Legendary actor Sir David Suchet joins Odyssey Festival Orchestra to explore the clash of high art music and jazz in the 1920s, featuring four works by Ravel and Gershwin. The four orchestral works by Maurice Ravel and George Gershwin are framed by a narrative drawn from the writings of the two composers.

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Widely regarded as one of England's finest stage, screen and TV actors, David Suchet's international reputation has only grown over the years, greatly enhanced by his definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie's suave Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, a character he played for nearly 25 years in 70 TV episodes (1988-2013). 

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Sebastian-Benedict Flore was born in Rome and began playing the piano aged five. He studied for five years at the Centre for Young Musicians under Francis Reneau and is currently in his second year of study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Katya Apekisheva as his teacher. He has won prizes in various competitions, including the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe's Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition in 2019. He went on to play for their concert series of 35 sonatas celebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 2020.

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