, belonging and diffused memory. Music and imagery (projected onto the performers) combine in an exploration of those moments between sleep and the real, when emotion, fear, nostalgia and sentiment speak together.

The images are collected from Jan’s visits to Poland over 20 years and the music is developed from stories, folk music, jazz and 20th century Polish composers.

Jan Kopinski’s father is from that wave of émigrés/escapees from Poland in the Second World War, becoming a bomber pilot, and, following the conflict – estranged from his native country by a ruling ideology that crudely imposed rules of loyalty, nationality and punishment – he never returned.

www.jankopinski.com
www.myspace.com/jankopinski

Tickets can be booked either by calling 0191 443 4661, online at www.thesagegateshead.org or in person from The Sage Gateshead’s Ticket Office.

Time: Saturday, 5th June, 8pm
Venue: Hall Two, The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 2JR
Tickets: £6.75 – £13.50