Japan comes to Greenwich Market

30 March 2011
Japan Festival
Some of the talented musicians from Trinity Laban College here in Greenwich are getting together in Greenwich Market on Friday evening to play a charity concert to raise funds for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Organised by the students themselves, with lots of help from the Market, the concert features orchestral, chamber and solo music including Takemitsu’s Requiem for Strings & Glazunov’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Strings. 

Trinity Laban is a joining-together of Laban Dance and Trinity College of Music and the combined conservatoire is based at the Old Royal Naval Colllege in Greenwich and in an architecturally stunning building just down the road in Deptford. The Trinity Laban students and friends playing on Friday are among the very best at what they do, so this concert is going to be worth hearing  - filled, as it will be, with some of the next generation of gifted international musicians. Yes, they may well blush - and if you go along you'll be able to see if they do...

The concert starts at 7.30pm this Friday 1 April, there's no fixed price for a ticket and 100% of the takings will be going to the Japanese Tsunami Appeal by the British Red Cross - so be generous.

Originally just the concert was planned but now, inspired by the evening event, there's also going to be a Japanese bazaar and workshops in the Market during the day, as well as the usual Friday mix of antiques, collectables, arts, crafts and food. The workshops are set to include Origami, Kimono, Massage, Japanese sweets and food and Japanese Calligraphy. Market events run from 11.00am until 7.00pm and the nearest public transport is Cutty Sark DLR and Greenwich National Rail and DLR.

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