The Linos Piano Trio looks forward to presenting their very own Linos Festival at Cologne’s Orangerie Theatre over the long weekend of 24-26 June 2022. Get your tickets now!

Tim Horton looks forward to giving a solo piano recital at this year’s Presteigne Festival on Tuesday 30th August at 2pm, including three world premieres.

James MacMillan’s Christus vincit is the next single being released by Corvus Consort and Ferio Saxophone Quartet on 17th June, in advance of the general release of their new disc ‘Revoiced’.

Robert Plane will join the Elias String Quartet at Gower Festival on 14th July to perform Clarinet Quintets by Bliss and Brahms.

‘Revoiced’, the brand new collaborative CD by Corvus Consort and Ferio Saxophone Quartet will be released on Chandos Records on 1st July. You can pre-order by following this link. 

Contemporary works by leading living composers sit alongside a programme of Baroque and Renaissance vocal music uniquely reimagined for voices and saxophones.

Friday 27th May sees the premiere of the Solem Quartet‘s latest edition of ‘Beethoven Bartók Now’, BBN 3: Pioneers, at Liverpool’s brand new Tung Auditorium.

Production company Aria Diphonic has released a beautiful video featuring Hiroaki Takenouchi‘s recording of music by Marcel Dupré.

Tickets will soon be released for the 2022 Corbridge Chamber Music Festival, taking place 28-31 July, with a packed diary of seven concerts and six other events over four days.

As well as being Artistic Directors, Robert Plane and the Gould Piano Trio are the Festival’s key performers, and look forward to working alongside guest artists including the Elias String Quartet, poet and narrator Sinéad Morrissey, and composer in residence Piers Hellawell.

Rachel Roberts appeared on BBC Radio 3 ‘In Tune’ earlier this week, performing music by Helen Grime and talking about the upcoming Sheffield Chamber Music Festival — listen here.

Violist Rachel Roberts looks forward to appearing with the Wigmore Soloists, performing works by Janáček and Dvořák at Wigmore Hall on Monday 23rd May.

On Saturday 23rd April, Robert Plane and the Gould Piano Trio are putting on a fundraising concert for July’s Corbridge Chamber Music Festival, of which they are joint Artistic Directors.

Huw Wiggin looks forward to appearing as concerto soloist in Paule Maurice’s Tableaux de Provence on 15th May with the de Havilland Philharmonic Orchestra.

Tune in to BBC Radio 3 at 1pm tomorrow (Friday 15th April) to hear the Solem Quartet on BBC Radio 3’s ‘Lunchtime Concert’ programme, in the broadcast of their recent performance at Perth Concert Hall.

Do listen to Radio 3 this afternoon, and again on Wednesday afternoon, to hear Hiro playing piano music by Doreen Carwithen and Johanna Müller-Hermann.
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Sheffield-based mixed chamber group Ensemble 360 has announced the appointment of Robert Plane as their new clarinettist.

Vocal Ensemble the Corvus Consort has been awarded a £10,000 grant by the Genesis Foundation as part of the prestigious Genesis Kickstart Fund to support their debut recording ‘Revoiced’.

Established during the pandemic to enable outstanding freelance talent to thrive in paid work, the Genesis Foundation has awarded a total of £1million across 95 future-facing projects and supported more than 1,000 freelance creatives in the UK.

Pianist Hiroaki Takenouchi looks forward to the release of his new disc featuring solo piano music by Grieg, Medtner and Dupré, coming out this Friday 18th March on French label Artalinna.

Three Tashmina artists will appear as part of Ensemble 360 alongside renowned tenor James Gilchrist at Leamington Music Festival on Friday 29th April.

The Solem Quartet looks forward to collaborating with star clarinettist Mark Simpson this month, including a concert at Scotland’s Perth Concert Hall, a co-production with BBC Radio 3.

Their programme will feature Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Quintet, as well as a string-quartet arrangement of Clara Schumann’s Three Romances by first violinist Amy Tress. Taking place in Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday 15th March at 1pm, the concert will also be recorded for broadcast by BBC Radio 3.

The first three days of April will see the Corvus Consort embark on a mini-tour of three concerts featuring their programme of Lenten choral music “Reproaches, Lamentation and Penitence”.

Exploring themes of repentance, lamentation and petitions for mercy, their programme features Renaissance music by William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Vicente Lusitano and Sulpitia Cesis, as well as contemporary works by John Sanders and James MacMillan.

Three concerts in three days will see the Consort at Clifton Cathedral in Bristol on Friday 1st April and Buckfast Abbey in Devon on Saturday 2nd April, before finishing in London at St Mary’s Church, Islington, on Sunday 3rd April.

Harpist Louise Thomson is offering an enticing new recital proposal for 2023 and the 2023-2024 concert season.

The programme features some of the finest writing for harp in the 20th century, through to contemporary works by living composers. In a prominent selection of programmatic compositions, the audience is taken on a journey including a majestic Czech river, a throng of mischievous elves, an epic rowing journey, and several vividly-depicted insects.

This is just one of the varied selection of programmes on offer from Louise, which also includes her collaboration with the upper voices of the Corvus Consort, featuring music by Gustav Holst, Imogen Holst, Amy Beach and Hilary Campbell.