Pianist, composer, and bandleader Robert Mitchell’s new choral work ‘Invocation’, is to premiere next week.

Featuring the pianist’s ensemble Panacea in trio + vocals guise, the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, Avonbourne College and Harewood College singers, the first performance is to take place at St Peter’s church in Bournemouth on Friday 26 September, with a further London Jazz Festival performance on 23 November at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, on that latter occasion the Goldsmiths [big] String, and percussionist/narrator Eugene Skeef added to the line-up.

Mitchell is one of England’s top jazz pianists, having first emerged in the 1990s with the award winning band J-Life making a strong impression as a young player with his sophisticated MBASE-influenced style later developing along progressive chamber jazz lines harnessing a range of musics in the different incarnations of Panacea. The new work derives its impetus from jazz, choral, classical and improvised music traditions.