This month we are welcoming Dominic Ingham and Shirley Smart, who are presenting a programme combining jazz standards and arrangements of original compositions drawing on their collective eclectic and diverse backgrounds in jazz, improvisation, classical and world music. 

Dominic Ingham - Violin

Dominic is a firmly established voice on the UK jazz scene. He has toured extensively across the UK with his quintet, performing at renowned venues and festivals such as Ronnie Scott's, Love Supreme, Royal Albert Hall, and the EFG London Jazz Festival. His self-released debut album, Role Models, launched to critical acclaim. It features a captivating suite of lucidly crafted and characterful pieces that showcase Dominic's distinctive and highly personalised style, rooted in his background in folk and classical music. 

Dominic has collaborated with internationally renowned musicians such as Trish Clowes, Emma Rawicz and Camila Meza. He is also a member of the award-winning band Bonsai, with whom he has performed at leading jazz festivals and venues across the UK and Europe. In 2020, he was nominated for a Parliamentary Jazz Award for Jazz Newcomer and was a finalist in the renowned Zbigniew Seifert International Jazz Violin Competition. Currently, Dominic is a Jazz Violin tutor at Chetham’s School of Music and at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Shirley Smart - Cello

Shirley Smart is recognised as one of the UK’s most versatile and creative cellists – being equally at home and well versed in jazz and Middle Eastern music, as well as classical music. Originally trained under Raphael Wallfisch at the Guildhall School of Music, and Janos Starker in Paris, she is now a Professor of Musicianship and Improvisation at the Royal College of Music. Shirley spent 10 years in Jerusalem, studying and performing a wide variety of musical traditions from the region, and working with artists including Avishai Cohen, Omer Avital and Yasmin Levy. Since returning to the UK, she has quickly become established as a unique performer, and is in demand with artists such as Mulatu Astatke, Maya Youssef, Neil Cowley, and Robert Mitchell. She also leads her own projects and released her first trio album ‘Long Story Short’ in 2018 to critical acclaim.

Saturday 22nd March, 1 pm. 

Tickets £5, under 16s go free.

 Refreshments served before the concert.

Penge Congregational Church

172 High Street Penge 

SE20 7QS