Music for the Senses – a fundraising concert for deafblindness

‘Music for the Senses’ is a classical and contemporary music concert by deafblind musicians Russ Palmer and Mark Pampel in support of Sense, the national deafblind charity.

The double bill will start with Mark Pampel’s piano performance including his own classical compositions. Mark is influenced by composers like Schubert, Jarrett, Finnissy and Cashian and Messiaen to name a few. He has performed at the London Cultural Olympiad 2012 and plays with the LSO Create and also performs his own works as a member of the London Composers Forum.

Songwriter Russ Palmer will be performing his first album ‘Warm Summer Days’ and some of his favourite tunes on guitar along with musician Juha Sarkkola. Russ is a music therapist and consultant advisor in music research at the University of Helsinki and has recently played Parafest, a disability arts festival in Finland.

After the concert the musicians will be talking about how technology can help people with limited sight and hearing to experience and produce music. Russ and Mark will also be talking about the way they interact with music despite the fact that it seems completely inaccessible for people with sensory loss.