Total Brass is an award-winning brass quintet formed of current and past students of the Royal Academy of Music. Members of the quintet are Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music 2013/14, and winners of the Tunnell Trust Award 2013 (for 2014/15), Park Lane Group Young Artists 2013/14, winners of the Worshipful
Bartosz Glowacki is one of the leading lights of a new generation of accordionists. In 2015 he graduated from The Royal Academy of Music with a first class diploma and Regency Award for noticeable achievements. He is currently a postgraduate student at The Royal Academy of Music, City of Music Foundation 2016 Artist and Artist
Tom Poster studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and King’s College Cambridge. He won First Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition 2007, the Ensemble Prize at the Honens International Piano Competition 2009, and the keyboard sections of the Royal Over-Seas League and BBC Young Musician of the Year Competitions in 2000.
Recognised for their powerful interpretations of new as well as established repertoire, the Lawson Trio has appeared at major venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, the Southbank Centre and at many UK music societies and international festivals. Live concert broadcasts have included BBC Radio 3’s ‘Live in Concert’ and ‘In Tune,’ programmes. The ensemble
Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto RV495 Ireland Sextet Beethoven Septet Op. 20 Based in London this mixed ensemble was formed by clarinettist Poppy Beddoe whilst at the Royal Academy of Music and was created to follow the instrumentation of Schubert's Octet drawing together a virtuosic line-up of individual performers. The ensemble has flourished in the last few
John Dowland - Fantasia Ia Guilio Regondi - Reverie ‘Nocturne’ J.S. Bach Andante & Allegro from Violin Sonata II Vicente Asencio - Collectici Intim Heitor Villa-Lobos - Five Preludes Leo Brouwer - Ritual and Festive Dances Born in Moscow and raised in Australia, Andrey Lebedev is one of the most successful young guitarists of his
Michael Nyman - Chasing Sheep is best left to Shepherds Gabriel Fauré - Pavane Josie Simmons - Irish Folk Song Suite Rob Buckland - New York Hat Astor Piazzolla - Oblivion & Libertango John Tavener - The Lamb Bob Mintzer - Quartet No.1 George Gershwin - Three Preludes Richard Rodney Bennett - Four Country Dances
Haydn - Quartet Op.76 No.2 Janáček - Quartet No. 1 (The Kreutzer Sonata) Debussy - Quartet Fast becoming one of the UK’s leading quartets, the Gildas Quartet has won five-star reviews for their stylish, intense and committed performances. Passionate exponents of a diverse and varied repertoire, they have commissioned and given many premières alongside their
Prokofiev Prelude Bach Lute Suite no. 1 De Falla Spanish Dance from ‘La Vida Breve’ Ravel Prelude, À la Manière de Chabrier, Jeux d’eau Chertok Around the Clock Suite Prokofiev Music from ‘Romeo and Juliette’ Posse Variations on Carnival of Venice Oliver became the first harpist ever to win the Guildhall Gold Medal and went
Milhaud Scaramouche Albeniz Suite Española Maurice Tableaux de Provence De Falla Siete Canciones Populares Españolas An exciting and colourful exploration of the cultural sympathy and musical styles of the two countries on either side of the Pyrenees, Spain and France. Jonathan Radford features as a ‘rising star’ in BBC Music Magazine 2018 and is a
Debussy Piano Trio in G major Ravel Piano Trio Vasks Plainscapes Shostakovich Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor The intensely beautiful trios by contemporaries Ravel and Debussy contrast with the sharply mercurial trio of the sixteen-year-old Shostakovich. Pēteris Vask’s work is a version of one originally scored with choir: an extended meditation culminating in
Rebay Grand Duo for 2 guitars Mompou Canción y Danza nos. 2 & 6 Brouwer from ‘Beatlerianas’ Villa-Lobos from ‘Cirandinhas’ de Falla Suite from ‘El Amor Brujo’ Nova Guitar Duo bring us a programme hot from their debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall which explores vibrant music from Spain and South America. The duo formed
Oboe & Piano Grovlez Sarabande And Allegro Schumann Abendlied Silverstrini Six Etudes Pour Hautbois Schumann Romance Clara Schumann Nocturne Thea Musgrave Night Windows Rachmaninov Etude Tableaux Op. 33 No. 3 Finizi Interlude Poulenc Sonata Katherine Bryer is one the UK’s finest oboists and brings us an evening rich in variety leading towards one of the classic
Dvorak American Quartet Movt 1 Clara Schumann Romance Bach 2 Prelude And Fugues David Lancaster Swan Michael Torke July Jonathan Dove Tuning In Rameau Gavotte Piazolla Libertango Debussy Quartet Movt 3 Marc Mellits Black Described by the Times as ‘irresistible’, Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet is an innovative collaboration between four creative young players. Here they perform
Cello & Piano Faure Élégie Op. 24 Rameau Les Cyclopes Les Sauvages Les Poules Debussy Cello Sonata In D Poulenc Sonata For Cello And Piano Swiss cellist Timothée Botbol and Ukrainian pianist Dinara Klinton return by popular demand after last season’s electric concert. Here they explore music from France looking back briefly to the 18th
