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Cold Warm, a duet album featuring Ken Hyder on drums and Vladimir Miller on piano, is now available for download and streaming on Apple | Amazon | Spotify

Ken Hyder and Vladimir Miller have been playing together for over 20 years, beginning in the last century in Russia. In that time the world has changed, to say the least, both in the political sphere and the social. People have moved away from thinking about others, and global economics has dictated so many new and contrasting agendas. The problem is how to know what’s going on… how to keep true to yourself and uncontaminated by change and dangerous madness. This album reflects these changes and thoughts of staying on the path. Cold Warm is about all these things – life itself, the joy of life, politics, spirit and thinking. Sometimes individual ideas may dominate a piece, other times several concepts knit together.

Vladimir’s solo piano album Themes of Memory is now available for download and streaming from:
Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify

Vladimir writes:

“Memory is a strange phenomenon, often digressing or meandering according to our reflected notion of or image of that triggered thought. Our memory or the accounts of our people’s memories can have particular outcomes. Memories in general are personal accounts that can be expressed in diary form and visual cues, or there are simply those that remain unconsciously lingering in our minds and in the minds of others. It is this in particular that intrigued me: the idea of trying to recreate hidden memories and expressing them in sound and composition.

All the other titles are in one way or another connected to memory. What did you say, for example, is suggestive of the horrifying consequences of memory loss whilst Kurakin’s diary is a reflection of the discovery of the diary of my maternal grandfather, Constantin Kurakin, who lived as a child in Tsarist Russia and escaped the turmoil and conflicts after the revolutions in 1917.”

Performers included vocalist Keri Farish and opera singer Neil Latchman. Vlad was musical director and pianist.

Vlad Miller will be performing in The Grief Opera – Love Goes On in Chippenham, Wiltshire, on October 7 2023.

Further recording sessions for the upcoming Prima Facie Records CD of the opera will be taking place earlier on the day.

Nigel Linacre started writing the Grief Opera when his son, George, died by his own hand. Jazz musician 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.

The performance is at:

Chippenham Sat, 7 Oct 2023 19:30 – 21:30 BST St Andrew’s Church Market Place Chippenham SN15 3HT £10
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Available now on Bandcamp: Dent Island by 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. 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

Vlad Miller will be appearing at two performances of The Grief Opera – Love Goes On during July 2023.

Nigel Linacre started writing the Grief Opera when his son, George, died by his own hand. Jazz musician 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.

Performances are at:

BRISTOL Mon, 3 Jul 2023 13:00 – 14:30 BST St Paul’s Church Saint Paul’s Road Clifton BS8 1LP £10
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LONDON Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:30 – 21:30 BST St Mary’s Church, Ealing Saint Mary’s Road London W5 5RH £10
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Vladimir Miller is currently recording The Grief Opera, Love Goes On, an original work of loss and love in song and verse that Vladimir has developed with Nigel Linacre. The work was conceived when Nigel’s son George died in 2021. Nigel started to write, to his son, about his son and about his grief. The recording will be released later this year on the Prima Facie Records label.

Vlad Miller and Notes From Underground live

Sunday 13th November 2022 1pm
Oval Tavern
131 Oval Rd, Croydon CR0 6BR
http://theovaltavern.co.uk/

Live at The Bell, Iden

Thursday 27th October 2022 8pm – free entrance
The Bell at Iden
Church Lane
Iden TN31 7PU
https://thebellatiden.com

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, Feddie 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 latest score is for the British / Scottish feature film Limbo, which was selected for Cannes 2020. www.hutchdemouilpied.com

When Nigel Linacre’s son George died last year, Nigel started to write. He wrote to his son, about his son and about his grief. Collaborating with international jazz musician Vladimir Miller, The Grief Opera, Love Goes On is an original work of loss and love in song and verse.

The Grief Opera
Saturday 22nd October 2022, at St. Andrew’s Church, Market Place, Chippenham
Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm
Tickets £5, donations welcomed
Details and tickets from Eventbrite