Harmonie Band are:

HarmonieBand is a six-piece ensemble of multi-instrumentalists with an internationally established reputation for performing contemporary music, presenting especially composed orchestral scores to accompany silent film, and leading educational projects for young people.

Selection of Film and Concert Performances

Walter Fabeck

Piano

Kim Mackrell

Cello

Julia Munn

Clarinets

Dai Pritchard

Saxophones

Martin Pyne

Percussion

Paul Robinson

Synth/Accordion

Tim Massa

Countertenor (Le sang d’un poete)

2010

Alfred Hitchcock’s film ‘The Lodger’. Performed at:- Barbican Cinema, London; Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea; Theatre Clywd, Mold; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; University of Bangor; Chapter Arts, Cardiff

Assisted by the Arts Council of Wales

2007

Jean Cocteau’s film ‘Le Sang d’un Počte’ and René Clair’s film ‘Entr’acte’. Performed at:- Uherské Hradištĕ Film Festival, Czech Republic

Carl Theodore Dreyer’s film ‘La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc’ – world premiere of new score by Paul Robinson featuring the Hilliard Ensemble. Performed at:-Era New Horizons International Film Festival Wroclaw Opera House, Poland

2005

Buster Keaton’s film ‘The General’. Performed at:-Falkirk Town Hall and Macrobert, Stirling

Assisted by Scottish Arts

Jean Cocteau’s film ‘Le Sang d’un Počte’ with counter-tenor. Performed at:- Brighton Early Music Festival

2004

Buster Keaton’s film ‘The General’. Performed at:-Warwick Arts Centre, Leicester Phoenix, Midlands Art Centre, Hackney Empire; Duke of York’s, Brighton and Exeter Phoenix

Assisted by an Arts Council England grant for touring

2003

Buster Keaton film double bill ‘Sherlock Junior’ and ‘Steamboat Bill Junior’ and halloween screening of F.W. Murnau’s film ‘Nosferatu’.Performed at:- the Hackney Empire Bullion RoomTheatre. London

Buster Keaton’s film ‘The General’ with new score by Paul Robinson commissioned by the King’s Cross Rail to Reel Film Season and performed at the Shaw Theatre, London

2001

Jean Cocteau’s film ‘Le Sang d’un Počte’ and Buster Keaton’s film ‘Steamboat Bill Junior’. Performed on tour of The Netherlands - organised by the ‘Vereniging van Brabantse Filmtheaters’

1998

Concert programme ‘The Treason of Images’ commissioned by the South Bank Centre, and including a new score with countertenor for Jean Cocteau’s film ‘Le Sang d’un Počte’. Performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank Centre. London

Jean Cocteau’s film ‘Le Sang d’un Počte’ and René Clair’s film ‘Entr’acte’. Performed at The Hilliard Summer School, Cambridge. Paul Robinson Composer in Residence

Silent films with new scores by Paul Robinson performed at:- Glasgow Tramway, Southampton Film Festival, Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, King’s Lynn Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Harrogate Festival

1994

F.W. Murnau’s film ‘Nosferatu’ and Arthur Robison’s film ‘Warning Shadows’. Performed at:- the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London South Bank Centre an ‘Deutsche Romantik’ festival

1993

Silent films with new scores by Paul Robinson. Performed at:- Dresden ‘Musikfestpiele’, Berlin ‘Babylon’ Theatre, The Netherlands. Tour organised by the ‘Vereniging van Brabantse Filmtheaters’

1992

Frank Borzage’s film ‘Seventh Heaven’ with new score by Paul Robinson, commissioned by ‘Giornate del Cinema Muto’. Performed at ‘Giornate del Cinema Muto’ festival in Pordenone, Italy – opening performance

1991

Concert with works by John Cage, Django Bates, John White, Paul Robinson, Frank Zappa. Performed at the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London

Broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 ‘Music in our Time’ and ‘Mixing It’

For individual biographies please click on the names above.