An evening of the most beautiful and extraordinary songs by musician Marek Rymaszewski whose remarkable life has experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. He is joined by West End leading lady Jane Horn. With just 3 performances to catch Highest of Highs Lowest of Lows Songs of Love & Life with Marek Rymaszewski in the West End's intimate cabaret room Above The Arts, Arts Theatre, 12-14 February 2019 at 8.30pm.
"David Bowie meets The Eagles on a very dark night and Marek's as good as both of them. There is an eerie haunting quality to what he does and a shameless love of beauty and excess in life and art." - Robin Millar CBE, one of the world's most successful record producers with over 150 gold, silver and platinum discs, 44 No1 hits and 55 million record sales to his credit.
An unique opportunity to hear the inimitable musician Marek Rymaszewski perform his songs which have never before been performed live in concert - and now must be heard.
Highest of Highs Lowest of Lows Songs of Love & Life with Marek Rymaszewski, is a revealing concert of Marek's rollercoaster life and career as he muses on success, failure, life, love and survival through his songs with Marek singing at the piano, plus cello and leading West End performer Jane Horn (Pearl -Starlight Express, Eponine - Les Miserables, Annette - Saturday Night Fever; Narrator - Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Columbia - The Rocky Horror Show,UK Tour.)
Marek's unbelievable world segues through his songs like The Pretenders' Death Is Not Enough ("you wrote a classic" - lead singerChrissie Hynde) to songs he recorded with Steve Gadd, Simon Phillips, Kiki Dee & Pino Palladino and No1 hits in Europe. Along the way donning the corporate suit as Head of Digital at BT and consultant at the cutting edge of Internet technology.
Marek's career started as a 7 year old piano prodigy taught by Jean Johnstone (Mrs Lloyd Webber) and onwards to Marek's successful 2007 Profumo Affair musical A Model Girl - also a subject tackled by one of Mrs Lloyd Webber's sons with Stephen Ward -highest of highs lowest of lows.....
The perfect antidote to Valentine's DayHighest of Highs Lowest of Lows Songs of Love & Life with Marek Rymaszewski - in 75 minutes the audience will understand how passions can lead to laughter and ecstasy but also to despair and destruction.
Harry Nilsson: "Thanks for that, you're a better story-teller than John Lennon."
Produced by The Stable and script by Nikki Racklin (multi award winning web series Cuckoo, Love Me To Death - Barbican Pit).
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