in concert
2024
Adult String Players ‘Benedetti Sessions’ Day at Howell’s School, Cardiff
Outi Tarkiainen / The Ring of Fire and Love
Maurice Ravel / Piano Concerto in G
An introduction to Stravinsky‘s Firebird with Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service
Igor Stravinsky / The Firebird Suite (1945 version) (from memory)
Outi Tarkiainen / The Ring of Fire and Love
Maurice Ravel / Piano Concerto in G
An introduction to Stravinsky‘s Firebird with Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service
Igor Stravinsky / The Firebird Suite (1945 version) (from memory)
Jenny joins pianist Dina Duisen and friends in Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat, Op.44
Maurice Ravel / Piano Concerto in G
An introduction to Stravinsky‘s Firebird with Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service
Igor Stravinsky / The Firebird Suite (1945 version) (from memory)
Maurice Ravel / Piano Concerto in G
An introduction to Stravinsky‘s Firebird with Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service
Igor Stravinsky / The Firebird Suite (1945 version) (from memory)
Maurice Ravel / Piano Concerto in G
An introduction to Stravinsky‘s Firebird with Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service
Igor Stravinsky / The Firebird Suite (1945 version) (from memory)
Jenny returns to work with the Benedetti Foundation from the 1st – 3rd November in Perth, Scotland
Past Concerts
2024
From the 29th July – 2nd August, Jenny and co-founder Rachel Cooper will head up VIVAstrings, an inspiring, action-packed residential course for young string players.
The Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival returns to 3 Marryat Road from the 27th – 30th June. More information coming soon.
Britten / Three Divertimenti
Haydn / String Quartet Op 74 No 3 in G minor ‘Rider’
Bartók / String Quartet No. 4 in C major
Bach / O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde gross BWV622
Wynton Marsalis / Excerpts from ‘At the Octoroon Balls’
Schumann / Quartet in F Op.41/2
The Kleio Quartet return to Ede-Wageningen for the third installment of their MERITA/SQBA collaboration residency from the 27th – 31st May
Haydn / String Quartet Op. 76 No. 5 in Dmajor
Bartók / String Quartet No.4 in C major
Haydn / Quartet in D minor Op.76 No.2 “Fifths”
Wynton Marsalis / Excerpts from Quartet No.1 ‘At the Octoroon Balls’
Bartók / Quartet No.4 in C major
Haydn / Quartet Op.76 No. 5 in D
Dvořák / Quartet No.13 Op.106
Schubert / Quartettsatz
Haydn / Quartet Op.76 No. 5 in D
Dvořák / Quartet No.13 Op.106
Bartók / String Quartet no. 4
Mozart / No. 14 in G major Spring
Mendelssohn / Op. 44 No. 4 in E minor
Haydn / String Quartet in G minor, Op. 74 No. 3 ‘Rider’
Marsalis / String Quartet No. 1 ‘At the Octoroon Balls’
Dvořák / String Quartet in G major, Op. 106
Dvořák / Quartet No.13 Op.106
Haydn / Quartet Op.76 No. 5 in D
Haydn / String Quartet Op 74, No 3 in G minor, ‘The Rider’
Marsalis / ‘Mating Calls’ and ‘Creole Contradanzas’ from At The Octoroon Balls
Bartok / String Quartet No 4 in C major
The Kleio Quartet join the class of Kirill Gerstein at IMS Prussia Cove from the 24th March – 3rd April 2024
Haydn / String Quartet in D major, Op 76 No 5
Mendelssohn / String Quartet in E minor, Op 44 No 2.
The Kleio Quartet will join holiday-makers and music-lovers on a Kirker Music Holiday featuring multiple concerts at venues dotted around the Cornish countryside.
Mozart / String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387
Mendelssohn / String Quartet No. 4, Op.44 No. 2
Bartók / String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91
Winners of the Tunnell Trust Award Scheme 2023-24 the Kleio Quartet will embark on a tour of the Scottish Borders from the 7th – 10th March.
Mozart / G major Quartet K387
Bartók / String Quartet No.4
Brahms / Piano Quintet in F major, Op.34
As members of the ProQuartet Residency 2023-24, the Kleio Quartet are delighted to have the opportunity to return to the Bibliothèque La Grange-Fleuret in Paris for a week’s masterclasses with their mentor Eckart Runge, as well as with pianist Jacques Ammon.
With thanks to the Merita Platform, the Kleio Quartet will feature at the Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale from 29th January – 3rd February 2024.
2023
The Kleio Quartet return to Leighton House for a programme inspired by Frederic Lord Leighton, his life and loves. Futher details coming soon.
City Music Foundation presents the Kleio Quartet –
Beethoven / Op.18 No.3 in D major
Verdi / Quartet in E minor
The Kleio Quartet are delighted to return to the intimate setting of 22 Mansfield Street for a programme including Nielsen’s 1st Quartet in G minor. Please contact us for ticket information.
Haydn / String Quartet Op. 74 No. 3 in G minor (‘Rider’)
Beethoven / String Quartet No.9 in C major, Op. 59 No.3 (‘Razumovsky’)
Nielsen / String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13
From the 25th – 29th October, the Kleio Quartet will participate in the Bambarone String Quartet Masterclass 2023 with Eckart Runge (ex-Artemis Quartet) to include two performances at the end of the stay.
Verdi / Quartet in E minor
Schubert / Quintet in C major
With thanks to the Merita Platform, the Kleio Quartet will participate in masterclasses and concerts in and around Amsterdam from the 9th – 13th October – further details to follow.
The Kleio Quartet return to the Holywell Music Room’s popular Coffee Concert Series in Oxford. Further details coming soon.
The Kleio Quartet return to Kings Place for a masterclass with their mentor John Myerscough (Doric Quartet) with thanks to ChamberStudio.
Beethoven / Op.18 No.3 in D major
Verdi / Quartet in E minor
The third edition of VIVAstrings, a summer course for young string players, will take place from the 31st July – 4th August. Jenny, as co-founder, returns to coach young ensembles.
From the 22nd – 25th June the Kleio Quartet appear as artists at the 25th anniversary year of the Peasmarsh Festival, collaborating with Richard Lester and Simone van der Giessen as well as five local schools in a collaborative education programme. See website for concert details.
Franz Schubert / String Quintet in C major, D.956
with cellist Bartholomew LaFollette
The Kleio Quartet appear at SmorgasChord performing György Kurtág’s Zwiegespräch and other works in collaboration with electronic musician György Kurtág Jr.
Franz Joseph Haydn / Op.76 No.2 in D minor “Fifths”
Carl Nielsen / Op.13 No.1 in G minor
Robert Schumann / Op.41 No.2 in F major
The Kleio Quartet will participate in masterclasses with Oliver Wille of the Kuss Quartet thanks to ProQuartet, Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre, from 25th – 28th April
City Music Foundation presents the Kleio Quartet
Beethoven / Quartet in C major, Op.59 No.3 “Razumovsky”
Bartók / Quartet No.2 in A minor
Jenny rejoins the Benedetti Foundation team for an immsersive weekend of orchestra-based workshops for young string players from the 21st – 23rd April 2023
Details coming soon
Minna Keal / Ballade
Freda Swain / English Reel & Song at Evening
Rebecca Clarke / Sonata for viola and piano
with pianist Antonio Oyarzabal
Purcell / Fantasia No.6 in F
Golijov / Tenebrae
Britten / Quartet No.2 in C Op.36
Beethoven / Quartet in C ‘Razumovsky’ Op.59/3
The Kleio Quartet launch the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme’s 12 week concert series:
Jessie Montgomery / Strum
Beethoven / Quartet in C ‘Razumovsky’ Op.59/3
As Britten Pears Young Artists, the Kleio Quartet are delighted to embark on a residency at Snape, Aldeburgh from the 16th – 22nd January 2023 under the tuition of Doric String Quartet cellist, John Myerscough.
Marryat Players Winter Series with pianist Omri Epstein
Robert Schumann / Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
Selection of fantasias by Purcell and Birtwistle
Benjamin Britten / String Quartet No. 2 in C
2022
City Music Foundation presents the Kleio Quartet
Osvaldo Golijov / Tenebrae for String Quartet
Benjamin Britten / String Quartet No. 2 in C major
Jenny joins the string section behind the launch of Sam Smith’s ‘Unholy’ tour at the Royal Albert Hall, his first live show in years.
Jenny joins the string section behind the launch of Sam Smith’s ‘Unholy’ tour at the Royal Albert Hall, his first live show in years.
Schubert / Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major
Mozart / Clarinet Trio in E flat major ‘Kegelstatt’
Beethoven / Piano Trio in B flat major ‘Archduke’
Kabalevsky / String Quartet No.1 in A minor
Tchaikovsky / String Quartet No.3 in E flat minor
Beethoven / Septet in E flat major, Op.20
Schönberg / Chamber Symphony No.1
Strauss / Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
From the 3-5th June, Jenny joins the Benedetti Foundation team in delivering a weekend of orchestral workshops in Perth, Scotland
Michael Haydn / String Quintet in G major
Mozart / String Quintet C major
Mahler / Piano Quartet in A minor
Brahms / Piano Quartet in G minor, Op.25
ARCHIPELAGO is a concert series founded by Le Dimore del Quartetto in partnership with Gioventù Musicale d’Italia, Accademia Walter Stauffer and Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
The Kleio Quartet perform at the Auditorium “Lo Squero” on Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice after a short period of residence and study under the supervision of Giancarlo di Vacri. Programme information coming soon.
Huw Watkins / Piano Quartet (2012)
Dvořák / Piano Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 23
Brahms / Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Opera highlights informally staged to make a narrative that connects the music, performed by world-class singers and chamber musicians. The music will include arias and ensembles by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and Bernstein with some other surprises and unusual gems.
Haydn / Quartet in B flat major, Op.76/4 ‘Sunrise’
Webern / Langsammersatz
Schubert / Quartet No.13 in A minor, ‘Rosamunde’
The Kleio Quartet will receive a public masterclass from their ChamberStudio mentor John Myerscough
From the 10th – 14th April, Jenny Lewisohn, Will Newall and Robert Max will coach four young string quartets before a final day of masterclasses, discussion and performance at the Marryat Players’ Wimbledon home.
Haydn / Quartet in B flat major, Op.76/4 ‘Sunrise’
Schubert / Quartettsatz
Beethoven / Quartet in B flat major, Op.18/6
Victoria / O Vos Omnes
Esmail / When the Violin
Shaw / Entr’acte
Vaughan Williams / Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
MacMillan / Seven Last Words from the Cross
Purcell (arr. Britten) / Chacony in G minor
Elgar / Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20
Silvestrov / Hymn 2001
Mendelssohn / String Symphony No. 7
Coleridge-Taylor / ‘Andante con moto’ (No. 3) from Four Novelletten, Op. 52
Walton / Two pieces from Henry V
Finzi / Let us Garlands Bring for baritone & strings
Haydn / Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 76/4 ‘Sunrise’
Janáček / Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Beethoven / Quartet No. 6 in B-flat major, Op. 18/6
Haydn / The Creation (sung in English)
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Lucy Crowe soprano
Andrew Staples tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey chorus director
London Symphony Orchestra
Haydn The Creation (sung in English)
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Lucy Crowe soprano
Andrew Staples tenor
Roderick Williams baritone
London Symphony Chorus
Simon Halsey chorus director
London Symphony Orchestra
Brian Elias / Meet me in the Green Glen
Vaughan Williams / ‘The Woodcutter’s Song’ from The Pilgrim’s Progress
Berio / Duet for Two Violins, 24 ‘Aldo’
Purcell (arr. Williams) / Three Songs
Weir / Good Morning, Midnight!
Schoenberg / Verklärte Nacht
Mahler (arr. Farrington) / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Roderick Williams baritone
Principal Players of Aurora Orchestra
Britten / Three Divertimenti
Suk / Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn
Schubert / Quartet No.13 in A minor ‘Rosamunde Quartet’
Tickets to include a welcome drink and a three-course meal afterwards
Britten / Three Divertimenti
Suk / Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn
Schubert / Quartet No.13 in A minor ‘Rosamunde Quartet’
The third of four concerts as part of the newly launched Marryat Players Winter Series
Beethoven / Op.18 No.6
Shaw / Blueprint
Janacek / ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Haydn / Op.20 No.2
2021
Mozart / String Quintet No.3 in C major, K.515
Haydn / Op.20 No.2 in C major
Janacek / Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Beethoven / Op.18 No.6 in B flat major
by invitation only
Haydn / Op.20 No.2 in C major
Janacek / Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Beethoven / Op.18 No.6 in B flat major
by invitation only
Beethoven / Symphony No.7 (performed from memory)
Mendelssohn / Violin Concerto
Beethoven / Symphony No. 7 (performed from memory)
Nicola Benedetti violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Mendelssohn / Violin Concerto
Introduction to Beethoven 7 by Nicholas Collon & Tom Service
Beethoven / Symphony No. 7 (performed from memory)
Nicola Benedetti violin
Tom Service presenter
Nicholas Collon conductor
Mendelssohn / Violin Concerto
Introduction to Beethoven 7 by Nicholas Collon & Tom Service
Beethoven / Symphony No. 7 (performed from memory)
Nicola Benedetti violin
Tom Service presenter
Nicholas Collon conductor
The launch of a brand new ensemble based in the Chilterns, Echor Music
Jenny is joined by Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, Jonathan Stone, Bartholomew LaFollette and Zeynep Özsuca in a chamber music recital at London’s historic and intimate Oriental Club
Boulanger / 3 Pieces for cello and piano
Kabalevsky / Quartet No.1 in A minor
Franck / Piano Quintet in F minor
Franck / Piano Quintet in F minor
Pärt / Tabula Rasa
Schubert / Quintet in C major (D. 956, Op. posth. 163)
Mozart / Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581
Hensel / Quartet in E flat major
Beethoven / String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
An inspiring chamber music course for advanced string players aged 10 – 16, relocated from France to Hampton Court for Summer 2021!
Week 1: 17th – 22nd August
Week 2: 24th – 29th August
Pärt / Fratres
Shaw / Entr’acte
DSQ / 3 Trad. Danish folk tunes
Sigur Ros / Fljotavik
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Tchaikovsky / Serenade for Strings
From Monday 2nd – Friday 6th August, Jenny joins Amy Tress and Rachel Cooper in launching a brand new residential summer course for string players aged 7 – 16 and grades 2 – 8 and beyond.
Boccherini / Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid
Strauss / Sextet from Capriccio
Mendelssohn / Octet
Jenny leads intermediate and advanced participants of the Benedetti Baroque Sessions in a series of live tutorials on Geminiani’s La Folia arranged especially by the Ayoub Sisters.
Ayres / No.52 (Three Pieces about Ludwig van Beethoven)
Beethoven / Violin Concerto
Nicola Benedetti violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Ayres / No.52 (Three Pieces about Ludwig van Beethoven)
Beethoven / Violin Concerto
Nicola Benedetti violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Ayres / No.52 (Three Pieces about Ludwig van Beethoven)
Beethoven / Violin Concerto
Nicola Benedetti violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Henry Purcell / String Fantasias in Four Parts
Johannes Brahms / Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / String Quintet No. 4 in G minor
Erich Wolfgang Korngold / String Sextet in D major
Henry Purcell / String Fantasias in Four Parts
Johannes Brahms / Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Antonín Dvořák / String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106
Anton Arensky / Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / String Quintet No. 4 in G minor
Erich Wolfgang Korngold / String Sextet in D major
Antonín Dvořák /String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106
Anton Arensky / Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35
Developing double stops for Upper Strings, Jenny joins Andrea Gajic and Callum Smart in teaching a two-part course for advanced string players.
Beethoven / Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 16
Suk / Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 1
Fauré / Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
Haydn / Op. 20 No. 2 in C major, first movement
Mozart / No. 19 in C major ‘Dissonance’, second movement
Debussy / Op. 10, first movement
Schubert / No. 14 ‘ Death and the Maiden’, second movement
Janacek / No. 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, first movement
Haydn / Op. 20 No. 2 in C major, second movement
Beethoven / Op. 18 No. 6 in B flat major, first movement
Jenny will host a ‘Chat With Us’ session sharing experiences, tips, wisdom and advice with teachers, and will facilitate discussion about coaching chamber music.
Jenny joins the Advanced tutor team of this Easter’s Benedetti Virtual Sessions: Building Foundations – Exploring the Physicality and Psychology of Playing. Live Zoom events held over each weekend for participants from 28th March – 18th April.
2020
Huw Watkins / Piano Quartet
Brahms / Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34
POSTPONED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
J.S.Bach / Goldberg Variations arr. Dimitri Sitkovetsky
Max Baillie violin
Jenny Lewisohn viola
Alexander Baillie cello
POSTPONED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
J.S.Bach / Goldberg Variations arr. Dimitri Sitkovetsky
Max Baillie violin
Jenny Lewisohn viola
Alexander Baillie cello
POSTPONED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
J.S.Bach / Goldberg Variations arr. Dimitri Sitkovetsky
Max Baillie violin
Jenny Lewisohn viola
Alexander Baillie cello
POSTPONED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
Huw Watkins / Piano Quartet
Dvořák / Piano Quartet No.1 in D, Op.23
Brahms / Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34
The Cana Quartet (Emily Nebel, Tamara Elias, Jenny Lewisohn and Peteris Sokolovskis) embark on a half Beethoven Quartet Cycle at Clerkenwell’s beloved Fidelio Café. This is a repeat performance. Your ticket includes the concert, a three-course dinner per person and a bottle of wine for every two people.
Ludwig van Beethoven / String quartet Op.18 No.1
Ludwig van Beethoven / String quartet Op.59 No.2
The Cana Quartet (Emily Nebel, Tamara Elias, Jenny Lewisohn and Peteris Sokolovskis) embark on a half Beethoven Quartet Cycle at Clerkenwell’s beloved Fidelio Café. Your ticket includes the concert, a three-course dinner per person and a bottle of wine for every two people.
Ludwig van Beethoven / String quartet Op.18 No.1
Ludwig van Beethoven / String quartet Op.59 No.2
An inspiring chamber music course for advanced string players aged 10 – 16, relocated from France to Hampton Court for Summer 2020!
Week 1: 17th – 22nd August
Week 2: 24th – 29th August
Bow Strokes Boot Camp
From the 3rd – 14th August, Andrea Gajic and Jenny Lewisohn will deliver a ‘Bow Strokes Boot Camp’ taking students thorugh the fundamentals of how each stroke works and leaving them with the tools to develop it alone.
Nifty Shifts
From the 20th – 31st July, Nicola Benedetti and Jenny Lewisohn deliver a carefully curated, progressive course intended to teach young upper string players all about shifting, leaving them with the tools to develop it alone.
Vibrato
From the 30th June – 16th July, Alex Laing, Nicola Benedetti and Jenny Lewisohn deliver a carefully curated, progressive course intended to teach young upper string players all about vibrato, leaving them with the tools to develop it alone.
Jenny will rejoin the Benedetti Sessions team, this time in its virtual incarnation! They will provide musicians of all ages and stages, and from all over the world, with three weeks of consistent, scheduled online tuition and inspiration, preparing collectively for a final weekend of activity celebrating the coming together of our global music community.
Jenny will perform a 30 minute programme to an invited audience via a Zoom call. Programme to include works by Bach, Britten and Raymond Yiu, and will be followed by a further 30 minute programme from cellist Gemma Kost.
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
Roxanna Panufnik / Second Home
Witold Lutosławski / Bucolics I-V for viola and cello
Karol Szymanowski /String Quartet No.2
Frédéric Chopin / Piano trio in G minor, Op.8
Andrzej Panufnik /String Quartet No.3 “Paper-Cuts”
Maria Włoszczowska, Jonathan Stone violins
Jenny Lewisohn viola
Christian Elliott cello
Gamal Khamis piano
Zbigniew Skowron speaker
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
Jenny returns to coach the Marryat Players Orchestra for Young Musicians, 14 – 18th April on their 20th anniversary year
J.S. Bach / Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
Tchaikovsky / Souvenir de Florence
Alina Ibragimova and Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux soloists
Robert Max conductor
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
J. S. Bach / Chorales and Partitas
J. S. Bach / Ciaconna with chorale themes (BWV 1004)
Fauré / Requiem
Nigel Short conductor
Max Baillie violin
Tenebrae choir
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
J. S. Bach / Chorales and Partitas
J. S. Bach / Ciaconna with chorale themes (BWV 1004)
Fauré / Requiem
Nigel Short conductor
Max Baillie violin
Tenebrae choir
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
Stravinsky / Firebird (Finale)
Grieg / Peer Gynt (Morning, Aase’s Death)
Berlioz / March to the Scaffold
Mussorgsky / Night on a Bare Mountain
Powell / How to Train Your Dragon
Elgar / Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
Harrison Birtwistle / Cortege
Mozart / Piano Concerto No.23
Beethoven / Symphony No.6 ‘Pastoral’ from memory
Nick Collon conductor
Ingrid Fliter piano
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
Beethoven / Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
Mozart / Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, K488
Beethoven / Symphony No. 6 in F major, ‘Pastoral’ from memory
Tom Poster piano
Nicholas Collon conductor
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
Harrison Birtwistle / Cortege
Mozart / Piano Concerto No.23
Beethoven / Symphony No.6 ‘Pastoral’ from memory
Nick Collon conductor
Ingrid Fliter piano
CANCELLED due to measures taken against the spread of Covid-19
Mozart / Piano Concerto No.23
Beethoven / Symphony No.6 ‘Pastoral’ from memory
Nick Collon conductor
Ingrid Fliter piano
Claygate Arts Festival presents the Solem Quartet & Anthony Friend, clarinet
Mozart / Clarinet Quintet
Shostakovich / String Quartet No.8
Brahms / Clarinet Quintet
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster performed with live score
The fourth concert in collaboration with girls from Wimbledon High School
Tchaikovsky / Serenade for Strings, Valse
Purcell / Fantasias 4 &5
Bristow / Quartet in E minor
Beethoven / String Quartet Op.74 ‘Harp’
Dundee’s edition of orchestra-based weekend workshops to address, equally, the needs of young musicians and of teachers.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor / Clarinet Quintet
David Bruce / ‘Gumboots’ Clarinet Quintet
Jack McNeill clarinet
For the 25th Annual Jacqueline du Pré concert, Joanna MacGregor and Adrian Brendel are joined by the award-winning Gildas Quartet
Berg / Lulu Suite
Beethoven / Symphony No.9, ‘Choral’
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Berg / Lulu Suite
Beethoven / Symphony No.9, ‘Choral’
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Mozart / String Quartet No.19 in C Major, K.465 ‘Dissonance’
Janáček / String Quartet No.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
Berg / Lulu Suite
Beethoven / Symphony No.9, ‘Choral’
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Beethoven / Symphony No.9, ‘Choral’
Sir Simon Rattle conductor & presenter
Mozart / String Quartet No.19 in C Major, K.465 ‘Dissonance’
Janáček / String Quartet No.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
Beethoven / String Quartet No.15 in A minor, Op.132
Prokofiev / Piano Concerto No.2
Tchaikovsky / Symphony No.5
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Denis Matsuev piano
A pre-Wigmore concert at the home of Bob and Elisabeth Boas alongside cellist Adrian Brendel and pianist Joanna MacGregor
Berg / Passacaglia
Berg / Seven Early Songs
Berg / Three Pieces, Op. 6
Beethoven / Symphony No. 7
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
Berg / Passacaglia
Berg / Seven Early Songs
Berg / Three Pieces, Op. 6
Beethoven / Symphony No. 7
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
Berg / Passacaglia
Berg / Seven Early Songs
Berg / Three Pieces, Op. 6
Beethoven / Symphony No. 7
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
Berg / Seven Early Songs
Beethoven / Symphony No. 7
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
Berg / Passacaglia
Berg / Seven Early Songs
Berg / Three Pieces, Op. 6
Beethoven / Symphony No. 7
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Dorothea Röschmann soprano
London’s edition of orchestra-based weekend workshops to address, equally, the needs of young musicians and of teachers.
The first of a signature series of orchestra-based weekend workshops to address, equally, the needs of young musicians and of teachers.
2019
Sophya Polevaya / Spellbound Tableaux (world premiere)
Elgar / Cello Concerto
Bartók / The Miraculous Mandarin
François-Xavier Roth conductor
Alisa Weilerstein cello
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Purcell / Fantasias and Chaconne
Britten / Quartet No. 2 (from memory)
Janacek / Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’
Beethoven / Piano Quartet in E flat, Op.16
Suk / Piano Quartet in A minor, Op.1
Fauré / Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.15
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster performed with live score
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster performed with live score
An immersion in the sounds and interplay of the string quartet: The Gildas Quartet’s prize-winning performance concept ‘Surround Sound Sessions’.
Purcell / Fantasias 4 & 5
Cheryl Frances-Hoad / Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Mozart / Quartet No. 19 in C Major ‘Dissonance’
Haydn / Quartet No. 23 in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Bartók / String Quartet No. 5
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster performed with live score
Tchaikovsky / Souvenir de Florence
Elgar / Introduction and Allegro
Mozart / Quartet No.16 in E flat major
Britten / 3 Divertimenti
Wolf / Italian Serenade
Shostakovich / Quartet No.14 in F sharp minor
Purcell / Fantasias 4 & 5 Chaconne
Britten / Quartet No. 2
Janacek / Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’
Janacek / Quartet no. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’
Crumb / Black Angels
Harry Whalley / live real-time composition
Mill Hill Music Club presents the Hieronymus Quartet
Mozart / Quartet No.16 in E flat major
Britten / 3 Divertimenti
Wolf / Italian Serenade
Shostakovich / Quartet No.14 in F sharp minor
Park Lane Group presents the Lipatti Piano Quartet
Mozart / Piano Quartet No.2 in E flat major
Faure / Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.13
Tchaikovsky / Serenade for Strings
Dvorak / Quartet No.10 in E flat major
Suk / Meditation on old Czech hymn ‘St Wenceslas’ Op.35a
Tchaikovksy / Quartet No.1 in D major
James MacMillan / Saxophone Concerto (London premiere)
Mozart / Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466
Mendelssohn / Symphony No. 3 in A minor, ‘Scottish’
Ronald Brautigam piano
Amy Dickson saxophone
Nicholas Collon conductor
Beethoven / Violin Concerto
Berlioz / Symphonie Fantastique (from memory)
Leonidas Kavakos violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Berlioz / Symphonie fantastique (from memory)
Mathew Baynton actor
Nicholas Collon conductor
Berlioz / Symphonie fantastique (from memory)
Mathew Baynton actor
Nicholas Collon conductor
Berlioz / Symphonie Fantastique (memorised)
Bruch / Violin Concerto no 1
Conductor Nicholas Collon
Violin Nicola Benedetti
Berlioz / Symphonie Fantastique (memorised)
Bruch / Violin Concerto no 1
Conductor Nicholas Collon
Violin Nicola Benedetti
Jenny coaches violin, viola and chamber music at this residential music course in France each summer.
Week 1 / 3rd – 10th August
Week 2 / 10th – 17th August
Private house concert with Maria Włoszczowska, Savitri Grier, Bartholomew LaFollette and Zeynep Özsuca – get in touch for details.
Ravel / Tombeau de Couperin
Vaughan Williams / The Lark Ascending
Elgar / Concerto for ‘cello in E minor, Op. 85
Anthony Marwood violin
Richard Lester cello
Mozart / Divertimento in E flat major, K.563
Schönberg / Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 for string orchestra
Stravinsky / Concerto in D
Ravel / Introduction and Allegro
Rimsky-Korsakov / Quartet in G major
Debussy / Sonata for flute, harp and viola
Haydn / ‘Gypsy’ Piano Trio
Korngold / Suite for 2 violins, cello and piano left hand
Wier / Bagpiper’s String Trio
Dvořák / Sextet in A major
Mozart / Piano Quartet No.2 in E flat major
Kodály / Duo for violin and cello
Dvořák / Piano Trio in F minor
Mendelssohn / B flat Viola Quintet
Schubert / Arpeggione Sonata
Brahms / G major Sextet
Max Richter / Journey Song (CP1919) (new work)
Beethoven / String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 (second movement)
Thomas Adès / Violin Concerto Op. 24, ‘Concentric Paths’
Mozart Symphony / No. 41 in C major, K551, ‘Jupiter’ (from memory)
Pekka Kuusisto violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Max Richter / Journey Song (CP1919) (new work)
Beethoven / String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 (second movement)
Thomas Adès / Violin Concerto Op. 24, ‘Concentric Paths’
Mozart Symphony / No. 41 in C major, K551, ‘Jupiter’ (from memory)
Pekka Kuusisto violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Max Richter / Journey Song (CP1919) (new work)
Beethoven / String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 (second movement)
Thomas Adès / Violin Concerto Op. 24, ‘Concentric Paths’
Mozart Symphony / No. 41 in C major, K551, ‘Jupiter’ (from memory)
Pekka Kuusisto violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Get in touch for details
Max Richter / Journey Song (CP1919) (new work)
Beethoven / String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 (second movement)
Thomas Adès / Violin Concerto Op. 24, ‘Concentric Paths’
Mozart Symphony / No. 41 in C major, K551, ‘Jupiter’ (from memory)
Brahms / String Sextet No.1 in B flat major
Brahms / String Sextet No.2 in G major
Prokofiev / Peter and the Wolf
Beethoven / Symphony No.7
Howell / ‘Between Emotions’
Robert Max conductor
John D. Collins narrator
Beethoven / Symphony No.9 (performed on period instruments)
Paul Hindemith / Viola Sonata Op.11 No.4
Rebecca Clarke / Viola Sonata
Ernest Bloch / Suite for viola and piano
Jenny Lewisohn, Emmanuella Reiter violas
Sophia Rahman, piano
More information coming soon
Franz Joseph Haydn / Quartet in B flat major, Op.76 No.4 ‘Sunrise’ (selection)
Judith Weir / Bagpiper’s String Trio
Anna Kendall / Bass Quintet
Antonín Dvořák / Terzetto in C major, Op.74 (selection)
Louisa Clogston / String Quartet
Ravel / Duo for violin and cello (selection)
Miriam Pancheva / String Quartet
Richard Bristow / String Quartet
Rebecca Clarke / Poem for String Quartet
Schøyen Sjölin arr. Danish String Quartet / Old Rheinlender from Sonndala
Michael Trainor, Tetsuumi Nagata violins
Jenny Lewisohn viola
Bartholomew LaFollette cello
Max Richter / Journey Song (CP1919) (new work)
Beethoven / String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 (second movement)
Thomas Adès / Violin Concerto Op. 24, ‘Concentric Paths’
Mozart / Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551, ‘Jupiter’ (from memory)
Pekka Kuusisto violin
Nicholas Collon conductor
Vivaldi / Cello Concerto in G Major
Britten / Simple Symphony
Mendelssohn / String Sinfonia in B minor
Piazzolla / Libertango
Leandro Silvera conductor
Elgar / Serenade for Strings
Mozart / Piano Concerto No.21 in C major, K467
Missy Mazzoli / Dark with Excessive Bright (UK premiere)
Beethoven / Symphony No. 8 in F major
Yeol Eum Son piano
Ben Griffiths double bass
Nicholas Collon conductor
John Tavener / The Protecting Veil
Britten / Les Illuminations, Op. 18
Haydn / Symphony No. 45 (‘Farewell’)
Jonathan Coe Extract from Middle England
Ali Smith Extract from Autumn
Sulaiman Addonia New short story
Ian Bostridge tenor
Nicolas Altstaedt cello/conductor
Jonathan Coe writer/speaker
Ali Smith writer/speaker
Sulaiman Addonia writer/speaker
Bryn Terfel, Scarpia
Kristine Opolais, Tosca
Vittorio Grigolo, Cavaradossi
Côr, chorus
Brahms / String Quintet No.2 in G major
Beethoven / Quartet No.16 in F major Op.135
Mark-Anthony Turnage / Three for Two
Alex Woolf / New work for piano quartet (world premiere)
Joe Cutler / Slippery Music
Sibelius / Symphony No.7
Hans Abrahamsen / Let me tell you
Nielsen / Symphony No.4, ‘Inextinguishable’
Sir Simon Rattle conductor Barbara Hannigan soprano
2018
Haydn / Op.20 No.4 in D major
Janáček / Quartet No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Beethoven / Op.130 in B flat major
Ravel / Kaddish
Bloch / From Jewish Life
Schullhoff / Duo
Bruch / Kol Nidrei
Messiaen / Louange Popper / Quartet
Mozart / Piano Quartet in E flat, K493
Mahler / Piano Quartet in A minor
Brahms / Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor, Op.60
Beethoven / Op.74
Robert Matthew-Walker / Quartetto Conciso (special commission)
Beethoven / Op.95
Prokofiev / Overture on a Hebrew Theme
Brahms / Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34
Brussels Cello Festival 2018
Shostakovich / Piano Concerto No.2
Shostakovich / Symphony 9 (from memory)
Weir / Arise! Arise! You slumbering sleepers
Weir / Bagpiper’s String Trio
Stravinsky / Concerto in Eb Major, ‘Dumbarton Oaks’
Mozart / Piano Concerto No.13 in C Major, K415
Boulez / Mémoriale
Mozart / Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K550 (from memory)
Mozart / Ballet Music from Idomeneo, rè di Creta, K367
Mozart / Piano Concerto No.13 in C major, K415
Mozart / Symphony No.40 in G minor, K550 (from memory)
Mozart / Ballet Music from Idomeneo, rè di Creta, K367
Mozart / Piano Concerto No.13 in C major, K415
Mozart / Symphony No.40 in G minor, K550 (from memory)
Marryat Players Chamber Music Festival
Huw Watkins / Three Welsh Songs
Mozart / Sinfonia Concertante with Ben Baker and Tim Ridout
Bartók / Romanian Dances
Mozart / Symphony No.40 in G minor
Haydn / String Quartet Op.77 No. 1 in G
Bartòk / String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17
Beethoven / Razumovsky Op. 59 No. 2 in E minor