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News • GMF Percussion Summer School 2007 Jan Bradley will be one of the tutors for GMF Percussion Summer School 30 July to 3 August 2007. Click here for details •4-MALITY announce UK tour 2006/7 4-MALITY are delighted that Music in the Round have taken on 4-MALITY as one of this seasons touring groups... venues include: Bowness-in-Windermere Old Laundry Theatre The Sage Gateshead Halifax Square Chapel Centre for the Arts Portsmouth Cathedral Scarborough Stephen Joseph Theatre Shrewsbury Maidment Hall Warwick Bridge House Theatre Click here for dates •4-MALITY in Berlin Berlin Philharmonie 27th February 2007 was the venue for 4-MALITY's first performance in Germany. It was recorded for a broadcast on Deutschland Radio. •4-MALITY Tour Taiwan 2005/6 The Ju Percussion Group invited 4-MALITY to be one of their special guest performers at the 2005 Taipei International Percussion Convention. 4-MALITY are the first British group to perform at this convention and follow in the foot steps of Nexus, Kroumata, Amadinda Percussion Group, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Amsterdam Percussion Group and Synergy. 4-MALITY performed on New Years Eve at the National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Centre in Taipei, as well as two other performances, Kaohsiung Chih-The Hall, Kaohsiung on 30th December and Chungli Arts Center, Chungli on News Year Day 2006. 4-MALITY In rehearsal pre gig at Taipei Concert Hall 4-MALITY outside Taipei 101 New Year in Taipei On the dot! 4-MALITY In rehearsal pre gig at Taipei Concert Hall   •4-MALITY Tour Australia 2005 2005 saw 4-MALITY's first tour outside Europe to Perth, Australia. Tura New Music presented 4-MALITY in the Scale Variable series at the Art Gallery of Western Australia closely followed by a collaboration with Defying Gravity at large percussion ensemble based at Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. This collaboration was broadcast on ABC Classic FM as well as being performed at Club Zho.   •4-MALITY at Turku Percussion Festival 2004, Finland 4-MALITY featured three times during the Festival. Firstly as soloists with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Two of the 4-MALITY members composed a piece each especially for the occasion. Monsoon II by Stephen Whibley and Almagest by Jan Bradley. In addition, 4-MALITY performed a recital as well as the world premiere of Lost in the Ocean by Eric Sammut. •4-MALITY at Bath International Music Festival 2004 4-Mality joined upwith exciting young composer Benjamin Wallfisch and choreographer Rafael Bonachela, star of Rambert Dance Company, and famous for his work choreographing pop videos for Kylie Minogue, for a programme of rhythm and movement. Apex has since become part of the regular 4-MALITY repertoire with all its 80 instruments filling any stage! •4-MALITY Toured Ireland 2003click here for more info •4-MALITY & Apollo Saxophone Quartet join forces 2003 This unique collaboration features items from each quartet, pieces for Saxophones and solo percussion and several specially commissioned works for the Octet (four Saxophones and four Percussion) ranging from a new Octet by Dinuk Wijeratne and works written by the members of the two groups, to arrangements of Latin American music as a fiery finale to this exciting project. •4-MALITY Toured Turkey 2002 click here for more info •4-MALITY @ BBC PROMS 2001 September 11th , Royal Albert Hall 4-MALITY performed a late night appearance at the BBC Proms. Joined by the mezzo-soprano, Katalin Károlyi, the programme included Ligeti's Síppal, Dobbal, Nádihegedüvel, Stephen Whibley's Monsoon and Jan Bradley's In Line. György Ligeti's settings of Sándor Weöres's nonsense poems, Síppal, Dobbal, Nádihegedüvel, caused a sensation at the work's London premiere on the South Bank in February. •4-MALITY Featuring Eric Sammut Stratford English Music Festival, Stratford Upon Avon Civic Centre Eric Sammut joined 4-MALITY as a guest soloist. Programme included the world premiere of Sammut's Extreme Ice Cream.   back to top