Join Jackie Kay and Imtiaz Dharker for two poetry performances to celebrate the opening of Real Families. Jackie Kay was the National Poet for Scotland whose collection The Adoption Papers won the Forward Poetry prize. Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist, filmmaker who was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for poetry. Her latest collection is Luck is the Hook.
Bar & exhibition open: 18.30 | Event: 19.00 | Book signing: 20.00
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with the Solem Quartet.
Programme
Nadia Boulanger (arr. A Tress): Three pieces for cello & piano (arr. string quartet)
Edmund Finnis: String Quartet No.3, ‘Devotions’
Interval
Lili Boulanger (arr. W Newell): Deux morceaux, (arr. string quartet)
Janáček : String Quartet No.1, ‘Kreutzer’
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with Alasdair Beatson.
Programme
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E major Op.109
Fauré: Theme and variations Op.26
Interval
Webern: Variations Op.27
R Schumann: Symphonic Etudes Op.13
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with Huw Wiggin, saxophone and Noriko Ogawa, piano.
Programme
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody for saxophone & piano
JS Bach (arr. Harle): Sonata in G minor BWV1020
Rachmaninov (arr. Ogawa): Vocalise Op.34 No.14 (solo piano)
Iain Farrington: Paganini Variations
Interval
Joseph Phibbs: Night Paths: Rhapsody for saxophone & piano
Debussy: Clair de lune (solo piano)
Andy Scott: Fujiko
Liszt (arr. Farrington): Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C sharp minor
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with the Nash Ensemble.
The Nash Ensemble is still the best champion that any composer could hope to have. – The Times
Programme
Haydn: Piano Trio in G major HXV25, ‘Gipsy Rondo’
Simon Holt: Serra-Sierra for cello & piano
Interval
Grieg: Andante con moto for piano trio
Dvořák: Piano Trio in E minor Op.90, ‘Dumky’
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house for the Max and Evelyn Forbes Concert with Jonathan Leibowitz, clarinet and Joseph Havlat, piano.
Programme
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody
Ravel: Mélodie hébraïque No.1: Kaddish (1914)
Weinberg: Sonata for clarinet & piano Op.28
Interval
Brahms: Sonata in E flat major Op.120 No.2
Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata (1962)
Béla Kovács: ‘Shalom Aleichem’
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with the Marmen Quartet.
Superb storytelling from four great communicators –The Strad
Programme
Haydn: String Quartet in D major Op.33 No.6
Takemitsu: A Way A Lone
Interval
Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Op.10
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with the Rossetti Ensemble.
The Rossetti Ensemble gave a scintillating touch of class with performances of works by Dvořák, Mahler and Brahms. The Piano Quartet in G minor by Brahms is on the grandest of scales and was given the full treatment by these wonderful musicians (each one of whom has virtuoso quality). The presto finale was such an exhilarating ride that it provided the perfect coda. – Stratford Herald
Programme
Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with Boris Giltburg, piano.
These interpretations are enormously pleasurable and at times revelatory…Giltburg’s pianism is ideally suited to late Beethoven. – BBC Music Magazine
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Join us for a Chamber Music concert in the Kettle’s Yard house with Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman.
Programme
Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style
Nadia Boulanger: Three Pieces for cello & piano
George Walker: Cello Sonata
Interval
Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor L.135
Franck: Violin Sonata (arr. cello)
