Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo (saxophone and accordion)
Friday 17 October 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Since winning the Royal Overseas League’s Mixed Ensemble Prize in 2021, the Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo has performed extensively throughout the UK and Europe at major venues and festivals, exploring the classical canon through their own arrangements and collaborating with a wide range of composers. They’ll be presenting a compelling array of their own interpretations of works by Bach, Bártók, Grieg, and Piazzolla, along with a new work by British composer Brian Elias written especially for the duo.
Edvard Grieg (arr. MZ Duo) Holberg Suite (excerpts)
Brian Elias New Work (Three Impromptus)
Béla Bartók Dance Suite (excerpts)
Astor Piazzolla (arr. MZ Duo) Pedro y Pedro
David Zucchi saxophone
Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade accordian
The Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo is a London–based ensemble formed by Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi and Spanish accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade. Winners of the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition’s Mixed Ensemble Prize and City Music Foundation Artists, the Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo’s repertoire spans everything from reimagined traditional works to modern repertoire and improvisation, all vividly rendered by the unique combination of saxophone and accordion.
After their debut concert at the Vale de Cambra Classical Music Festival (Portugal) in 2019, the duo has performed across the UK and Europe, including appearances at Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh Fringe, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Barnes Music Festival, Newbury Spring Festival, Music@Malling, Rye Arts Festival, Buxton International Festival, the Rosengart Museum (Lucerne), St. George’s Bristol, and the Daylight Music series (Union Chapel, London). They have appeared on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune with Sean Rafferty, and were 2023 residents at Music at Brel (Roquecor, France). The duo is dedicated to the generation of new repertoire for their instrumentation, and have collaborated with composers including Robin Haigh, Aileen Sweeney, Roxanna Alabayati, Michael Hughes, and Alex Paxton. New commissions and projects for the duo have been supported by the Marchus Trust, City Music Foundation, the RPS Susan Bradshaw Composers’ Fund, the Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust, and the Vaughan Williams Foundation.
Their debut album, Contradance, will be released by Delphian Records in 2026.
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| Fri 17 Oct | 1:00 PM | £10 | Book |
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