As a special 40th-anniversary celebration EPTA UK, European Piano Teachers’ Association, is delighted to present a celebrity masterclass featuring its joint Patron Angela Hewitt.
Paying tribute to human courage has inspired composers down the ages. In this special programme the Brodsky Quartet bring together responses to wars from the last hundred years.
Nico Muhly is one of the most sought-after composers and collaborators internationally. The recipient of commissions from The Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall and St Paul’s Cathedral, he also has a long association with Aurora Orchestra.
Devised in collaboration with composer Nico Muhly and countertenor Iestyn Davies, Aurora Orchestra’s programme stops the clocks and delves into ancient notions of time, as explored by Dowland, Debussy, Satie and Adès.
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To mark the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Arts Society, the London area of the organisation presents an afternoon concert of music directly associated with the English capital.
The music: A deep meditation on God’s will, with standout moments for oboe and tenor and bass singers. The science: Is there life on other worlds? Science is slowly getting closer to finding an answer.
An intimate performance of Mozart’s sublime Requiem from Hugo Ticciati with O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra and VOCES8 is prefaced by Schubert’s coruscating vision of mortality, Death and the Maiden, performed by Signum Quartet.
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Autumn 2018 marks the centenary of Elgar’s Piano Quintet, which provides the culmination of this varied concert. The concert begins with Haydn’s beautiful C major Quartet from the Op. 54 set, a bright and sunny opening movement.
Artist-in-residence Hugo Ticciati is joined by three outstanding musicians of his generation, Swedish cellist Andreas Brantelid, UK pianist Alasdair Beatson and clarinettist-composer Mark Simpson.
Alternative classical trailblazers Manchester Collective collaborate with electronic artist Vessel and composer Daniel Elms on a rare evening of ambitious, breathtaking performance.
The award-winning vocal ensemble perform a programme of Christmas music featuring traditional carols, festive favourites and new pieces, all by English choral composers.
The music: The OAE perform one of Bach’s Christmas cantatas, this one written for the Feast of John the Evangelist. The science: Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the presenter of the BBC’s legendary The Sky at Night series tells us about the challenges of engineering for space.
Returning to Kings Place, Sonoro, one of the UK’s most impressive chamber choirs, has won acclaim for its exquisitely balanced sound and passionate singing.
Some of the best period instrument specialists in the UK, the goal of the Hanover Band is to give audiences a feeling for what earlier music sounded like when heard in favourable circumstances.
Little Fir Tree is a magical new uplifting musical for whole family, re-imagined from the Hans Christian Andersen story and presented by celebrity storyteller Sylvester McCoy, cast and live orchestra.
Aurora Orchestra brings the year to a close in style with a New Year’s Eve programme in the company of world-class pianist Imogen Cooper.
We're counting down to the new year in style with a very special edition of Aurora Orchestra’s late-night Lock-In series.
Barbara Strozzi was famed throughout 17th century Venice for her glorious voice and artistry, ‘la virtuosissima cantatrice’ of the city state. Yet this pupil of Cavalli was quietly creating a unique musical legacy.
Renowned Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska presents an exquisite Parisian menu, prefacing a Chopin sequence with an exploration of the subtle textures and shifting colours of Debussy, Tailleferre, Fauré and Ravel.
French violinist Philippe Graffin celebrates the centenary of Elgar’s beautiful Violin Sonata. Plus, works by Beethoven, Fauré and Peter Fribbins’s piano trio Softly in the Dusk…,
IMS Prussia Cove is a charitable organisation dedicated to music-making at the highest level, fostering new generations of talented musicians from across the world, supporting musical idealism and enabling international collaboration. Tonight’s concert reunites a
Musica Secreta takes the listener from the mystical songs composed by Hildegard of Bingen, via medieval convents of France and Spain to the great flowering of polyphonic music in the numerous convents of the Italian Renaissance.
The Bang on a Can All-Stars team up with BBC Singers and conductor Tecwyn Evans for the UK premiere of Julia Wolfe’s haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical Anthracite Fields.
Young refugees from an award-winning poetry programme perform their own spoken word over orchestral backing tracks written in collaboration with composer Toby Young.