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2008 GIGS

LIVE MUSIC TO SILENT FILM - REFLEKTOR(duo) JAN KOPINSKI saxes, STEVE ILIFFE keyboards

21 Nov 2008, 12:15 - SOUTHWELL Minster, Notts
Southwell Minster , Southwell
Nottinghamshire,
UK
Cost:free
Description:REFLEKTOR duo - Jan, saxes & Steve, grand piano, give a free concert of their various compositions in the wonderful setting of Southwell Minster, celebrating its 900th year anniversary. Absolutely free, just wander in and listen to great music with fantastic acoustics in one of Englands finest buildings.

15 Nov 2008, 19:30 - Wiveliscombe Silent Film Festival
Wiveliscombe Primary School
Wiveliscombe, Somerset,
UK
Cost:N/A
film:METROPOLIS:REFLEKTOR play to the massive, awesome METROPOLIS - Returning to the greatest little silent film festival, in a slightly village of the damned setting !! The beautiful Wiveliscombe, don’t miss it.

09 Nov 2008, 16:00 - BARBICAN, Cinema 1
Silk Street
LONDON, EC2Y 8DS
UK
tel:020 7638 4141
Cost:£9.50/£7.50/£6.50
film:DER GOLEM:Jan Kopinski’s REFLEKTOR play original live score to 1920 silent film DER GOLEM. The wierdly wonderful jewish legend of a clay figure brought to life to save the Jews of Prague, but not quite under control!! The film that influenced the later James Whale talkie, Frankenstein. Occultism, expressionistic sets, visionary scenes, moralistic paradoxes and a touch of nasty behaviour behaviour - with a score of matching quirkiness.

01 Nov 2008, 20:00 - THE SHED
Hovingham Village Hall
Hovingham, North Yorkshire YO62 4LF
UK
tel:01653 668494
Cost:11.50/7.50
film:NOSFERATU:NOSFERATU inhabits the SHED - undead but with live music by REFLEKTOR (duo) - THE classic horror that has not been equalled for its style and authenticity. Coppola tried it, but he didn’t have Max Shreck !! Reflektor tonight is Jan on tenor sax Steve on keys

31 Oct 2008, 20:00 - SEVEN Arts Centre
31a Harrogate Road Chapel Allerton
Leeds, Yorkshire LS7 3PD
UK
tel:0113 262 6777
Cost:N/A
film:NOSFERATU:Halloween gets Nosferatu with live music by REFLEKTOR (duo) - THE classic horror that has not been equalled for its style and authenticity. Coppola tried it, but he didn’t have Max Shreck !! Reflektor tonight is Jan on tenor sax Steve on keys

30 Oct 2008, 20:30 - THEATRE ROYAL BATH, Ustinov
THEATRE ROYAL BATH, Sawclose, Bath
BATH, BA1 1ET
UK
tel:01225 448844
Cost:£11/£8 Discount
films:The Seashell & The Clergyman/A Propos de Nice/Svankmajer selection:Kopinski’s REFLEKTOR play live to ’Surreal Silents’ - An evening of silent films, French and Czech surreal masterpieces from the 1920s to the 1960s, set to live music from acclaimed band Reflektor, who bring a vibrant, thrilling edge to their live soundtracks.Films by by Vigo, Svankmajer and Dulac

29 Oct 2008, 20:30 - THEATRE ROYAL BATH, Ustinov
THEATRE ROYAL BATH, Sawclose, Bath
BATH, BA1 1ET
UK
tel:01225 448844
Cost:£11/£8 Discount
films:The Seashell & The Clergyman/A Propos de Nice/Svankmajer selection:Kopinski’s REFLEKTOR play live to ’Surreal Silents’ - An evening of silent films, French and Czech surreal masterpieces from the 1920s to the 1960s, set to live music from acclaimed band Reflektor, who bring a vibrant, thrilling edge to their live soundtracks.Films by by Vigo, Svankmajer and Dulac

24 May 2008, 19:30 - Trinity Arts Centre
Trinity Street,
Gainsborough, Midlands DN21 2AL
UK
Cost:Tickets: £6 (£5 concessions)
film:Nosferatu:Nosferatu (PG) with live accompaniment from Reflektor. Experience THE original Murnau Dracula film in the converted church at Gainsborough

2007 GIGS

LIVE MUSIC TO SILENT FILM - REFLEKTOR(duo)

JAN KOPINSKI saxes, STEVE ILIFFE keyboards

REFLEKTOR will be performing to SAFETY FIRST - & - GIVING THEM FITS -Harold LLoyd

Sunday 7th October-8pm. The Showroom, Sheffield

REFLEKTOR will be performing to SPEEDY -Harold Lloyd

Thursday 11th October- 8pm.The Showroom, Sheffield

REFLEKTOR will be performing to NOSFERATU

Sunday 10th June- Duke of York's Picturehouse

Sunday 6th May.- Phoenix Arts, Leicester

Sunday 18th March-Broadway, Nottingham

Wednesday 7th March- The Showroom,Sheffield

Friday 23rd Feb.- Chapter, Cardiff

JAN KOPINSKI & JIM BOXALL

JAN KOPINSKI saxes,electro-acoustics, JIM BOXALL video mixes/projections

Thursday 18th October-Broadway, Nottingham

JAN KOPINSKI & STEVE HARRIS(duo)

JAN KOPINSKI saxes, STEVE HARRIS drums

Friday 9th November - The Gallery, Lighthouse Poole

PINSKI ZOO -celebrating 25 yrs

JAN KOPINSKI tenor / alto saxes STEVE ILIFFE keyboards KARL WESLEY BINGHAM bass STEFAN KOPINSKI bass PATRICK ILLINGWORTH drums

Friday June 22nd- The Vortex Jazz Club, London

Original PINSKI ZOO resident MICK NOLAN (centre) catches up with some of the present keepers of PZ at the Vortex . Brilliant to see you Mick.!

Friday May 18th - Millenium Hall, Sheffield

Thursday May 17th - Royal Northern College of Music, JCR bar, Manchester

Wednesday May 16th - Corner House, Newcastle-upon-tyne

Saturday May 12th -The Shed, Hovingham

Wednesday May 9th - The Wardrobe, Leeds

Thursday 26th April - The Y Theatre, Leicester

Wednesday 25th April - Darwin Suite, Derby

PINSKI ZOO LIVE double CD 'AFTER IMAGE'.....

AFTER IMAGE - the NEW double album capturing PINSKI ZOO in live concerts around the UK over the past 3 years. Over 2 hours of selected tracks featuring new material and some classic versions of their original material, including a shattering double version of 'Bounce' and the virtuosic 'Nathan's Song'. The UK originators celebrate 25 years of knocking down the barriers and creating new fusions.

To Order your copy

contact Jan

or go to

www.slamproductions.net or www.jazzcds.co.uk

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JAN KOPINSKI & REFLEKTOR-MIRRORS

JAN KOPINSKI saxophones STEVE ILIFFE piano JANINA KOPINSKA viola MELANIE PAPPENHEIM voice STEFAN KOPINSKI bass PATRICK ILLINGWORTH drums JIM BOXALL video mixing MATT WATERFIELD lighting

Wed. 7th February - National Review of Live Art, Glasgow **Opening night** at TRAMWAY

MIRRORS is Jan Kopinski's latest commissioned project combining music and visual imagery in an exciting performance with his new collective outfit, REFLEKTOR, specialising in works linked to projected visuals.
Building on the long collaboration with Steve Iliffe (Pinski Zoo & Reflektor co-founder) and their performances to silent film and video, Jan Kopinski's new compositions are shaped by visual elements, using jazz and improvisation to create a highly personal reflection upon a world of dislocation, memory and transition. The music also explores impressions of folk, religious and contemporary music that so beguiled modern Polish composers. For MIRRORS he has collaborated with video artist Jim Boxall who works with REFLEKTOR to manipulate and weave an intriguing and original experience

· MIRRORS - new compositions by JAN KOPINSKI - shaped by visual elements- highly expressive music - scored and improvised - a densely personal reflection upon a world of disLOCation, memory and transition.

· REFLEKTOR JAZZ-soaked impressions of folk, religious and contemporary music JAN KOPINSKI's halting images of POLAND REVEAL landscapes and frozen edifices of a disturbing past, and cultural collisions that have shaped the land and its history.

· VIDeO artist JIM BOXALL works with REFLEKTOR to manipulate and weave an intriguingLY original MUSICAL & visualexperience.

· commissioned by Opera North Projects to develop MIRRORS- Melanie Pappenheim's voice shimmers through a sextet led by saxophonist Jan Kopinski and Pinski Zoo co-founder pianist Steve Iliffe.

· SOUNDCOMPOSEDIMPROVISEDVISUALISEDEMPATHYINTERACTEDSTORMSSHIVER

Mirrors gratefully acknowledges support from Opera North Projects, Lakeside Arts Centre and ACE

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2006 GIGS

LIVE MUSIC TO SILENT FILM - REFLEKTOR(duo) - JAN KOPINSKI saxes, STEVE ILIFFE keyboards

Saturday 18th November - Wiveliscombe Festival of Silent Cinema

BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY/ A Propos De Nice/NOSFERATU

March 8th - Exeter Phoenix Gandy street. Exeter

PINSKI ZOO JAN KOPINSKI saxes, STEVE ILIFFE keyboards, KARL BINGHAM bass, STEFAN KOPINSKI bass, STEVE HARRIS drums

Thursday May 18th - Bonington Theatre Nottingham

Monday June 12th - Vortex London,

REFLEKTOR JAN KOPINSKI tenor saxophone STEVE ILIFFE keyboards STEFAN KOPINSKI bass PATRICK ILLINGWORTH drums

Sunday May 21st- Newark Jazz festival

JAN KOPINSKI & REFLEKTOR-MIRRORSJAN KOPINSKI tenor saxophone STEVE ILIFFE piano MELANIE PAPPENHEIM voice JANINA KOPINSKA viola STEFAN KOPINSKI bass PATRICK ILLINGWORTH drums JIM BOXALL projectionss

April 5th - Lakeside Arts Centre University Park. Nottingham NG7 2RB - 0115 846 7777 PREMIERE PERFORMANCE

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2005 GIGS

PINSKI ZOO

Saturday April 16th 2005 - The Shed, Hovingham, North Yorkshire

Friday July 8th 2005 - Lighthouse, Poole,

KOPINSKI & KONIKIEWICZ - ZONE K JAN KOPINSKI saxes WOJCIECH KONIKIEWICZ keyboards STEVE HARRIS drums

Polish tour JULY 2005

20,21 Tygmont Jazz Club, Warsaw
22,23,24 Palace, Kalen
25,26,27,28 Radzyn Podlaski and Podlasie region
29,30,31 Zamosc Fortalicje Intuitive Art Festival
31 Art Center ,Bilgoraj

LIVE MUSIC TO FILM - EARTH (Directed by A. Dovzhenko 1930 USSR)JAN KOPINSKI saxophones STEVE ILIFFE keyboards JANINA KOPINSKA viola OKSANA TYMINSKA narration

Friday February 11th 2005 - 9pm. The Arches, Glasgow(at the National Review of Live Art) Scotland's International festival of Live Arts

Thursday April 21st 2005 - The Metro, Derby

Sat. Oct 29th '05.7.30pm- Terry O'Toole Theatre, Lincoln Sounds & Silents' festival-Moor Lane,N. Hykeham,N. Kesteven, Lincoln

LIVE MUSIC TO FILM -REFLEKTOR -BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY (Berlin, die Sinfonie einer Grosstadt) (PG)Director: Walter Ruttmann. Germany 1927. 75mins with live soundtrack by JAN KOPINSKI saxes, STEVE ILIFFE keyboards

"A dawn to dusk portrait of 1920s Berlin: a cinematic hymn to the excitement and vitality of the city. A classic example of the 'City Symphony'
genre, BERLIN... contains moments of poetry that have seldom been equalled.The lyrical tone is set from the start with the opening shots of a dawn train journey towards the city. With Karl Freund's masterly camerawork and the film's assured editing, BERLIN was hugely successful on its release, and that rarity - a film both popular and avant-garde."

November 28th 2004 - Brighton Duke of York's Picturehouse

March 11th 2005 - Bradford, Pictureville

March 12th 2005- Sheffield, Showroom,

March 20th 2005- Nottingham, Broadway,

March 24th 2005- Hull, Hull Screen,

Sun. Sept 25th '05. 4pm- Barbican, Cinema 2,London

Sat. Oct 22nd '05- Phoenix, Leicester

Sun. Oct 30th '05- mac, Birmingham

Wed. Nov 2nd '05- Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry University of Warwick

Fri. Nov 4th '05- Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

LIVE MUSIC TO SILENT FILM - REFLEKTOR - JAN KOPINSKI saxes, STEVE ILIFFE keyboards"The Seashell & The Clergyman")(Director -Germaine Dulac 1928 France), and "CHESS FEVER" (Directors - Pudovkin and Shpikovsky 1925 USSR)

Sunday July 18th 2005 - Hull International Short Film Festival 2005 Hull Screen, Central Library, Albion Street, Hull 01482 327 600

RECORDINGS

• Jan's commissioned compositions to the silent film 'ZEMLYA' - out on SLAM Productions....CD255 www.slamproductions.net

EARTH Jan Kopinski ..music to dovzhenko's film ZEMLYA...Jan Kopinski ten/alto/sop saxophones, Steve Iliffe grand piano, Janina Kopinska viola, Stefan Kopinski bass....SLAM CD255

• JAN's new album of the music he was commissioned to write for the silent film EARTH ( Dovzhenko1930 USSR). The CD features Jan on tenor and alto, Steve Iliffe on grand piano, Janina Kopinska viola and Stefan Kopinski on bass. If you enjoyed the sounds on GHOST MUSIC, and want to hear the acoustic side, this is for you.

 

 

 

 

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