
About Howarth
Howarth of London is a specialist woodwind instrument maker and retailer. Known all over the world as makers of the finest oboes, oboes d’amore and cors anglais, our instruments are made in our dedicated manufacturing workshops in Worthing, West Sussex.
We use high-tech CNC machinery to make precision components for our instruments which are then hand-assembled by highly experienced technicians into our beautiful instruments.
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Upcoming Events

Emmanuel Pahud and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
April 30th 2025 at 19:30
Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Ibert – Flute Concerto
Debussy – Jeux
Debussy – La Mer
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Pahud – flute
János Kovács – conductor
Ravel, Ibert, Debussy – János Kovács will be conducting works by all three of these great French composers at the helm of the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The soloist for the evening is Swiss flautist Emmanuel Pahud, an established star of the international music scene. His concerts in Hungary always draw great interest. As a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra member, he ranks among the very top players of his instrument. One of the gems of his repertoire is Jacques Ibert’s Flute Concerto, which he also recorded two decades ago.
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The Just – Berlage Saxophone Quartet
01/05/2025 8:15 pm
De Grote Zaal, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Just – Berlage Saxophone Quartet
March 5th 2026 at 20:15 – 22:00
Pēteris Vasks – The Fruit of Silence (arr. Peter Vigh for saxophone quartet and choir)
Lera Auerbach – Selection from 72 Angels
Pēteris Vasks – Actus Caritatis (for choir a-capella)
Dmitri Shostakovich – Lullaby from From Jewish Folk Poetry (arr. Max Knigge)
Peter Vigh – Zeven jaar en drie weken – de vlucht van Leo en Bella Adler
Cappella Amsterdam
Jan Brokken – Reciter
Daniel Reuss – conductor
Berlage Saxophone Quartet
Lars Niederstrasser – soprano saxophone
Peter Vigh – alto saxophone
Juani Palop Tecles – tenor saxophone
Eva van Grinsven – baritone saxophone
In The Just, based on master storyteller Jan Brokken’s book of the same name (in Dutch: De Rechtvaardigen), Cappella Amsterdam presents the unknown, compelling story of Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk. He risked his life for the freedom of others. At the beginning of World War II, he issued visas to thousands of Jews in Kaunas, Lithuania. With this visa for Curaçao, they could travel to Japan via the Trans-Siberian Express and escape the Holocaust.
In our time, the news is still dominated by refugee crises, most often in regions beyond Europe’s borders. But the devastating war in Ukraine has ignited a new conflict zone right within Europe, forcing countless innocent people to flee their homes and become refugees. This concert is about how one person’s good deeds can save thousands of lives. Jan Brokken himself takes the stage to narrate the story, accompanied by choir and saxophone quartet.
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Finzi Clarinet Concerto – Ma Yue
02/05/2025 7:30 pm
Victoria Concert Hall, 11 Empress Pl, #01-02, Singapore 179558
May 2nd 2025 at 19:30- 21:30
Programme
Mozart – Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 “Haffner”
Finzi – Clarinet Concerto, Op. 31
Mozart – Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543
Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Rodolfo Barráez, Associate Conductor
Ma Yue, clarinet
Gerald Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto is one of the 20th century British composer’s most popular orchestral works, a woodwind gem whose pastoral nostalgia and folk-inspired spontaneity will come to life with Singapore Symphony Principal Clarinet Ma Yue. SSO Associate Conductor Rodolfo Barráez continues his survey of Mozart’s symphonic oeuvre with the stately harmonies of the Haffner Symphony and the supreme confidence of his 39th.
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