Through-out history, humans have turned to technology to overcome our own human, physical limitations.
Through-out history, humans have turned to technology to overcome our own human, physical limitations.
Charles Owen celebrates his 50th birthday with a recital devoted to five composers all of whom took the piano and its music to new heights of imaginative genius. The twin French masters Debussy and Ravel
Juan Martín is a celebrated virtuoso of the flamenco guitar who was voted in the top three of guitarists in the world by US magazine ‘Guitar Player’.
Laura Snowden and Eleanor Kelly play new work by women composers, and Tom Kerstens’ G Plus Ensemble perform new IGF commissions.
Brilliant young players Pavel Ralev and Alexander Hart share this concert, playing 25 minutes each. Come and hear the future of the guitar!
A 30 min performance by British guitarist George Tarlton, the outstanding winner of London International Guitar Competition 2019.
David Russell is one of the giants of the classical guitar today. His beautifully polished and refined playing have made him a hero to guitarists and audiences the world over.
Katalin Koltai and Hope Cramsie play work by women composers including two new IGF commissions by Electra Perivolaris, Florence Anna Maunders and Louise Drewett.
Rafael Aguirre is an internationally acclaimed guitarist whose deep understanding of music, dazzling virtuosity and immensely diverse repertoire has taken him to 35 countries.
Phantasm celebrates consort music composed on the Thames. With Fantasias from the pens of John Ward, William Lawes and Henry Purcell...
The five-strong string band VOŁOSI are one of the undiscovered treasures of Polish traditional music. Combining two classical and three folk musicians, they create a distinctive sound with a dramatic stage presence.
In the second edition of the hugely popular Rush-hour Lates series, the Brodsky Quartet perform Schubert’s last three quartets and his quintet, lovingly set up with musical preludes.
Countertenor Iestyn Davies co-curates a special London Unwrapped programme which sparks a dialogue across four centuries of music and ideas. At its root are songs by the brightest stars in the musical firmament of Elizabethan
Following the critical acclaim of their debut album HERE WE ARE, award-winning contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment release their second album, SONG.
In this glittering programme, ‘The Immigrant’, Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero views early works of Rachmaninov, Stravinsky and Prokofiev, all of whom emigrated to America, through the prism of Charlie Chaplin’s legendary film.
Pianist Katya Apekisheva explores the world of late Schubert through her close affinity with the three Klavierstücke, D946, and Sonata in B flat, D960, revealing compelling facets of the Viennese composer by turns turbulent, obsessive, otherworldly and dance-like.
Owen Mortimer, Editor of International Piano, will interview composer Sally Beamish in this pre-concert talk ahead of the Two-Piano Gala.
The Two Piano Gala forms the heart of the London Piano Festival where five internationally acclaimed pianists will team up in various formations to celebrate the joys, challenges and sheer brilliance of pianistic collaboration.
In this special lecture-recital, famous mathematician Marcus du Sautoy will explain how ideas of symmetry are at work throughout the variations. Like an audible Alhambra, Bach plays with different symmetrical ideas to create the 30 variations that make up the piece, here played by the pianist Charles Owen.
In the second edition of the hugely popular Rush-hour Lates series, the Brodsky Quartet perform Schubert’s last three quartets and his quintet, lovingly set up with musical preludes.
With performers steeped in the choral tradition of these Isles, 100 years of Coronations surveys the field from 1661 (the Restoration of Charles II) through to 1761 (George III).
The flamenco guitarist Dani de Morón is a leading performer of his generation, who has always worked alongside legendary flamenco performers: when he was in his 20s, he toured with Paco de Lucía as his second guitarist. He has
The highlight of this evening is an unmissable performance by one of the greatest guitar acts of all time: the Assad Brothers guitar duo from Brazil featuring Sergio and Odair Assad. The Assad Brothers have set