To the Future which starts here:
The Gleams of Light are our forthcoming PLG music events, listed below.
All leading to bright and lively performances in the 65th PLG season.
We thank all who have played a part in making this lead-up possible and particularly, of course, to:
St James’s Piccadilly
Wigmore Hall
22 Mansfield Street W1
Riverside House Twickenham (by kind permission of Lady Panufnik).
2021 - 22 PLG 65th Birthday Season
Owing to the death of the PLG Founder and Director, John Woolf, plans for the birthday season on now on hold. We hope to be able to announce a new programme later this year.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
September 27, 2017 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
MATTHEW SCOTT - clarinet
CHRISTINE ZERAFA - piano
Joseph Horowitz: Sonatina for clarinet and piano (1981)
Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata inE flat major, Op. 167 (1921)
Paul Patterson: Conversations, Op. 25 (1974)
Admission free/No tickets required
October 3, 2017 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
MARIA MARCHANT - solo piano
Clara Schumann: Notturno;Polonaise (Soirées Musicales, Op. 6)
Bantock: Reverie;Lyric Poem
Ireland: Month's Mind
Ireland/Roderick Williams: Sea Fever
Roderick Williams: Goodwood by the Sea
Schubert/Liszt: Am Meer; Liebesbotschaft (Schwanengesang, D957)
Liszt: Ballade in B minor
Admission free/No tickets required
October 25, 2017 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
THE HERMES EXPERIMENT - soprano/clarinet/harp/double bass
Josephine Stephenson: tanka
Darren Bloom: Second Fig
Bach/Pashley: Prelude in D Major
Schofield: My Hands
Prokofiev : Visions Fugitives, Op. 22, Nos. 1,7,8 and 16
Freya Waley-Cohen: We Phoenician Sailors
Admission free/No tickets required
November 27, 2017 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
A4 BRASS QUARTET -
Jonathan Bates: Toccata 3
Bernstein/Thomas: Overture, Candide
Joseph Kosma/Bates: Autumn Leaves
Thomas Doss: Moskito
Kentaro Sato/Bates: Tsunangari
Christian Overhead: 5 Miniatures
Percy Grainger/Bates: Molly on the Shore
John Hartmann/Bates: La Belle Américaine
Bruckner;Robertson: Locus Iste
Jonathan Bates: A Tale of Two Peaks
Admission free/No tickets required
November 29, 2017 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
TRITIUM TRIO - clarinet/cello/piano
Scott L. Miller: Elegy
Giles Easterbrook: Clarinet Trio 'Auf dem ersten grun'
Leighton: Fantasy on an American Hymntune
Admission free/No tickets required
December 4, 2017 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
MAX WELFORD / KATHERINE TINKER - clarinet/piano
Gerald Finzi: Five Bagatelles
Arnold Bax: Clarinet Sonata
John Ireland: Fantasy-Sonata
Admission free / No tickets required
December 12, 2017 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
JOY LISNEY - solo cello
J.S.Bach: Chaconne, arr. For solo cello, BMW 1009
Joy Lisney: ScordaturA for solo cello (PLG Commission)
Britten: Suite for Cello, No. 3 Op. 87
Admission free / No tickets required
January 7, 2018 6:30 pm - Kings Place, York Way, N1 In association with the London Chamber Music Society
BENYOUNES QUARTET -
HARRY COMERON-PENNY - clarinet
Debussy: String Quartet, Op 10
Poul Ruders: Clarinet Quintet (2014) (UK Premiere) (in the presence of the Composer)
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581
Tickets: £14.50 / Box Office 020 7520 1490
January 9, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
LAURA SNOWDEN - solo guitar
J.C.Bach/Bream: Suite No. 3, BMW 1009
Laura Snowden: Anpao
Fernando Sor: Introduction and Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Op. 9
Admission free / Tickets not required
February 4, 2018 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall
EUNSLEY PARK/MARIA TARASEWICZ - violin/piano
JOY LISNEY - solo cello
Schubert: Sonatina in D major for violin and piano, Op. 137, D.384 (1816)
Britten: Suite No. 3 for solo cello
Joy Lisney: ScordaturA (2016) (PLG Commission)
J.S.Bach: Chaconne in D minor, arr. for solo cello, BMW 1009
Franck: Sonata in A major for violin and piano (1886)
Tickets: £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 / Tel: 020 7935 2141 / online: wigmore-hall.org.uk
February 21, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
GILDAS QUARTET -
Schubert: Quartet in E flat major, D87
Ligeti: Quartet No. 1 ‘Metamorphoses Nocturnes’
Admission free / Tickets not required
March 4, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
DUO FANTASIA -
Imma Setiadi/Rusne Mikiskaite - piano / saxophone
Debussy: Rhapsodie for alto saxophone and piano
Françaix: Cinq Danses Exotiques
Debussy: Feux d'Artifice (from Preludes Book 2)
Ravel: Piece en forme de Habañera
John Carmichael: Aria et Finale
Admission free / No tickets required
March 26, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
ALKE STRING QUARTET -
Haydn: The Seven Last Words from The Cross
Admission free / Tickets not required
April 23, 2018 7:00 pm - Princess Alexandra Hall at the Royal Over-Seas League 5 Park Place, off St James’s Street, SW1 In association with ROSL Arts
BERNSTEIN AT THE PIANO : LEONARD BERNSTEIN 100th Anniversary A unique event in the Bernstein 100th Anniversary Celebrations -
HUMPHREY BURTON - speaker
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - solo piano & piano duo
JOSEPH HOUSTON - solo piano
GAMAL KHAMIS - solo piano & piano duo
NATHAN WILLIAMSON - solo piano
Bernstein: 29 Anniversary Pieces - UK Premiere
Bernstein: Piano Sonata
Bernstein: West Side excerpts
Copland/Bernstein: Piano Sonata
Bernstein: Candide excerpts
Tickets £15 / PLG & ROSL Friends £12 / Students £5 / Tel: 020 7408 0214
April 25, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
LAEFER SAXOPHONE QUARTET -
Richard Rodney Bennett: Saxophone Quartet
Giles Swayne: Leapfrog
Mendelssohn/Trillaud: Four Pieces, Op. 81
Admission free / Tickets not required
May 7, 2018 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall
ELIZABETH KARANI - soprano
EDMUND WHITEHEAD - piano
LAEFER SAXOPHONE QUARTET -
Rachmaninov: Six Romances, Op.4
Rimsky-Korsakov: Two Songs
Richard Rodney Bennett: Saxophone Quartet
Giles Swayne: Leapfrog (PLG Commission)
Menotti: Five Songs
Berners: Three English Songs
Mendelssohn: Four Pieces, Op.81 (arr.Trillaud)(sax quartet)
Tickets: £20,£18,£14,£12,£10/ Tel:020 7935 2141/online: wigmore-hall.org.uk
May 8, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
MATTHEW SCOTT - clarinet
CHRISTINE ZERAFA - piano
Bernstein: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody
Joseph Horowitz: Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Bizet arr. Sarasate-Baldeyrou: Carmen Fantasy
Admission free/Tickets not required
May 14, 2018 12:45 am - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
MINERVA PIANO TRIO -
Andrzej Panufnik: Piano Trio,Op.1
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in C minor, Op.66
Admission free/Tickets not required
May 21, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
ALAUDA STRING QUARTET -
Webern: Langzamersatz
Beethoven: String Quartet, Op.18 No.1
Mendelssohn: Capriccio, Op.14
Admission free/Tickets not required
May 28, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
EUNSLEY PARK - Violin
MARIA TARASEWICZ - Piano
Schubert: Violin Sonatina in D. Op. 137, No.2, D.385
Schumann: Violin Sonatina No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
Admission free/Tickets not required
May 30, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
LUBA TUNICLIFFE - viola
GAMAL KHAMIS - piano
Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for Viola & Piano
Thea Musgrave: In the Still of the Night for solo viola - Thea Musgrave 90th Birthday
Paul Hindemith: Sonata Op.25 No.4 for Viola & Piano
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 4, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
JULIAN VICKERS & DANIEL BOVEY - guitar duo
Falla arr. Vickers/Bovey: Danza Espanola No.1 (from 'La Vida Breve')
Rameau: Pièces de Clavecin
Nin-Culmell arr. Vickers/Bovey: Tonadas (excerpts)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Prelude and Fugue in B major
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor
Koshkin: Concertino in A Minor
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 11, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
LAEFER SAXOPHONE QUARTET -
Gabriel Piernè: Introduction et variations sur une ronde populaire
Charlotte Harding: Sub to street, to scraping the sky
Guillermo Lago: Ciudades: Montevideo, Tokyo, Sarajevo, Addis Ababa
Glazunov: Saxophone Quartet in Bb major Opus 109: III Finale
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 18, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
SOLEM STRING QUARTET -
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4
Beethoven: Quartet in C major, Op.59 No.3 (Razumovsky)
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 22, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
ALBANY PIANO TRIO -
Judith Bingham: Chapman's Pool
Ravel: Trio in A minor
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 27, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
MATILDA LLOYD - trumpet
CAMERON RICHARDSON-EAMES - piano
Enescu: Légende
Deborah Pritchard: Seven Halts to the Somme...
JS Bach/Allen Chen: Concerto in D, BWV 972
Jacques Castérède: Sonatine
Admission free/Tickets not required
July 10, 2018 7:45 pm - Southbank Centre's Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
WAKA HASEGAWA & JOSEPH TONG - piano duo
Mozart: Andante & Variations, K.501
David Matthews: Haydn Variations, Op.144 (2017)(London premiere) David Matthews 75th Birthday
Schubert: Fantasy in F minor, D.940
Daniel Kidane: Jungle (2017) (London Premiere)
Edwin Roxburgh: Homage to Debussy
Debussy, arr.Debussy: La Mer - Debussy died 100 years ago
Tickets: £20 £15 £10 / Tel: 03879 9555 / online: southbankcentre.co.uk
July 16, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
OLGA STEZHKO - solo piano
Debussy: Images, Book 1
John Adams: China Gates
Scriabin: Two Dances Op.73
Debussy: Six Épigraphes antiques
Scriabin: Vers la flame, Op.72
Admission on free/Tickets not required
July 16, 2018 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall
SOLEM STRING QUARTET -
MATILDA LLOYD - trumpet
CAMERON RICHARDSON-EAMES - piano
JS Bach/Allen Chen: Concerto in D, BWV 972
Jacques Castérède: Sonatine
Bartók: String Quartet No.4
Enescu: Légende
Deborah Pritchard: Seven Halts to the Somme
Beethoven: Quartet in C major (Razumovsky). Op.59, No.3
Tickets: £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 / Tel:020 7935 2141 / online: wigmore-hall.org.uk
August 27, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
MATILDA LLOYD - trumpet
LEO NICHOLSON - piano
Programme to include::
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in D major
Oskar Böhme: Trumpet Concerto in F minor, Op. 18
Charles Chaynes: Trumpet Concerto
Admission free/Tickets not required
September 22, 2018 3:00 pm - Music@Malling Festival, Kent, St.Peter and St.Paul's Church, Trottiscliffe
PLG Young Artist GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Ravel/Jones: Prelude in A minor (3')
Britten: Suite Op. 83 (12')
Debussy/Jones: Lent (Images Oubliées (6')
Paul Patterson: Bugs (6')
Debussy/Jones: Rêverie (6')
Marcel Tournier: Images (Suite No 4, Op. 39) (13')
£10
September 26, 2018 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist PHILLIP LESLIE - solo piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 124 (Marie Thérѐse)
Brahms: Klavierstücke Opus 76
Liszt: Paraphrase de Concert sur Rigoletto, S.434
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
October 1, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artist MARIA MARCHANT - solo piano
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sir Granville Bantock:
Bantock: Cloisters at Midnight
Bantock: Memories of Sapphire
Bantock: Two Scottish Pieces
Sibelius: Impromptus Nos. IV, V, VI from Op. 5
Bantock: Saul
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
October 9, 2018 1:00 pm - St George The Martyr, Borough High Street, SE1 - Borough New Music
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - solo piano
Willem Jeths: Chiaroscuro (1995)
Thomas Brown: New work (World Premiere)
Frederic Rzewski: Which Side Are You On?
David Matthews: No. 2 from Four North American Ballads) (1979)
: Variations for Piano, Op. 72 (1992)
Admission Free
October 31, 2018 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists MĒLA GUITAR QUARTET -
J. S. Bach: Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578
Phillip Houghton: Opals
Stephen Dodgson: Intermezzo
Timothy Bowers: Fantasy on an Old English Melody
Egberto Gismonti: Agua y Vinho (arr. Leo Brouwer)
Stephen Goss: Carmen Fantasy: Seguedilla & Gypsy Song
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
November 26, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artist GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Scarlatti: Sonata in A major K.208
Caroline Lizotte: La Madone
Britten : Suite for Harp in C major, Op. 83
Debussy: Images Oubliée
Liszt/Renié: Liebesträume No. 3
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
November 28, 2018 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
JONATHAN RADFORD - saxophone
ELEANOR KORNAS - piano
Tomaso Vital: Chaconne in G minor (soprano saxophone/piano)
Albeniz: Granada/Asturias/Sevilla (Suite Española, Op.47)
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (soprano, alto and tenor saxophones/piano
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
December 7, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artists -
MATTHEW SCOTT - clarinet
CHRISTINE ZERAFA - piano
Debussy: Premiѐre Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano, L.116 (1909)
Paul Patterson: Conversations for clarinet and piano, Op.25 (1974)
John Ireland: Fantasy Sonata for clarinet and piano (1943)
Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and piano (1962)
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
December 14, 2018 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly - The Story of Winter and Christmas into the New Year.
PLG Young Artists -
NATALIE JOHNSON-HYDE - soprano
LANA BODE - piano
Jeremy Thurlow: A London Street in Winter
Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder Op. 8 No. 1. (Christbaum)
Dohnanyi: Pastorale on the Hungarian Christmas song "The Angel is from Heaven"
Wolf: Die Ihr Schwebet
Hindemith: Pastores Loquebantur
Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder Op. 8 No. 2 (Die Hirten)
Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder Op. 8 No. 3 (Die Könige)
Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder Op. 8 No. 4 (Simeon)
Hindemith: Angelus Domini Apparuit
Dohnányi: Winter Rounds Op. 13 No. 9 Morgengrauen
Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder Op. 8 No. 5. Christus der Kinderfreund
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
January 7, 2019 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall : The Monday Platform
PLG YOUNG ARTISTS -
DOMENICO DEGAVINO - solo piano
MATTHEW SCOTT - clarinet
CHRISTINE ZERAFA - piano
Scarlatti : Sonatas for piano in A minor, K. 175/D minor, K. 141/B minor, K. 87/D Major, K. 224
Debussy: Premiѐre Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano, L.116 (1909)
Paul Patterson: Conversations for clarinet and piano, Op.25 (1974)
John McCabe: ‘Omaggio a Domenico Scarlatti’ for solo piano
John Ireland: Fantasy Sonata for clarinet and piano (1943)
Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and piano (1962)
Wigmore Hall box-office: phone: 020 7935 2141
January 8, 2019 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artist HAO ZI YOH - solo piano
Mozart: Sonata No. 5 in G Major KV 283
Rachmaninov: From Preludes Nos. 4, 6, 7 from Op. 23
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7, Op. 83
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
January 16, 2019 6:00 pm - Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall - STATESOUND LIVE 2019 MUSIC OF THE CENTURY. YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTS, presented by Park Lane Group
JONATHAN RADFORD - saxophone
ELEANOR KORNAS - piano
Sally Beamish: Caliban (soprano sax) (2014)
Emma Wilde LSO/Panufnik Composer: : PLG Commission
Helen Grime: Shadowplay (soprano sax) (2011)
Southbank Centre box-office:Tickets: phone: 020 3879 9555
January 16, 2019 6:00 pm - Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall - SOUND ALIVE 2019 MUSIC OF THE CENTURY. YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTS, presented by Park Lane Group
THE HERMES EXPERIMENT - soprano/clarinet/harp/double bass
Jeremy Thurlow: Quiet Songs (2014)
Ben Graves LSO/Panufnik Composer: PLG Commission
Eloise Glynn : Good Morning Mr Blackbird (2018)
Southbank Centre box-office: phone: 020 3879 9555
January 17, 2019 6:00 pm - Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall SOUND ALIVE 2019 MUSIC OF THE CENTURY. YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTS,presented by Park Lane Group
GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Paul Patterson: Lizards (2012)
Deborah Pritchard LSO/Panufnik Composer: PLG Commission
Birtwistle: The Crowd (2005)
Southbank Centre box-office:Tickets: phone: 020 3879 9555
January 17, 2019 6:00 pm - Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall STATESOUND LIVE 2019 MUSIC OF THE CENTURY. YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTS, presented by Park Lane Group
EBLANA STRING TRIO -
Grace-Evangeline Mason LSO/Panufnik composer: PLG Commission
Graham Waterhouse: Epitaphium – in memoriam W.R.W.’ (2007)
Hugh Wood: Ithaka (2016)
Southbank Centre box-office:Tickets: phone: 020 3879 9555
January 18, 2019 6:45 pm - January 18 2019 Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall SOUND ALIVE 2019 MUSIC OF THE CENTURY. YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTS, presented by Park Lane Group
PHILLIP LESLIE - solo piano
Knussen: Ophelia’s Last Dance (2009?)
Gonçalo Gato LSO/Panufnik Composer: PLG Commission
Boulez: Incises (2001)
Southbank Centre box-office:Tickets: phone: 020 3879 9555
January 18, 2019 6:45 pm - Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall SOUND ALIVE 2019 MUSIC OF THE CENTURY. YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTS, presented by Park Lane Group
LAEFER SAXOPHONE QUARTET -
Adam Gorb: Let Them Play (2018)
Michael Cryne LSO/Panufnik Composer: PLG Commission
Michael Torke: May (2010)
Southbank Centre box-office:Tickets: phone: 020 3879 9555
January 19, 2019 6:00 pm - Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall SOUND ALIVE 2019 MUSIC OF THE CENTURY. YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTS, presented by Park Lane Group
MARTA FONTANALS-SIMMONS - mezzo-soprano
LANA BODE - piano
Judith Weir: The Voice of Desire
Amy Bryce LSO/Panufnik Composer: PLG Commission
Gabriele Finzi: Cabaret Voltaire
Southbank Centre box-office:Tickets: phone: 020 3879 9555
January 19, 2019 6:00 pm - Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall STATESOUND LIVE 2019 MUSIC OF THE CENTURY. YOUNG ARTISTS CONCERTS, presented by Park Lane Group
LIPATTI PIANO QUARTET -
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Two for Three (2010)
Alex Woolf LSO/Panufnik Composer: PLG Commission
Joe Cutler: Slippery Music (2010)
Southbank Centre box-office:Tickets: phone: 020 3879 9555
January 30, 2019 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist ROMAN KOSYAKOV - solo piano
Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903 (1717-1719) (11’)
Barber: Piano Sonata, Op. 26 (1949) (19’)
Rachmaninov: Preludes Nos. 2, 3, 4 ,5 from Op. 23 (1901-1903) (c15’)
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
February 25, 2019 7:45 pm - Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall The Musicians' Company Myra Verney Recital Supported by The Musicians' Company
ASHLEY RICHES - bass-baritone
JOSEPH MIDDLETON - piano
Programme of English Song:
Elgar: A War Song
Parry: Dirge in the Woods
Sullivan: Tears, Idle Tears
Britten: Group of short songs (c10’)
Somervell: The Street Sounds to the Soldier's Tread
Gurney: I will go with my father a-ploughing
: Desire in Spring
: Ha'nacker Mill
: By a Bierside
: Severns Meadows
Butterworth: Bredon Hill and Other Songs 14'
Michael Berkeley: Epitaphs of War (Kipling) World Premiere of PLG commission
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel
Southbank Centre box-office:Tickets: phone: 020 3879 9555 southbankcentre.co.uk
February 27, 2019 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist JULIA HWANG - solo violin
CHARLES MATTHEWS - piano
Ysaÿe: Obsession (Solo Violin Sonata No. 2)
JS Bach: Sarabande and Gigue (Solo Violin Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004)
Poulenc : Sonata for violin and piano, L140
Igor Frolov: Concert Fantasy on themes from Gershwin's Pogy and Bess, Op.19
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
March 27, 2019 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
MIMI DOULTON - soprano
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
Bartók: Five Village Scenes
Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires grécques
Ravel: Chants populaires
Weir: Scotch Minstrelsy
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
April 15, 2019 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artists -
GILDAS QUARTET -
Haydn: The Seven Last Words from The Cross
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
April 24, 2019 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
MARTA FONTANAS-SIMMONS - mezzo-soprano
LANA BODE - piano
Copland : The little horses
George Crumb: Night
Rebecca Clarke: The Cherry Blossom Wand
John Cage: The Wonderful Widow of 18 Springs
Barber: Nocturne
Britten: At day close in November; The Highland Balou; Sepheslia's Lullaby; Nightmare; Nocturne
Andrew Norman: Lullabies
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
May 7, 2019 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artists -
NATALIE JOHNSON-HYDE - soprano
LANA BODE - piano
Fauré: Notre Amour
Poulenc: Miroir Brulants
Gurney: Sleep
Alison Bauld: Titania's Song
Vaughan Williams: Orpheus with lute
Nicola LeFanu: But Stars Remaining
Strauss: Ophelia Lieder
Schubert : Rastloseliebe
Debussy: Le Jet d'Eau
Walton: Wapping Old Stairs
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
May 13, 2019 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster next to Westminster Abbey
PLG Young Artists -
JONATHAN RADFORD - saxophone
ELEANOR KORNAS - piano
Debussy: Prélude á l'apres-midi d'un faune
Schumann/Radford: Violin Sonata No.1
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
May 20, 2019 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster next to Westminster Abbey
PLG Young Artist -
GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Franz Liszt (transcrd Gabriella Jones): Consolation No.2 Un poco più mosso
Caroline Lizotte: Suite Galactique Opus 39
Ravel (transcrd Gabriella Jones): Lairderonnette, Impératrice des pagodes (La Mère l’Oye)
Deborah Pritchard: Seraphim for solo harp (PLG commission)
J.S. Bach (transcrd Gabriella Jones): Adagio (Sonata in E Minor for Organ, BWV 528)
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
May 27, 2019 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster next to Westminster Abbey
PLG Young Artists -
JULIA HWANG - violin
CHARLES MATTHEW - piano
Poulenc: Violin and Piano Sonata
Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.8 in G major, Op.30, No.3
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
May 29, 2019 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - solo piano
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No.1
John McCabe: Evening Harmonies - Hommage à Dukas (Study No.7)
Beethoven: Sonata No.30 in E major, Op. 109
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
June 10, 2019 12:45 pm - Chapter House, Westminster Abbey (enter via Dean's Yard)
PLG Young Artists -
MĒLA GUITAR QUARTET -
Saint-Saēns : Bacchanale (Samson et Dalilah)
Bizet/Stephen Goss: Carmen Fantasy: i. Torero, ii. Habanera, iii. Aragonaise, iv. Seguidilla, v. Gypsy Song
Leo Brouwer/Egberto Gismonti: Agua e Vinho from Gismontiana
Sergio Assad: Uarekena
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
June 17, 2019 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster next to Westminster Abbey
PLG Young Artists -
NATALIE JOHNSON-HYDE - mezzo-soprano
LANA BODE - piano
Schubert: Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt; Rastloseliebe
Debussy: Le jet d'eau
Walton : Wapping Old Stairs
Tailleferre: Pastorale in D Major; Trés Vite
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh
Duparc: Chanson Triste
Rosenthal: La souris d'Angleterre
Strauss: Nichts
Schubert : Gretchen am Spinnrade
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
June 21, 2019 1:10 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artist Tyler Hay - solo piano
John Ogdon: Sonata dedicated to my friend Stephen Bishop
Liszt: Les Jeux d'Eaux a la Villa d'Este
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
June 24, 2019 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster next to Westminster Abbey
PLG Young Artists -
MIMI DOULTON - soprano
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
Brahms: Ständchen
Brahms: Feldeinsamkeit
Brahms: Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer
Brahms: Von waldbekränzter Höhe
Copland: 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
June 26, 2019 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist Timothée Botboi - solo cello
Bloch: Suite No.1 for solo cello
Dutilleux: 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher
Cassado: Suite for solo cello
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
July 5, 2019 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artist -
PHILLIP FRENCH - solo piano
Haydn: Variations in F Minor XVI: 6
Schumann: Humoreske, Opus 20
August 27, 2019 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
PLG Young Artists -
MIMI DOULTON - soprano
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
Purcell: If music be the food of love
Purcell: Music for a While
Purcell: Halcyon Days
Purcell: Hark the echoing air
Messiaen: Chants de terre et de ciel
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
September 6, 2019 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
INIGO MIKELIEZ-BERRADE - PLG Young Artist - solo accordion
J.S. Bach : Prelude and Fugue. BWV 846
Sofia Gubaidulina: De Profundis
Mozart: Adagio in B minor K.540
Naresh Sohal : Shades VI
Magnus Lindberg : Jeux d'Anches
Piazzolla: Ave Maria
Admission free/No tickets required
September 14, 2019 3:00 pm - West Meon Music Festival, All Saints Church, East Meon, West Sussex
PLG Young Artist -
GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Janáček: In the Mists (arr. G.Jones)
Debussy: Clair de Lune (arr.G.Jones)
Schumann: "Widmung" from Myrthen, Op.25 (arr.G.Jones)
Debussy: Images, Lent et Mélancolique (arr.G.Jones)
Nino Rota: Sarabande e Toccata
Marcel Grandjany: Rhapsodie
Tickets £12, £5, £1 Tea and cakes included
September 22, 2019 3:00 pm - Music@Malling: Tottesbrook
PLG Young Artist INIGO MIKELIEZ-BERRADE - solo accordion
J.S.Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor BV.542
Magnus Lindberg : Jeux d’Anches (1990)
J.S.Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C (The Well Tempered Klavier Book I)
Sofia Gubaidulina: De Profundis
Mozart: Adagio in B Adagio in B K.540b
J.S.Bach: Prelude and Fugue in D (The Well Tempered Klavier Book II)
Piazzola: Ave Maria
TICKETS: £10 Box-Office: 0333453 191043
September 25, 2019 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist -
TYLER HAY - solo piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 (Pathétique)
Friedrich Kalkbrenner : Variations Brillantes sur une Mazurka de Chopin
Gershwin: : Rhapsody In Blue
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
October 20, 2019 6:00 pm - Kings Place
PLG Young Artists -
LIPATTI PIANO QUARTET -
NATALIE JOHNSON-HYDE soprano / LARA BODE piano -
Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat major, K493
Haydn : English Songs
Schumann : Lieder
Elgar: Songs
Peter Dickinson: Songs
Lord Berners: Songs
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op.15
TICKETS: £14.50 £9.50 from Kings Place Box Office 020 7520 1490 - [email protected]
October 28, 2019 7:30 pm - Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
London debut recital -
Winner, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition -
ANDREI KYMACH - baritone
SEMION SKIGIN - piano
Donizetti: Qui un pugnale. Ah, nel cor mi sento un grido (Gemma di Vergy)
Verdi: Veccio spiccai da te... La sua lampada vitale... Tremate o miseri (I Masnadieri)
Verdi: Romanza senza parole (Piano)
Verdi: Waltz (La Traviata, Act I) (Piano)
Tchaikovsky: Tomsky’s Aria (Queen of Spades)
Tchaikovsky : April Snowdrop (Piano)
Rachmaninov: Lanchotto’s Aria (Francesca da Rimini)
Rachmaninov : Lilac (Piano)
Rachmaninov: Aleko’s Aria (Aleko)
Mussorgsky: Songs & Dances of Death
Plus, to be announced:
TICKETS: £45 £35 £25 £15 from Southbank Centre Ticket Office 020 3879 9555
October 30, 2019 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist -
HYUNGI LEE - solo marimba
Piazolla, arr. Pius Cheung : Verano Porteno
J.S.Bach: Goldberg Variations, Nos. 15,18,21
Andy Akiho: Stop Speaking
Korean traditional, arr Lee Arirang:
Paul Lansky: Three Moves III. Slide
Keiko Abe: Dreams of the Cherry Blossoms
Anna Ignatowicz: Toccata
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
November 1, 2019 6:30 pm - National Gallery, Trafalgar Square - Part of the National Gallery Gauguin Portraits Exhibition
PLG Young Artists -
ELLA RUNDLE - cello
GAMAL KHAMIS - piano
MIMI DOULTON - soprano
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
MICHAEL FOYLE - violin
MARIUS ŠTŠURAS - piano
Delius: Cello Sonata
Debussy: Settings of Mallarmé
Ravel: Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé
Delius: Violin Sonata No.3
TICKETS: £10 Concessions £5 online: [email protected]
November 25, 2019 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
PLG Young Artists -
BEN TARLTON - cello
STEPHEN GUTMAN - piano
Beethoven: Variations on Mozart 'Bei Mannern welche Liebe fuhlen'
Janáček: Pohádka
Britten: Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 65
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
November 27, 2019 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist -
GIACOMO SUSANI - solo guitar
Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata per spinettina sola over liuto
: Aria con Variazioni detta “La Frescobalda”
Giacomo Susani : The Blue Madeleine
Domenico Scarlatti : Sonata in A Major, K208
Augustin Mangorè : Mazurka Appassionata
Marek Pasieczny : Tate Sonata (dedicated to G. Susani)
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
December 11, 2019 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
MIMI DOULTON - soprano
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
Schubert: Trinklied; Ständchen; Was ist Sylvia?
Peter Dickinson: Let the florid music praise; Carry her over the water;
: What's in your mind, my dove, my honey
Strauss: Drei Lieder der Ophelia
Copland: Nature, the gentlest mother; Dear March, come in!
: I felt a funeral in my brain; Going to Heaven!
Peter Dickenson: Schubert in Blue; Drinking Song;
: Who is Sylvia? Hark, hark the lark
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
January 7, 2020 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
PLG Young Artist -
SIMONE TAVONI - solo piano
Mozart: Variations on Salve tu Domine, K. 0398
Chopin: Rondo in E flat, Op. 16
Ligeti: Étude No. 15, White on white
Ligeti: Musica ricercata (Nos. 3/5/7)
Simone Tavoni: Fiasco
Liszt: Dante Sonata, S.161
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
January 29, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
MEERA MAHARAJ - flute
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
Tchaikovsky: Lenski's Aria (Eugene Onegin)
Sofia Gubaidulina: Sounds of the Forest
Prokofiev: Sonata for flute and piano
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
February 19, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist -
GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Debussy (trans G Jones): Lent et Mélancolique (Images Oubliées)
Philippe Hersant: Bamyan
Nino Rota: Sarabanda e Toccata
Camille Pépin: Nighthawks (2016)
Deborah Pritchard: Seraphim (2019)
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
March 17, 2020 12:00 pm - March 17 -21, 2020 PLG Young Artists Auditions for the PLG 2020/21 65th Season
See the Auditions section on the site for information -
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March 25, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
MARTA FONTANALS-SIMMONS - mezza-soprano
LANA BODE - piano
Judith Weir: The Voice of Desire
Andrew Norman: Lullaby
Debussy: Chanson de Bilitis
Berners: Trois Chansons
Turina: Poema en forma de canciones
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
April 6, 2020 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artists -
BROMPTON QUARTET -
Haydn: The Seven Last Words from The Cross
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
April 27, 2020 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
MARTA FONTANALS-SIMMONS - mezza-soprano
LANA BODE - piano
GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Debussy (trans G Jones): Lent et Mélancolique (Images Oubliées)
Philippe Hersant: Bamyan
Nino Rota: Sarabanda e Toccata
Judith Weir: The Voice of Desire
Andrew Norman: Lullaby
Camille Pépin: Nighthawks
Deborah Pritchard: Seraphim
Debussy: Chanson de Bilitis
Berners : Trois Chansons
Turina: Poema en forma de canciones
TICKETS: £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 from Wigmore Hall Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 online: [email protected]
April 29, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artist -
ANNA ASTENASO - solo harp
Britten: Suite for solo harp
Berio: Sequenza for solo harp
Josef Bardanashvili: A distant echo
André Caplet: Divertissement à la française et à l'Espagnole
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
May 7, 2020 6:30 pm - St James's Piccadilly Roberto Gerhard - 50th Anniversary of his death. First of two Thursday concerts *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED
6.30pm : Conversation - Oliver Soden(recent Tippett biographer) with Thomas Whyte
7.30pm : PLG Young Artists -
SULKI YU - violin
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
BROMPTON QUARTET -
SASHA SAVALONI - solo guitar
MEERA MAHARAJ - flute
ANNA ASTESANO - harp
THE MAD SONG ENSEMBLE -
Francisco Coll : Four Iberian Miniatures (violin/piano) (UK Premiere) (c8’)
Gerhard: Gemini for violin and piano
Gerhard: String Quartet No.2 (1961-62)(15')
Falla: Le Tombeau de Debussy for solo guitar (1920) (5’)
Bethan Morgan-Williams (LSO/Panufnik Composer): Commission for violin/piano (7’) (World Premiere)
Alwyn: Naiades for flute and harp (1973) (12’)
Tippett: The Blue Guitar for solo guitar (1983) (17’)
Gerhard: Libra for guitar, flute, clarinet, violin, percussion, piano (1968) (16’)
Tickets/Box Office to follow
May 11, 2020 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artists -
MEERA MAHARAJ - flute
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
J.S.Bach: Sonata in E Major, BWV 1035
Schumann : Three Romances, Op 94
Martinu: Sonata for flute and piano, H 306
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
May 18, 2020 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artist -
GIACOMO SUSANI - solo guitar
Frescobaldi : Aria con Variazioni detta “La Frescobalda”
Giacomo Susani: The Blue Madeleine
D Scarlatti : Sonatas K 208 and K 380
Barrios Mangorè: Mazurka Appassionata
Fernando Sor: Grand Solo. Op. 14
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
May 27, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artist -
JONATHAN RADFORD - Saxophone
ELEANOR KORNAS - Solo guitar
Saint-Saēns: Vionin Snata No. 1
Cheryl-Frances-Hoad : Algemon for saxophone and piano
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
May 30, 2020 7:30 pm - 22 Mansfield Street, London W1G 9NR *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
CLARE HAMMOND - solo piano
Mendelssohn: Songs without words - Book 6, Op.67
Beethoven: Sonata in C, Op.2 No.3
Albéniz: El Puerto; Evocación from Iberia, Bk.1; Triana from Iberia, Bk.2
Lili Boulanger: 3 Morceaux
Fauré: Nocturne in D flat, Op.84 No.8; Nocturne in E minor, Op.107
Earl Wild: Virtuoso Etudes on Gershwin's Fascinatin' Rhythm
: Embraceable You
: I Got Rhythm
Tickets: £25 : with Supper £40 Email: [email protected]
June 1, 2020 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artist -
BEN TARLTON - solo cello
J.S.Bach: Cello Suite No.3 in C major, BWV 1009
Kaija Saariaho: Sept Papillons
Henri Dutilleux: Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
June 8, 2020 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artist -
INIGO MIKELIEZ-BERRADO - solo accordion
J.S. Bach : Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Rafael Marino Arcaro (b. 1990) : Pisadeira (World Première)
Monteverdi (arr. Emanuele Delucchi): Pur ti miro (L'Incoronazione di Poppea)
César Camarero (b. 1962): Luz Azul
Petri Makkonen (b. 1962) : Disco Toccata
Piazzolla (arr. Peter Soave) : Ave Maria
Rafael Marino Arcaro : Mapinguari (UK Premiere)
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ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
June 12, 2020 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED.
PLG Young Artist -
GIACOMO SUSANI - solo guitar
Mauro Giuliani: Grande Overture, Op.61
Giacomo Susani: The Blue Madeleine
Barrios Mangorè: Mazurka Appassionata
Fernando Sor: Grand Solo, Op.14
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
June 15, 2020 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artist -
SASHA SAVALONI - solo guitar
J.S.Bach: Prelude, Sarabande & Gigue, BWV 997
Hans Werner Henze : Mad Lady MacBeth
Falla : Le Tombeau de Debussy
Enrique Granados: Danza Española No.5 / La Maja de Goya
Brett Dean: Three Caprichos after Goya
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
June 22, 2020 12:45 pm - St Margaret’s Westminster *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artists -
BROMPTON STRING QUARTET -
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
Puccini: Crisantemi
Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
June 24, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artist -
PHILLIP LESLIE - solo piano
Debussy: Preludes IV, III, VI, VIII (Book II)
Debussy: L’isle Joyeuse
Bartók: Sonatina / Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík / Sonata
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
July 1, 2020 1:00 pm - Winchester Cathedral *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED
PLG Young Artists & Programme tba -
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ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
July 6, 2020 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square ** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED.
PLG Young Artist -
SASHA SAVALONI - solo guitar
Gaspar Sanz: Suite Española
Joaquin Turina: Guitar Sonata, Op.61
Schubert: Two Songs (Schwanengesang, D.957)
Magnus Lindberg: Mano a mano
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
July 13, 2020 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED
PLG Young Artists -
JONATHAN RADFORD - saxophone
ELEANOR KORNAS - piano
PHILLIP LESLIE - solo piano
Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata No. 1 for soprano saxophone and piano
Debussy: Preludes IV, III, VI, VIII (Book II)
Debussy : L’isle Joyeuse
Cheryl-Frances-Hoad: Algenon
Gershwin : Rhapsody in Blue
Barber: Bartók: Sonatina / Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík / Sonata
TICKETS: £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 from Wigmore Hall Box Office Tel: 020 7935 2141 online: [email protected]
July 15, 2020 1:00 pm - Winchester Cathedral *** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED
PLG Young Artists & Programme tba -
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ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
August 25, 2020 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square ** DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS POSTPONED.
PLG Young Artists -
LUBA TUNNICLIFFE - viola
GAMAL KHAMIS - piano
Britten: Lachrymae
Work to be announced:
Hindemith: Sonata Op.11 No.4
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED
September 30, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist -
BEN TARLTON - solo cello
George Crumb:: Cello Sonata (1955)
Kaija Saariaho:: Sept Papillons (2000)
Britten:: Cello Suite No.3 (1971)
Admission free, however, strict Government regulations affect audiences. The audience will be seated in socially-distanced 'seating bubbles'. Registrations for this concert open at 12 noon on Wednesday 21 September. Face coverings are currently mandatory in entertainment venues and places of worship, except for legal exemption.
October 22, 2020 7:30 pm - Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
Park Lane Group and Southbank Centre Star Event -
TASMIN LITTLE - violin - Final Southbank Centre Recital before retirement and 200th London Concert
ANDREY GUGNIN - piano
PIERS LANE - piano
JOHN LENEHAN - piano
MARTIN ROSCOE - piano
To be relayed live on BBC R3 -
Brahms: Sonatensatz, Op. 4 (Piers Lane)
Clara Schumann: Three Romances (Martin Roscoe)
Lili Boulanger: Nocturne (Piers Lane)
Brahms: Sonata No.3 in D minor, Op.108 (Andrey Gugnin)
Interval:
Roxanna Panufnik: Hora Bessarabia for solo violin
Coleridge-Taylor: Demande et Réponse (Piers Lane)
Amy Beach: Romance, Op. 23 (Martin Roscoe)
Amy Beach: Sonata, Op. 55 (John Lenehan)
No tickets available due to corona virus - To be relayed live on BBC Radio 3
October 28, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
BROMPTON QUARTET -
Fanny Mendelssohn:: Quartet in E flat major (1823)
Beethoven:: Quartet in F minor, Op.95 (1810)
Admission free - No tickets required, however strict Government regulations affect audiences. The audience will be seated in socially-distanced 'seating bubbles'. Face coverings are currently mandatory in entertainment venues and places of worship, except for legal exemption.
November 25, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly *** POSTPONED DUE TO THE CURRENT LOCKDOWN
PLG Young Artists -
JONATHAN RADFORD - saxophone
ELEANOR KORNAS - piano
Debussy:: Prélude á l'après-midi d'un Faune, arr. for soprano saxophone and piano (1894)
Paule Maurice:: Tableaux de Provence for alto saxophone and piano (1948-55)
Bernstein:: West Side Story Suite for alto saxophone and piano (1957-1995)
Admission free - POSTPONED DUE TO THE CURRENT LOCKDOWN
December 9, 2020 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist -
GIACOMO SUSANI - solo guitar
Castelnuovo-Tedesco:: Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1961)
Frescobaldi:: Aria con Variazioni (La Frescobalda) (1637)
Giacomo Susani:: S'ode ancora il mare (2020)
J.S.Bach:: Lute Suite, BWV 995 (1727-31)
Admission free - No ticket required, however strict Government regulations affect audiences. The audience will be seated in socially-distanced 'seating bubbles'. Face coverings are currently mandatory in entertainment venues and places of worship, except for legal exemption.
April 28, 2021 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
LUCAS KRUPRINSKI - solo piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F minor, Op.57
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op.28
Ravel: La Valse
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED See the St James’s Piccadilly website for admission details THIS CONCERT WILL BE STREAMED
May 26, 2021 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
MEERA MAHARAJ - flute
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - piano
Chaminade: Concertino
Andy Scott: And Everything is Still
Joseph Horowitz: Arabesque (95th Anniversary Celebration)
Franck: Sonata
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED See the St James’s Piccadilly website for admission details THIS CONCERT WILL BE STREAMED
June 9, 2021 7:45 pm - 22 Mansfield Street, W1
PLG Young Artists -
MICHAEL FOYLE - violin
MARTIN COUSIN - piano
Introduced by musicologist Katy Hamilton -
Beethoven: Sonata, Op.24 (Spring) (1801)
Beethoven: Sonata, Op.30 No 2 (1802)
Tickets including canapés £30. To book email [email protected] or telephone 020 7436 0344
June 26, 2021 7:30 pm - Riverside House (by kind permission of Lady Panufnik)
INVITATION CONCERT -
PLG Young Artists -
MICHAEL FOYLE - violin
MARTIN COUSIN - piano
Respighi: Sonata for violin and piano in B minor
Kenneth Hesketh: Inscrizione, (derivata) (A Lie to the Dying) with the composer present
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No.9 in A major, Op.47 "Kreutzer"
BY INVITATION ONLY
June 28, 2021 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall
PLG Young Artists -
MICHAEL FOYLE - violin
MAXIM STSURAS - piano
Respighi: Sonata for violin and piano in B minor
Kenneth Hesketh: Inscrizione, (derivata) (A Lie to the Dying) with composer present
Beethoven : Sonata for Piano and Violin No.9 in A major, Op.47 "Kreutzer"
TICKETS available on or before 15 June
June 30, 2021 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
LUBA TUNICLIFFE - viola
GAMAL KHAMIS - piano
Benjamin Graves: New work (2020/21) (World premiere)
Britten: Lachrymae, Op.48 (1950)
Thomas Adès: Three Berceuses from 'The Exterminating Angel'
Schumann: Märchenbier, Op. 113 (1851)
ADMISSION FREE / NO TICKETS REQUIRED See the St James’s Piccadilly website for admission details THIS CONCERT WILL BE STREAMED
September 10, 2021 7:00 pm - St John the Evangelist, West Meon
PLG Young Artist -
ROMAN KOSIAKOV - solo piano
Mozart: Andante and Variations (with John Thwaites)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata, Op.10 No 3
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibitions
Tickets include a glass of wine or soft drink: £20, £16, students £5
September 11, 2021 11:10 am - All Saints Church, East Meon - West Meon Festival - Coffee Concert
PLG Young Artist -
LAURA SNOWDEN - solo guitar
Villa-Lobos : Five Preludes
Agustin Barrios: Prelude to La Catedral;Vals, Op.8 No.4
Laura Snowden: This Changing Sky:L'étoil et la Rose; The Strange World of Spiders;Son for Maria
Tickets include coffee: £15, £13.50, £12, students £5
September 29, 2021 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly - Streamed Live
PLG Young Artist -
ROMAN KOSIAKOV - solo piano
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op.16
Scriabin: Piano Sonata, Op.70, No.10
Roman Kosiakov is replacing Phillip Leslie who is indisposed. The concert will be streamed live on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Kq6gRJorE4JqOg-_lPchA Admission free. However, strict Government regulations affect audiences. The audience will be seated in socially-distanced 'seating bubbles'. Registrations for this concert open at 12 noon on Wednesday 22 September. Face coverings are currently mandatory in entertainment venues and places of worship, unless you have a legal exemption. If you have further questions, please email [email protected]. This recital is free but St James’s Piccadilly welcomes donations (suggested donation £5 per person) which go entirely to St James’s Piccadilly.
October 18, 2021 3:31 pm - Audition Videos deadline
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Deadline for the receipt of Audition Videos To be sent to [email protected] All applications will be acknowledged.
October 27, 2021 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly - Streamed live
PLG Young Artists -
WAKA HASEGAWA/JOSEPH TONG - piano duo
Schubert : Allegro in A minor D947 'Lebenssturme'
Edwin Roxburgh: Dialogue and Toccata (World Premiere)
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Poulenc: Sonata for piano duet
The concert will be streamed live on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Kq6gRJorE4JqOg-_lPchA Admission free. However, strict Government regulations affect audiences. The audience will be seated in socially-distanced 'seating bubbles'. Registrations for this concert open at 12 noon on Wednesday 20 October. Face coverings are currently mandatory in entertainment venues and places of worship, unless you have a legal exemption. If you have further questions, please email [email protected]. This recital is free but St James’s Piccadilly welcomes donations (suggested donation £5 per person) which go entirely to St James’s Piccadilly.
November 24, 2021 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly - Streamed live
PLG Young Artists -
JONATHAN RADFORD - saxophone
ASHLEY FRIPP - piano
Kurt Weil: Suite, The Threepenny Opera
Edwin Schuloff: Hot-Sonate
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
The concert will be streamed live on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Kq6gRJorE4JqOg-_lPchA Admission free.Admission free. However, strict Government regulations affect audiences. The audience will be seated in socially-distanced 'seating bubbles'. Registrations for this concert open at 12 noon on Wednesday 17 November. Face coverings are currently mandatory in entertainment venues and places of worship, unless you have a legal exemption. If you have further questions, please email [email protected]. This recital is free but St James’s Piccadilly welcomes donations (suggested donation £5 per person) which go entirely to St James’s Piccadilly.
December 15, 2021 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly - Streamed live
PLG Young Artists -
BEN TARLTON - cello
ROSIE RICHARDSON - piano
Beethoven: Sonato No.4 in C major, Op.102
Schumann: Romances, Op.28
Bartók: Rhapsody No.1
Ravel: Piéce en Forme de Habanera
The concert will be streamed live on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Kq6gRJorE4JqOg-_lPchA Admission free. However, strict Government regulations affect audiences. The audience will be seated in socially-distanced 'seating bubbles'. Registrations for this concert open at 12 noon on Wednesday 8 December. Face coverings are currently mandatory in entertainment venues and places of worship, unless you have a legal exemption. If you have further questions, please email [email protected]. This recital is free but St James’s Piccadilly welcomes donations (suggested donation £5 per person) which go entirely to St James’s Piccadilly.
January 17, 2022 7:30 pm - Princess Alexandra Hall, Royal Over-Seas League, St James's Street, SW1 7RL - DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED
PLG Young Artists -
Scriabin 150/Rachmaninoff 149 Celebration (1) -
Lucas Kaprinski - solo piano
Gabriele Sutkute - solo piano
Alisa Firsova - solo piano/piano
Leon Bosch - double bass
Scriabin: 24 Preludes (solo piano), Op 11 (1888-96)
Dmitri Smirnov: Into the Light (double bass & piano), Op.193 UK Premiere
Elena Firsova: Title tbc, (solo piano), Op tba
Rachmaninoff: Nine Etudes Tableaux (solo piano) Op 39 (1917)
TICKETS (including a glass of wine) £15 (amount tbc) Underground Stations: Piccadilly Circus, Green Park / Bus: 8,14,19,22,38
January 21, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, High Holborn EC1QA 2DQ
PLG Young Artists -
Gabriella Jones - Solo Harp
Sergei Rachmaninov (transcribed Gabriella Jones): Prelude No. 4 Opus. 23 in D major (1903) 5’30"
Paul Patterson: Spirals for Solo Harp 10’
Britten: Suite for Harp Opus. 83 15’
Judith Weir: Fragile (adapted Gabriella Jones) World Premiere 3’
Liszt : Liebesträume No. S. 541 (arr Gabriella Jones) 6”
Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521..
January 24, 2022 7:30 pm - Princess Alexandra Hall, Royal Over-Seas League, St James's Street, SW1 7RL - DUE TO CORONAVIRUS AND OFFICIAL GUIDANCE, THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED
PLG Young Artists -
Scriabin 150/Rachmaninoff 149 Celebration (2) -
Gamal Khamis - solo piano
Roman Kosyakov - solo piano
To be advised - violin/cello
Leon Bosch - double bass
Alissa Firsova - piano
Gamal Khamis - piano
Scriabin: Sonata No.4 in F sharp major, Op. 30 (1903)
Daniel Kidane: Three Etudes (2013) (solo piano)
Dimitri Smirnov: Dialogue in the Dark, Op.179 (2015) (violin & double bass)
Scriabin: Sonata No. 10 Op. 70 (1913)
Elena Firsova: You and I (1992) (cello & piano)
Alissa Firsova: Algarvia (2019) (violin & piano)
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 (1913)
TICKETS (including a glass of wine) £15 (amount tbc) Underground Stations: Piccadilly Circus, Green Park / Bus: 8, 14, 19, 22, 38
January 26, 2022 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist -
Sasha Savaloni - Solo Guitar
Gaspar Sanz: Suite Española
Poulenc (arr. Savaloni): Fancy (from ‘The Merchant of Venice’)
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi (arr. Savaloni): Lullaby (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Stuart MacRae : Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (from ‘Macbeth, Sonata for Guitar’)
Phillip Houghton: Ophelia, a haunted sonata
Agustin Barrios: Un sueño en la floresta
Free admission; we welcome donations after the concert (suggested amount £5 per person)
January 28, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2FD
PLG Young Artists -
Brompton Quartet -
Haydn: Op. 77 No. 2 (27’)
Roxanna Panufnik: Memories of My Father (12’)
Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521..
February 1, 2022 7:30 pm - 22 Mansfield Street W1G 9NR.
PLG Young Artists -
Nardus Williams - Soprano
Elizabeth Kenny - Theorbo
Purcell, Monteverdi, Lawes, Strozzi, Caccini: "La Virtuosissima Cantatrice"
All concerts start at 7.30pm with drinks from 7pm unless otherwise specified above. Book by email to [email protected] or phone 020 7436 0344. Price for concert - drinks & canapés after £35 or just preconcert drink £20. Please specify when booking which option you want!
February 4, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct,London The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct,London
PLG Young artists lunchtime concert - Programme to be confirmed
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Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521..
February 11, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FD
PLG Young Artist -
Benjamin Tarlton - Solo Cello
J.S. Bach: Suite No. 4 in E flat for solo cello (25’)
Britten: Suite in C minor for solo cello (23’)
Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521.
February 18, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FD
PLG Young Artist -
Gabriele Susani - Solo Guitar
Programme to be decided:
Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521.
February 23, 2022 1:10 pm - St James’s, 197 Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
Phillip Leslie - Piano
Programme to be announced:
Free admission; we welcome donations after the concert (suggested amount £5 per person)
February 25, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2FD
PLG Artists Lunchtime concert - Programme to be confirmed
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Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521..
March 4, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct,London, EC1A 2FD
PLG Young artists lunchtime concert - Programme to be confirmed
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Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521..
March 11, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FD
PLG Young Artists lunchtime concert - Programme to be confirmed
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Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521..
March 18, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London, The Musicians' National Church, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2FD
PLG Young Artist -
Sasha Savaloni - Solo Guitar
Gaspar Sanz: Suite Española [12’]
Poulenc: Fancy [The Merchant of Venice] (arr. Savaloni) 2’
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi: Lullaby (A Midsummer Night’s Dream (arr. Savaloni) 3’
Stuart MacRae: Macbeth, Sonata for Guitar (World Premiere) c15’
Philip Houghton: Ophelia…a haunted sonata 10’
Agustin Barrios: Un Sueño en la Floresta (1918) 8’
Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521.
March 21, 2022 7:30 pm - Princess Alexandra Hall, Royal Overseas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR
Robin Michael - Cello
Iain Burnside - Piano
Gabriella Jones - Harp
Michael Foyle - Violin
Sally Beamish - Viola
Nancy Cooley - Piano
Peter Thomson - Actor
Sally Beamish - Piano
Branford Marsalis - Saxophone
BEAMISH : BRIDGING THE DAY for cello and piano
BEAMISH : AWUYA for solo harp
WALTON: Sonata for violin and piano
Interval:
BEAMISH: NIGHT SONGS incorporating texts by Carol Ann Duffy and WB Yeats for viola, piano and spoken voice. WORLD PREMIERE
BEAMISH : TOM'S TURN for alto saxophone LONDON PREMIERE
SWAYNE: BERYL'S BIRTHDAY TWANGLE for solo lever harp LONDON PREMIERE
BEAMISH: ALBATROSS for soprano saxophone and piano LONDON PREMIERE
£20 (plus VAT and booking fee) to include 2 drinks and post-concert canapés. TICKETS ARE LIMITED, SO BOOK NOW. CLICK ON LINK ABOVE.
March 25, 2022 1:10 pm - Holy Sepulchre London
PLG Young Artist -
Inigo Mikeleiz Berrade - solo accordion
J. S. Bach: Italian Concerto in F Major BWV 971
Naresh Sohal: Shades VII
Marino Arcaro: Mapinguari
Albéniz: Córdoba from Chants d’Epagne
Camarero: Luz Azul
Mozkowski: Caprice Espagnol
Admission free. An after concert donation of £5 is most welcome. Underground: St Paul's(Central Line); Rail: High Holborn (Thameslink). Bus: 8,15,25,46,521
March 30, 2022 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists -
Artists and Programme to be announced -
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Free admission