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Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award-winning, Mercury Music Award-nominated
solo recording artist for ECM Records. He has toured the world playing
piano, church organ, and harmonium with his own bands ('ENEMY',
'Troyka' and 'Elt') as well as with artists such as Squarepusher,
'Empirical', Benny Greb, and Sam Amidon. He has written commissions
for Cheltenham Music Festival, London Contemporary Orchestra, Ensemble
Klang at ReWire Festival, the Scottish Ensemble, Cologne Philharmonie,
and the Wellcome Trust.

Kit performs solo pipe organ and solo piano concerts - and also plays
in collaborations with saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy
Railton, composer Shiva Feshareki and with the band 'ENEMY'. He is
also currently working with violinist Aidan O'Rourke, composer Max de
Wardener and in an organ trio with Reinier Baas and Jonas Burgwinkel.
He teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he himself
studied and now holds a Fellowship.

Tonight, with this exceptional trio, he will be playing both
standards and originals.

Kit Downes - piano
Connor Chaplin - Bass
Roberto Giaquinto - Drums

"An exceptional soloist" - Wormser Zeitung
?It testifies to his world-class stature? - The Guardian
?One of the finest pianists of his generation? - Jazzwise
?Considerable chops and flowing imagination? - Downbeat

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Church Street,

Camberwell,

Greater London,

England,

SE5 8RB.