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NEWS... JACK GIBBONS RETURNS TO OXFORD FOR HIS 21st ANNUAL SUMMER PIANO SERIES Jack Gibbons returns to one of his favourite haunts, the historic Holywell Music Room (Europe's oldest purpose-built concert hall) in the beautiful university city of Oxford, England for his annual Summer Piano Series in July and August 2008. Jack has been giving his highly popular summer concerts in the city without a break since July 1988, the concerts frequently selling out to enthusiastic crowds. For 2008 he will give a 10 concert series, including 7 unique "concert biographies" celebrating in words and music the lives of the great composers: whole concerts will be dedicated to the following composers: J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy & Ravel, and Gershwin. Other programmes will highlight the atmosphere of the musical soirees where Chopin performed in the 1830s and the musical parties where Gershwin performed in the 1930s. Several programmes will also include some of the recent compositions of Jack Gibbons himself. The series begins on Sunday 13th July and continues with concerts on most Sundays and Wednesdays right through to the end of August. For more details of these concerts, and links for purchasing discount tickets direct from this website (including a £50 season ticket for all 10 concerts of the 2008 Summer Piano Series) follow this link to the Oxford Concerts pages. MUSIC PLAYER ADDED TO SITE A music player (using flash technology) has been added to several pages on this website (see below) playing a selection of tracks performed by Jack Gibbons, several of which have not been issued commercially. The music selection for this player will be changed on a regular basis. The player begins automatically but can be switched off easily and the controls on one page will effect the player throughout this website in order for the music to continue to play (or stop playing!) not matter what pages you are visiting. Pages that have their own audio or video on them will not have this player to avoid a cacophony of sound from more than one audio source. This is a new venture and any feedback/comments from web visitors will be most welcome, and can be sent to info@jackgibbons.com. Also additional playlists have been added specific to some of the composer pages, including those of Alkan, Chopin, Sainsbury and Gibbons, plus a complete performance of Bach's Partita no.1 in B flat for the Bach page.
JACK GIBBONS PLAYS CHOPIN: download direct from this website It's now possible to purchase single tracks or an entire album of Jack Gibbons playing Chopin (including three bonus tracks never before issued) direct from this website thanks to the innovations of SNOCAP. To listen to samples and purchase digital files downloaded direct to your computer visit this section of the Recordings page. Many of Jack's other recordings can also be downloaded in whole or in part in digital form from iTunes and AmazonMp3. You can find relevant links to these sites on the Recordings page. JACK GIBBONS RETURNS TO NEW YORK'S CARNEGIE HALL Jack returns to New York's historic Carnegie Hall to celebrate the 110th birthday of New York's most famous musical son, George Gershwin, on Friday September 26th 2008. This special concert will feature some of Gershwin's most spectacular and best-loved concert works including the Rhapsody in Blue (meticulously reconstructed from the composer's original piano-roll recording) and Gershwin's original Porgy and Bess Suite (complete). In addition Gibbons' program will be filled with the breathtaking and exuberant show-tune improvisations with which Gershwin dazzled New York party-goers in the 1920s and 30s and which made his piano playing legendary. More information, including links to the Carnegie Hall website where tickets can be purchased nearer the time, can be found on the New York Concerts page. JACK GIBBONS PODCASTS Podcasts featuring performances and talks by Jack Gibbons will be added on a regular basis to this website as they become available. Simply follow this podcast page link (or click on the podcast picture link on the website's home page) to listen to the latest podcast (podcasts can be heard with either high speed or dial up connections). Just uploaded is a complete performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto which can also be downloaded for free and saved to your computer or ipod by clicking the link to the stand alone mp3 player. More podcasts will be added soon! MORE MOVIES OF JACK GIBBONS NOW VIEWABLE HERE Visitors to this website can now view with ease all the many videos of Jack's performances posted on the video sharing site YouTube, using the special video player on the Movies page, as well as embedded videos elsewhere on the website. Videos include Jack Gibbons' performances of Alkan's notorious Allegro Barbaro octave study, Chopin's beautiful Ballade no.1 and Berceuse, J.S. Bach's lively Allemande and Gigue from the Partita no.1, Ravel's exquisite Ondine from Gaspard de la nuit, and several of Jack's latest compositions. There are also short films in which Jack describes his unique authentic Gershwin reconstructions' and gives several media interviews. Other videos include a montage of rare films of Gershwin himself, complete uncut films of Gershwin's own performances of I Got Rhythm and Strike Up The Band (all original Gershwin films courtesy of Edward Jablonski) and some extremely rare film footage of the English composer Edward Elgar conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and relaxing at home in Malvern with his beloved dogs, Marco and Mina. Visit the Movies page for more information on all these videos. JACK GIBBONS ON 'LIVE365' 24 HOURS A DAY If you haven't already discovered it, it's now possible to listen to Jack's performances 24/7 direct from this website, thanks to the internet radio station 'live365'. Simply click on the 'listen to radio' button on this website's home page to download the radio player. Just below this button you can see the music that is currently playing on the station in the constantly updated ‘Now Playing’ panel. On this station Jack Gibbons can be heard playing a wide selection of music by Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Alkan, Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Gershwin, Gibbons, etc including Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no.4, a selection from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and much more. Please note that a cable or DSL/broadband connection will be necessary to enjoy the CD quality of this broadcast. JACK GIBBONS RECEIVES RAVE REVIEWS FOR HIS 2005 SUMMER CONCERTS IN LONDON AND OXFORD 
Click on the image on the left to read recent rave reviews from the Oxford Times and Daily Mail of his summer 2005 concerts at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Shorter press quotes can be found on the Press Quotes pages.
Click the above image to visit the Press Room JACK GIBBONS' GERSHWIN ARRANGEMENTS CHOREOGRAPHED AND PERFORMED BY LEADING US BALLET COMPANY IN SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 2006 Jack Gibbons played some of his famous Gershwin transcriptions and arrangements as an accompaniment to a specially choreographed ballet by acclaimed choreographer and dancer Richard Gibbs, performed by members of San Francisco ballet and other leading West coast dancers at the Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco in June 2006. For more information on the remarkable performances choreographed and staged by Richard Gibbs visit www.allegrotheater.org. JACK GIBBONS BOWS OUT AFTER 16 YEARS OF ANNUAL GERSHWIN CONCERTS AT LONDON'S QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL Jack returned to London's premier recital hall on Sunday July 10th 2005 for the last of his highly popular annual Gershwin concerts in the UK's capital city. Jack has been performing his unique all-Gershwin concerts in the hall since 1990 and every year has presented newly discovered or newly reconstructed authentic Gershwin items in his programmes, as well as such favourites as the Rhapsody in Blue. His 2005 recital also included several of Gibbons' own highly popular compositions, recently premiered with such success at Carnegie Hall in New York. Full details of this event can be found in the London section of the Concerts pages. Click on the image on the left to
read a rave review from the Daily Mail of
Gibbons' final summer 2005
Gershwin concert
at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. Shorter press
quotes can be found on the Press Quotes pages.
Click the above image to visit the Press Room JACK GIBBONS ON BBC RADIO 2 and BBC RADIO 4 Jack was recently heard, along with contributors Lorna Luft (daughter of Judy Garland), Leonard Slatkin and others, talking about Gershwin's song I Got Rhythm, including demonstrations at the piano, in a special Boxing Day presentation of the new BBC Radio 4 series "Page to Performance" on 26th December 2006. Jack was also heard recently, along with other contributors (including archive interviews of Edward Jablonski) talking about Gershwin's remarkable achievements in a series of six weekly programmes for BBC Radio 2. Jack's recordings are regularly played on the BBC and other stations. You can listen online anywhere in the world to live radio from the BBC by following this link to the main BBC radio web pages. JACK GIBBONS IN THE RECORDING STUDIO Following the success of recent concerts featuring his own compositions Jack Gibbons has been in the recording studio in London recording his songs and piano music for future CD release. As with all Gibbons' recordings the sessions were done using the superb engineering of Tony Faulkner of Green Room Productions. Tony Faulkner's recordings have won countless awards for engineering over the years. News of any new Gibbons CD releases will be posted here as soon as they become available. UPDATES TO THIS WEB SITE The JackGibbons.com web site has been expanded and updated. A new Movies page, accessed from the side bar on this page, as well as from the website's home page, takes you to a selection of videos. The side bar on this page also has links to various audio pages, allowing you to play whole tracks of the music and piano playing of Jack Gibbons. Simply click on the images on the left to make your selection. Also a section has been added entitled writings. Within it can be found articles written by Jack, including a special feature on Gershwin's keyboard style, complete with musical illustrations, originally written for magazines in the US and the UK, and a transcript of a talk Jack gave for BBC radio 3 on the enigmatic French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan. The section also contains an interview he gave to Piano magazine, and archive material relating to his life-threatening car accident in 2001. Other sections of this web site have also been added to. Any comments on the site, or enquiries to do with Jack Gibbons's concerts and recordings are very welcome, and can be emailed to info@jackgibbons.com. |
