Events in London, United Kingdom

Founded in 2013 by three Dutch performers, the Delta Piano Trio have won numerous international awards and have growing discography including works by Shostakovich, Taneyev, Borodin and Russian-American composer, Lera Auerbach. Their programme at Conway Hall flanks cutting-e ..

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In a rare UK performance, Trio Concertante perform three of the most popular works for piano trio, culminating in the symphonic first trio by Johannes Brahms. The eerie-sounding second movement gave Beethoven's 'Ghost' trio its famous nickname, while Shostakovich's second tr ..

The Chamber Philharmonic Europe was founded in 2006 in Cologne, Germany. The orchestra engages talented young professional musicians from 18 European nations. It currently employs around 60 musicians, from which they select a touring ensemble of 9. The unusually dissonan ..

Since winning 1st Prize in the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in 2016, Timothy Ridout has gone on to perform widely in Europe. Jâms Coleman is a pianist who enjoys a rich and varied musical life performing as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist. ..

Mozart was among the first to explore the piano quartet, and this concert opens with his graceful E flat quartet. The evening continues with Bridge's quartet, best summed up by his teacher, Britten: 'Sonorous yet lucid, with clear, clean lines, grateful to listen to and to p ..

Formed in Geneva in 2009, by young quartet students of Gabor Takacs-Nagy who decided to play standing up and without a conductor, Camerata Alma Viva make a welcome return to Conway Hall as part of their European tour and new album release. Mozart | Divertimento in F K138 ..

The Linos Piano Trio returns to Conway Hall with the rarely heard Beethoven transcription of his own second Symphony, followed by the trio's re-imagination of the variations from the Eroica Symphony. Hailed by Schumann as one of the genre's masterworks, Mendelssohn's D minor ..

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Elgar's piano quintet is one of three works completed during the summer of 1918 (the other works being the string quartet and the violin sonata), while he was staying at Brinkwells in Sussex, a country cottage rented by the Elgar family, and is dedicated to Ernest Newman, mu ..

Posthumously discovered by Moeran's widow in 1950, British composer Ernest John Moeran's E flat quartet is an early work, set in two movements in a relaxed mood, and full of echoes of Ireland, where Moeran spent much of his life. Borodin's second quartet (with the famous 'No ..

Our Autumn 2019 series of concerts comes to a close with Schubert's G major quartet, his last work for the genre. To welcome in the festive season, the Piatti Quartet's performance begins with Suk's Meditation on 'St Wenceslas', composed when he was second violinist in the B ..

British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill, returns to Conway Hall for a free Pre-Concert Talk, exploring the invention and evolution of the saxophone. When it was invented by Adolphe Saxe, the saxophone was only one of a number of instruments created to cor ..

This FREE Pre-Concert Recital will feature students from the Royal College of Music, and will take place before the evening's Sunday Concert. This is a fantastic opportunity to witness the future generation of music stars, as a leading ensemble from the internationally-renow ..

This FREE Pre-Concert Recital will feature students from the Royal College of Music, and will take place before the evening's Sunday Concert. The Eumelia Trio, a leading ensemble from the internationally-renowned conservatoire, will perform a programme of music entirely by w ..

To tie in with the Bloomsbury Festival, which is taking place at Conway Hall during the weekend, journalist and musicologist Peter Quantrill discusses the development of the string quartet and its early pioneers. This FREE event will be followed by the evening's Sunday Co ..

This FREE Pre-Concert Recital will feature students from the Royal College of Music, and will take place before the evening's Sunday Concert. The Brompton Quartet, a leading ensemble from the internationally-renowned conservatoire, will perform a programme of music entirely ..

British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill, returns to Conway Hall for a FREE Pre-Concert Talk, exploring the 'Cinderella Effect' that occurred with the emergence of Mozart's piano quartet. Intended for amateurs but in fact far too difficult, Mozart's first ..

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