Diary

Upcoming events

Conway Hall

May 18, 2025
18:30 – 20:30
Conway Hall

Programme TBA

Albion Refracted

May 22, 2025
20:00 – 21:15
Kings Place, Hall One
Joseph PhibbsString Quartet No.1  
Three Idylls for String Quartet II. Allegretto poco lento
HolstPhantasy for String Quartet
TurnageWinter’s Edge III 
Thomas AdèsArcadiana Op.12 V. L’embarquement 
Edmund FinnisString Quartet No.1 Aloysius IV Hymn (After Byrd)
BrittenString Quartet No.1
Alex Lawthernarrator 
Sean Mullanvisual artist 

This programme is centred around the evocative poet, Alice Oswald, and equally compelling composer with whom the Piatti Quartet have built up a close relationship – Joseph Phibbs, the programme begins with the miniature and intimate, then opens out as the poetry and visuals guide you through woodland, waterfalls, the sea, the sky and lastly the moon and stars. The Quartet is joined by The Imitation Game actor Alex Lawther.

Stapleford Granary

May 23, 2025
19:00 – 20:00
Cambridge, Stapleford Granary

Music in Lyddington

May 24, 2025
19:30 – 21:30
Lyddington

Lincoln Cathedral

June 5, 2025
19:30 – 21:00
Lincoln Cathedral

Mendelssohn Octet with Opus 76 Quartet who are touring from Kansas!

Mendelssohn Octet

June 7, 2025
All-day event
Venue tbc

Location tbc with the Opus 76 Quartet, touring from Kansas

Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

June 12, 2025
19:30 – 21:30
Djanogly Recital Hall

Webern: LangsamerSatz

Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major, Op.12

Ina Boyle: Quartet in E minor

Dvorak: ‘American’ Quartet, Op.96 in F major


Past events

Chiltern Arts Festival

May 10, 2025
All-day event

Details TBA

Brighton Festival

May 8, 2025
13:00 – 14:00
Royal Pavilion, Brighton

08 May 2025, Lunchtime Recital (1 hour)

MOERAN: Quartet No.2 in E flat major (19’)

BLACKFORD: Spirit of Delight (7’)

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartet No. 6 in F Minor, Op. 80 (26’)

Évosges, Schubertiade,France, 24th-28th

April 24, 2025
00:00 – 00:00
Évosges, France

‘Whibley Holidays with Music’ host a Schubertiade in the stunning mountaintop village of Évosges, France. Click on the link for the full schedule.

St. Martin-in-the-Fields: Stabat Mater

April 1, 2025
19:00 – 20:00
St Martin-in-the-Fields
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Programme tba

Kings Place: Cinematic Quartets

March 20, 2025
19:00 – 20:00
Kings Place, Hall One
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Phillip GlassQuartet No. 3 Mishima
Johnny GreenwoodProspectors Quartet from ‘There Will Be Blood’
Samuel BarberAdagio for Strings from Platoon
ShostakovichString Quartet No. 8 from Dresden

Luton Music

March 17, 2025
19:30 – 21:30
Luton

Programme tba

Cheltenham Music Society

March 6, 2025
19:30 – 21:30
Cheltenham Town Hall

Programme to include the widely critically acclaimed Joseph Phibbs Quartet No.4 (2024), Mendelssohn A minor Quartet and other scintillating works.

la bonne chanson

Fauré’s songs represent his art at its most radiant, demonstrating the composer’s exceptional gift for melody as well as his acute sensitivity to the subtleties of the greatest French poets of the day.

In ‘La bonne chanson’, the result is a song cycle like few others: an ecstatic hymn to the beloved (the composer’s mistress) which celebrates the triumph of love. Here, it provides a glorious opening to Nicky Spence, Piatti Quartet and Julius Drake’s all-Faure recital.

Kings Place: In Pursuit of Love

February 13, 2025
19:00 – 20:00
Kings Place, Hall One
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Soundbites series concert series continues with this Valentine’s inspired concert featuring works by Tchaikovsky and Borodin.