Courtney Pine heads Tung Auditorium autumn season

Courtney Pine returns to the Tung Auditorium this September to mark his 60th birthday and as part of a new season of events at the Liverpool music venue.

Pine will bring his award-winning show House of Legends to the Oxford Street auditorium on September 27.

The event is being staged in partnership with BlackFest, and the show celebrates the influence and contributions to the UK from the many varied people of the Caribbean along with the re-release of Pine’s ground-breaking debut album Journey to the Urge Within.

It helps to kick off a new autumn season at the venue, which is based in the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre at the University of Liverpool.

Among the events being hosted between September and Christmas are concerts by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and its contemporary music group Ensemble 10:10.

La Serenissima performs Music from the Italian States on October 13, the Chilingirian Quartet appears on October 27, Orchestra dell’Arte presents La Boheme on November 9, Crosby Symphony Orchestra plays Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov on November 24, the University Symphony Orchestra performs on December 1 – and on December 11, international piano virtuoso Kathryn Stott plays her farewell concert to an already sold-out audience.

Above: Courtney Pine.

Contemporary, jazz and folk music is also represented in the programme with visiting acts including Iorla Ó Lionáird on October 10, Down for the Count All Stars on October 19 and Rajhesh Vaidhya on October 26.

Cara Dillon will bring her album Coming Home to life in a show on November 1, accompanied by a band led by Sam Lakeman, while Seckou Keita is accompanied by the brilliant Homeland Band on November 10,  internationally renowned saxophonist-composer Tom Thorp presents his new quintet ILUMATIS on November 14, and on November 16 the Manchester Collective is joined by composer and cellist Abel Selaocoe.

Meanwhile the Tung Auditorium’s free Wednesday lunchtime concert series also continues with Dr Vijay Rajput performing Hindustani classical vocals on October 2, Visions of Albion on October 9, Neil Campbell on October 16, Tomorrow’s New Quartet on October 23, Claremont Ensemble on October 30, singer-songwriter Dorothy Bird on November 6, Flute and Piano Music from Latin America on November 13, the Pixels Ensemble on November 20, vocalist and songwriter Emily Saunders on November 27, pianist Laureyna Sableviciute on December 4, and the University of Liverpool Choirs on December 11.

Full programme details and tickets HERE