Southbank Centre Chamber Events

Anneke Scott and Kathryn Cok

Virtuoso works for natural horn and fortepiano

Two leading talents from the emerging generation of period performers present an exciting and dramatic programme of late classical music for natural horn and fortepiano.

Works by Haydn and Beethoven are juxtaposed with compositions by their acclaimed contemporaries Kuhlau, Ries and Danzi in a vibrant and wide-ranging concert.

'Anneke Scott...one of the finest horn soloists I have ever heard... this was absolute perfection' (Andrew Benson-Wilson for Early Music Review).

'Have valveless horns ever sounded so trouble-free for modern players?' (James R. Oestreich for The New York Times).

Further information on the artists can be found at annekescott.com and kathryncok.com.

Start Date:

Monday 5 March 2012 - 19:45

End Date:

Monday 5 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

£14 £12 £10

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Performer(s):

Anneke Scott horn
Kathryn Cok piano

Repertoire:

Friedrich Kuhlau: Andante e polacca for horn & piano
Ferdinand Ries: Horn Sonata in F, Op.34
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Horn Sonata in F, Op.17
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Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in E flat, Hob.XVI/52
Franz Danzi: Sonata in E flat for horn (or cello) & piano, Op.28

Facility Description:

Purcell Room

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Babelfish

Friday Tonic

Babelfish is the collaborative project of vocalist Brigitte Beraha and Barry Green on piano, featuring a mix of their originals and music inspired by classical and literary works from Britten through to E.E.Cummings and Raymond Carver.

Also featuring Chris Laurence (bass) and Paul Clarvis (percussion), the band shows a wide range of influences from Kenny Wheeler, Chico Buarque and Paul Bley.

'A great musician, Brigitte Beraha uses her voice like an instrument in the tradition of people like Flora Purim, Tania Maria and the recently acknowledged bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding' Julian Joseph, Jazz Line Up, BBC Radio 3

'Barry Green's work can be both intricate and assertive, and is constantly inventive'. Pete Martin, Jazz UK

Start Date:

Friday 30 March 2012 - 17:30

End Date:

Friday 30 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

The Royal College of Music Presents...

Some of the College's finest young musicians perform a contrasting programme of Viennese and Russian string music.

Featuring Aiko Kojima (violin), Emma Fetherston (viola), Anne Chauveau (cello), Margarida Castro (double bass), Pedro Gomes (piano), and Joo Yeon Sir (solo violin) accompanied by Irina Andrievsky (piano).

Start Date:

Friday 30 March 2012 - 13:00

End Date:

Friday 30 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

Repertoire:

Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, D.667 (Trout)
Alfred Schnittke: Sonata No.1 for violin & piano

Instrumental Quintet of London

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A musical journey from classical to impressionist

The Instrumental Quintet of London takes its name from the Quintette Instrumental de Paris, formed in 1922 by René Le Roy.

Both Classical and Romantic works for different instrumental combinations are performed in this colourful program. The concert ends with the virtuosic and flamboyant Concert a Cinque, a concerto for five instruments by the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen, which demonstrates the flair and versatility of the performers.

The Quintet comprises Susan Milan (flute), Nicholas Ward (violin), Matthew Jones (viola), Sebastian Comberti (cello) and Ieuan Jones (harp).

Start Date:

Tuesday 28 February 2012 - 19:45

End Date:

Tuesday 28 February 2012

Ticket Prices:

£15

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Performer(s):

Instrumental Quintet of London

Repertoire:

Jean-Michel Damase: Quintet for flute, harp, violin, viola & cello, Op.2
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Quartet in C, K.285b
Claude Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Interval
Ludwig Van Beethoven: String Trio in C minor, Op.9 No.3
Joseph Jongen: Concert à cinq for flute, harp, violin, viola & cello, Op.71

Facility Description:

Purcell Room

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Lambeth Schools Music Festival 2012

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Large Ensembles

Performances by talented junior children in Lambeth schools, featuring other ensembles from the borough as well as the In Harmony Lambeth project.

Part of the Lambeth Schools' Music Festival, in partnership with Lambeth Music Services, which this year involves a record-breaking 75 musical groups from 50 Lambeth schools.

Start Date:

Wednesday 28 March 2012 - 14:00

End Date:

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

Facility Description:

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Lambeth Schools Music Festival 2012

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Junior Singing Concert

A celebration of singing with choirs from Lambeth junior schools performing a wide range of songs together. Enjoy the sight and sound of a stage filled with hundreds of young singers.

Part of the Lambeth Schools' Music Festival, in partnership with Lambeth Music Services, which this year involves a record-breaking 75 musical groups from 50 Lambeth schools.

Start Date:

Tuesday 27 March 2012 - 18:30

End Date:

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

Facility Description:

Royal Festival Hall

Lambeth Schools Music Festival 2012

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Infant Singing Concert

A celebration of singing with choirs from Lambeth infant schools performing a wide range of songs together. Enjoy the sight and sound of a stage filled with hundreds of young singers.

Part of the Lambeth Schools' Music Festival, in partnership with Lambeth Music Services, which this year involves a record-breaking 75 musical groups from 50 Lambeth schools.

Start Date:

Tuesday 27 March 2012 - 13:30

End Date:

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

Facility Description:

Royal Festival Hall

Lambeth Schools Music Festival 2012

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Secondary Singing Concert

Singing performances delivered with energy and heart by around 750 young people from Lambeth schools. This concert is part of the Lambeth Schools' Music Festival, in partnership with Lambeth Music Services.

This year the festival involves a record-breaking 75 musical groups from 50 Lambeth schools. The festival celebrates young people's musicality across a mixture of styles . This is your chance to hear Lambeth's young people to showcase their exciting repertoire of ensemble music.

The festival runs from 23 - 28 March 2012.

Start Date:

Friday 23 March 2012 - 17:00

End Date:

Friday 23 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

Facility Description:

The Clore Ballroom

Lambeth Schools Music Festival 2012

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Contemporary Music Concert

We're delighted to welcome back the Lambeth Schools' Music Festival in partnership with Lambeth Music Service, which this year involves a record-breaking 75 musical groups from 50 Lambeth schools.

The Festival opens with concerts that celebrate young people's musicality across a mixture of styles. This is your chance to hear Lambeth's young people showcase their exciting repertoire of contemporary ensemble music.

The festival runs from 22 - 28 March 2012.

Start Date:

Thursday 22 March 2012 - 17:00

End Date:

Thursday 22 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

Facility Description:

The Clore Ballroom

Lambeth Schools Music Festival 2012

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Small Ensembles Concert

We're delighted to welcome back the Lambeth Schools' Music Festival in partnership with Lambeth Music Services, which this year involves a record-breaking 75 musical groups from 50 Lambeth schools.

The festival runs from 23 - 28 March 2012.

Start Date:

Thursday 22 March 2012 - 13:00

End Date:

Thursday 22 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

Facility Description:

The Clore Ballroom

Movements and Expressions

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1910-1947

This concert explores some of the most important works written for the violin at the beginning of the 20th century.

Music reflected the changing world and the historical background in which artistic movements such as Impressionism in France and Expressionism in Germany were born. In music, these movements were illustrated in musical languages in the works of Debussy, Schoenberg, Ravel and Webern.

After her acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Alda Dizdari alongside Tom Blach brings an equally concentrated and passionate performance of some of the last century's most interesting pieces for the violin and piano.

'One to watch' Gramophone

'A remarkable talent' Gramophone

Start Date:

Tuesday 3 April 2012 - 19:45

End Date:

Tuesday 3 April 2012

Ticket Prices:

£18 £14

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Performer(s):

Alda Dizdari violin
Tom Blach piano

Repertoire:

Claude Debussy: Sonata in G minor for violin & piano
Arnold Schoenberg: Phantasy for violin & piano, Op.47
Jean Sibelius: Ballade for violin & piano, Op.115 No.2
Jean Sibelius: Berceuse for violin & piano, Op.79 No.6
Jean Sibelius: The Bells for violin & piano, Op.115 No.4
Interval
Béla Bartók: Violin Sonata No.2
Anton Webern: 4 Pieces for violin & piano, Op.7
Maurice Ravel: Violin Sonata in G

Facility Description:

Purcell Room

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British Suzuki Institute Gala Group concert

Hundreds of children perform works from the Suzuki repertoire from Bach to Böhm, in violin, viola, cello, flute and recorder groups, and piano solos. The performers are from across the UK and are aged between five and 16.

Guest solo artist Tasmin Little also presents the concert.

Start Date:

Sunday 18 March 2012 - 15:30

End Date:

Sunday 18 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

£36 £26 £19 £13 £9

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Facility Description:

Royal Festival Hall

British Suzuki Institute Solo and Ensemble Concerts

Young UK musicians, aged between five and 16, perform a selection of piano, string and wind solos, duets and ensembles in three concerts.

Start Date:

Saturday 17 March 2012 - 13:00

End Date:

Saturday 17 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

£15

Facility Description:

Purcell Room

Arditti String Quartet

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Perfect Constructions: the music of Conlon Nancarrow

Conlon Nancarrow was one of the most enigmatic, freethinking composers of 20th-century American music. Ostracised in the US for his communist politics, he moved to Mexico and lived there until his death in the 90s. There he experimented with player-pianos - mechanised instruments that play pre-programmed compositions - and wrote music with a wide range of influences, including jazz.

As part of Southbank Centre's weekend-long celebration of Nancarrow's music, regular visitors to the International Chamber Music Season the Arditti Quartet perform two of his quartets, which are at turns funky and lyrical. The concert also features an arrangement of one of Nancarrow's fearsomely difficult studies for player-piano and the second quartet from György Ligeti, who described Nancarrow as 'the greatest discovery since Webern and Ives... the best of any composer living today'.

Start Date:

Sunday 22 April 2012 - 18:00

End Date:

Sunday 22 April 2012

Ticket Prices:

£15 £12 £9

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Performer(s):

Arditti String Quartet

Repertoire:

Conlon Nancarrow: String Quartet No.1
Gyorgy Ligeti: String Quartet No.2
Conlon Nancarrow: String Quartet No.3
Conlon Nancarrow: Player Piano Study No.33 arr. Paul Usher for string quartet

Facility Description:

Queen Elizabeth Hall

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Music for Youth Regional Festivals

Over 1,200 musicians from across London perform, be inspired and get valuable feedback from Music For Youth's team of music mentors.

Part of Music For Youth's Regional Festival Series.

Start Date:

Friday 16 March 2012 - 08:00

End Date:

Saturday 17 March 2012

Ticket Prices:

Free

Facility Description:

The Clore Ballroom

Harmonic Series

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A second season of Harmonic Series, curated by Southbank Centre Artist in Residence cellist Oliver Coates, continues with a sequence of Thomas Adès' most beautiful chamber music (Lieux Retrouvés, Court Studies from The Tempest, Arcadiana).

This is interspersed with small new classical commissions by Micachu and a special performance of Alvin Lucier's classic tape work I am Sitting in a Room.

Start Date:

Sunday 26 February 2012 - 19:45

End Date:

Sunday 26 February 2012

Ticket Prices:

£5

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Performer(s):

Oliver Coates cello
Micachu voice
Danny Driver piano
Alexandra Wood violin
Tom Hankey violin
Max Baillie viola
Tom Lessels clarinet

Repertoire:

Programme includes:
Thomas Adès: Lieux retrouvés for cello & piano
Thomas Adès: Arcadiana for string quartet
Thomas Adès: Court studies from The Tempest for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Alvin Lucier: I am sitting in a room
And new classical commissions by Micachu

Facility Description:

Purcell Room

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Dr. L. Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamoorthy & Ambi Subramaniam

This is a rare opportunity to see a family of acclaimed Indian musicians, including an award-winning singer and a renowned composer, perform together.

Dr Lakshminarayana Subramaniam is an acclaimed Indian violinist, composer and conductor. He is trained in the classical Carnatic music tradition and Western classical music and he is renowned for his virtuoso playing and compositions.

Since 1971, Subramaniam has amassed over 200 recordings and collaborated with musicians including Yehudi Menuhin, Stéphane Grappelli and Herbie Hancock.

Kavita Krishnamurthy is one of India's most famous Bollywood film playback singers. She's worked with a variety of music composers, including R. D. Burman and A. R. Rahman. She has won four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards and the prestigious Padmashri, which she received in 2006.

Ambi, son of Dr Subramamiam, gave his first performance aged seven and has gone on to tour the world giving solo and duet performances with his father.

Generously supported by Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

Start Date:

Thursday 12 April 2012 - 20:00

End Date:

Thursday 12 April 2012

Ticket Prices:

£25 £20 £10

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Facility Description:

Queen Elizabeth Hall

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Philharmonia Orchestra: Martin Musical Scholarship Fund

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Resident at Southbank Centre

A recital by a winner of the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund.

Start Date:

Thursday 16 February 2012 - 18:00

End Date:

Thursday 16 February 2012

Ticket Prices:

Admission free

Free

Performer(s):

Benjamin Baker violin
Kan Tomita piano

Repertoire:

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, Op.12 No.2
Richard Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat, Op.18

Facility Description:

Royal Festival Hall

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Freddy Morgan Piano Recitals

The Purcell School of Music

The Purcell School is Britain's oldest specialist school for talented young musicians. In 2003 the School was awarded the UNESCO Mozart Gold Medal in recognition of its unique contribution to music, education and international culture. Selected senior pianists from the School perform short recitals at Southbank Centre's most intimate concert hall venue.

This concert has been generously sponsored by David Morgan in memory of his brother Freddy who was a keen amateur pianist.

Start Date:

Monday 27 February 2012 - 19:45

End Date:

Monday 27 February 2012

Ticket Prices:

£10 £8

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Performer(s):

Senior pupils from The Purcell School Piano Department

Facility Description:

Purcell Room

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Lawson Trio

This dynamic and award-winning British piano trio frames three premieres by leading UK composers with two staples of the trio repertoire - Haydn's exuberant, enduringly popular Gypsy trio and the virtuosic masterwork by Ravel. The Lawson Trio is delighted to premiere works written for them by Anthony Powers and Camden Reeves, following their Southbank Centre debut in 2010, and are joined by students from the Junior Royal Academy of Music for the London premiere of Cheryl Frances Hoad's Olympic-inspired work for double piano trio.

Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall at 6.45pm - Chamber Music 2000 Student Concert, given by students from various institutions. Including works by Hoad and Powers. Admission free.

Start Date:

Tuesday 10 April 2012 - 20:00

End Date:

Tuesday 10 April 2012

Ticket Prices:

£14 £10

Concession/Group Prices:

50% off (limited availability)

Performer(s):

Lawson Trio

Repertoire:

Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in G, Hob.XV/25 (Gypsy Rondo)
Camden Reeves: The dead broke blues break for piano trio (World premiere)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Five rackets for trio relay (London premiere)
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Anthony Powers: Piano Trio (World premiere)
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor

Facility Description:

Purcell Room

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