Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski was highlighted as ‘one to watch’ by Gramophone magazine. For his second Conway Hall concert, he comes together with the Benyounes Quartet in a programme spanning more than two hundred years.
Director of Music Simon Callaghan takes to the stage with leading fellow musicians, in a colourful programme to close our Spring 2019 season. Funds raised will support the continuation of our concert series.
Conway Hall favourites the Maggini Quartet open our Autumn 2019 season with a wonderful mix of 1940s Paris chic and supreme craft from Berkeley between two great works from the classical repertoire.
Following their wonderful performance at Conway Hall in September 2018, I Musicanti make a welcome return in an all Beethoven programme, as a prelude to Beethoven’s upcoming anniversary year.
Clarinettist Peter Cigleris joins the Tippett Quartet to present two works from two conflicting schools of British composition alongside one of the greatest in the genre that kick-started the English clarinet quintet.
Founded in 2013 by three Dutch performers, the Delta Piano Trio have won numerous international awards. This performance for Conway Hall flanks cutting-edge twentieth and twenty-first century works for piano trio with German classics for the ensemble.
The up-and-coming Piatti Quartet make a welcome return to Conway Hall, joined by Director of Music Simon Callaghan to perform Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet
In a rare UK performance, Trio Concertante perform three of the most popular works for piano trio, culminating in the symphonic first trio by Johannes Brahms.
The unusually dissonant introduction to Mozart’s Quartet K465, dedicated to Joseph Haydn, opens a colourful programme of works for string quartet, spanning almost 150 years and featuring Janáček’s 1923 work inspired by Tolstoy’s novella.
For their Conway Hall début, this duo come together in a programme of Russian and Belgian works for viola and piano, culminating in one of César Franck’s best-known compositions, originally for violin and piano.
Mozart was among the first to explore the piano quartet, and it is his graceful E flat quartet that opens this concert.
Posthumously discovered by Moeran’s widow in 1950, British composer Ernest John Moeran’s E flat quartet is full of echoes of Ireland, where Moeran spent much of his life.
The Linos Piano Trio returns to Conway Hall with the rarely heard Beethoven transcription of his own second Symphony, followed by the trio’s re-imagination of the variations from the Eroica Symphony.
Simon Callaghan joins the Fitzwilliam Quartet for this performance of Elgar, Haydn and Beethoven
Endless fascinating prairie landscapes; the exciting pulse of the city that never sleeps; the swinging life of the Southern states; stories full of dreams, hopes and love. In ‘American Dreams’, the Arcis Saxophone Quartet presents a broad musical range of the American way of life.
Our Autumn 2019 series of concerts comes to a close with Schubert’s G major quartet, and the Piatti Quartet’s performance begins with Suk’s Meditation on ‘St Wenceslas’.
