*CANCELLED* Good Cop, Bad Cop: What To Do When the Police are the Criminals
*Unfortunately, due to illness of one of the speakers, this event has been cancelled. We are working on rescheduling the event for a future date.* How can our police protect and serve us considering the criminal behaviour of some Met officers and the continued culture of misogyny, prejudice and callousness within the police? We ask […]
Silence = Death: 40 years of speaking out about HIV
In May 1983, Conway Hall hosted the first public meeting in the UK on AIDS, a new disease that was as mysterious as it was scary. 40 years later, leading figures from the history of HIV activism meet to share what they’ve learned on how we educate the public about an epidemic. From navigating press […]
Biocivilisations
What is life? Many scientists believe life can be reduced to ‘mechanistic’ factors, such as genes and information codes. Yet there is a growing number of scientists, philosophers and artists who reject this view. In this fascinating in-conversation, Dr Vandana Shiva and Dr Predrag Slijepčević will discuss why we must challenge the current scientific paradigm, […]
Season Finale Concert
Hand-picked by our Director of Music and coming together for one night only, 8 of London’s finest chamber musicians present two cherished large-scale chamber works in the beautiful acoustic of Conway Hall. It is difficult not to enjoy Mendelssohn’s effervescent Octet, written when the composer was just 16 and full of energy, beautiful melodies, and […]
Paddington Trio
Winners of the 70th Royal Over-Seas League Competition for String and Piano Ensembles in 2022, the Paddington Trio already have an impressive concert calendar and a reputation for thoughtfully curated programming and “nuanced and powerful performance” (ROSL News). We are delighted to welcome them for their Conway Hall début. Established in 1952, the Royal Over-Seas […]
Primrose Piano Quartet & Will Duerden
Primrose Piano Quartet & Will Duerden • 6.30pm 2018 BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist Will Duerden joins the Primrose Piano Quartet in a colourful programme, beginning with Mahler’s foreboding early quartet, his only chamber work, which was not published until almost 60 years after his death. The strings then take centre stage for […]
Alkyona Quartet
Formed in the bustle of London in 2018, the Alkyona Quartet present fresh imaginative interpretations of both well-known and hidden gems of the string quartet repertoire. The quartet also revels in finding and championing scintillating but overlooked works. They love collaborations across the Arts and are often found presenting both string quartet and collaborative works […]
Greenwich Trio & Boris Bizjak
The Greenwich Trio are no strangers to Conway Hall and their accomplished, compelling performances are always well received. For their return to our concert series, they are joined by flautist Boris Bizjak, praised by Gramophone for his “freshness and originality”. Their selection of repertoire could not be more varied: from Hummel’s imaginative arrangement of Beethoven’s […]
London Piano Quartet
For their second recital of 2023, the London Piano Quartet – a collaboration between members of the Piatti Quartet and pianist, Simon Callaghan – offer a programme showcasing this special combination of instruments, and spanning almost a century. Beethoven begins their concert, before Fauré’s first quartet, considered by many as one of his masterpieces. Brahms’ […]