Ben Goldscheider, Callum Smart and Richard Uttley
In 2016, Ben Goldscheider was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, performing at London’s Barbican Centre with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. For his debut performance at Conway Hall he is joined by fellow BBC finalist Callum Smart and pianist Richard Uttley in ‘classic’ chamber works for horn, alongside the world […]
Trio Gaspard
Junior Fellows at the Royal Northern College of Music, Trio Gaspard have been praised for their unique and fresh approach to performance. The members hail from Germany, Greece and the UK, and we are very pleased to welcome them for their debut at Conway Hall. Haydn Trio in C Hob.XV:27 Faure Trio in D minor […]
Fibonacci Sequence
Poulenc Flute Sonata Barber Summer Music for wind quintet Op.31 Mozart Quintet in E flat for piano and winds K452 Mozart Fantasy No.3 in D minor K397 Poulenc Sextet FP 100 Ileana Ruhemann (flute) Christopher O’Neal (oboe) Anthony Pike (clarinet) Julie Andrews (bassoon) Richard Bayliss (horn) Kathron Sturrock (piano) Conway Hall regulars, the ‘Fibs’ present […]
Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change
A public conversation between Dr Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, and Stephen Reid, founder and co-director of The Psychedelic Society. The Earth is in the grip of a sixth mass extinction event, with 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles wiped out since 1970. The biggest cause of wildlife loss is the destruction of natural […]
Looking Forward: The Next Ten Years
What key aspects of our lives are predicted to shift radically over the next ten years? As Bloomsbury celebrates ten years of outstanding publishing as Bloomsbury Academic, we’ve invited some of our most fascinating authors to fill us in on the opportunities, challenges and biggest changes coming to our lives in the next ten years. […]
Thinking on Monday: Adventures in the Anthropocene – A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Join Gaia Vince for the first talk in the Thinking on Monday series. We live in epoch-making times. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.6 billion-year history. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing into the Anthropocene – […]
The Gendered Brain
The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain. This is not feminist science – it’s just science. Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. The twenty-first century world is one which seems determined to magnify […]
Thinking on Sunday: The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far Right Extremism
This talk explores the interaction between the ‘new’ far right and Islamist extremists and considers the consequences for the global terror threat. Julia Ebner argues that far right and Islamist extremist narratives – ‘The West is at war with Islam’ and ‘Muslims are at war with the West’ – complement each other perfectly, making the […]
Thinking on Sunday: Talk – The Science of Conversation
We spend much of our day talking. Yet we know little about the conversational engine that drives our everyday lives. We are pushed and pulled around by language far more than we realize yet are seduced by stereotypes and myths about communication. This lecture will change the way you think about talk. It will explain […]