NW Live Arts to work with Aga Serugo-Lugo

NW Live Arts to work with Aga Serugo-Lugo

NW Live Arts is thrilled to be working with vocalist, clarinettist, pianist, composer and workshop leader Aga Serugo-Lugo. Aga will be leading a series of creative music and storytelling workshops with members of the St John’s Waterloo community in the run up to NW Live Arts’ next concert, Creative Connections. Music from the concert programme will be used as one of the resources for the workshops, facilitated by Aga Serugo Lugo and co-ordinated by Rhia Parker. Participants will work on their stories told in words and music together with Rhia and Aga. Musicians taking part in the concert, including Emma Purslow, Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade and Kuljit Bhamra MBE will collaborate with the storytellers to create a soundscape of words and music.

Although the workshops are not open to the public, all are welcome at the concert, Creative Connections, which will take place on Wednesday 17 April 2024 at St John’s Waterloo.

About Aga Serugo-Lugo

Aga Serugo Lugo is a vocalist, clarinettist, pianist, composer and workshop leader. He sang in the 9 piece Funk band “Gefunkt”, and also composed and played for the jazz-fusion group ‘Eclectiv’. 

Aga has delivered community workshops for Sing-up, Royal Opera House, ENO Engage, Music in Detention, Britten Pears Arts and Turtle Key Arts. He works in Education settings for SEN Schools, Trinity Laban, Pegasus Opera, London Sinfonietta and BBC Proms.

In addition, Aga co-runs Camberwell community choir, is an L and P Ambassador for Britten-Pears arts an associate artist for Prime Theatre, Streetwise Opera and the Citizens Of The World Choir.

Compositional projects include music for theatre: Street cries of London, Wiltons Music Hall (2009), Verona road, Intermission theatre (2010), The Conspirators project, The Yard (2012), Core Blimey: A Corby Musical (2014) and The Old Man And The Sea (2019). The Winds Of Change (2022). Our Fire (2022)

About Creative Connections

NW Live Arts has invited five musicians to co-curate a concert, sharing their favourite music from their cultures and their careers as musicians. The result is a captivating mix of music from plainchant by Hildegard of Bingen, to music by North American composer Kenji Bunch, accordion virtuosi Richard Galliano and Astor Piazzolla, violin music by Enescu and arrangements of pieces by Attab and Kuljit. The programme will also include solos from Kuljit Bhamra’s latest album A Tablanaut’s Journey. The programme is delightfully woven together in a continuous 70-minute performance, telling stories of what brings us together in a joyful celebration of our shared humanity.

The musicians – David Zucchi (saxophone) Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade (accordion) Emma Purslow (violin) Attab Haddad (oud) and Kuljit Bhamra (tabla) – will explore themes of place, and connection at St John’s Waterloo this April.

Alongside the concert performance, NW Live Arts is running creative workshops with the St John’s Waterloo community, ​​led by Aga Serugo Lugo. In these workshops, music, improvisation and storytelling will collide, culminating in a soundscape devised by the musicians and workshop attendees as equal creative partners. 

Tickets for Creative Connections are on sale now.

NW Live Arts is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England with further support from The Galashan Trust and The Foyle Foundation.