The Grief Opera at Bath, 10.09.24

A one-night-only performance of The Grief Opera, in Bath, on World Suicide Prevention Day, in collaboration with Suicide&Co.

The opera moves from a father’s last conversations with his musician son through the shock of his death to the challenge of great grief and love. Combining elements of opera, musicals and concerts, and weaving classical styles and jazz, the Grief Opera takes us on a journey that will resonate with all who know great loss.

Nigel Linacre wrote the lyrics after he lost his son George Linacre to suicide. Jazz band leader and pianist Vladimir Miller created the music having lost a band member to suicide earlier in his life.

Date
Tuesday, September 10 2024 · 7:15 – 10pm

Venue
Burdall’s Yard
7A Anglo Terrace
Bath BA1 5NH

Tickets £10

members of the Grief Ensemble standing in line, some with instruments

Miller Hutch Live

The Miller Hutch duo live, May 2024


May 18 2024 4-6:30pm
Barnaby’s Lounge
46 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL

About Miller Hutch

Miller Hutch are a duo that perform their own compositions as well as playing arrangements of jazz standards by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Hoagy Charmichael, Freddie Hubbard and many more. They have appeared at venues across the South of England.

Vladimir Miller is a pianist and principal composer and music director of the Moscow Composers Orchestra, and has his own quartet Notes from Underground.

Hutch Demouilpied performs on trumpet and flute and is a composer. Her score for the British/Scottish feature film Limbowas selected for Cannes 2020. Hutch’s recent film The Debutante, by director Elizabeth Hobbs, was short listed at the 95th Academy Awards in the short animation category.

Miller Hutch on Bandcamp

Grief Opera Album

The Grief Opera, a collaboration between Vladimir and Nigel Linacre, is available now, on streaming services, and on CD at Prima Facie Records.

Nigel Linacre started writing the lyrics for The Grief Opera when his son, George, died by his own hand. Vladimir Miller used George’s rhythms as a foundation for the music he composed.

The Grief Opera is somewhere between a small-scale opera, a standing concert and a musical, in which amateur singers, narrators and musicians are joined by Vladimir Miller on piano, and international opera star Neil Latchman and rock singer Keri Farish as lead vocalists, in a community initiative promoting Suicide Awareness. The Grief Opera is profoundly emotional, and has been described as “harrowing but ultimately uplifting”.

You can read more at the Grief Opera website.

New Miller Hutch EP ‘January Sound’

Miller Hutch are a duo that perform their own compositions as well as playing arrangements of jazz standards by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Hoagy Charmichael, Freddie Hubbard and many more. https://millerhutch.bandcamp.com/

Vladimir Miller is a pianist and principal composer and music director of the Moscow Composers Orchestra, and has his own quartet Notes from Underground. http://vladimirmiller.co.uk

Hutch Demouilpied performs on trumpet and flute and is a composer. Her score for the British / Scottish feature film Limbo was selected for Cannes 2020. www.hutchdemouilpied.com

Grief Opera Single

A single from the forthcoming CD The Grief Opera is available now.

Nigel Linacre started writing the lyrics for The Grief Opera when his son, George, died by his own hand. Vladimir Miller used George’s rhythms as a foundation for the music he composed. The Grief Opera is somewhere between a small-scale opera, a standing concert and a musical.

Featuring Just One Word and You Didn’t Say, listen to the single on the Grief Opera Bandcamp site.