JEAN-MICHEL BERNARD: PIANO CINEMA Digital Programme

PIANO CINEMA

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JEAN-MICHEL BERNARD

“I love him because he is better than me!”

- RAY CHARLES

JEAN-MICHEL BERNARD PIANO CINEMA

Piano Cinema is a saga in which acclaimed film composer and pianist Jean-Michel Bernard revisits the entire history of great film music.

This intimate solo concert features the iconic film scores of Cinema Paradiso, A Fistful of Dynamite (Ennio Morricone), Interstellar (Hans Zimmer), Mission: Impossible (Lalo Schifrin), Harry Potter, E.T., Schindler’s List (John Williams), The Truman Show (Philip Glass), Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Ryuichi Sakamoto), Psycho (Bernard Herrmann), Chopin and many others.

Jean-Michel Bernard will also play a number of his own compositions and share an insight into the mysterious creative process of film music in concert.

Jean-Michel will be joined by special guest dancer Fukiko Takase and vocalist Kimiko Ono.

Thur 16 May 2024, 7:30pm

1. The Pink Panther Henry Mancini

2. E.T. John Williams

3 Schindler's List John Williams

4. Harry Potter Hedwig’s Theme John Williams

5. Catch me if you can John Williams

6. Interstellar main theme Hans Zimmer

7 Ange et Gabrielle Jean-Michel Bernard

8. La Rafle (the Roundup) Jean-Michel Bernard

9. Psycho Suite Prelude - Murder - Finale Bernard Herrmann

10 Prelude from North By Northwest Bernard Herrmann

11. Toy Story - You’ve got a friend in me Randy Newman

12. One summer day Joe Hisaishi

13. Here with You Jean-Michel Bernard

14 La La land - city of stars for piano Justin Hurwitz

15. Cinema paradiso Love theme Andreas Morricone

16. Cinema paradiso Main theme Ennio Morricone

17. Fistful of Dynamite Ennio Morricone

18. Tango del Atardecer Lalo Schifrin

19. Moon river Henry Mancini

20. Dr Bitino Jean-Michel Bernard

21 Chopin Valse N°2 Opus 64

22. Last of the Mohicans Trevor Jones

23. Cliffhanger-End credits Trevor Jones

24. The Science of Sleep suite Jean-Michel Bernard

25 Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Ryuichi Sakamoto

26. Chopin Fantaisie Impromptu Op66

27. Mannix Lalo Schifrin

28 Mission Impossible Lalo Schifrin

29. The plot - Piano Lalo Schifrin

“Jean-Michel Bernard is the musical mirror of my personality. To me it is amazing that I found a real ‘soul brother in the sum of his expressions (composing, conducting, performing, etc.) I cannot find words to reflect my admiration for his genius, a real miracle because he is my double. One again, VIVA! Jean-Michel.”

- LALO SCHIFRIN

JEAN-MICHEL BERNARD

Jean-Michel Bernard, whom Ray Charles described as a “genius” and Lalo Schifrin called his “soul brother” works at the crossroads of musical genres. A composer, orchestrator, producer, concert pianist, he is not exactly a classical pianist, nor a jazz pianist (even if he has the improvisational freedom and swing), but is known as an exceptional pianist of music for cinema. Jean-Michel Bernard is the only official Steinway artist in the film music sector, and has worked as a member of Ray Charles’ Quartet, a collaborator of Scorsese and Morricone, and as a composer for Michel Gondry amongst others.

FUKIKO TAKASE

Fukiko Takase was born in New York but raised in Japan where she trained with Katsuko Orita. After receiving the Cultural Affairs Fellowship from the Japanese government, she moved to Europe to study at Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy and the London Contemporary Dance School.

Fukiko then worked with the Henri Oguike and Wayne McGregor dance companies before making her way as an independent solo artist. Her work includes 1001 with Dustin O’Halloran premiered in Minneapolis, USA, Don Juan Techno Club with Daniel Brandt and Frieder Nagel premiered in Nuremberg, Germany as well as performing Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece in 2019. She featured in Thom Yorke’s Atoms for Peace video Ingenue, as well as choreographing for Daniel Brandt and Hikaru Utada. In 2018 she choreographed and toured Japan with Hikaru Utada’s anniversary concert tour, performing for 140,000 people. Fukiko danced for Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined, and has become Honourable Professor for Shikoku University in 2022.

Last year (2023) Fukiko starred in The Coronet’s own production of The Yellow Wallpaper, a radical new staging of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s hugely influential novella adapted and directed by Stephanie Mohr.

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