Ndr Bigband / Django Bates / Nikki Iles – NDR Konzerthaus Hannover, Hanover

About this event

This is a concert production for NDR Bigband, Django Bates, and conductor Nikki Iles. Bates is credited with piano and composition, Iles with conducting, and NDR Bigband as the ensemble. The program draws on Bates's 2008 album "Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?)", adds newer material including "Shorter Side Up", presents an interpretation of "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" under the heading "Bates Beats the Beat", and concludes with Beethoven's "Ode an die Freude". The presentations take place in Hannover and Hamburg, with performances at Fabrik and the Kleiner Saal of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. This is a big-band concert rather than a staged dramatic production.

Cast & creative

• D

  Piano

  Django Bates
• N

  Conductor

  Nikki Iles
• L

  Composer

  Ludwig van Beethoven
• J

  Librettist

  Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller