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Leeds-based pianist & composer Simeon Walker announces extensive UK Autumn Tour alongside a new single + live video of his popular piece ?Compline?

Following his 28-date UK-wide tour in the latter-half of 2023, Simeon Walker announces a follow-up tour to take place later in 2024 throughout November.

An important aspect of Walker?s performance schedule in recent years has centred on visiting places across the country which can - sometimes - be overlooked on touring schedules. Fundamental to this approach is the belief that, in a post-pandemic world and the wider context of the funding challenges faced by grassroots venues and the wider music industry as a whole, good accessibility to live music has never been more needed.

This is reflected in Simeon?s aim to create space for collective, community-focused listening experiences, in which the boundaries between audience and performer are removed, amidst a sense of story, insight, intrigue, openness and vulnerability, alongside a long-term aim and commitment to ensuring classical and classical- influenced music can have greater reach and opportunity for engagement amongst younger and more diverse audiences.

These live music events predominantly take place in places and spaces - often embedded in the heart of a local community - which provide vital opportunities for people to gather together around shared experiences of cultural activity, including music venues, arts centres, churches, theatres, cafes and pop-up performance spaces; sometimes doing so quietly and consistently, with little fanfare, operating under knife-edge financial conditions, but with no-less enthusiastic, engaged and musically-curious audiences.

Simeon Walker: ?I am so looking forward to heading off on tour again later in the year. Live performance is my very favourite thing - I love the interactions and conversations which always come as a result of going to new and old places alike, meeting people where they are in their own environment and community. I?ll be playing a range of material from across the first ten years of my career as pianist, composer, artist and performer, interwoven with stories, extra insights and context around the pieces and my experiences as a touring musician. It?s another opportunity to gather around the piano and enjoy some special moments together, in a range of places, venues and spaces across the UK. See you there!

To mark his Autumn Tour announcement, Walker is releasing a new single; a live performance of one of his oldest and most popular pieces - a lilting, reflective solo piano piece titled ?Compline?. This is accompanied by a beautiful live video from his performance in the German city of Düsseldorf for a Piano Day event in 2023.

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9 Nether Edge Road,

Sheffield,

South Yorkshire,

England,

S7 1RU.