About this Event
Programme
A journey across soundscapes, from American classics like “Blue in Green” to the Brazilian gem “Serenata do Adeus,” and a contemporary reimagining of Baroque and 20th-century arias. The evening will also feature new compositions by Vladimira Krckova from her upcoming album A Woman in a Hurricane, alongside rare musical discoveries, including a surprise Mexican song and a beloved pop classic. All pieces are beautifully arranged into a unified, original sound, ready to be visited.
About the artits
Vladimira Krckova (also known as VLAD.), born in Czechia, is an independent singer, poet, bandleader, composer, producer, actress, director, dancer, choreographer and visual artist living in London, United Kingdom.
Ms Krckova was exposed to all kinds of music very early in life. Then, at the age of six, she started to study music theory and play the accordion and shortly afterwards, the piano. Her studies of modern dance as well as participation in choirs made her dive very deeply into music in every possible way, founding a great love for writing music but also experimenting as a choreographer.
In 2004, she created her own one-woman show, “Voice Monodrama” during an artist residency at Villa Decius in Krakow, Poland. In 2005, she participated as a lead singer on the album “Teba” of the Czech folk music group Cymbelin and performed at Colours of Ostrava, a major international music festival in the Czech Republic.
In 2008 (in Europe), she performed alongside Grammy-nominated pianist and composer John Serry Jr. In 2012, she composed, arranged and produced her album – influenced by jazz, contemporary and classical music – entitled “Go for a Rich Man”, which was named by leading Czech music critic Lubomir Doruzka “The most interesting music act of the last several years”. In 2015, she wrote, directed and produced her official music video “Your Aura on my Lips”, with creative audio post-production by Michael Riesman (music director of the Philip Glass Ensemble, arranger and conductor for David Bowie, Paul Simon and Martin Scorsese).
In 2016 (in Mexico City), she performed with the highly acclaimed Mexican piano player and composer Alex Mercado (named “The Best Mexican Jazz Musician” by Downbeat magazine) and also had her visual art in several exhibitions. As an actress, besides several Czech plays where she starred in lead or featured roles, she appeared in an award-winning Czech feature film “Pohadky pro Emu” (“Christmas for Ema”, 2017), alongside Ondrej Vetchy, a Czech film superstar. In London, Krckova performed her original music with the guitarist Robin Banerjee (Amy Winehouse), and pop/soul/R&B music with the guitarist Dave Ital (Chaka Khan, Tom Jones, Beyonce).
At the moment, Ms Krckova is focused on composing, arranging and producing her first international music album as well as a music-film project (UK/USA).
Robert Mitchell is an award-winning pianist, composer, bandleader, teacher, and poet. He has released 15 albums and has led the bands Little Black Book, Epiphany 3, TRUE THINK and The Flame. His latest release is the debut from new power trio Little Black Book – ‘Blueprint (Of An Infinite Gift)’ on Whirlwind Recordings.
He has worked with (amongst many) – Billy Harper, Phil Ranelin, Steve Coleman, Courtney Pine, Julien Lourau, Dayme Arocena, Alicia Olatuja, Joshua Redman, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Ty, Shirley Smart, Orphy Robinson, Basement Jaxx, Matana Roberts, Jhelisa Anderson, Soweto Kinch, Empirical and Norma Winstone. He has won the Hamlyn Award for Composition, A Broadcast Award (as MD on Jazz 625 Live shown on BBC4 TV), and has composed commissions for the London Sinfonietta and Jazz South. His large-scale work Invocation, was performed at the QEH in 2014 with the BSC, Goldsmith Big String, Panacea and a combined youth chorus. He performed (and narrated poetry) at the 6th Euro Poetry Biennale in Brasov (Romania) in 2023 and recently completed a year as an Artist-In-Residence at Morley College.
Robert is a Piano Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Royal Academy of Music, a teacher at YMM and a mentor at Black Lives in Music. He is a new ambassador for the Tempo fund at the Merton Music Foundation.
Robert has been a Steinway Artist since 2009. He has released three collections of poetry (the last two out on Common Tone Press – Seattle, US). He is a composer in the newly announced Grade 6-8 Jazz book for piano (ABRSM).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
World Heart Beat, Embassy Gardens - Concert Hall, 3 Ponton Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 27.80
