RNCM Session Orchestra: Songs in the Key of Life / Sat 21 Feb
7pm Support Act: Bart Zagamé and Izzy Taylor
8pm Main Act: RNCM Session Orchestra
Celebrating 50 years since its release, the RNCM Session Orchestra transforms Stevie Wonder’s iconic Songs in the Key of Life into powerful orchestral creations. Uplifting, radiant, and bursting with joy, signature tracks take on new dimensions as they are skilfully rearranged for the full sound of an orchestra and soloists from our Pop Department.
Performers
Troy Miller guest director
Steph Godwin assistant conductor
Iain Dixon arranger
RNCM Session Orchestra:
vocals
Moli Edwards
Zoe Cook
Linnea Weiss
Yufei Yao
Harry Lines
Jamie Ellis
Ruixi Liang
bass guitar
Max Cooper
drums
Jack Willan
guitars
Guy Bandell
Leroy Chan
keys
Sam Roberts
Seth Ling
first violins
Kit Massey
Isobel Barber
Olivia Trezise
Hanna Shamihova
second violins
Amit Ilan Segev
Kinga Kaluza
Carola Cecchelli
Chloe Wood
violas
Alexandra Harrison
Jina Sou
Lily Machin-Bradbury
Ilana Tapper
cellos
Chloe Chen
Teresa De La Espada
Samuel Hills-Field
Chengyu Yin
flutes
Amelie Sainsbury
alto saxophones
Tom Law
Maddie Stewart
tenor saxophone
Conor Parker-Delves
Joao Correia
baritone saxophone
Emily Leavy
trumpets
Tom Scaife
Tilly Crutchley
Amelia Butler
tenor trombone
Seb Brailsford
bass trombone
Richard Stevens
percussion
Ben Salwey
Christian Holyoake
harp
Mark Askew
Programme
1. Love’s In Need Of Love
2. Have A Talk With God
3. Village Ghetto Land
4. Historia
5. Contusion
6. I Wish
7. Pastime Paradise
8. Summer Soft
9. Easy Going Evening
10. Ordinary Pain
11. Knocks Me Off My Feet
Interval
12. Isn’t She Lovely
13. Joy Inside My Tears
14. If It’s Magic
15. Black Man
16. Another Star
17. Ebony Eyes
18. Saturn
19. All Day Sucker
20. Sir Duke
21. As
Arrangers
arranger and mentor
Iain Dixon
student arrangers
Charlie Dix-Mason
Lukas Hall
Luca Mellor
Yijia Zhang
