Read our artists’ latest news and keep up to date with the developments in their careers.
This evening: Backstage with the Linos Piano Trio, as part of Birdfoot Festival
Register for this Zoom event to hear the Linos Piano Trio perform Lili Boulanger’s Deux Pièces en trio (1918), and discuss the composer’s musical universe, as part of this year’s Birdfoot Festival.
The 2021 Birdfoot Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary with a virtual festival dedicated to the backstages of the world, and the creative processes that they incubate.
Registration for this evening’s event entitled ‘Time: Lili Boulanger’ is free, but donations are gratefully received. The Linos Piano Trio will perform D’un matin de printemps (Of a spring morning) and D’un soir triste (Of a sad evening) and look forward to “seeing” you via Zoom. You can register for the event here.
Corvus Consort and Ferio Saxophone Quartet: live in concert
The Corvus Consort and Ferio Saxophone Quartet are thrilled to be giving their first live performance together at the Winchfield Festival in August.
Since coming together to produce a remotely-recorded video during the first Coronavirus lockdown in summer 2020, the two ensembles have built a collaborative project which they look forward to presenting in concert and on disc in the coming seasons.
Their concert at the Winchfield Festival will take place on Friday 13th August at 7:30pm, to a live audience in the Festival Marquee. Tickets go on sale to the public from 8th May.
Solem Quartet back under the Spotlight
The Solem Quartet will be joined by four friends to perform Schubert’s largest-scale chamber work as part of Spotlight Chamber Concerts in London.
Having featured in the inaugural Spotlight Chamber Concerts series at the end of last year, the Quartet returns to the atmospheric surroundings of St John’s Church Waterloo to perform Schubert’s Octet in F major.
The performance takes place on Friday 4th June at 9:00pm, and tickets can be purchased via the Spotlight Chamber Concerts website.
Wigmore Hall re-opening festival to feature Robert Plane and Gould Piano Trio
Robert Plane and the Gould Piano Trio look forward to performing as part of Wigmore Hall’s major re-opening festival in May.
To mark their re-opening after the last very challenging year, Wigmore Hall will welcome back live audiences for a 25-concert festival, combined with a celebration of the Hall’s 120th Anniversary.
This festival will include a concert by Rob and the Gould Piano Trio at 7:30pm on Wednesday 26th May, where an in-person audience will be able to enjoy music by Olivier Messiaen and Huw Watkins.
Tim Horton to live-stream Chopin and Debussy from Ulverston
Pianist Tim Horton looks forward to giving a live-streamed recital this coming Sunday as part of the Ulverston International Music Festival in Cumbria, with music by Chopin and Debussy.
Streamed live from St Mary’s Church, Barrow-in-Furness, Tim’s will be the eleventh online concert of the Festival’s 2021 series.
The performance begins at 7:00pm on Sunday 25th April, and can be streamed for free via the link on the Festival website.
Robert Plane, Lucy Gould and Benjamin Frith live and in-person at Barnes Music Festival
Tickets are now on sale for Robert Plane‘s trio concert with Lucy Gould and Benjamin Frith at the Barnes Music Festival in May.
The clarinet-violin-piano trio will perform their hour-long programme twice in one evening to a live audience in St Mary’s Church, Barnes. This will allow two socially-distanced audiences to enjoy their programme entitled ‘Music for Theatre and Ballet’, with the two concerts taking place at 6:00pm and at 8:00pm on Saturday 29th May.
Tickets can be purchased via the Barnes Music Festival website.
Corbridge Festival fundraiser this Saturday – online
Corbridge Chamber Music Festival is holding an online fundraising concert for their upcoming summer festival, featuring artistic directors Robert Plane and the Gould Piano Trio.
The concert will be streamed live from the Festival’s YouTube channel at 7pm on Saturday 10th April, with donations invited in aid of the 2021 festival.
The Gould Piano Trio will begin the concert with Beethoven’s Trio in E flat op. 70 no. 2, after which Robert Plane, Richard Lester and Benjamin Frith will perform Brahms’s Clarinet Trio.
Simon Callaghan to give solo piano recital at Conway Hall
Pianist Simon Callaghan looks forward to a solo piano recital at Conway Hall on Sunday 28th March.
His programme will feature canonic works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann, alongside lesser-known gems by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn and Jean-Louis Nicodé.
The concert will be streamed live from Conway Hall on YouTube and Vimeo at 6:30pm on Sunday 28th March — click here to book tickets.
Timothy Orpen, Principal Clarinet of RSNO, at Perth Concert Hall
In a co-production with BBC Radio 3, Timothy Orpen joins wind principal colleagues from the RNSO, along with the renowned pianist Susan Tomes, as part of the on-line Perth Easter Festival of Classical Music.
Filmed in a socially-distanced set-up at Scotland’s Perth Concert Hall, their programme of quintets for piano and wind by Mozart and Beethoven will broadcast ‘as live’ at 1pm on Friday 9 April. Tickets can now be bought, and the performance will be available to book and watch until Sunday 9 May 2021. It will also be aired as the BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert at 1pm on Friday 9th April.
Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto, Op. 47 and Humoresques, Opp. 87 and 89
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Timothy Orpen to feature in RSNO Digital Season
Timothy Orpen looks forward to performing in a live-streamed chamber concert as part of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Spring/Summer Digital Season 2021.
In his role as Principal Clarinet of the RSNO, Timothy will perform alongside several of his RNSO colleagues in a concert that also involves star pianist Paul Lewis.
Their programme will feature works by Mozart and Weber with particularly prominent roles for Timothy’s clarinet, as well as an item by Scottish homegrown composer Michael Murray and Paul Lewis’s rendition of Mozart’s twelfth Piano Concerto.
Recommended by Classic FM, the concert will broadcast at 7.30pm on Friday 23 April, and will be available to ticket holders until Friday 30 July.
Solem Quartet announced awardee of Live Work Fund
The Solem Quartet has been announced as an awardee of the Live Work Fund, one of 33 artists selected from more than 1200 applicants.
The Live Work Fund is a new initiative launched in collaboration by Jerwood Arts, The Wolfson Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Linbury Trust, which aims to support exceptional artists whose work relies on live performance, following the impact of Covid-19. They have selected 33 young artists to receive awards of £20,000 over 12 months to help them adapt their approach to making and sharing live work.
The Solem Quartet takes its place amongst some of the UK’s brightest artistic voices, with award recipients spread across practices including music, theatre, opera, circus, dance, live art and performance, as well as those who work in the gaps between these disciplines.
Solem Quartet and Anthony Friend Live Concert Stream from Conway Hall
This Sunday, 21st February, the Solem Quartet and clarinettist Anthony Friend perform a programme which is full of variety and colour.
In addition to the ever-popular Brahms Clarinet Quintet, you will be able to hear music by Vasks, Bartók, Schumann & Florence Price,
World premieres with the Solem Quartet at Bangor Music Festival
The Solem Quartet look forward to their concert of world premieres for Bangor Music Festival in North Wales, which will be streamed online on Friday 12 March.
The Festival, which has taken place annually since 2000, is particularly focused on contemporary music, and this year’s festival theme is ‘the environment’.
The Solem Quartet’s concert, to be filmed at Bangor University, will feature world premiere performances of four brand new works for string quartet by leading contemporary composers.
Tim Horton piano recital from Wigmore Hall – live
Tim Horton‘s solo piano recital at Wigmore Hall will be live-streamed on Friday 26 February at 7:30pm.
Chopin’s four Ballades opp. 23, 38, 47 and 52, key pillars of the composer’s extensive oeuvre for solo piano, will feature alongside Mozart’s Fantasia in C minor, K. 396, and Szymanowski’s Masques, op. 34.
Tim has also just launched his brand new website, where you can read more about his solo work, as well as his extensive ensemble work as a chamber musician.
Hiroaki Takenouchi piano recital to be streamed in South Africa
Performances recently recorded by Hiroaki Takenouchi will be streamed by Brooklyn Theatre in Pretoria, South Africa, as part of their series being broadcast on ArtMusic TV.
This concert marks Hiro’s virtual return to Pretoria’s Brooklyn Theatre, after he performed a complete cycle of Mozart Piano Sonatas there across three days as part of the Gauteng International Arts Festival in September 2019.
Solem Quartet seeks composer to write for BBN: Pioneers
The award-winning Solem Quartet is looking for a composer to write an ambitious new work for Beethoven Bartók Now: Pioneers, to take place in Spring 2022.
The winner of the competition, launched this week, will receive a prize of £1500 and they will be tasked with composing a 15-minute work to interact with and respond to Bartók’s Quartet no. 1 and Beethoven’s Quartet no. 14, op. 131.
Applications are now open, and run until 11pm on 28 February 2021.
Click here for more information about applying.
TODAY: Huw Wiggin recital live-streamed from ROSL
Huw Wiggin is giving a recital this evening at 6:30pm, live-streamed from the Princess Alexandra Hall at the Royal Over-Seas League in London.
“Close of harmony, cool of rhythm, and totally stirring of spirit”
The Corvus Consort’s Christmas project “Twelve Composers Composing”, released online over the recent festive period, has been met with praise and admiration from public and industry professionals alike.
Twelve of the UK’s most exciting young composers were commissioned to write twelve new miniature works for a choir of twelve voices based on the text of the well-known song The Twelve Days of Christmas — the resulting twelve works were recorded by the Consort and premiered online in twelve short videos released daily throughout the Twelve Days of Christmas.
‘Writing for Quartet’ workshop with the Solem Quartet
The Solem Quartet will host their first digital ‘Writing for Quartet’ workshop at 6:00pm on Thursday 28th January, as part of their ambitious Beethoven Bartók Now project.
The workshop will offer an opportunity for composers of all ages, levels and backgrounds to meet the Solem Quartet, and investigate how to write successfully for string quartet. In the format of a Zoom meeting, the quartet will be taking questions, demonstrating techniques, and performing short excerpts of submitted works.
Free tickets for the workshop can be reserved by clicking here, and composers’ submissions can be sent in advance to solemquartet@gmail.com — more information about submissions below.
Online: Rachel Roberts and Tim Horton live from Conway Hall
Rachel Roberts and Tim Horton look forward to their upcoming duo concert for Conway Hall Sunday Concerts on Sunday 24th January.
Live-streamed from Conway Hall, this will be a great opportunity to hear a brilliant duo performing some of the greatest works of the viola and piano repertory.
The Linos Piano Trio is back in the recording studio
Hot on the heels of their first commercial CD (released on the CAvi label in May 2020) and the ensuing flurry of excellent reviews, the Linos Piano Trio are now recording their second disc. They have been invited to make this new disc in a partnership between Bayerischer Rundfunk and AVI-Service for music, and have been recording this week in the Bayerischer Rundfunk building in Munich.
Julian Bliss and Tim Horton – Sunday’s BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
First broadcast live on 25th November, as part of Cheltenham Music Festival’s recent residency at St. David’s Hall in Cardiff, this recital by Julian Bliss and Tim Horton can be heard again on Radio 3 tomorrow lunchtime (Sunday 3rd Jan 2021).
