Primrose Piano Quartet & Will Duerden
Primrose Piano Quartet & Will Duerden • 6.30pm 2018 BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist Will Duerden joins the Primrose Piano Quartet in a colourful programme, beginning with Mahler’s foreboding early quartet, his only chamber work, which was not published until almost 60 years after his death. The strings then take centre stage for […]
Alkyona Quartet
Formed in the bustle of London in 2018, the Alkyona Quartet present fresh imaginative interpretations of both well-known and hidden gems of the string quartet repertoire. The quartet also revels in finding and championing scintillating but overlooked works. They love collaborations across the Arts and are often found presenting both string quartet and collaborative works […]
Greenwich Trio & Boris Bizjak
The Greenwich Trio are no strangers to Conway Hall and their accomplished, compelling performances are always well received. For their return to our concert series, they are joined by flautist Boris Bizjak, praised by Gramophone for his “freshness and originality”. Their selection of repertoire could not be more varied: from Hummel’s imaginative arrangement of Beethoven’s […]
London Piano Quartet
For their second recital of 2023, the London Piano Quartet – a collaboration between members of the Piatti Quartet and pianist, Simon Callaghan – offer a programme showcasing this special combination of instruments, and spanning almost a century. Beethoven begins their concert, before Fauré’s first quartet, considered by many as one of his masterpieces. Brahms’ […]
On Wenlock Edge
Thanks to the support of Cockayne – Grants for the Arts, we are pleased to present a series of vocal recitals during the 2023/24 season, devised in collaboration with one of the leading piano accompanists of our time, Roger Vignoles. For the first of these special events, Vignoles is joined by tenor James Gilchrist and […]
Medea Quartet
Drawn together from a young age by a love for string quartet playing, Clara Mezzanatto and Ada Guarneri performed for many years in the same string quartet in their native Italy having met at the Xenia Chamber Music Course. Now based in London, they formed the Medea Quartet in 2020 with English violist Joanna Patrick […]
Fidelio Trio & Pre-Concert Talk with Robert Hugill
Fidelio Trio • 6.30pm Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, the Fidelio Trio have regularly appeared at the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, at festivals including Spitalfields, Cheltenham, St. Magnus and Huddersfield. Their extensive discography includes most recently a Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice of Chamber Music by E J Moeran, a composer with whom […]
Tailleferre Ensemble
The Tailleferre Ensemble has recently released their world premiere recording of Sonate champêtre by Germaine Tailleferre. Their Conway Hall programme, showcasing groups of varying sizes from solo piano up to a sextet, features works by all of the members of Les Six, setting the music of their namesake in context. Poulenc’s much-loved Sextet is perhaps […]
Raphael Wallfisch & Simon Callaghan
A great friend of Prokofiev, Myaskovsky’s chamber music is rarely performed. We are delighted to welcome internationally-renowned cellist, Raphael Wallfisch to perform the Second Cello Sonata alongside Conway Hall Director of Music, Simon Callaghan. Myaskovsky’s works exhibit all the best trademarks of Russian music – yearning melodies, rich harmonies, and lots of virtuosity. For their […]