27. Nosferatu: film screening with live performance by Neil Brand
16 October 2019, 15:00 - 16:45
Concert
This event will be broadcast from T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College
A rare opportunity to experience F.W. Murnau’s 1922 cinematic masterpiece, Nosferatu, with live piano accompaniment performed by Neil Brand. The ‘doyen of silent film pianists’ (Radio 4), Neil Brand is a Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, a regular presenter on BBC Radio and TV, and is widely regarded as one of the world’s finest improvising piano accompanists. He introduces this ‘symphony of horror’ before a complete screening and performance.
Watch some highlights of Nosferatu:
Watch Neil Brand accompanying The Phantom Carriage:
Neil Brand
Neil Brand
Silent-film accompanist
Neil Brand has been a silent film accompanist for over 30 years, regularly in London at the Barbican and BFI National Film Theatres, throughout the UK and at film festivals around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, Israel, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Ukraine, throughout Europe and, in Italy, the Bologna, Aosta, Bergamo and Pordenone festivals where he has inaugurated the School of Music and Image to teach up-and-coming young pianists about silent film accompaniment. Neil now has a very fruitful relationship with... Read Full BiographyHave you also considered...
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This event is part of a series:
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