FREE Pre-Concert Recital: Royal College of Music Musicians – Eumelia Trio
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 week, the Eumelia Trio, a leading ensemble from the internationally-renowned conservatoire, will perform a programme of music entirely by woman composers. This is a fantastic opportunity to witness the future generation of music […]
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – The Fascinating History of the Saxophone
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 correct the problems inherent in the instrumentation of the orchestra. Perceived as […]
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – The Cinderella Effect – A History of the Piano Quartet
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 piano quartet effectively created a new genre, which remained in the shadow of its big […]
Pre-Concert Talk: Peter Quantrill – Small Steps and Giant Leaps
Pre-Concert Talk: Peter Quantrill – endeavour, progress and pioneering achievements 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 Concert, in […]
Pre-Concert Talk: Robert Hugill – Arrangement, Transcription and Popularisation
British composer, journalist, and lecturer Robert Hugill, returns to Conway Hall for a free Pre-Concert Talk, exploring arrangement, transcription and popularisation in classical chamber music. Arrangements and transcriptions were everywhere in the late 18th and 19th centuries, from Beethoven symphonies for piano duet to Rossini for wind octet. Beethoven even did some himself, producing a […]
Camerata Alma Viva
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 Handel arr. Mouret | Passacaglia from Keyboard Suite no. 7 in G minor HWV 432 Mozart | Divertimento in B flat K137 Kabalevsky arr. Mouret | Waltz from The Comedians Op. 26 Mozart | Divertimento in D […]
Book Launch – The Trap by Ludovic Bruckstein
The Trap and The Rag Doll are two novellas by the Romanian writer Ludovic Bruckstien, that have remained undiscovered for many years. Now his son has brought together the collected works of his father, revealing a rich world of Jewish culture from the Maramureș region of northern Romania. Both narratives are concerned with extraordinary stories of survival and […]
Songs Of Hope by Vocal Chords Acapella Choir & Guests
This benefit concert will raise funds for Culture Declares Emergency on Climate Change. — Founded in 2013 by Melanie Harrold, Vocal Chords is a South East London acapella harmony choir open to anyone who can sing. Melanie, former lead singer with the Hank Wangford Band and now with the fabulous Daphne’s Flight, currently taking the […]
Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames
Mudlark (/’mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for over fifteen years, in pursuit of the objects that the river unearths: from Neolithic flints to Roman hair pins, medieval buckles to Tudor buttons, Georgian clay pipes […]