Dynamic Pricing
ARC’s policy is to set ticket prices based on demand, like budget airlines, which means we set a price when the event goes on sale and then sometimes put the price up or down depending on how the show is selling. Usually, the price will increase as we get closer to the event, so it is advantageous to book in advance, although sometimes we will put special offers on and reduce the price. Our website will always show the current ticket price.
ARC’s theatre and dance performances are priced on a Pay What You Decide basis, which means you don’t have to pay until after you have seen a show!
We want to encourage more people to come and see shows at ARC, more often. Pay What You Decide not only allows you to pay what you can afford, rather than a fixed ticket price, but also removes the financial risk of buying a ticket for a show in advance without knowing whether you are going to enjoy it or not.
Tickets are available to book in advance as usual, but there is no obligation for you to pay until after you have seen the show. You can then decide on a price which you think is suitable based on your experience, which means if you haven’t enjoyed it at all, you don’t have to pay anything.
All money collected will help ARC pay the artists who have performed, and we therefore hope you will give generously.
Please ensure you have arrived and collected your tickets 15 minutes before the show starts in order to secure your seats. At the end of the show, you can decide what to pay, either by cash on the door or by card at the Box Office.
General Prices: £7 / £6 concession. Subject to £0.10 booking fee per ticket
Seating: Unreserved seated
Javier Escrihuela Gandia was born in Puerto de Sagunto, Valencia (Spain) in 1997. At the age of eleven he commenced his studies at “José Iturbi´s Municipal Conservatoire where he was awarded the highest score in every department. Javier studied under the tutelage of internationally renowned teachers such as Iñaki Etxepare and Eduardo Vassallo and he has had masterclasses with Mikolós Perényi, Jens Peter Maintz, Istvan Vardai, Stephan Fork, Lluis Claret, Marçal Cervera amongst others. He has given concerts in Spain, Germany Rumania or UK.
Javier has participated in different events such as the “Jaime Dobato” Young Cellist National Competition where he won second prize as well as the “BBC Proms Youth Ensemble” where he played alongside the “BBC Symphony Orchestra“ at the Last night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
After finishing his professional studies at the “Conservatorio Municipal Jose Iturbi” (Valencia) he was awarded by the jury with the “End of Degree Professional Award” and he achieved the highest score on the strings department of the “Professional Awards of the Valencian Community”
Javier’s passion for chamber music has enabled him to form different ensembles such as the “Cuerda Quartet” which was invited to play alongside the well-known “Solem Quartet” at the “Royal Northern College of Music International Strings Festival” in 2016.
In addition, Javier Escrihuela has his duo piano partner “Daniel Ropota” whom perform around Europe. He also is frequantly invited to play chamber music concerts and make recordings as a principal cellist of the chamber orchestra of the “III International Chamber music Festival City of Castelló (Spain)”
From the age of five teen years old and after making his debut as a soloist playing on tour with the “Orquesta Filarmonica Martín y Soler (Valencia)” Javier’s orchestral experience has been constantly growing up.
He is regularly invited to play with different ensembles as the “Orquesta Filarmonica Martín y Soler (Valencia)”, the “RNCM Symphony Orchestra,” the “RNCM Concert Orchestra” and the “RNCM Brand New Orchestra” amongst others.
Despite his short age, he has made many recordings with piano and orchestra, and amongst his cello solo projects, it is important to highlight his CD, “Un Proyecto Hecho Realidad” which features important works by “J.S.Bach” and the spanish composer “Gaspar Cassadó”.
In 2015, Javier received an entrance scholarship by the “Royal Northern College of Music” where he is currently studying with Eduardo Vassallo.
Javier plays a French violoncello made by “Françoise Le Jeune” in the eighteenth century
Daniel Ropota is a Romanian piano student in second year at the Royal Northern College of Music from Manchester. He plays the works of Bach, Beethoven & Brahms.