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Past events

As part of our association with PRiSM, we perform works by composers based at the RNCM in Manchester.

Conway Hall: 6:30-8:30pm *ONLINE*

May 2, 2021
18:30 – 20:00
Conway Hall, London

Conway Hall’s historic Sunday Concerts series is presenting its 2021 Spring Season as a series of live online performances via Youtube Live, using state of the art live-stream equipment to give you the very best in audio and visual quality. Please book a ticket by clicking ‘more information.’

Elgar: Quartet in E minor Op. 83

Turnage: Quartet No. 4 (Winter’s Edge)

Borodin: Quartet No. 2 in D

We’re bringing sparkling quartet music to two schools in Winchester, thanks to the Cavatina Trust and Winchester Chamber Music Festival.

Purcell – Chacony in G minor

Beethoven – String Quartet Op 18 No 1 in F

Dvořák– String Quartet No 12 in F ‘American’

Click on the link for more details: You can watch the performance from 7.30pm on Thursday 25 March and it will be available to watch as many times as you like for the following 30 days. Your access details will be sent to you 24 hours before the performance starts, with full details of how to watch the concert.

Nimbus Records: Gavin Higgins, 26-28th November

November 26, 2020
All-day event
Monmouth

We are delighted to be recording a string quintet and a string sextet showcasing works by the young and exciting composer, Gavin Higgins, for Nimbus Records. Gavin’s music will be featured at this year’s BBC Proms (already his 3rd commission from the Proms).

Viola: Sara Roberts

Cello: David Cohen

University of Southampton Concert Society 60th anniversary concert, 8pm

November 24, 2020
20:00 – 21:00
Turner Sims, Southampton

Livestream

Beethoven Quartet in F, Op 18 No 1 (1800)

Mark-Anthony Turnage Winter’s Edge (2016) – last movement

Dvořák Quartet in F, Op 96 American (1893)

Hyperion Recording: On Wenlock Edge, 17-18th November

November 18, 2020
All-day event
St.Silas, London

We will be recording a disc to be released with Hyperion Records featuring the song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams, ‘On Wenlock Edge’, with Julius Drake on piano and Nicky Spence as tenor. The rest of the recording will include more of RVW’s songs and 4 Hymns for tenor, viola, piano with Timothy Rideout.

St. George's Bristol, 7pm

October 31, 2020
19:00 – 20:00
St. George's, Bristol

Beethoven: Op.18 No.1 in F major

Beethoven: Piano Concerto in G major, Op.58 (arr. Lachner)

Piano: Janina Fialkowska

St. George's Bristol, 3pm

October 31, 2020
15:00 – 16:00
St.George's, Bristol

Beethoven: Op.18 No.1 in F major

Beethoven: Piano Concerto in C minor, Op.37

Piano: Janina Fialkowska

Oxford Coffee Concerts, Online Streamed Performance, 11:15am

October 26, 2020
11:15 – 12:15
Holywell Room, Oxford

Bridge: 3 Idylls

Webern: LangsamerSatz

Beethoven: Op.18 No.1 in F major

The Northern Lights Mini-Fest, Belfast, 5:30pm LIVESTREAM

October 18, 2020
17:30 – 18:30
The Harty Room, QUB

To mark the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth, a concert of Beethoven piano concertos specially arranged for piano quintet by Vinzenz Lachner.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58

Piano: Janina Fialkowska

Artists: Boris Bizjak (flute), Lana Trotovsek (violin), Piatti Quartet

A very special CD dedicated to the inimitable compositions for flute by Hoffmeister, including a duo, two trios, a quartet and a quintet!

Oxford Coffee Concerts

September 24, 2020
11:15 – 12:15
Holywell Room, Oxford

We will be recording a concert for Oxford Coffee Concerts and this livestream will be released later this Autumn. Stay tuned for more details!

Bridge: Three Idylls

Webern: LangsamerSatz

Beethoven: Op.18 No.1 in F major

Bollington Chamber Concerts: LIVESTREAM, 7:30pm

September 19, 2020
19:30 – 21:00
Bollington Arts Centre

Programme tbc

RNCM: PRiSM Recording

September 18, 2020
All-day event
RNCM

This marks our first visit as ‘PRiSM Associate’s’ at the RNCM. We will be making a recording of Emily Howard’s The Music of Proof and start working on a new commission with Emily to be premiered at the Concertgebouw Hall, Amsterdam, in April 2021. This is a very exciting project involving composition with Artificial Intelligence, so watch this space for more details over the coming months.

The Kirker Music Festival at Tresanton, St. Mawes

March 11, 2020
All-day event
St. Mawes

Rowland-Jones: String Quartet No.7, “Ewenny”
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
Brahms: String Quartet in B flat, Op.67

The Kirker Music Festival at Tresanton, St. Mawes

March 10, 2020
All-day event
St. Mawes

Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op.18 No.1
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110
Brahms: String Quintet in G, Op.111

Simon Rowland-Jones, viola

The Kirker Music Festival at Tresanton, St. Mawes

March 9, 2020
All-day event
St.Mawes

Purcell: Chacony in G minor (arr. Benjamin Britten)
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op.80
Beethoven: String Quartet in C major, Op.59 No.3 ‘Razumovsky’

Chipping Sodbury Music Society, 7.30pm

February 11, 2020
19:30 – 21:30
Chipping Sodbury

Purcell: Chacony in G minor, arr. Britten

Borodin: String Quartet No.2

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op.59, No.3, ‘Razumovsky’

Nottingham Lakeside Arts, 7.30pm

February 6, 2020
19:30 – 21:00
Lakeside Arts, Nottingham

Purcell: Chacony in G minor, arr. Britten

Borodin: String Quartet No.2

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op.59, No.3, ‘Razumovsky’

Live on 'In Tune', BBC Radio 3

February 5, 2020
All-day event
BBC Studios

We will be performing live and chatting on BBC Radio 3’s ever-popular ‘In Tune.’

Music at 22 Mansfield Street, 7pm

January 16, 2020
19:00 – 20:00
22 Mansfield Street, London

Purcell: Chacony in G minor, arr. Britten
Turnage: ‘Winter’s Edge’ (Piatti Quartet commission)
Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No.2, ‘Razumovksy’

A special concert to raise funds for a recording of Winter’s Edge; Supper to follow

Imperial College, Blyth Centre, 1pm

January 16, 2020
13:00 – 14:00
Blyth Theatre, Imperial College

Programme to include works by Purcell, Britten, and Elizabeth Machonchy

Emily Pailthorpe, oboe

Witney Music Society, 7.30pm

January 10, 2020
19:30 – 20:30
Witney

Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 20, No.4
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op. 110
Beethoven: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No.2, ‘Razumovsky’

Conway Hall Sunday Concerts, 6.30pm

December 15, 2019
18:30 – 19:30
Conway Hall, London

Suk: Meditation on the Old Czech Hymn ‘St Wenceslas’ Op.35a
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op.110
Schubert: Quartet in G major, D.887