Events
Please find below a selection of concerts around the country, and sometimes beyond, featuring woodwind instruments. If you have a concert that you think might be relevant for listing on our page, please ‘Get in Touch’ with the details and a link to the booking page.
Programme
Vaughan Williams – Toward the Unknown Region for mixed choir and orchestra
Nielsen – Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Symphony No. 3 in A Minor ‘Scottish’, Op. 56
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir
Anna Sułkowska-Migoń – conductor
Andrzej Ciepliński – clarinet
Bartosz Michałowski – choir director
The contemplative nature of much of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s work is said to stem from his love of poetry. After his teacher introduced him to the visionary work of Walt Whitman, the collection Leaves of Grass became the composer’s ‘constant companion’ and the inspiration for Toward the Unknown Region, a song for choir and orchestra first performed in Leeds in 1907. One critic at the time hailed Williams as the leading British composer of the new generation.
Futurist poetry, meanwhile, would suit the character of Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto. This work reveals the complex nature of the instrument, which, according to the composer, ‘can be at the same time warm-hearted and completely hysterical, as mild as balsam, and screaming like a tram-car on poorly-greased rails’. Having befriended the members of the Copenhagen Brass Quintet, he wished to compose a musical portrait for each of them, in the form of a solo concerto.
Perhaps it was the broad phrases of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s symphonic writing that led observers to associate many of his works with the landscapes of the countries he visited. His Symphony No. 3 in A minor, for example, supposedly evokes the dense fog-shrouded mountain landscapes of Scotland, which the composer visited in 1829. Yet the composer himself did not refer to such inspirations after completing the long journey of several years to completing this work, which received its Scottish nickname from well-meaning listeners.
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Vienna Clarinet Connection – Do you love Vienna…?
26/04/2025 8:00 pm
Gläserner Saal / Magna Auditorium, Musikverein, Musikvereinspl. 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
Programme
Lieben Sie Wien…?
Vienna Clarinet Connection
Helmut Hödl, Clarinet
Rupert Fankhauser, Clarinet
Wolfgang Kornberger, Bass Clarinet
Hubert Salmhofer, Bass Clarinet
Vienna-born actor Wolf Bachofner is the ideal choice when it comes to serving up Viennese coffeehouse literature around Karl Kraus or dialect poetry such as “Weana Schbrüch” by Ernst Kein. Bachofner became known to a wider audience in the 1990s alongside Tobias Moretti and Karl Markovics in the TV series “Inspector Rex”. He currently stars in the series “Schnell ermittelt.”
On the stage of the Musikverein, Wolf Bachofner will perform with the VIENNA CLARINET CONNECTION, four “real Viennese” from Tyrol, Burgenland, and Styria. With a seemingly inexhaustible palette of colours, they celebrate a symbiosis of classical and jazz, pop and contemporary music. With respect and attention to detail, the pieces are taken apart and reassembled. It’s not unusual for a melody from Franz Lehár’s “The Merry Widow” to gently glide into “Someday My Prince Will Come” by Dave Brubeck, who, incidentally, loved Vienna. The VIENNA CLARINET CONNECTION serves up a Viennese Melange in swaying three-quarter time and strolls through the city with Wolf Bachofner…
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Oboe Quartets – Spanish Roots
27/04/2025 12:00 pm
Espacio Turina: Sala Silvio Calle Laraña, 4, Seville, Andalusia, 41003, Spain
Oboe Quartets – Spanish Roots
April 27th 2025 at 12:00 – 13:00
Cuarteto Emispherio
Oboe | Sarah Roper
Violin | Vladimir Dmitrienco
Viola | Jerome Ireland
Cello | Gretchen Talbot
This chamber concert offers an interesting overview of the works that several Spanish composers (except for María Eugenia Luc, born in the 1960s and closely associated with the Basque Country) have dedicated to this infrequent ensemble in recent years, and who are now at the peak of their creative maturity. It’s a great opportunity to hear live pieces that are only available on specialised record labels.
With Ferrer Ferrán (Valencia, 1966), author of extensive works for orchestra and band, we explore Egyptian mythology in Horus (2007), the celestial god and healer. This is followed by Paisajes mecánicas (Mechanical Landscapes), by Sánchez Verdú (Algeciras, 1968), written in 1994 and premiered in Tangier the following year.
The program fulfills its commitment to promoting contemporary music by presenting the premiere of Quartet No. 2 by Sancho Velázquez (Alcalá del Río, 1962), a violinist with the ROSS. A self-taught musician, he began composing in 1993.
From María Eugenia Luc (Rosario, 1958), who is interested in the world of fractals, we will hear a 2015 work written for the Irauli quartet, Luma galdu bat bezala (“Like a Lost Feather”), which is the title of a poem by Joseba Sarrionandi.
From the extensive catalogue of Jesús Torres (Zaragoza, 1965), a composer deeply invested in Spanish poetry, we offer his 2009 Oboe Quartet.
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Glosas del arte – Manuel Martínez and Pascual-Vilaplana
27/04/2025 11:00 am
L'Auditori, Carrer de Lepant, 150, L'Eixample, 08013 Barcelona, Spain
Glosas del arte – Manuel Martínez and Pascual-Vilaplana
April 27th 2025 at 11:00 – 12:30
Programme
Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa
Joäo Malha (1991): Apoteose (2018) 11’
Luís Carvalho: Gentio sao os olhos negros… (Gentiles son tus ojos negros…). Glosas sobre un tema tradicional de las Azores (2016) 11’
Banda Municipal de Barcelona
José Maria Sánchez-Verdú: Memoria de la isla verde para clarinete y banda sinfónica (2024) 10′ – Obra encargo de Manuel Martínez y la BMB. Estreno absoluto
Amando Blanquer: Gloses II (1989) 16’
Banda Simfònica Portuguesa y Banda Municipal de Barcelona
Florent Schmitt: Dionysiaques, op. 62 (1913) 10’
Banda Municipal de Barcelona (BMB)
Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa
José R. Pascual-Vilaplana, conductor
Manuel Martínez, clarinet
Performing to revisit ideas that already exist with a renewed vision is always an exercise in artistic commitment to time and space. Featuring the highly personal sound approach of this season’s tribute composer, Amando Blanquer, the debut of a new score by José Mª Sánchez Verdú and the music of contemporary Portuguese composers such as Luis Carvalho and Joao Malha, we delve into an original wind and percussion programme to celebrate the art of sound in its purest essence and diversity, accompanied by a legendary piece from the band’s repertoire: Dionysiaques. This piece was written in 1913 by Florent Schmitt and carries a mystical vision, which is similar in style to the popular The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (premiered the same year, scandal included), and it is hard not to think about it.
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Orchestre de Paris – Strauss Oboe Concerto
30/04/2025 8:00 pm
Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique, 221 Av. Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
Orchestre de Paris – Strauss Oboe Concerto
April 30th 2025 at 20:00 – 21:30
Orchestre de Paris
Holly Hyun Choe – conductor
Alexandre Gattet – oboe
Stéphanie Huang – cello
Between the limpid classicism of Strauss, the bounding energy of a more Broadway-esque than ever Bernstein, the serenity of Saariaho, and the most cheerful of Shostakovich’s symphonies, this program offers us four faces of joy.
How can one resist the neoclassical charm of Strauss’s Oboe Concerto? The spirit of Mozart lives on in these melodic and humorous passages, whose sustained singing nevertheless remains a formidable test for the soloist.
Linked to the ballet Fancy Free, the three dances from On the Town embody all of Bernstein’s hedonism: in the last, the frenzied sailors converge on Times Square for an unforgettable night of fun.
More peaceful, almost mystical in their quest for the suspended moment and the ephemeral, are the Seven Butterflies by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, whose cello, which she uses in innovative ways, is her preferred instrument.
To conclude, this is the most elliptical of Shostakovich’s symphonies, and one of the most surprising in that it lacks—except in the Largo—the power and dark drama of the others. It is said that Stalin, expecting more grandeur, flew into a rage at such frivolity!
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Emmanuel Pahud and the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
30/04/2025 7:30 pm
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1, 1095 Hungary
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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Saxophone and Piano “Contrasts” at St. James’s Church, Sussex Gardens
02/05/2025 7:00 pm
St James's Church, Sussex Gardens Sussex Gardens London W2 3UD
Saxophone and Piano “Contrasts” at St. James’s Church, Sussex Gardens
A night of expressive classical music at Downing Place. Elegance, passion, and harmony await!
May 2nd 2025 at 18:30
Handel – Sonate pour violon en fa majeur, Op.1 no. 12, HWV 370
Rachmaninov – Vocalise, Op. 34 no. 14
Bozza – Aria
Piazzolla -Fugue
Piazzolla -La muerte del ángel
Piazzolla – Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas: Invierno Porteño (Winter in Buenos Aires)
Iturralde – Hellenic Suite
Demersseman – Fantaisie sur un theme original
Molinelli – Four pictures from New York
Denis Patrickson – Waltz of Lovers
Denis Patrickson – The Dreams
Denis Patrickson – Mirage
Denis Patrickson – saxophone
Elizaveta VeliKhova – piano
Experience the mesmerizing fusion of classical and contemporary music in an unforgettable concert at Downing Place, Cambridge. Featuring the brilliant Denis Patrickson (saxophone) and Elizabeth Velikhova (piano), this program showcases a breathtaking range of emotions, colors, and contrasts.
From the timeless elegance of G.F. Handel and the deep lyricism of S. Rachmaninoff to the fiery passion of A. Piazzolla and the modern brilliance of R. Molinelli, each piece will take you on a journey of expressive soundscapes.
In 2024, Denis and Elizaveta formed a duo and began performing across the UK, offering audiences a unique and dynamic blend of saxophone and piano.
Their repertoire includes the works written for classical saxophone, as well as arrangements and own compositions.
Denis Patrickson is an award-winning saxophonist and international competition laureate, known for his dedication to the classical saxophone. He founded the Cherry Music project and is a distinguished member of the Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography. Denis was invited to the UK under the prestigious Arts Council of England’s Global Talent program, recognizing his significant contributions to music.
Elizaveta Velikhova is a Russian-born pianist and Royal College of Music graduate. A former member of the Bolshoi Theatre’s chamber ensemble, she earned a First-Class Diploma from the Royal College of Music in 2024.
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Finzi Clarinet Concerto – Ma Yue
03/05/2025 7:30 pm
Victoria Concert Hall, 11 Empress Pl, #01-02, Singapore 179558
May 3rd 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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Soweto Kinch/LSO: Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
07/05/2025 8:00 pm
Milton Court Concert Hall, 1 Milton St, City of London, London EC2Y 9BH
Her Ensemble: The Three Dancers with Jess Gillam and Laura Van der Heijden
May 7th 2025 at 20:00
Caroline Shaw – Thousandth Orange
Dobrinka Tabakova – Insight
Elena Kats-Chernin – The Three Dancers
Ezo Dem Sarici – Balkan folk tunes
Her Ensemble
Laura Van Der Heijden – cello
Jess Gillam – saxophone
Junyan Chen – piano
Inspired by the history of still-life paintings, Caroline Shaw’s piano quartet Thousandth Orange depicts tiny oblique revelations that time’s filter can open up in a musical memory. Picasso, meanwhile is the starting point for Elena Kats-Chernin’s sax, marimba, and accordion enriched dive into love, death, and desire. These ideas streamline through Dobrinka Tabakova’s 2002 string trio which grapples with the idea of visualising sound itself.
Devoted to championing women’s voices, the ‘forward thinking ensemble’ (Gramophone) enlists two star soloists for its folk-gilded brush with the plastic arts. ‘A performer who can hypnotise a room’ (Arts Desk), saxophonist Jess Gillam ‘frankly rocks’ concedes the Huffington Post; while ‘superstar cellist’ (The Times), Laura van der Heijden ‘has everything within reach to become a cello diva’ (Trouw).
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Mozart Masterpieces – Clarinet Concerto – Julian Bliss
08/05/2025 8:00 pm
National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, Saint Kevin's, Dublin, D02 N527, Ireland
May 8th 2025 at 20:00- 22:00
Programme
The Magic Flute Overture
Clarinet Concerto
Die Entführung aus dem Serail Overture
Jupiter Symphony
RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Swann Van Rechem, conductor
Julian Bliss, clarinet
Join us for a special evening celebrating the genius of Mozart with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. From the enchanting drama of The Magic Flute to the lyricism of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of Mozart’s music.
The evening opens with the lively and mischievous Overture to The Magic Flute Overture, an energetic introduction to one of Mozart’s most beloved operas, followed by his Clarinet Concerto, a masterpiece of brightness and warmth, written in the final year of Mozart’s life, 1791. Clarinet virtuoso Julian Bliss joins the RTÉ CO for his debut performance with the orchestra.
The spirited Overture to Die Entführung showcases Mozart’s wit and energy, with vibrant notes of Turkish culture. We conclude with the majesty of the Jupiter Symphony, Mozart’s final and most triumphant symphony. Symphony No. 41, the Jupiter Symphony, embodies an exhilarating blend of grandeur, brilliance, and complexity, marking the pinnacle of Mozart’s writing.
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Christian Forshaw – Sanctuary
May 8th 2025 at 20:00
Forshaw – Nunc Dimittis
Monk (arr. Forshaw) – Abide with Me
Gibbons (arr. Forshaw – Drop, Drop Slow Tears
Anon. (arr. Forshaw) – Mortal Flesh
Forshaw – Unknown Love
The Choir of King’s College London
Christian Forshaw – saxophone
Rosanna Wicks – soprano
Richard Pinel – organ
Ryan Hepburn – percussion
A candlelit concert celebrating the 21st anniversary of Christian Forshaw’s groundbreaking album ‘Sanctuary’ – which topped the classical charts in the year of its release. Simple ecclesiastical melodies inspired by Christian’s childhood as a church chorister are cast in a new contemporary light and developed into atmospheric concert pieces.
King’s College London was recently awarded University of Sanctuary status. Its acclaimed choir featured on the album. They reunite with Christian for this unique blending of sacred music with saxophone, organ, voice and percussion.
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Nielsen Flute Concerto – Ting-Wei Chen
08/05/2025 7:00 pm
Oslo Concert Hall, Munkedamsveien 14, 0115 Oslo, Norway
Nielsen Flute Concerto – Ting-Wei Chen
May 8th 2025 at 19:00
Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegel
Carl Nielsen – Flute Concerto
Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty: Suite
Oslo Philharmonic
Ting-Wei Chen – flute
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider – conductor
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conducts music based on legends and fairytales: Richard Strauss’ tone poem Till Eulenspiegel and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Suite. Ting-Wei Chen is the soloist in Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto.
According to legend, the charming swindler and prankster Till Eulenspiegel lived in the 14th century and is the hero of almost a hundred folk tales. In the tone poem Till Eulenspiegel from 1896, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) cheerfully portrays him with horn and clarinet.
Till Eulenspiegel is one of Strauss’ most humorous works, as full of inventions and surprises as the main character. Till dresses up, flirts with the ladies and makes fun of the scholars before he is put on trial and sentenced to death. The ending is ambiguous – does he manage to escape?
In 1921, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) was captivated by a concert with the Copenhagen Wind Quintet. He knew the musicians, and wrote a piece for the quiet in which each one is described with music. He wanted to write one solo concerto for each – he managed two and started with the flutist.
“Eventually, the orchestral movement also becomes fuller and more moving, but this does not last long, because the flute cannot deny its nature (…) the composer must therefore adapt to its gentle nature,” Nielsen wrote about the Flute Concerto from 1926, a gentle and cheerful work in which there is a storm in between.
“The music from this ballet will become one of my best works. The subject is so poetic, so well suited to music, that I was entirely engrossed in composing it, and wrote with an ardor and passion which always results,” wrote Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1841-1893) during the work with Sleeping Beauty.
With Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky set a completely new standard for the ballet genre and greatly raised the status of ballet music. Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890. The Sleeping Beauty Suite, composed after his death, features five orchestral excerpts from the ballet.
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Lumas Winds
May 12th 2025 at 20:00
Programme
Mikhail Glinka – Overture from Ruslan and Lyudmila arr. B Hartnell-Booth
Oliver Knussen – Three Little Fantasies Op.6A
Valerie Coleman – Afro-Cuban Concerto
Luciano Berio – Opus Number Zoo
Archie John – Fanfare: Branches of Joy
Gavin Higgins – After Fallout
Amy Beach Pastorale for Wind Quintet Op.151
Endre Szervánszky Wind Quintet No.1
Lalo Schifrin La Nouvelle Orleans
Lumas Winds
Beth Stone – flute
Christopher Vettraino – oboe
Rennie Sutherland – clarinet
Florence Plane – bassoon
Benjamin Hartnell-Booth – horn
In this programme, Lumas Winds present the wind quintet in a kaleidoscopic light with music crossing various styles and forms. Works linked by narration and poetry; the exploration of Hungarian folk tunes; jazz from New Orleans; the landscape of New Hampshire; and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Featuring recent works by Gavin Higgins, Valerie Coleman and Archie John.
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Orchestre de Paris – Bach and Escaich Concertos for Violin and Oboe
14/05/2025 8:00 pm
Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie, 221 Av. Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
Orchestre de Paris – Bach and Escaich Concertos for Violin and Oboe
May 14th 2025 at 20:00 – 22:00
Orchestre de Paris
Roberto González-Monjas – conductor
Lisa Batiashvili – violin
François Leleux – oboe
Thierry Escaich – organ
For two exceptional evenings, guest composer Thierry Escaich in person performs on the organ. A tribute to Bach, the God of Music, this program also takes us to Shakespeare and the Eternal City.
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Daniel Handsworth in Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto
14/05/2025 6:00 pm
SR Berwaldhallen, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3, 115 27 Stockholm, Sweden
Daniel Handsworth in Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto
May 14th 2025 at 18:00 – 19:00
First Concert Master Malin Broman conducts and performs with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra while Principal Bassoonist Daniel Handsworth takes center stage in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s youthful bassoon concerto. Also, Nancy Dalberg’s Capriccio for Orchestra and Johannes Brahm’s lively Hungarian Dances.
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Orchestre de Paris – Bach and Escaich Concertos for Violin and Oboe
15/05/2025 8:00 pm
Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie, 221 Av. Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
Orchestre de Paris – Bach and Escaich Concertos for Violin and Oboe
May 15th 2025 at 20:00 – 22:00
Orchestre de Paris
Roberto González-Monjas – conductor
Lisa Batiashvili – violin
François Leleux – oboe
Thierry Escaich – organ
For two exceptional evenings, guest composer Thierry Escaich in person performs on the organ. A tribute to Bach, the God of Music, this program also takes us to Shakespeare and the Eternal City.
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Daniel Handsworth in Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto
15/05/2025 6:00 pm
SR Berwaldhallen, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3, 115 27 Stockholm, Sweden
Daniel Handsworth in Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto
May 15th 2025 at 18:00 – 19:00
First Concert Master Malin Broman conducts and performs with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra while Principal Bassoonist Daniel Handsworth takes center stage in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s youthful bassoon concerto. Also, Nancy Dalberg’s Capriccio for Orchestra and Johannes Brahm’s lively Hungarian Dances.
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Elizabeth Maconchy – Bassoon Concertino – Amy Harman
17/05/2025 7:30 pm
St Edmund’s Church, Pinner Road, Northwood, HA6 1QS
Elizabeth Maconchy – Bassoon Concertino – Amy Harman
May 17th 2025 at 19:30 – 21:30
We’re very pleased to welcome Rebecca Miller as conductor for this diverse and enthralling evening of music.
The concert begins with Coleridge-Taylor’s delightful Petite Suite de Concert, followed by the intriguing and seldom heard Bassoon Concertino by Elizabeth Maconchy, featuring the extraordinarily talented Amy Harman as soloist, who is currently principal bassoon with the Aurora Orchestra.
The evening reaches its climax with a performance of Shostakovich’s monumental Tenth Symphony – an astounding achievement in symphonic form at a time when most western composers had abandoned the symphony.
Celebrated for her energetic and compelling presence on the podium, Rebecca Miller is a champion of unjustly-neglected female composers.
Join her for a free pre-concert talk at 7pm.
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Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto – Jonathan Leibovitz
21/05/2025 7:00 pm
Derby Cathedral, 18-19 Iron Gate, Derby, DE1 3GP
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto – Jonathan Leibovitz
May 21st 2025 at 19:00 – 20:40
Programme
Mendelssohn | Hebrides Overture
Mozart | Clarinet Concerto
Mozart | Overture to Lo Sposo Deluso
Louise Farrenc | Symphony No. 3
Sinfonia Viva
Olivia Clarke | conductor
Jonathan Leibovitz | clarinet
If the Classic FM Hall of Fame is anything to go by, then Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is the most popular work by arguably history’s greatest composer. This is a rare chance to hear this warm and instantly engaging music in Derby, performed by international prize-winning clarinettist Jonathan Leibovitz.
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Jonathan Leibovitz – Sonatas for Clarinet
22/05/2025 7:30 pm
The Girling Room, The Minories, Colchester, CO1 1UE
Jonathan Leibovitz – Sonatas for Clarinet
May 22nd 2025 at 19:30 – 21:00
Programme
Claude Debussy – Première Rhapsodie, L. 116 (1909-10)
Edison Denisov – Sonata for solo clarinet (1972)
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Sonata in E-flat, Op. 120 No. 2 (1894)
Francis Poulenc – Sonate pour clarinette et piano, FP. 184 (1962)
Jonathan Leibovitz – clarinet
Jo Havlat – piano
Jonathan Leibovitz is an award-winning clarinettist and, over the past two seasons, has been announced as a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Artists Guild International Auditions, a 2022 Classic FM ‘Rising Star’, a winner of the prestigious Arthur Waser Foundation and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Award, and was announced as a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Artist 2024.
As well as recitals across Europe – including at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Konzerthaus Berlin, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Wigmore Hall – Jonathan’s debut album Eastern Reflections was released in August on Delphian Records.
His accompanist (both in the recording and in this programme) is pianist Joseph Havlat. Joseph is a pianist, composer, and leading interpreter of new music, having collaborated with such composers as Hans Abrahamsen, John Adams, Thomas Adès, Gerald Barry, Brett Dean, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Michael Finnissy, and Thomas Larcher. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is now a tutor.
Recent highlights include playing Adès’ In Seven Days with the LSO under the baton of the composer, as well as the premiere of his Növények at Wigmore Hall. In late 2021 he appeared with the BBC Philharmonic giving the premiere of Robert Laidlow’s piano concerto Warp, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and in 2023 he made his solo recital debuts at King’s Place and Wigmore Hall in London, where he appeared five times in last year’s season.
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Gabriel Fauré – Music for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
23/05/2025 12:15 pm
The Grünewald Hall, Hötorget 8, 103 87 Stockholm, Sweden
May 23rd 2025 at 12:15 – 13:00
Programme
Fauré – Pavane, version for clarinet and piano
Fauré – Berceuse, version for clarinet and piano
Fauré – Après un rêve, version for cello and piano arr. Pablo Casals
Fauré – Sicilienne for cello and piano
Fauré – Trio in d minor op 120
Johan Fransén – clarinet
Mikael Sjögren – cello
Stefan Lindgren – piano
French composer Gabriel Fauré’s music shines with melodic charm, sprinkled with a touch of nostalgia. In small pieces like Après un rêve (After a Dream) and Sicilienne for cello and piano, it’s easy to imagine a Paris bathed in romantic glow. Exquisitely beautiful is Pavane opus 50, one of Fauré’s most beloved pieces often performed in its orchestrated version.
Johan Fransén, alternate section leader in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s clarinet section, along with Mikael Sjögren, alternate section leader in the cello section, and the orchestra’s pianist Stefan Lindgren, form a trio in a program entirely dedicated to Gabriel Fauré.
As a concluding highlight, we hear Fauré’s exquisite piano trio from 1923. In the first movement, there is a thoughtfulness bordering on melancholy, yet it is not sorrowful music. The second movement is dreamy and heartfelt, while the third is full of energy and strong contrasts. By around 1910, Fauré had begun to experience hearing problems, and when he composed this piano trio – one of his last completed works – he was likely completely deaf.
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Songs for Voice, Clarinet and Piano
25/05/2025 8:00 pm
Cologne Philharmonie, Bischofsgartenstraße 1, 50667 Köln, Germany
May 25th 2025 at 20:00- 21:30
Programme
Walton – Three Façade Settings for Voice and Piano
Messiaen – Trois Mélodies for Soprano and Piano
Barber – Hermit Songs, Op. 29 for Voice and Piano
Spohr – Six German Songs, Op. 103 for Voice, Clarinet and Piano
Grieg – Six Songs, Op. 48 for Voice and Piano
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller – soprano
Daniel Ottensamer – clarinet
Juliane Ruf – piano
“Songs are like small operas into which you can infuse many colours,” asserts Hanna-Elisabeth Müller. Young in years, yet rich in success, the soprano always devotes particular attention to the programs of her song recitals.
A multifaceted approach is guaranteed in Hanna-Elisabeth Müller’s performances. No orchestra, no backdrop, no costume – there’s nowhere to hide in a song, admits the Mannheim native. The intimate atmosphere of this very special art form is also created for her by the close proximity to the audience. In addition to her long-time piano partner Juliane Ruf, she will also perform in Cologne with clarinettist Daniel Ottensamer, the celebrated soloist and member of the Vienna Philharmonic.
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Trio Abstrakt
26/05/2025 7:30 pm
Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical, Calle del Príncipe de Vergara, 146 - 28002 Madrid
Trio Abstrakt
May 26th 2025 at 19:30
Georges Aperghis – Trio funambule
José Luis Perdigón – Ill-use
Franck Bedrossian – Piece to be determined
Alberto Posadas – Trío para saxofón, piano y percusión
Isabel Mundry – Piece to be determined
Trio Abstrakt
Salim(a) Javaid – saxophone
Marlies Debacker – piano
Alexandre Ferreira Silva – percussion
Trio Abstrakt is a love letter to new chamber music. For over 8 years, the ensemble has devoted itself with the utmost precision and dedication to demanding contemporary chamber music from the last three decades. As the creative home of musicians Salim(a) Javaid (saxophone), Marlies Debacker (piano), and Alexandre Ferreira Silva (percussion), the trio combines chamber music tradition with a continuous engagement with the present.
The ensemble aims to bring “music of today” to life, relying on a non-hierarchical collaboration with composers. In this collaborative process, extensive new works emerge that explore the sonic possibilities of modern chamber music performance.
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Sabine Meyer & Friends
27/05/2025 7:30 pm
St. Michael's Church, Engl. Planke 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany
Sabine Meyer & Friends
May 27th 2025 at 19:30 – 21:30
Programme
Ensemble Reflektor
Weber – Concertino in Es-Dur
Richard Strauss – Duett-Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon and Orchestra
Vaughan Williams – Flos Campi. Suite for Viola, Chamber Choir and Orchestra
Sabine Meyer, Clarinet
Dag Jensen, Bassoon
Nils Mönkemeyer, Viola
“One of the greatest interpreters of our time,” “a global star with heart,” “the first lady of the clarinet”: there’s no shortage of superlatives when it comes to Sabine Meyer. And rightly so, because the clarinetist is one of the most outstanding artists of all time. For more than 40 years, she has not only performed as a celebrated soloist on the world’s stages, but is also considered one of the most important advocates of her instrument. But now a small but painful farewell for the music world is imminent: Sabine Meyer is bidding farewell to the big stages with orchestras. In the future, she will primarily be heard in chamber music concerts. But before that final date, she fortunately has a guest appearance in Wiesbaden on her calendar. The fact that she then brings another soloist to her side for Richard Strauss’s charming Duet Concertino is typical of the clarinettist. Because making music, as Sabine Meyer has always emphasized in her admirably unpretentious manner and in all her countless artistic projects, would be unthinkable without community.
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Martínez Burgos – Étoiles sur fond blanc – Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra – Sophie Dervaux
29/05/2025 8:00 pm
Auditorio Príncipe Felipe, Pl. del Fresno, s/n, 33007 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Martínez Burgos – Étoiles sur fond blanc Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
Sophie Dervaux
May 29th 2025 at 20:00- 22:00
“Étoiles sur fond blanc” is a composition that explores the virtuosic possibilities of the bassoon and the orchestra. Although divided into movements, the composition is conceived as a continuous whole.
The first movement is “pastoral” music that evokes country settings in its first theme and marine settings in its second theme.
The second movement is a free fantasy that generates wide spaces, thus enabling ample dialogues between the soloist and the orchestra.
The third movement is a “berceuse” that stirs up previous musical materials within a dreamy atmosphere, leading to a cadenza.
The fourth movement —the end of the piece— is a fast Gigue with dizzying rhythms that lead to a spirited ending.
The stars on a white background are barely visible. Music also makes us perceive what we believe to be invisible.
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ESO Chamber Orchestra – Summer Sunset Soirée: Salons, Serenades and Songs
29/05/2025 7:00 pm
Worcester Guildhall Assembly Room, High Street, Worcester WR1 2EY
ESO Chamber Orchestra – Summer Sunset Soirée:
Salons, Serenades and Songs
May 29th 2025 at 19:00 – 20:30
Join us for an enchanting evening celebrating music for wooing. From the ancient days of the romantic guitarist serenading the object of their affections from below the garden window, music has long been one of our favourite nocturnal pastimes. Join the musicians of the English Symphony Orchestra for an evening of more than just a little night music, with romances and serenades by Elgar, Mozart and Coleridge-Taylor
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Schöllhorn – divertimento per li regazzi
29/05/2025 11:00 am
Residence, Toscana Hall, Residenzplatz 2 97070 Würzburg
Kammerakademie Potsdam | Martin Fröst
May 29th 2025 at 11:00 – 12:00
Programme
Johannes Schöllhorn – divertimento per li regazzi for clarinet/bass clarinet, violoncello and piano (world premiere, commissioned by Trio Catch)
Martin Adámek – Clarinet
Eva Boesch – Cello
Sun-Young Nam – Piano
Johannes Schöllhorn – Narrator
The suit is far too big, a strange conical hat on his head and a dark mask with a hooked nose on his face. The character is unmistakable: Pulcinella – eternal buffoon, daredevil, provocateur. In literature, art and music, he is up to his hilarious mischief in almost endless variations. The rococo master Giandomenico Tiepolo also literally had a crush on the dazzling figure and dedicated a whole 104 drawings to Pulcinella. Divertimento per li regazzi he called his colorful series of scenes from the imaginary life of Pulcinella with an ironic undertone and in deliberately incorrect Italian. “Entertainment for children”? Hardly, because the sarcastic drawings blatantly hold up a mirror to an adult society. Johannes Schöllhorn has turned the drawings into a musical sequence of images and savored all the moods that Pulcinella strikes, from lively liveliness to melancholy to obsession. In conjunction with interludes from Tiepolo’s cycle, Trio Catch will present the premiere of Schollhörn’s divertimento.
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Martínez Burgos – Étoiles sur fond blanc – Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra – Sophie Dervaux
30/05/2025 8:00 pm
Auditorio Príncipe Felipe, Pl. del Fresno, s/n, 33007 Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Martínez Burgos – Étoiles sur fond blanc Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
Sophie Dervaux
May 30th 2025 at 20:00- 22:00
“Étoiles sur fond blanc” is a composition that explores the virtuosic possibilities of the bassoon and the orchestra. Although divided into movements, the composition is conceived as a continuous whole.
The first movement is “pastoral” music that evokes country settings in its first theme and marine settings in its second theme.
The second movement is a free fantasy that generates wide spaces, thus enabling ample dialogues between the soloist and the orchestra.
The third movement is a “berceuse” that stirs up previous musical materials within a dreamy atmosphere, leading to a cadenza.
The fourth movement —the end of the piece— is a fast Gigue with dizzying rhythms that lead to a spirited ending.
The stars on a white background are barely visible. Music also makes us perceive what we believe to be invisible.
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Ibert – Concertino da camera – Andrey Fjeldstad
30/05/2025 7:30 pm
CBSO Centre, Berkley St, Birmingham B1 2LF, UK
Ibert – Concertino da camera – Andrey Fjeldstad
May 30th 2025 at 19:30
Wiktor Wysocki – New Commission
Vratislav Klemera – New Commission
Jacques Ibert – Concertino da camera
James Sharif – New Commission
Margaret Lyell – ‘Schiehallion’ (1929
Schumann – Piano Concerto in a-minor, Op.54
Romantic Revival Orchestra
Andrey Fjeldstad – saxophone
Julian Jacobson– piano
Tommaso Nista – conductor
The RRO takes on new music by James Sharif, as well as a saxophone concertino by Jacques Ibert, two piano concertos: Margaret Lyell’s ‘Schiehallion’ (1929) and Schumann’s Piano Concerto played by Julian Jacobson.
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London Mozart Players with Jess Gillam
30/05/2025 7:00 pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 4JJ
London Mozart Players with Jess Gillam
May 30th 2025 at 19:00
Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings (Movement 4: Finale)
James MacMillan – Saxophone Concerto
Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves
Jessie Montgomery – Strum
John Harle – RANT!
Dowland – Flow My Tears
Bartok arr. Willner – Romanian Folk Dances
Trad. arr. Tonsgaard Sørensen – Shine You No More
London Mozart Players
Jess Gillam – saxophone
Ruth Rogers – leader
Jonathan Bloxham – conductor
Full of memorable tunes and toe-tapping dances, LMP and the electrifying saxophonist Jess Gillam bring the heart and soul of folk-inspired music to life in this concert.
From the Scottish Isles in MacMillan’s punchy Saxophone Concerto to the pastoral English countryside of Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Greensleeves, the programme showcases the rich variety of folk-influenced classical music. As well as spanning the globe, tonight’s music also traverses time, transporting you from Dowland’s olde lute-inspired Flow My Tears to the contemporary pizzicato in Jessie Montgomery’s Strum.
Jess Gillam, known for her charismatic presenting style on BBC Radio 3’s This Classical Life, will guide you through the programme with engaging spoken introductions.
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Light Unveiled – Copland Clarinet Concerto – Lewis Graham
31/05/2025 6:30 pm
Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA
Outcry Ensemble – Light Unveiled
Copland Clarinet Concerto – Lewis Graham
May 31st 2025 at 18:30 – 20:10
Programme
Barber – Adagio for Strings
Caroline Shaw – Entr’acte
Copland – Clarinet Concerto
Michael Tippett – Concerto for Double String Orchestra
Outcry Ensemble
Clarinet – Lewis Graham
Conductor – James Henshaw
Opening with Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, a work of profound beauty and timeless poignancy, the programme moves to the contemporary brilliance of Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, a playful and inventive piece that reimagines classical traditions.
Aaron Copland’s delightful Clarinet Concerto follows, a work filled with jazzy rhythms and lyrical warmth, featuring the extraordinary Lewis Graham as soloist. To close, Michael Tippett’s Concerto for Double String Orchestra offers a dazzling display of energy and rhythm, showcasing the ensemble in its full vibrancy.
This concert is a celebration of the string orchestra’s expressive power, weaving together works that span emotions and styles. Join us for a night of unforgettable music!
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Adolphus Hailstork’s Concerto for Saxophone – Timothy McAllister
31/05/2025 7:30 pm
Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle Buffalo, NY 14201 United States
Adolphus Hailstork’s Concerto for Saxophone – Timothy McAllister
May 31st 2025 at 19:30
COPLAND – El Salón México
ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK – Concerto for Saxophone (World Premiere)
GINASTERA – Variaciones concertantes
BERNSTEIN – Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Timothy McAllister, saxophone
Join JoAnn Falletta and the BPO for a vibrant celebration of American music, starting with Copland’s El Salón México, a piece that captures the spirit and rhythms of Mexican dance halls. The concert features the world premiere of Adolphus Hailstork’s Concerto for Saxophone, performed by the exceptional Timothy McAllister, promising a work of great emotion and virtuosity that explores the saxophone’s expressive range. Ginastera’s Variaciones concertantes offers a showcase of Argentine musical traditions, while Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story close the evening with thrilling, jazz-infused melodies and the drama of New York’s city streets. This program highlights the diversity and innovation of American music, celebrating its power to tell stories and evoke vivid landscapes.
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Beethoven, Fauré and Dutilleux
01/06/2025 9:45 am
Greniers Saint-Jean, Pl. du Tertre Saint-Laurent, 49000 Angers, France
Beethoven, Fauré and Dutilleux
June 1st 2025 at 09:45 – 10:45
An exceptional instrumental ensemble, the flute, bassoon, and piano trio offers a unique sonic richness with the ability to explore a wide range of musical styles. Taking pride of place in this concert: Beethoven’s Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano, one of the most important works for this ensemble! Composed at the age of just 15, it demonstrates the composer’s freedom in his search for himself and the immense field of experimentation he opened up. Thus, from Schubert’s Impromptu to Dutilleux’s wartime work, reliable repertoire values and rarer pieces intertwine and respond to Beethoven’s masterpiece. Gaëlle Habert and Gilles Bréda, both musicians of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, with the help of pianist Lise Khatib, offer us a captivating and unforgettable musical experience here, in trio, duo, or solo.
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London Mozart Players with Jess Gillam
02/06/2025 7:30 pm
The Sheldonian Theatre, Broad St, Oxford OX1 3AZ
London Mozart Players with Jess Gillam
June 2nd 2025 at 19:30
Jessie Montgomery – Strum
James Macmillan – Saxophone Concerto
Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves
Dowland – Flow my tears
Bartok – Romanian Folk Dances
John Harle – RANT!
Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
London Mozart Players
Jess Gillam – saxophone
Ruth Rogers – leader
Jonathan Bloxham – conductor
A concert full of memorable tunes and toe-tapping dances with the electrifying saxophonist Jess Gillam bringing folk-inspired music for strings to life.
From the Scottish Isles in Macmillan’s punchy saxophone concerto to the idyllic English countryside of Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Greensleeves, the evening showcases the rich variety of folk-influenced classical music. As well as spanning the globe, tonight’s music also traverses time, transporting you from the Renaissance with Dowland’s Flow My Tears to now, with Jessie Montgomery’s spiky Strum.
Jess Gillam, known for her warm and charismatic presenting style on BBC Radio 3, will guide you through the programme with engaging spoken introductions.
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Concerto Copenhagen – Mozart Bassoon Concerto – Jane Gower
04/06/2025 8:00 pm
Residenz, Kaisersaal Residenzplatz 2 97070 Würzburg, Germany
Concerto Copenhagen – Mozart Bassoon Concerto – Jane Gower
June 4th 2025 at 20:00 – 21:30
“He is the father, we are the boys. Those of us who can do anything right have learned from him.” Words of deep admiration. Mozart is said to have bowed to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach with these words. In fact, the fame of Bach’s son in Mozart’s time far outshone that of his father, who is far more famous today. Mozart also studied his father’s works with great interest, as they were so different from what had influenced him musically: experimental, uncompromising, direct and expressive. With Haydn, Mozart and Bach, Concerto Copenhagen confronts southern and northern German sound worlds of the mid-18th century. All the works on the program were composed at exactly the same time and yet present such different perspectives. Who will succeed with the most surprising sound experiment? Hard to decide when Concerto Copenhagen performs the works of these contemporaries in a timeless manner with verve and a great sense for colourful interpretations.
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Takemitsu’s I Hear Water Dreaming – Marie-Christine Zupancic
04/06/2025 7:30 pm
Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Broad St, Birmingham B1 2EA
Takemitsu’s I Hear Water Dreaming – Marie-Christine Zupancic
June 4th 2025 at 19:30
Berlioz, Le Corsaire Overture
Takemitsu, I Hear Water Dreaming
Respighi, Fountains of Rome
Saint-Saëns, Symphony No.3 (Organ)
Kazuki Yamada – Conductor
Sebastian Heindl – Organ
Marie-Christine Zupancic – Flute
Berlioz dreams of pirates, Takemitsu of water and Respighi of fountains: three brilliant landscapes inspired by poems, paintings and Rome. Saint-Saëns is simply epic in his ‘Organ’ Symphony, its big moment provided by “miracle musician” Sebastian Heindl. The CBSO’s Marie-Christine Zupancic delights in the Takemitsu with its stunning solo for flute.
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Fei Xie Plays Jolivet
05/06/2025 11:00 am
Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403, United States
Fei Xie Plays Jolivet
June 5th 2025 at 11:00 – 13:00
An exceptional instrumental ensemble, the flute, bassoon, and piano trio offers a unique sonic richness with the ability to explore a wide range of musical styles. Taking pride of place in this concert: Beethoven’s Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano, one of the most important works for this ensemble! Composed at the age of just 15, it demonstrates the composer’s freedom in his search for himself and the immense field of experimentation he opened up. Thus, from Schubert’s Impromptu to Dutilleux’s wartime work, reliable repertoire values and rarer pieces intertwine and respond to Beethoven’s masterpiece. Gaëlle Habert and Gilles Bréda, both musicians of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, with the help of pianist Lise Khatib, offer us a captivating and unforgettable musical experience here, in trio, duo, or solo.
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Fei Xie Plays Jolivet
06/06/2025 8:00 pm
Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403, United States
Fei Xie Plays Jolivet
June 6th 2025 at 20:00 – 22:00
An exceptional instrumental ensemble, the flute, bassoon, and piano trio offers a unique sonic richness with the ability to explore a wide range of musical styles. Taking pride of place in this concert: Beethoven’s Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano, one of the most important works for this ensemble! Composed at the age of just 15, it demonstrates the composer’s freedom in his search for himself and the immense field of experimentation he opened up. Thus, from Schubert’s Impromptu to Dutilleux’s wartime work, reliable repertoire values and rarer pieces intertwine and respond to Beethoven’s masterpiece. Gaëlle Habert and Gilles Bréda, both musicians of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, with the help of pianist Lise Khatib, offer us a captivating and unforgettable musical experience here, in trio, duo, or solo.
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ECHO Rising Stars at 30: Carlos Ferreira – Clarinet
07/06/2025 1:45 pm
St Giles Cripplegate, Fore St, City of London, London EC2Y 8DA
ECHO Rising Stars at 30: Carlos Ferreira – Clarinet
June 7th 2025 at 13:45 – 14:45
Programme
Pierre Boulez – Domaines
Joseph Horovitz – Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano
Claude Debussy – Première Rhapsodie
Lanqing Ding – New work
Carlos Ferreira – clarinet
Pedro Emmanuel Pereira – piano
Jazz-inspired music meets a brand new commission plus one of the cornerstones of the clarinet repertoire, with Portuguese clarinettist Carlos Ferreira.
Carlos Ferreira pursues a twin career as an orchestral player (formerly with the Philharmonia Orchestra and, most recently, as Principal Clarinet with the Orchestre National de France), chamber musician and recitalist. His magnetic playing, deep rooted understanding of musical style and attention to the finest detail, have won him widespread praise. He’ll bring all these qualities to the playful melodies of Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina, Debussy’s expressive and seductive First Rhapsody (a deserved cornerstone of the clarinet repertoire) and to his specially commissioned work for this ECHO Rising Stars tour by Lanqing Ding, a fresh and inventive voice in contemporary music.
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Unsuk Chin Clarinet Concerto – Han Kim
07/06/2025 8:00 pm
Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, United States
Unsuk Chin Clarinet Concerto – Han Kim
June 7th 2025 at 20:00 – 22:00
Programme
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Hankyeol Yoon, conductor
Han Kim, clarinet
Inmo Yang, violin
Jaemin Han, cello
Unsuk Chin, curator
Mark Simpson – clarinet
Richard Uttley – piano
South Korea is home to an ever-expanding cohort of inventive composers with fresh ideas and talented performers who have made names for themselves at many of the world’s finest concert halls. In the second of two Seoul Festival programs with the LA Phil, composer Unsuk Chin curates a night showcasing Korean composers and artists who are shaping musical culture and building connections from Seoul to Los Angeles. Herbert von Karajan Award-winning conductor Hankyeol Yoon leads the LA Phil in a world premiere by Whan Ri-Ahn followed by Han Kim performing Unsuk Chin’s Clarinet Concerto, which was called “a musical, out-of-body experience” by the Financial Times.
Violinist Inmo Yang and cellist Jaemin Han embody a young generation of South Korean performers who have turned major international competition wins into thriving careers. Yang and Han—the 2022 Jean Sibelius Violin Competition winner and top prize at the 2021 George Enescu International Competition respectively—combine forces for Brahms’ Double Concerto, which offers a musical conversation for its two soloists moving between joy and turbulence.
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Unsuk Chin Clarinet Concerto – Han Kim
08/06/2025 2:00 pm
Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012, United States
Unsuk Chin Clarinet Concerto – Han Kim
June 8th 2025 at 14:00 – 16:00
Programme
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Hankyeol Yoon, conductor
Han Kim, clarinet
Inmo Yang, violin
Jaemin Han, cello
Unsuk Chin, curator
Mark Simpson – clarinet
Richard Uttley – piano
South Korea is home to an ever-expanding cohort of inventive composers with fresh ideas and talented performers who have made names for themselves at many of the world’s finest concert halls. In the second of two Seoul Festival programs with the LA Phil, composer Unsuk Chin curates a night showcasing Korean composers and artists who are shaping musical culture and building connections from Seoul to Los Angeles. Herbert von Karajan Award-winning conductor Hankyeol Yoon leads the LA Phil in a world premiere by Whan Ri-Ahn followed by Han Kim performing Unsuk Chin’s Clarinet Concerto, which was called “a musical, out-of-body experience” by the Financial Times.
Violinist Inmo Yang and cellist Jaemin Han embody a young generation of South Korean performers who have turned major international competition wins into thriving careers. Yang and Han—the 2022 Jean Sibelius Violin Competition winner and top prize at the 2021 George Enescu International Competition respectively—combine forces for Brahms’ Double Concerto, which offers a musical conversation for its two soloists moving between joy and turbulence.
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Kammerakademie Potsdam | Martin Fröst
09/06/2025 8:00 pm
Residence, Kaisersaal Residenzplatz 2 97070 Würzburg
Kammerakademie Potsdam | Martin Fröst
June 9th 2025 at 20:00 – 21:30
Programme
Brahms/Goran Fröst – Hungarian Dance No. 1
Weber – Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor op. 73
Bartók/Goran Fröst – Romanian Folk Dances SZ 56
Mozart – Symphony No. 38 in D major KV 504 “Prague”
Chamber Academy Potsdam
Martin Fröst – Clarinet and conductor
Off to the dance! Mozart would not be told twice. He loved social gatherings where things literally went round and round. Contemporaries attested to his immense urge to move. No wonder that this is also evident in countless of his compositions. From the “Prague Symphony”, for example, whose Presto finale makes it almost impossible to keep your feet still. In the program under the motto “Dance Mosaic”, Martin Fröst and the Kammerakademie Potsdam make the lively symphony the destination and head towards it with works that tell as much about dance as they do about (spiritual) relationships. Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto, for example, which naturally had an important model in the work of Weber’s cousin by marriage, Mozart. And there are also family ties in the program for the soloist and conductor himself: the “Romance Dances” are a joint work by the Swedish brothers Martin and Goran Fröst.
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Trish Clowes – Saxophone
June 13th 2025 at 22:00
Trish Clowes – Saxophone
Donald Grant – Violin
Ross Stanley – Piano
Expect the unexpected from saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes and her equally inventive partners. The trio’s programme weaves together a heady blend of their own compositions, the essential spirit of folk music, life-enhancing improvisations and familiar chamber pieces reimagined and refreshed.
Renowned saxophonist Jonathan Radford is the soloist in the world première of Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s saxophone concerto.The concert will close with Brahms’s Second Symphony, under the baton of our Artistic Director, Thomas Carroll.
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Timeless Classics and New Beginnings – Dialogue of Minds
15/06/2025 4:00 pm
Burgh House New End Square London NW3 1LT
Timeless Classics and New Beginnings
Dialogue of Minds
June 15th 2025 at 16:00 – 17:30
Programme
Rolf Martinsson – Suite Fantastique
Gerald Finzi – Five Bagatelles
Nicole Rubinova – TBA (world premiere)
Debussy – Premiere Rhapsodie
Margaret Sutherland – Clarinet Sonata
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Kristina Newton – clarinet
Joel Slott – piano
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, international duo Dialogue of Minds visits Burgh House in their second London tour.
Praised for their “great sensitivity” and technical virtuosity, British-Australian clarinettist Kristina Newton and Swedish pianist Joel Slott come together in an evening where timeless masters of classical music meet with exciting new voices of today.
The programme commences with the Australian Margaret Sutherland’s lyrical clarinet sonata. The energetic high points of Finzi’s ‘Five Bagatelles’ and Debussy’s romantic ‘Première Rhapsodie’ will both draw parallels with the alternatingly vivid and melodic ‘Suite Fantastique’ by Swedish composer and professor Rolf Martinsson.
Dialogue of Minds is also proud to present newly commissioned work by celebrated Swedish composer Nicole Rubinova. The programme will conclude with a joyful virtuosic arrangement of Mozart’s ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’.
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Timeless Classics and New Beginnings – Dialogue of Minds
18/06/2025 7:30 pm
1901 Arts Club 7 Exton Street Waterloo LONDON SE1 8UE
Timeless Classics and New Beginnings
Dialogue of Minds
June 18th 2025 at 19:30 – 21:00
Programme
Rolf Martinsson – Suite Fantastique
Gerald Finzi – Five Bagatelles
Nicole Rubinova – TBA (world premiere)
Debussy – Premiere Rhapsodie
Margaret Sutherland – Clarinet Sonata
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Dialogue of Minds
Kristina Newton – clarinet
Joel Slott – piano
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, international duo Dialogue of Minds visits the 1901 Arts Club in their second UK tour. Praised for their “great sensitivity”, British-Australian clarinetist Kristina Newton and Swedish pianist Joel Slott come together in an evening where timeless masters of classical music meet with exciting new voices of today.
The program commences with the alternatingly vivid and melodic Suite Fantastique, which will draw parallels with both the energetic high points of Finzi’s Five Bagatelles and the romantic Premiere Rhapsodie by Debussy.
Dialogue of Minds is also proud to present their newly commissioned work by Nicole Rubinova. The program will conclude with a joyful and virtuosic staple by Mozart.
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Timeless Classics and New Beginnings – Dialogue of Minds
19/06/2025 7:30 pm
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey KT19 8NP
Timeless Classics and New Beginnings
Dialogue of Minds
June 19th 2025 at 19:30 – 21:00
Programme
Rolf Martinsson – Suite Fantastique
Gerald Finzi – Five Bagatelles
Nicole Rubinova – TBA (world premiere)
Debussy – Premiere Rhapsodie
Margaret Sutherland – Clarinet Sonata
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Dialogue of Minds
Kristina Newton – clarinet
Joel Slott – piano
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, international chamber duo Dialogue of Minds visits The Horton in their second UK tour.
Praised for their “great sensitivity” and technical virtuosity, British-Australian clarinettist Kristina Newton and Swedish pianist Joel Slott come together in an evening where timeless masters of classical music meet with exciting new voices of today.
The programme commences with the Australian Margaret Sutherland’s lyrical clarinet sonata. The energetic high points of Finzi’s ‘Five Bagatelles’ and Debussy’s romantic ‘Première Rhapsodie’ will both draw parallels with the alternatingly vivid and melodic ‘Suite Fantastique’ by Swedish composer and professor Rolf Martinsson.
Dialogue of Minds is also proud to present newly commissioned work by celebrated Swedish composer Nicole Rubinova. The programme will conclude with a joyful virtuosic arrangement of Mozart’s ‘Eine kleine Nachtmusik’.
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Timeless Classics and New Beginnings – Dialogue of Minds
21/06/2025 7:30 pm
St Pancras Clock Tower, London, NW1 2AR
Timeless Classics and New Beginnings
Dialogue of Minds
June 21st 2025 at 19:30 – 21:00
Programme
Rolf Martinsson – Suite Fantastique
Gerald Finzi – Five Bagatelles
Nicole Rubinova – TBA (world premiere)
Debussy – Premiere Rhapsodie
Margaret Sutherland – Clarinet Sonata
Mozart – Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Dialogue of Minds
Kristina Newton – clarinet
Joel Slott – piano
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden, international duo Dialogue of Minds visits St Pancras Clock Tower in their second London tour. Praised for their “great sensitivity” and technical virtuosity, British-Australian clarinetist Kristina Newton and Swedish pianist Joel Slott come together in an evening where timeless masters of classical music meet with exciting new voices of today.
The program commences with the Australian Margaret Sutherlands lyrical Clarinet Sonata. The energetic high points of Finzi’s Five Bagatelles and the romantic Premiere Rhapsodie by Debussy will both draw parallels with the alternatingly vivid and melodic Suite Fantastique by Swedish composer and professor Rolf Martinsson.
Dialogue of Minds is also proud to present their newly commissioned work by celebrated Swedish composer Nicole Rubinova. The program will conclude with a joyful a virtuosic arrangement of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
Only 45 tickets will be available for this unique musical setting, inside the Clock Tower above Kings Cross Station! Enjoy the London skyline and share this intimate experience with us and other music lovers.
Additional information on the building:
The Clock Tower is within St. Pancras Chambers, the modern name for the former Midland Grand Hotel. a railway terminus hotel which was constructed at St. Pancras by the Midland Railway from 1868 to 1876, with the hotel opening in 1873.
The architect was George Gilbert Scott, the great proponent of the style known as the Gothic Revival, a Victorian style with echoes back to the Gothic era of the middle ages. The town hall at Armentières in north-eastern France was the inspiration behind much of the building.
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Felix Mendelssohn, Lachner, Mozart and more – Sabine Meyer
23/06/2025 1:00 pm
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP
Felix Mendelssohn, Lachner, Mozart and more – Sabine Meyer
June 23rd 2025 at 13:00 – 14:00
Pure melody, steeped in tonal beauty and infinite depths of expression, runs through Fatma Said’s recital. She and Malcolm Martineau are joined by another champion of melodic beauty and heartfelt music making, the great German clarinettist Sabine Meyer.
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Saxophone Concerto – Jonathan Radford
26/06/2025 7:30 pm
St George’s Church, Hanover Square, Mayfair, London W1S 1FX
Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Saxophone Concerto – Jonathan Radford
June 26th 2025 at 19:30
Foundation Composer – Miles Walter – World Première composition
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Saxophone Concerto – World Première
Brahms – Symphony No. 2, Op. 73
Orpheus Sinfonia
Thomas Carroll: Conductor
Daniel Joseph: Foundation Conductor
Jonathan Radford: Saxophone
We are very excited to be presenting two world premières this evening.
Foundation Conductor, Daniel Joseph, will direct the world première of our Foundation Composer’s brand-new work.
Renowned saxophonist Jonathan Radford is the soloist in the world première of Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s saxophone concerto.The concert will close with Brahms’s Second Symphony, under the baton of our Artistic Director, Thomas Carroll.
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Mozart Oboe Concerto in C Major at Schleißheim Palace
28/06/2025 7:30 pm
Schleissheim Palace, Max-Emanuel-Platz 1, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
Mozart Oboe Concerto in C Major
June 28th 2025 at 19:30 – 21:30
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Let It Be Colourful – Asya Fateyeva
09/07/2025 7:30 pm
Fountain Courtyard, Munich Residence, Residenzstraße 1, 80333 München, Germany
Let It Be Colourful – Asya Fateyeva
July 9th 2025 at 19:30
Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le Toit op. 58
Villa-Lobos: Fantasia para saxophone, A490
Milhaud: Scaramouche for Alto saxophone and Orchestra op. 165c
Piazzolla: Adiós Nonino
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op.23
Münchner Symphoniker
Joseph Bastian, Conductor
Asya Fateyeva, Saxophone
The ever-popular open-air concerts in the Residenz’s fountain courtyard exude a very special charm. Just the thing for our season finale! Our chief conductor, Joseph Bastian, has once again put together a program whose verve perfectly matches the summer mood. This time, it’s off to South America: Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos and Argentinian Alberto Ginastera combined the rhythmic drive of their homeland with the compositional refinement of European modernism. Astor Piazzolla made the formerly disreputable Argentine tango suitable for concert halls; in his most famous piece, he bid farewell to his father with yearning sounds. Darius Milhaud was considered the enfant terrible of the Parisian music scene in the 1920s; as an attaché to the French ambassador in Rio de Janeiro, he absorbed local sounds and integrated them into his works. Saxophone virtuoso Asya Fateyeva is a dynamic soloist who also moves easily between classical and other musical styles.
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Emma Johnson clarinet, conductor; Orchestra for the Environment
16/07/2025 1:00 pm
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP
Emma Johnson clarinet, conductor; Orchestra for the Environment
July 16th 2025 at 13:00 – 14:00
Emma Johnson and the virtuoso players of her Orchestra for the Environment close this vibrant celebration of the natural world with the clarinettist and composer’s Tree of Life. Inspired by her lifelong love of nature, the piece sends a message of hope ‘that by acting together, we can mitigate the effects of climate change’.
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The African Concert Series – Tunde Jegede
19/07/2025 11:30 am
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP
The African Concert Series
Music by Tunde Jegede
July 19th 2025 at 11:30
Programme
Still Moment
Layline Ripples
Reflections/By The Will
Shuna
Moon Waters
All Our Yesterdays
Songs of the Eternal
3 Mandé Songs
The Elements
Tunde Jegede – kora
Jan Hendrickse – flute
Vincent Ademola Haastrup – violin
Deep knowledge of western classical composition and the timeless oral tradition rooted in Malian culture have nourished the music of composer, producer, cellist and kora virtuoso Tunde Jegede. Having journeyed from his native London to Gambia during childhood, he absorbed the ancient griot tradition of West Africa and continues to develop its legacy in compositions that speak to the heart.
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Open Air Concert – Bellini Oboe Concerto at Schleißheim Palace
01/08/2025 7:30 pm
The Arcades, Schleissheim Palace, Max-Emanuel-Platz 1, 85764 Oberschleißheim, Germany
Bellini Oboe Concerto
August 1st 2025 at 19:30 – 21:30
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Mark Simpson & Richard Uttley
06/08/2025 11:00 am
The Queen's Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9JG
Mark Simpson & Richard Uttley
August 6th 2025 at 11:00 – 12:30
Programme
Sir James Macmillan – After The Tryst
Mark-Anthony Turnage – Cradle Song
Jay Capperauld – So My Tears Flow
Mark Simpson – Echoes and Embers
Brahms – Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op.120 No.1
Zoë Martlew – Pyrrhos
Mark Simpson – Lov(escape)
Gavin Higgins – Three Broken Love Songs
Brahms – Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op.120 No. 2
Mark Simpson – clarinet
Richard Uttley – piano
Mark Simpson brings dual talents as composer and clarinettist to an intimate programme featuring Johannes Brahms and his own works.
A virtuoso clarinettist with a ‘glittering composing career’ (The Arts Desk), Mark Simpson is joined on stage by Richard Uttley, Piano Professor at the Royal College of Music. Together, they perform a selection of Simpson’s own compositions alongside works by Brahms.
Since becoming the first-ever winner of both the BBC Young Musician of the Year and BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year competitions in 2006, Simpson has forged a dual career, championing new music while delivering insightful, nuanced interpretations of the clarinet repertoire. Uttley is celebrated for the integrity and breadth of his musicianship as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist.
Simpson’s performances of Brahms have been praised for their ‘real sense of shape and flow’ and ‘cathartic’ emotion (The Guardian), qualities that will bring out the warmth and richness of Brahms’s contemplative music.
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Soweto Kinch/LSO: Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
13/11/2025 7:00 pm
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS
Soweto Kinch/LSO: Soundtrack to the Apocalypse
November 13th 2025 at 19:00- 21:00
Programme to be announced
London Symphony Orchestra
Soweto Kinch – saxophone
The saxophonist, rapper and composer Soweto Kinch presents the final instalment of a trilogy of works in collaboration with the LSO, which began with The Black Peril and White Juju.
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SCO – John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons – Maximiliano Martín
11/12/2025 7:30 pm
The Queen's Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9JG
SCO – John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons – Maximiliano Martín
December 11th 2025 at 19:30 – 21:30
Programme
Adams – Shaker Loops
Adams – Gnarly Buttons
Adams – Fearful Symmetries
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Manze – conductor
Maximiliano Martín – clarinet
Once a self-identifying minimalist, radical American composer John Adams quickly jumped from cool, hypnotic pulsations to red-hot emotion and vast cinematic soundscapes in his colourful, witty music. Experience that thrilling journey in three iconic pieces by this pioneering musician.
Minimalist classic Shaker Loops is a rippling soundscape of quivering energy – sometimes frenetic, sometimes meditative, but never less than mesmerisingly beautiful.
Mooing cows and ancient American hymns are among the inspirations behind Adams’ zany clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons – played by charismatic SCO Principal Clarinet Maximiliano Martín – which blends humour and heart in music that spans jazz, pop, folk and the surging repetitions of minimalism. Fearful Symmetries is one of Adams’ boldest and brightest pieces, a high-energy workout of driving rhythms and larger-than-life orchestral sound.
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SCO – John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons – Maximiliano Martín
12/12/2025 7:30 pm
City Halls & Old Fruitmarket, 100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ
SCO – John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons – Maximiliano Martín
December 12th 2025 at 19:30 – 21:30
Programme
Adams – Shaker Loops
Adams – Gnarly Buttons
Adams – Fearful Symmetries
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Andrew Manze – conductor
Maximiliano Martín – clarinet
Once a self-identifying minimalist, radical American composer John Adams quickly jumped from cool, hypnotic pulsations to red-hot emotion and vast cinematic soundscapes in his colourful, witty music. Experience that thrilling journey in three iconic pieces by this pioneering musician.
Minimalist classic Shaker Loops is a rippling soundscape of quivering energy – sometimes frenetic, sometimes meditative, but never less than mesmerisingly beautiful.
Mooing cows and ancient American hymns are among the inspirations behind Adams’ zany clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons – played by charismatic SCO Principal Clarinet Maximiliano Martín – which blends humour and heart in music that spans jazz, pop, folk and the surging repetitions of minimalism. Fearful Symmetries is one of Adams’ boldest and brightest pieces, a high-energy workout of driving rhythms and larger-than-life orchestral sound.
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Kebyart Ensemble
05/02/2026 7:30 pm
Kleine Saal, Elbphilharmonie, Platz d. Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Kebyart Ensemble
February 5th 2026 at 19:30- 21:00
Works by Steve Reich, Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw and others
Kebyart
Pere Méndez – soprano saxophone
Víctor Serra – alto saxophone
Robert Seara – tenor saxophone
Daniel Miguel – baritone saxophone
It’s all in the mix: Original works, visionary new creations, and original arrangements combine in the Kebyart saxophone quartet’s programs to create a distinctive work of art. With explosive staging, the four likeable Catalans transform each of their concerts into an experience. These excellent musicians share not only a passion for chamber music, but also a strong desire to breathe new life into the traditional communication of classical music. Their brimming tour schedule demonstrates their success: from Barcelona to Paris and across Europe, Kebyart is in demand at festivals and concert series with innovative aspirations. The saxophone has never been so multifaceted before.
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Berlage’s Vision
05/03/2026 8:15 pm
De Grote Zaal, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, 1019 BR Amsterdam, Netherlands
Berlage’s Vision
Berlage Saxophone Quartet + Vincent Bijlo
March 5th 2026 at 20:15 – 22:00
Bach – selection from Goldbergvariations (arr. Peter Vigh)
Erwin Schulhoff – Fünf Stücke (arr. Peter Vigh)
Claude Debussy – Pagodes (arr. Peter Vigh)
Joey Roukens – Quodlibet
Berlage Saxophone Quartet
Lars Niederstrasser – soprano saxophone
Peter Vigh – alto saxophone
Juani Palop Tecles – tenor saxophone
Eva van Grinsven – baritone saxophone
At the centre of the concert evening is the brilliant Jess Gillam, one of the most exciting musicians of our time. With her soprano saxophone, she combines technical virtuosity and charismatic stage presence like rarely seen. Two works put the saxophone in the spotlight: Dave Heath’s “The Celtic” and James MacMillan’s Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and String Orchestra. Both works are tailor-made for Jess Gillam. Heath’s “The Celtic” combines Celtic melancholy with rhythmic energy, while MacMillan’s work explores the boundaries of the instrument’s timbres and expressive possibilities. His most famous is certainly the Ninth, but for many, Antonín Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony is his best. This music feels rugged and melancholic, yet compact and strict. There is no superfluous note here, every motif is worked through, every counterpoint has something to say. No question: this is not cozy folk music from a Bohemian village tavern, but highly concentrated symphonic music in the spirit of Beethoven and Brahms.
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Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
11/03/2026 7:30 pm
Holy Trinity Church, South St, St Andrews KY16 9NL
Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
March 11th 2026 at 19:30 – 21:30
ANNA CLYNE – Sound and Fury†
DANI HOWARD – Saxophone Concerto*
GEORGE WALKER – Lyric for Strings
CAROLINE SHAW – Entr’acte
DAVE HEATH – The Celtic*
JOHN HARLE – Rant!*
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ben Glassberg – conductor
Jess Gillam – saxophones*
†Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts.
Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto The Celtic.
Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating Sound and Fury, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial Entr’acte. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his striking Lyric for Strings.
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Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
12/03/2026 7:30 pm
The Queen's Hall, 85-89 Clerk St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9JG
Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
March 12th 2026 at 19:30 – 21:30
ANNA CLYNE – Sound and Fury†
DANI HOWARD – Saxophone Concerto*
GEORGE WALKER – Lyric for Strings
CAROLINE SHAW – Entr’acte
DAVE HEATH – The Celtic*
JOHN HARLE – Rant!*
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ben Glassberg – conductor
Jess Gillam – saxophones*
†Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts.
Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto The Celtic.
Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating Sound and Fury, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial Entr’acte. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his striking Lyric for Strings.
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Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
13/03/2026 7:30 pm
City Halls & Old Fruitmarket, 100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ
Saxophone Dreams with Jess Gillam
March 13th 2026 at 19:30 – 21:30
ANNA CLYNE – Sound and Fury†
DANI HOWARD – Saxophone Concerto*
GEORGE WALKER – Lyric for Strings
CAROLINE SHAW – Entr’acte
DAVE HEATH – The Celtic*
JOHN HARLE – Rant!*
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Ben Glassberg – conductor
Jess Gillam – saxophones*
†Commissioned by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
An inspiring fixture on radio and TV, Cumbrian-born Jess Gillam is first and foremost a world-class saxophonist. She brings her invigorating musical personality to a typically adventurous collection of music across diverse styles and sounds for the last of our New Dimensions concerts.
Young British composer Dani Howard wrote her effervescent new Saxophone Concerto specially for Gillam, while Dave Heath throws you into the whirling energy of a raucous ceilidh in his galvanising concerto The Celtic.
Haydn provides the calmer inspiration for Anna Clyne’s scintillating Sound and Fury, written for the SCO in 2019, and also for Caroline Shaw’s mercurial Entr’acte. The great African American composer George Walker, meanwhile, regularly moves listeners to tears with his striking Lyric for Strings.
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Lowell Liebermann’s Flute Concerto No 2 – Gareth Davies
26/03/2026 7:00 pm
Barbican Centre, Silk St, City of London, London EC2Y 8DS
Lowell Liebermann Flute Concerto No 2 – Gareth Davies
March 26th 2026 at 19:30
Bernstein – Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story’
Lowell Liebermann – Flute Concerto No 2 (European premiere)
Dvořák – Symphony No 9, ‘From the New World’
London Symphony Orchestra
Anja Bihlmaier – conductor
Gareth Davies – Flute
An American dream: Dvořák’s ode to the US and Bernstein’s gritty portrait of New York frame a new concerto.
The Symphonic Dances from West Side Story are Bernstein’s own exhilarating whistle-stop tour through his greatest musical, with every great moment given a dazzling orchestral make-over with moments of heart-stopping beauty.
We turn next to New York-born composer Lowell Liebermann, whose 2023 Flute Concerto No 2 has been lauded for its tunefulness and fizzing energy, and finally Dvořák and his epic hymn to the vast and infinite beauty of rural America.
Gareth Davies, the LSO’s Principal Flute, takes to the stage for Liebermann’s concerto, all conducted by one of today’s most dynamic and engaging conductors, Anja Bihlmaier.
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