Music
Lunch Time Concert - July (Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade and David Zucchi)
DATE
Thu 23 Jul 2026
VENUE
Woodville Kent Room
SELECT SHOWING
PROGRAMME
Mikel Laboa – Txoria Txori (Arr. MZ Duo)
Edvard Grieg – Holberg Suite, opus 40 (Arr. MZ Duo)
Annabel Kershaw - …of Place, of Folk, of Ritual
Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite (Arr. MZ Duo)
MZ Duo has been captivating audiences across the UK and Europe
with their unique and eclectic approach to chamber music, exploring
radical re-imaginings of everything from folk songs to symphonic
classical works, commissioning some of today’s most exciting
composers, and incorporating improvisation to bring these worlds
together.
Spanish/Basque accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade and Canadian
saxophonist David Zucchi met in London in 2019 as recent graduates
of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, and
discovered a common desire to approach performance in a way that
reflected their personalities, interests, and cultures.
Their debut album, ContraDANCE, was released on Delphian Records
in February 2026; in addition to coverage from BBC Radio 3 (Record
Review and In Tune), Radio Clásica (Spain) and CBC’s In Concert
(Canada - where it was Record of the Week), it has received acclaim
from Gramophone Magazine and Melómano magazine.
Recent appearances include Wigmore Hall, Edinburgh Fringe, St
Martin-in-the-Fields, Barnes Music Festival, Newbury Spring
Festival, Music@Malling, Musiquem Lleida, Buxton International
Festival, and the Rosengart Museum (Luzern). They have appeared on
BBC Radio 3's In Tune and Radio Clásica’s Radar Clásico, and have
been residents at Music at Brel and Ferrandou Musique (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 Albayati, Annabel Kershaw,
Brian Elias, Benjamin Oliver, 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.
“...brain-bending technical expertise.” - BBC Music Magazine
