Snooker legend Steve Davis is headlining Liverpool’s Angel Field Festival 2025, coming to Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus from 20th until 27th March. The week long festival will see a range of arts and music, including Steve Davis’ electronic band, The Utopia Strong. Here’s what’s on music wise….
The Utopia Strong: Fri 21st March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
The Utopia Strong is a British electronic band formed in Glastonbury, England in 2018. The group consists of snooker legend Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi, and Michael J. York. They released their self-titled debut album in 2019 and their second, International Treasure, in 2022. As no less a sage than Andrew Weatherall proclaimed, The Utopia Strong are “gnostic sonics in a nutshell”.
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The Savoy Jazzmen: Sat 22nd March, 2pm, The Capstone Theatre
Liverpool’s Savoy Jazzmen, who formed in 1960, first performed at the Mardi Gras Jazz Club Liverpool on Tuesday 3rd May 1960. They also played regularly in the Downbeat Jazz Club in the 1960’s and a poster can be seen in the World Museum advertising the group’s session in the club with the Swinging Blue Jeans. The band played at the original Cavern (which began as a traditional jazz club before the Beatles appeared there) and a brick in the wall opposite the new Cavern commemorates these sessions.
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HMO – Mozart, Music from the Final Year, 1791: Sat 22nd March, 7.30pm, The Great Hall
A stunning showcase of Mozart’s great work of 1791 featuring Barbara Ruzsics (soprano), Sarah Helsby Hughes (mezzo-soprano), Hugh Kaliski (tenor) and Joseph Murphy (bass). The year 1791 saw Mozart complete several great works – the piano concerto in Bb, k.595, the operas The Magic Flute and La Clemenza di Tito, the Clarinet Concerto k.622, the string quintet in Eb k.614, the much-loved motet Ave Verum Corpus.
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In a Landscape — The Music of Erik Satie, John Cage and David Revill: Sun 23rd March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
A concert of music of a reflective nature featuring works by the composers Erik Satie, John Cage and David Revill. French composer Erik Satie (1866 – 1924) was an early pioneer of musical modernism exerting a profound influence on 20th-century music, meanwhile American composer John Cage (1912- 1992) was a legendary American composer and music theorist. British composer David Revill, who passed away in 2024, is the author of The Roaring Silence, the authorised biography of Cage.
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East Meets West – A Musical Interpretation of Poem’s Savors: Tues 25th March, 7.30pm, The Capstone Theatre
East Meets West – A Musical Interpretation of Poem’s Savors is a programme that includes a piano recital alongside a lecture on the subject of contemporary piano works combining Eastern and Western cultural influences.
Hua Lin is one of the most prominent contemporary Chinese composers and Chinese pianist Lei Cai, Professor of Piano at Ouachita Baptist University, USA, will perform these pieces and introduce the works to the audience through reading his English translations of the Chinese poems and showing traditional Chinese paintings of the artistic conception.
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Angel Field Festival 2025
In addition to the above concerts, there’s a diverse range of music, art, performances, workshops and talks throughout the week at Liverpool Hope University’s Creative Campus — notably the grand and modern Capstone Theatre. Following a hugely successful sold out Liverpool International Jazz Festival, Angel Field Festival brings something for everyone!
Angel Field Festival / 20th — 27th March 2025 / Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, 17 Shaw Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP
