2019/20 Season Preview

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‘ Wigmore Hall adroitly moves forward while appearing to remain the same, this year introducing concert live streams.’

Fiona Maddocks, The Observer, December 2018

‘ The world’s greatest chamber music venue.’

Richard Morrison, The Times, January 2019

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It has been a huge joy and privilege to put the 2019/20 Season together.

I am convinced that it is one of our strongest ever.

We celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth throughout the year, with a very special opening weekend festival forged around perspectives on Beethoven; everything from music and disability and hearing loss, to the way composers past and present have treated Beethoven’s legacy.

John Gilhooly © Benjamin Ealovega

Many living composers join us throughout the season, and I am particularly delighted to welcome the pianist and composer, innovator, improviser and Harvard Professor, Vijay Iyer. I invited him to represent the idea of music without borders throughout this very special season.

Brahms, Britten and Bach also dominate the season, as well as the Hall welcoming the world’s best song recitalists and pianists. We particularly look forward to recitals from Sir Bryn Terfel, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Philippe Jaroussky, Marianne Crebassa and the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who will perform both a solo recital and a concert with Musicians from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

I am very grateful to all our donors for their generosity and encouragement. Donations from our supporters are integral to maintaining the quality and scope of everything we present here, and I hope that we can count on you once again to be part of this wonderful new season.

I look forward to welcoming you during the year ahead.

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Beethoven Born in 1770 into an age of political turmoil and social unrest, Beethoven wrote music marked by the spirit of revolution. Wigmore Hall’s season-long exploration of the composer’s timeless art (covering all of his instrumental and chamber works) is certain to reveal fresh insights, first and foremost in a special opening weekend festival.

Across ten concerts in just two days, the festival places Beethoven in context through the works of his antecedents, his direct successors and those in the twentieth century who still felt his influence. Steven Isserlis and Robert Levin open the festival with a selection of Beethoven’s cello sonatas and variations, and they are followed by, among others, Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, the Škampa Quartet, Elisabeth Leonskaja in the final three piano sonatas, and the groundbreaking chamber ensemble O/Modernt.

Elisabeth Leonskaja © Marco Borggreve

Alina Ibragimova © Eva Vermandel

Jonathan Biss © Benjamin Ealovega

Special Priority Booking for the Opening Weekend of the Beethoven Festival (Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 September) will be available to Friends of Wigmore Hall in late February 2019. Further information will follow soon.

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Vijay Iyer © Jimmy Katz

Belcea Quartet © Marco Borggreve

Throughout the season, further Beethoven highlights include Jonathan Biss, James Ehnes and Miklós Perényi in respective surveys of the composer’s complete piano, violin, and cello sonatas; the complete string quartets from the Belcea Quartet; the complete piano trios from the Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch; and the complete string trios from Jean-Guihen Queyras, Daniel Sepec and Tabea Zimmermann. Cédric Tiberghien will begin a two-season series of Beethoven’s piano variations, and Philippe Cassard and Cédric Pescia will perform Liszt’s arrangement of the Ninth Symphony for two pianos, while there are red-letter Beethoven dates too, from Sir András Schiff, Sir Simon Keenlyside, Michael Collins, Leonidas Kavakos and Matthias Goerne.

As a musician and educator, Vijay Iyer stands for music made without borders. Wigmore Hall’s Composer in Residence, hailed by The Guardian as ‘one of the world’s most inventive new-generation jazz pianists’, will contemplate music’s presence in all human cultures from prehistory to the digital age. He is set to complement the Hall’s Beethoven programme by probing the nature of improvisation and examining humankind’s innate musicality. Oxford-based anthropologist and musician Professor Georgina Born and the Aurora Orchestra are ready to join Iyer’s contemplations ‘On Musicality’.

James Ehnes © Benjamin Ealovega

This festival is being made possible in part by a generous grant from the Fondation Hoffmann, with additional funding from members of our Beethoven Circle. For more information on the Beethoven Circle and to become involved with this major celebration, please contact Isabel Harvey-Kelly at iharvey-kelly@wigmore-hall.org.uk or call 020 7258 8226.

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Brahms Brahms is in the Wigmore Hall spotlight next season with a programme built around the Castalian String Quartet, fast-rising stars and recipient of the 2018 Merito String Quartet Award and Valentin Erben Prize. The Quartet launches the Hall’s Brahms Series in partnership with violist Isabel Charisius and cellist Ursula Smith, performing two works taken from opposite ends of the composer’s career – the String Sextet in B flat Op. 18 and the elegiac String Quintet in G Op. 111. The Castalian Quartet returns later in the season to explore Brahms’s complete string quartets in company with his works for five and six strings and compositions by his friend and mentor, Robert Schumann.

Musicologist Katy Hamilton will lead study events throughout the season relating to her major new book on Brahms, co-edited with Natasha Loges and published in 2019.

Jonathan Plowright © Diane Shaw

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Castalian String Quartet © Kaupo Kikkas

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Stephen Hough © Sim Canetty-Clarke

Vienna Piano Trio © Nancy Horowitz

Brahms’s chamber music is also at the centre of Stephen Hough’s 2019/20 Season residency, which spans five concerts, and he joins Michael Collins for Brahms’s two clarinet sonatas in a concert which also includes the clarinet quintet with the Castalian String Quartet. Other collaborations include performances with Renaud Capuçon, Steven Isserlis and Andrei Ioniţă.

The striking tonal richness of Brahms’s chamber music can also be heard in four concerts from the Vienna Piano Trio, embracing everything from his cello sonatas and three piano trios to the Horn Trio and Clarinet Trio, and Brahms’s artistic passions and musical influences surface again when pianist Jonathan Plowright concludes his Brahms Plus series.

Michael Collins © Benjamin Ealovega

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Britten Wigmore Hall played a decisive part in Benjamin Britten’s development. In the 1930s, it staged the first performances of several chamber pieces and the UK première of the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge. During the following decade, the Hall secured its place in the history of Britten when it hosted the world premières of Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, the Second String Quartet and The Holy Sonnets of John Donne.

Wigmore Hall reflects on Britten’s legacy in nine concerts and related Learning events during 2019/20. The season opens on 13 September with a Britten gala featuring Louise Alder, Christine Rice, Allan Clayton, Christopher Maltman and James Baillieu.

Sophie Bevan © Sussie Ahlburg

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Louise Alder © Gerard Collett

Christine Rice © Patricia Taylor

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This landmark series includes an evening of Britten’s choral music from Vox Luminis and performances of the composer’s complete songs with piano. A starry line-up of artists is set to explore the Canticles, an irresistible programme to be streamed live on Wigmore Hall’s website, while Allan Clayton crowns the series with a late-night date with Britten’s seductive Cabaret Songs.

Doric String Quartet © George Garnier

Allan Clayton © Sim Canetty-Clarke

It continues with two anniversary concerts, the first celebrating the composer’s birthday (also St Cecilia’s Day), the second commemorating his death: the Doric String Quartet marks Britten’s birthday with an evening comprising the three string quartets, and the Aurora Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth are joined on 4 December

by Allan Clayton in the Serenade and by Sophie Bevan in Les Illuminations.

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Early Music & Baroque Wigmore Hall underlines its commitment to Early Music in 2019/20 with a season rich in world-class performers and programmes. Angela Hewitt concludes her Bach Odyssey while Mahan Esfahani continues his revelatory Bach Harpsichord series with three concerts. The strength of the Hall’s Early Music Series is reflected in the scope and diversity of its residencies, with three concerts from L’Arpeggiata and four from Ensemble Marsyas, virtuoso performers of eighteenth-century music for wind instruments, who will mark the New Year with a musical feast for Hogmanay.

Rachel Podger © Theresa Pewal

One of the great names in period-instrument performance, Concentus Musicus Wien, comes to Wigmore Hall for the first time, joining a glittering array of performers and ensembles that includes Jordi Savall, The Sixteen, Orfeo 55 and Nathalie Stutzmann, Le Concert d’Astrée and Emmanuelle Haïm, La Serenissima and Adrian Chandler, Fretwork, Tenebrae, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, and Collegium Vocale Gent. The Hall will also Ensemble Marsyas © David Barbour resound to the life-affirming work of Rachel Podger, subject of a 2019/20 artist residency spanning three all-Bach evening concerts and three Sunday Morning Concerts devoted to Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin.

Wigmore Hall’s continually expanding Early Music Series is made possible by the generous contribution of members of our Early Music and Baroque Circle. If you would like to help us promote the performance of this very special repertoire at the Hall, and receive additional insight through special events throughout the season, please contact Isabel Harvey-Kelly at iharvey-kelly@wigmore-hall.org.uk or call 020 7258 8226 for further information about the Circle.

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Vocal Over the past decade Iestyn Davies has become a firm favourite at Wigmore Hall. The GRAMMY Award-winning British countertenor, hailed recently by The Guardian for his ‘faultless sense of line’ and the Financial Times for his ‘technical athleticism’, marks his 40th birthday on 16 September with members of The English Concert. His residency runs across the 2019/20 Season with three further concerts, including a summer evening’s date with the Dunedin Consort.

Next season’s Song Series sees more Schumann from Malcolm Martineau and friends, and Mark Padmore is joined by Kristian Bezuidenhout for an exploration of Schubert’s song cycles. Look out also for the first full recitals from French mezzo Marianne Crebassa, and American soprano Claron McFadden, and eagerly awaited returns for Christian Gerhaher, Gerald Finley, Sir Bryn Terfel, Roderick Williams, Susan Graham © Dario Acosta

Iestyn Davies © Benjamin Ealovega

Alice Coote, Christoph Prégardien, Stéphane Degout, Dame Sarah Connolly, Franco Fagioli, Christiane Karg, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson and Philippe Jaroussky. Brenda Rae, fêted for her title-role performance in Berg’s Lulu at English National Opera, returns to Wigmore Hall following the success of her Hall debut in December 2018.

Wigmore Hall relies on the generous support of Voices at Wigmore to help us keep the unique tradition of the song recital thriving. If you would like to be involved with this dynamic group of vocal enthusiasts, and enjoy a selection of special events throughout the season, please add your voice to theirs! For further information please contact Isabel Harvey-Kelly at iharvey-kelly@wigmore-hall.org.uk or call 020 7258 8226.

Suggested annual donation of £1,000-£2,000 Christian Gerhaher © Thomas Egli

Roderick Williams © Benjamin Ealovega

Claron McFadden © Erik de Jong

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Contemporary Huw Watkins’s new work for percussionist Colin Currie, commissioned by Wigmore Hall, a day devoted to Freya WaleyCohen’s reflections on Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge for string quartet and violin, and a Study Day and concert to mark Kevin Volans’s 70th birthday are among the standout dates in Wigmore Hall’s Contemporary calendar for 2019/20. The new season will also open minds, with fresh thinking on musicality and cognition from Wigmore Composer in Residence Vijay Iyer, and deliver roller-coaster repertoire adventures with the JACK Quartet and BCMG. Firm Wigmore favourites Ian Bostridge, Steven Isserlis and Olli Mustonen join forces for the UK première of Mustonen’s new work Taivaanvalot (‘Heavenly Lights’).

Colin Currie © Marco Borggreve

Vijay Iyer © Lena Adasheva

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Piano Next season’s London Pianoforte Series dovetails with the Hall’s focus on Beethoven and Brahms to encompass Jonathan Biss’s vision of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas and the continuation of Jonathan Plowright’s Brahms Plus programmes.

Sir András Schiff offers lectures on and performances of Beethoven’s three last sonatas, and his latest thoughts on works by Schubert, while Elisabeth Leonskaja moves from late Beethoven on the Hall’s opening weekend to continue her Mozart and the Second Viennese School series.

The international roster of recitalists spans the ages, extending from Beatrice Rana, Benjamin Grosvenor and Pavel Kolesnikov to Marc-André Hamelin, Christian Blackshaw and Richard Goode. Other highlights include the start of a new Schubert cycle from Francesco Piemontesi, who will also perform the composer’s complete keyboard works over several seasons at the Schubertiade Hohenems. Leif Ove Andsnes appears with Musicians from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and in a solo recital, and Imogen Cooper celebrates her 70th birthday in October by performing Schubert’s three last sonatas.

Francesco Piemontesi © Marco Borggreve

Leif Ove Andsnes © Gregor Hohenberg

Beatrice Rana © Nicolas Bets

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Chamber Music

Beethoven’s complete string quartets, violin sonatas and cello sonatas, the complete chamber music for strings by Brahms, a Michael Collins residency and the mature reflections of Stephen Hough and friends on the chamber works of Brahms and his contemporaries flow through next season’s Chamber Music Series.

Wigmore Hall also marks the centenary of Mieczysław Weinberg with one of the largest ever retrospectives of the Polish-born Soviet composer’s chamber music. Quatuor Danel, the first group to record all seventeen of Weinberg’s string quartets, leads the way with an eleven-concert, two-season survey of the complete string quartet cycle. Violinist Linus Roth will lead Wigmore’s Weinberg Focus Day in October, while Daniel Elphick will launch his new book about Weinberg at the Hall. Other chamber music highlights include recitals from Leonidas Kavakos, Martin Fröst, Isabelle Faust, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Janine Jansen and the Takács Quartet.

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason © Lars Borges

Quatuor Danel © Marco Borggreve

Isabelle Faust © Felix Broede

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Solace Women’s Aid is an organisation that for more than 40 years has supported women and children in London to build safe and strong lives and futures free from abuse and violence. We lead workshops with women and children who have experienced domestic abuse, using music-making to help improve their wellbeing and provide a space where women and children can have fun together and express themselves creatively.

In 2019/20 our Learning Festival theme is Musical Conversations. But what do we mean by a musical conversation?

Our Learning programme is special because it draws its core values of equality, creativity and collaboration directly from chamber music, an art form which enables every voice to be heard and equally valued.

Inherent in chamber music is the idea of conversation; those of you who have listened to a string quartet may well have imagined words spoken between instruments. Watching a string quartet perform is, as Goethe wrote, like ‘listening to four rational people conversing among themselves’.

We see first-hand the positive effect that music can have on participants: over the workshops we witness participants increasing in confidence, and the bond between mothers and children is strengthened.

‘Music offers an emotional release for both mother and child, it helps strengthen bonds, unlocks creativity that has been stifled and suppressed, because of abuse.’ Solace Women’s Aid staff member

We’ll explore this idea through a range of events across the festival, but it’s something we do yearround with our partnerships; we realise those values of equality, creativity and collaboration through co-creation – essentially, through conversation. We listen to the aims, aspirations and

Flora gardens Primary School © Benjamin Ealovega

Singing with Friends © Hope Fitzgerald Music For Thought © James Berry Chamber Tots © Benjamin Ealovega Partner Schools Celebration © Benjamin Ealovega

Learning

Here is just one example of our partnerships…

needs of our partners, which include schools, hospitals and refuges, and we respond to them with music. This music connects people living with dementia with their partners, empowers people who have experienced homelessness, enables children in hospital to enjoy creative activity with friends, and gives people who face barriers to the arts the opportunity to experience some of the very best musicmaking in the world.

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Creating unforgettable moments: The impact of your giving Every pound that Wigmore Hall raises and all proceeds from ticket sales are invested back into artistic programming, audience development and the maintenance of the building. The importance of your philanthropy cannot be underestimated and your continued support is deeply appreciated. Thanks to your generosity, last season we: • presented over 500 concerts and a similar number of Learning events both in the Hall and in the community • launched major explorations of repertoire, which are unique within the musical life of the UK • invited the world’s leading artists to take part in the season • promoted hour-long Wigmore Hall concerts from new, emerging artists • gave international exposure, performance opportunities and bespoke mentoring to young artists through our String Quartet and Song competitions • connected people of all ages and abilities with creative music-making and music appreciation • reached diverse worldwide audiences through free live streams, our website, and our continuing regular broadcast and digital partnerships with BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM • redesigned and refreshed our printed programmes For further information on our Circles of Support and the Annual Audience Fund please contact: Isabel Harvey-Kelly • iharvey-kelly@wigmore-hall.org.uk • 020 7258 8226

Help us present the best of today’s musical talent and enable many more people to enjoy chamber music and song in the Hall and online.

2019/20 is a season packed with excitement and a wide range of artistic projects, matched by a number of opportunities for our donors to become closely involved with everything that we do.

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COLLECTIVELY, MAJOR DONORS, TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS, FRIENDS AND DONORS TO THE ANNUAL AUDIENCE FUND CONTRIBUTED NEARLY

£2 MILLION

PROVIDING OVER 37% OF THE REVENUE WE NEED TO FUND A FULL SEASON.

Registered Charity No. 1024838

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Artists

2,000+ performed at the Hall

202 131

artists made their debuts

worked with us on our Learning programmes

86 56 150+ 69 500+

Song recitals (the largest song recital series in the world)

2017/18 Season Statistics

Concerts & Events

1000+

200,000+ visits

to Wigmore Hall

Early Music and Baroque performances Chamber Music concerts

events for early years and families in the Hall Learning events (of which 216 in the Hall)

250,000+ 65,000+

listeners to broadcasts and online streams per week

visits to our digital artistic programme

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Supporting Wigmore Hall With nearly £2 million to raise each season every gift, no matter the size, is important to us. If you would like to support Wigmore Hall by becoming a Friend or making a donation towards our Artistic Series or Learning programme, please call 020 7258 8230 or email friends@wigmore-hall.org.uk for more information.

The Wigmore Hall Trust is very grateful to the individuals and organisations listed below who have made an investment in our concert and Learning programmes:

Royal Patron HRH The Duke of Kent, KG Honorary Patrons Aubrey Adams OBE André and Rosalie Hoffmann Kohn Foundation Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Director’s Circle Aubrey Adams OBE* Tony and Marion Allen* Karl Otto Bonnier* Alan Bradley* The Harbour FoundationL Fondation Hoffmann‡ David and Louise Kaye* Simon Majaro MBE Hamish Parker Victoria and Simon RobeyL Jackie Rosenfeld OBEL William and Alex de WintonL and several anonymous donors Season Patrons 2018/19 Aubrey Adams OBE* Tony and Marion Allen* American Friends of Wigmore Hall Karl Otto Bonnier* Henry and Suzanne Davis The Harbour Foundation The Hargreaves and Ball Trust Pauline and Ian Howat* Valerie O’Connor Hamish Parker Victoria and Simon Robey David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma*† Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Julia Schottlander* Jonathan Stone William and Alex de Winton and several anonymous donors Season Benefactors 2018/19 Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Mark Echlin and Victoria Gath Lord and Lady Lloyd Edith Randall The Tertis Foundation Kathleen Verelst* Philip and Emeline Winston*

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Beethoven Circle 2018/19 Aubrey Adams OBE* Tony and Marion Allen* John and Julia Boyd* Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair Clive Butler Nicola Coldstream Pauline del Mar J L Drewitt Alan and Joanna Gemes* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Margery Gray Gillian and Lennie Hoffmann Pauline and Ian Howat* Christian Kwek and David Hodges* Geoffrey and Joy Lawrence Virginia Lynch Don Moore Ian and Megan Richardson Jackie Rosenfeld OBE Jo and Barry Slavin In memory of Robert Streit Helen Thornton John and Ann Tusa Marina Vaizey* Gerry Wakelin* and an anonymous donor Early Music and Baroque Circle Geoffrey Barnett Sandra Carlisle Dr C Endersby and Prof. D Cowan OBE Dr M T A Evans Felicity Fairbairn* Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones Mervion Kirwood Alan Sainer Professor Christopher Thompson Marina Vaizey* Anne and David Weizmann and several anonymous donors String Quartet Circle Geoffrey Barnett Gwen and Stanley Burnton Dr Jennifer Jones C Lillywhite and B Jasper Alison and Antony Milford Marina Vaizey*

Piano Circle Aubrey Adams OBE* Mrs Arline Blass Philip and Susan Feakin Charles Green Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Voices at Wigmore Tony and Marion Allen* Geoffrey Barnett Katie Bradford Michael Brind Pauline Del Mar Richard Dorment CBE Alan and Joanna Gemes* Benjamin Hargreaves Dame Felicity Lott Anne and Brian Mace Julia MacRae* Roy and Celia Palmer Gift to honour Rick Rogers Gerry Wakelin* Susan Ward David Evan Williams and an anonymous donor Corporate Supporters Capital Group (corporate matched giving) Complete Coffee Ltd The Howard de Walden Estate Martin Randall Travel Ltd Steinway & Sons Donors and Sponsors Mr Eric Abraham* Neville and Nicola Abraham Ralph and Elizabeth Aldwinckle Lady Alexander of Weedon Ian Allan Angus Allnatt Charitable Foundation American Friends of Wigmore Hall The Andor Charitable TrustL David and Jacqueline Ansell* Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ L Mrs Arlene Beare Arts Council England Alan Bell-Berry Mr Nicholas J Bez

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The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust David and Mary Bowerman* Alan Bradley* Donald Campbell A bequest from the late Peter Canter Cavatina Chamber Music TrustL Lord and Lady Chadlington* Charities Advisory TrustL Mary and Robert Childs Colin Clark Sheila Clarke* Sonia and Harvey Cole John Crisp* Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Michael and Felicia Crystal* Celia and Andrew Curran Anthony Davis* In Memory of Margaret Dewhirst James Dooley The Dorset Foundation – in memory of Harry M Weinrebe The du Plessis Family Foundation Mrs. David Dugdale Dunard Fund† In memory of Robert Easton Douglas and Janette Eden The Eldering/Goecke Family Annette Ellis* Vernon and Hazel Ellis* The Elton Family The Emmanuel Kaye FoundationL The Fidelio Charitable Trust Patricia and Jeffrey Fine In Memory of Peter Flatter John and Amy Ford The Foyle Foundation Neil and Deborah Franks* Friends of Wigmore Hall Michael Freegard Jonathan Gaisman* The Garfield Weston Foundation John Gilhooly John and Lauren Goldsmith* Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Peter Goodwin Spencer and Lucy de Grey Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour*

The Hargreaves and Ball Trust‡L The Harold Hyam Wingate FoundationL Malcolm Herring* Nicholas Hodgson Graham and Amanda Hutton* Simone Hyman* Independent Opera at Sadlers Wells In memory of Cherry Johnson Marc Jourdren* In Memory of Donald Kahn Su and Neil Kaplan* Kohn Foundation Mr Julian Korn Maryly La Follette* Gabor Lacko Mark Le FanuL Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss* The Linbury TrustL Tim Llewellyn The Loveday Charitable TrustL Simon and Sophie Ludlam* Marianne and Andy Lusher* David Lyons* Julia MacRae*L The Estate of Pamela Majaro MBE Simon Majaro MBE The Marchus Trust‡ Selina and David Marks*L Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Michael and Lynne McGowan* Colin Menzies George MeyerL Michael Watson Charitable TrustL Daryl and Diane Miller Milton Damerel TrustL The Monument Trust Amyas and Louise Morse* Valerie O’ConnorL Paxos Festival Trust Peter Outen Gifts in Memory of Jean Beresford Rogers Isabel and Jonathan Popper Nick and Claire Prettejohn* The Radcliffe Trust Charles Rose* Jackie Rosenfeld OBE, HonRCM* The Rubinstein Circle

S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3L The Sampimon TrustL Louise Scheuer Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Serena Simmons and Michael Thomas* Rhona Shaw Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Jo and Barry Slavin The Estate of N S L Smart Sir Martin and Lady Smith* Michael Smith and Nicholas Bartlett* Spencer Hart Charitable TrustL Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* In memory of Colin Steele Gill and Keith Stella* John Stephens OBE, Hon FTCL* Lord and Lady Stirrup* Anne and Paul Swain* Coen Teulings The Tertis FoundationL The Three Monkies TrustL Tony & Sheelagh Williams Charitable FoundationL Robin Vousden* Andrew and Hilary Walker* David and Margaret Walker* Professor Janet Walker CD and Professor Doug Jones AO* Michael and Rosemary Warburg Dame Fanny Waterman* Frances and David Waters* David and Martha Winfield* The Wolfson Foundation and several anonymous donors

* Rubinstein Circle members ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters † Early Music and Baroque Series supporters L Learning Programme supporters Details correct as of December 2018 The Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity No. 1024838

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Listings

Wed 9 Oct 2019

Liza Ferschtman (violin) / István Várdai (cello) / Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) Borodin Quartet & friends

Thu 10 Oct 2019

James Ehnes (violin) / Andrew Armstrong (piano)

Fri 11 Oct 2019

Borodin Quartet & friends

Sat 12 Oct 2019

Nash Ensemble: ‘Around Schubert’ Series

Sun 13 Oct 2019

Vilde Frang (violin) / Michail Lifits (piano)

Mon 14 Oct 2019

Elias String Quartet

Thu 17 Oct 2019

Miklós Perényi (cello) / Dénes Várjon (piano)

Sat 19 Oct 2019

Miklós Perényi (cello) / Dénes Várjon (piano)

Thu 24 Oct 2019

Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle: Quatuor Danel

Sat 26 Oct 2019

Weinberg Focus Day: Linus Roth (violin)

Mon 28 Oct 2019

Alisa Weilerstein (cello) / Inon Barnatan (piano)

Tue 29 Oct 2019

The Endellion String Quartet

Thu 31 Oct 2019

Huw Watkins (piano) / Colin Currie (percussion)

Sat 2 Nov 2019

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)

11.30am Škampa Quartet / Jakub Fišer (viola)

Sat 2 Nov 2019

Albion Quartet

2.00pm Soraya Mafi (soprano) / O/Modernt / Hugo Ticciati (violin)

Sat 2 Nov 2019

Pavel Haas Quartet

Mon 4 Nov 2019

Tue 5 Nov 2019

Janine Jansen (violin) / Johan Dalene (violin) / Ludvig Gudim (violin) / Sonoko Miriam Welde (violin) / Amihai Grosz (viola) / Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad (viola) / Jens Peter Maintz (cello) / Amalie Stalheim (cello) Takács Quartet

Thu 7 Nov 2019

Takács Quartet

Tue 12 Nov 2019

Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Lars Vogt (piano)

Wed 13 Nov 2019

Wihan Quartet

Fri 15 Nov 2019

Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Joshua Bell (violin)

Sat 16 Nov 2019

Nash Ensemble: ‘Around Schubert’ Series

Chamber Music Season Beethoven Festival Weekend: Sat 14 Sep 2019

11.30am Steven Isserlis (cello) / Robert Levin (fortepiano) 2.00pm O/Modernt / Hugo Ticciati (violin) / Tim Horton (piano) 4.30pm O/Modernt / Hugo Ticciati (violin) 7.00pm Benjamin Appl (baritone) / Škampa Quartet / Carolin Widmann (violin) / Kristian Bezuidenhout (piano) / O/Modernt / Hugo Ticciati (violin) 10.00pm Alina Ibragimova (violin) / Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

Sun 15 Sep 2019

Sun 6 Oct 2019

4.30pm Cédric Tiberghien (piano) / O/Modernt / Hugo Ticciati (violin) 7.00pm Benjamin Baker (violin) / Timothy Ridout (viola) / Philip Higham (cello) / Janne Thomsen (flute) / Nicholas Daniel (oboe) / Michael Collins (clarinet) / Amy Harman (bassoon) / Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn) / Aleksandar Madžar (piano) 10.00pm Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano) Wed 18 Sep 2019

St. Lawrence String Quartet

Sun 17 Nov 2019

Mon 23 Sep 2019

Michael Collins Residency: Michael Collins (clarinet) / Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) / Michael McHale (piano)

Wed 20 Nov 2019

Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy / Dmitri Bashkirov (piano) Vienna Piano Trio

Wed 25 Sep 2019

Ailish Tynan (soprano) / Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / John York (piano)

Fri 22 Nov 2019

Doric String Quartet

Mon 30 Sep 2019

Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Steven Isserlis (cello) / Olli Mustonen (piano)

Fri 29 Nov 2019

Fauré Quartet (piano quartet)

Tue 3 Dec 2019

Tue 1 Oct 2019

IMS Prussia Cove

Wed 2 Oct 2019

Britten Sinfonia / Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Stephen Hough Residency: Steven Isserlis (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) Britten Series: Sophie Bevan (soprano) / Allan Clayton (tenor) / Nicolas Fleury (horn) / Aurora Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

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Wed 4 Dec 2019

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Stephen Hough Residency: Michael Collins (clarinet) / Andrei Ioniţă (cello) / Stephen Hough (piano) Nash Ensemble: ‘Around Schubert’ Series Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle: Quatuor Danel Kevin Volans 70th birthday: Melvyn Tan (piano) / Signum Quartet / Calefax Martin Fröst (clarinet) / Roland Pöntinen (piano) Beethoven Cycle: Belcea Quartet Beethoven Cycle: Belcea Quartet The Soldier’s Tale: Isabelle Faust (violin) & friends Schumann Quartett Stephen Hough Residency: Castalian String Quartet / Michael Collins (clarinet) / Stephen Hough (piano) Stephen Hough Residency: Castalian String Quartet / Stephen Hough (piano) Stephen Hough Residency: Renaud Capuçon (violin) / Stephen Hough (piano) Vienna Piano Trio / Radovan Vlatković (horn) Nash Ensemble: ‘Around Schubert’ Series Dover Quartet / Edgar Meyer (bass) Dover Quartet Jerusalem Quartet Britten Sinfonia Miloš Karadaglić (guitar) Borodin Quartet Kuss Quartet Nash Ensemble: ‘Around Schubert’ Series The Endellion String Quartet James Ehnes (violin) Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective Michael Collins Residency Pavel Haas Quartet / Boris Giltburg (piano) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) / Musicians from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Artemis Quartet Britten Sinfonia Castalian String Quartet / Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

Mon 2 Mar 2020

Beethoven Cycle: Belcea Quartet

Tue 3 Mar 2020

Beethoven Cycle: Belcea Quartet

Sat 7 Mar 2020

Nash Ensemble: ‘Around Schubert’ Series

Wed 11 Mar 2020 Sat 14 Mar 2020

Daniel Sepec (violin) / Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Doric String Quartet

Mon 16 Mar 2020

Škampa Quartet

Sat 21 Mar 2020

Brentano String Quartet

Mon 23 Mar 2020

Cuarteto Casals

Nash Inventions: Mark-Anthony Turnage 60th Birthday Concert Wed 25 Mar 2020 Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle: Quatuor Danel Tue 31 Mar 2020 Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival 20th Anniversary Celebration Britten Sinfonia Wed 1 Apr 2020 Tue 24 Mar 2020

Mon 13 Apr 2020

Castalian String Quartet / Nils Mönkemeyer (viola) / Ursula Smith (cello) Doric String Quartet / Alina Ibragimova (violin) / Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Janine Jansen (violin) / Denis Kozhukhin (piano)

Wed 15 Apr 2020

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Thu 23 Apr 2020

Joshua Bell (violin)

Sat 25 Apr 2020

Tetzlaff Quartet

Wed 29 Apr 2020

The Endellion String Quartet

Fri 1 May 2020 Sat 2 May 2020

Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists / Rachel Podger (violin) Artemis Quartet

Mon 4 May 2020

Leonidas Kavakos (violin) / Enrico Pace (piano)

Tue 5 May 2020 Mon 11 May 2020

Pavel Haas Quartet / Pavel Nikl (viola) / Danjulo Ishizaka (cello) Takács Quartet / Roger Tapping (viola)

Wed 13 May 2020

Takács Quartet

Sat 16 May 2020

Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle: Quatuor Danel

Tue 19 May 2020

Vienna Piano Trio

Fri 3 Apr 2020 Wed 8 Apr 2020

Wed 20 May 2020 Vienna Piano Trio / Michael Collins (clarinet) Sat 23 May 2020 Doric String Quartet Sun 24 May 2020

JACK Quartet

Sun 31 May 2020

Roman Rabinovich Haydn Day

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Mon 1 Jun 2020

Ray Chen (violin)

Tue 10 Dec 2019

Mario Häring (piano)

Thu 4 Jun 2020

James Ehnes (violin)

Wed 11 Dec 2019

Xinyuan Wang (piano)

Fri 5 Jun 2020

Beethoven Cycle: Belcea Quartet

Thu 19 Dec 2019

Beethoven Sonata Cycle: Jonathan Biss (piano)

Sat 6 Jun 2020

Leonore Piano Trio

Sat 28 Dec 2019

Brahms Plus Series: Jonathan Plowright (piano)

Sun 7 Jun 2020

Beethoven Cycle: Belcea Quartet

Fri 3 Jan 2020

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano)

Mon 15 Jun 2020

Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize 2020

Sun 5 Jan 2020

Jeremy Denk (piano)

Tue 16 Jun 2020

Novus String Quartet

Tue 14 Jan 2020

Sat 20 Jun 2020

Beethoven Piano Trios: Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch

Mozart and the Second Viennese School: Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

Sun 26 Jan 2020

Beethoven Sonata Cycle: Jonathan Biss (piano)

Mon 27 Jan 2020

Christian Blackshaw (piano)

Fri 7 Feb 2020

Beatrice Rana (piano)

Sun 9 Feb 2020

Richard Goode (piano)

Tue 11 Feb 2020

Paul Lewis (piano) / Steven Osborne (piano) Beethoven Variations: Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

Wed 24 Jun 2020 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Fri 26 Jun 2020

Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) / Huw Watkins (piano)

Tue 30 Jun 2020

Castalian String Quartet

Fri 3 Jul 2020

Wihan Quartet

Sun 5 Jul 2020

Nicola Benedetti (violin)

Thu 9 Jul 2020

Weinberg/Shostakovich Cycle: Quatuor Danel

Sun 23 Feb 2020

Sun 12 Jul 2020

Concert for Parkinson’s UK: Carolin Widmann (violin) / Amihai Grosz (viola) / Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) / Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)

Fri 28 Feb 2020

Beethoven Sonata Cycle: Jonathan Biss (piano)

Sun 1 Mar 2020

Julien Brocal (piano)

Thu 5 Mar 2020

Inon Barnatan (piano)

Tue 21 Jul 2020

Michael Collins Residency

Sun 15 Mar 2020

Piers Lane (piano)

Thu 23 Jul 2020

Elias String Quartet / Alice Neary (cello)

Tue 17 Mar 2020

Brahms Plus Series: Jonathan Plowright (piano)

Sun 26 Jul 2020

Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)

Fri 20 Mar 2020

Joseph Moog (piano)

Sat 28 Mar 2020

The Bach Odyssey: Angela Hewitt (piano)

London Pianoforte Series

Wed 1 Apr 2020

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Thu 2 Apr 2020

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Sat 21 Sep 2019

Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

Mon 6 Apr 2020

Leon McCawley (piano)

Sun 22 Sep 2019

Vijay Iyer Residency

Sun 19 Apr 2020

Sir András Schiff Lecture-Recital

Sun 29 Sep 2019

Beethoven Sonata Cycle: Jonathan Biss (piano)

Mon 20 Apr 2020

Beethoven Sonata Cycle: Jonathan Biss (piano)

Fri 18 Oct 2019

Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano)

Tue 22 Oct 2019

Imogen Cooper 70th Birthday Concert

Fri 25 Oct 2019

The Bach Odyssey: Angela Hewitt (piano)

Sun 3 Nov 2019

Schubert Cycles: Francesco Piemontesi (piano)

Sat 9 Nov 2019

Beethoven Variations: Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

Mon 11 Nov 2019

Lara Melda (piano)

Mon 18 Nov 2019

Danny Driver (piano)

Tue 26 Nov 2019

Nelson Goerner (piano)

Mon 2 Dec 2019

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)

Mon 9 Dec 2019

Eric Lu (piano)

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Sun 26 Apr 2020

Aleksandar Madžar (piano)

Wed 6 May 2020

Barry Douglas (piano)

Sat 9 May 2020

Beethoven Sonata Cycle: Jonathan Biss (piano)

Mon 18 May 2020

Garrick Ohlsson (piano)

Fri 22 May 2020

Kirill Gerstein (piano)

Wed 27 May 2020 Schubert Cycles: Francesco Piemontesi (piano) Sun 31 May 2020

Roman Rabinovich Haydn Day

Tue 2 Jun 2020

The Bach Odyssey: Angela Hewitt (piano)

Mon 8 Jun 2020

Mozart and the Second Viennese School: Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)

Fri 12 Jun 2020

Marc-André Hamelin (piano) wigmore-hall.org.uk

Sun 14 Jun 2020

Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Mon 7 Oct 2019

Elizabeth Watts (soprano) / Julius Drake (piano)

Wed 17 Jun 2020

Philippe Cassard (piano) / Cédric Pescia (piano)

Sun 13 Oct 2019

Soraya Mafi (soprano)

Sun 21 Jun 2020

Sir András Schiff (piano)

Wed 23 Oct 2019

Thu 25 Jun 2020

Beethoven Sonata Cycle: Jonathan Biss (piano)

Schumann Song Series: Catriona Morison (mezzo-soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Thu 2 Jul 2020

Beethoven Variations: Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

Sun 27 Oct 2019

Kristine Opolais (soprano)

Sat 4 Jul 2020

Brahms Plus Series: Jonathan Plowright (piano)

Wed 30 Oct 2019

Christoph Prégardien (tenor) / Julius Drake (piano)

Thu 16 Jul 2020

Steven Osborne (piano)

Fri 1 Nov 2019

Sun 19 Jul 2020

Zlata Chochieva (piano)

Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano) / Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord) / Le Concert d’Astrée

Wed 22 Jul 2020

Charles Richard-Hamelin (piano)

Wed 6 Nov 2019

Roderick Williams (baritone) / Iain Burnside (piano)

Fri 8 Nov 2019

Samling Showcase 2019

Sun 10 Nov 2019

Alessandro Fisher (tenor) / Ashok Gupta (piano)

Thu 14 Nov 2019

Robin Tritschler (tenor) / Jonathan Ware (piano)

Sat 23 Nov 2019

Wagner Society Singing Competition

Song Recital & Vocal Series Sat 7 Sep – Wed 11 Sep 2019

Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera International Song Competition 2019

Sat 23 Nov 2019

Andrè Schuen (baritone) / Daniel Heide (piano)

Fri 13 Sep 2019

Britten Gala: Louise Alder (soprano) / Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano) / Allan Clayton (tenor) / Christopher Maltman (baritone) / James Baillieu (piano)

Sun 24 Nov 2019

Brenda Rae (soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Sat 30 Nov 2019

Jamie Barton (mezzo-soprano) / Kathleen Kelly (piano)

Wed 4 Dec 2019

Britten Series: Sophie Bevan (soprano) / Allan Clayton (tenor) / Nicolas Fleury (horn) / Aurora Orchestra / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

Thu 5 Dec 2019

Thomas Hampson (baritone) / Wolfram Rieger (piano)

Sun 8 Dec 2019

Jonathan Dove Birthday Concert: Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) / Nicky Spence (tenor) / Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano)

Sun 8 Dec 2019

Schumann Song Series: Thomas Oliemans (baritone) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Thu 12 Dec 2019

Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano)

Sat 14 Dec 2019

Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor) / Il Pomo d’Oro

Sat 21 Dec 2019

Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac

Sun 22 Dec 2019

Claron McFadden (soprano) / Alexander Melnikov (piano)

Sun 29 Dec 2019

Tara Erraught (mezzo-soprano) / James Baillieu (piano)

Thu 2 Jan 2020

Schumann Song Series: Sir Simon Keenlyside (baritone) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Sat 4 Jan 2020

Britten Series: Allan Clayton (tenor) / James Baillieu (piano) / Sean Shibe (guitar)

Sun 5 Jan 2020

Julien Van Mellaerts (baritone) / Gamal Khamis (piano) Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano)

Mon 16 Sep 2019

Iestyn Davies 40th Birthday Concert: Iestyn Davies (countertenor) / The English Concert

Fri 20 Sep 2019

Schubert Song Cycles: Mark Padmore (tenor) / Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Tue 24 Sep 2019

Carolyn Sampson (soprano) / Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Wed 25 Sep 2019

French Song Exchange Showcase

Wed 25 Sep 2019

Rebecca Clarke Concert: Ailish Tynan (soprano) / Raphael Wallfisch (cello) / John York (piano)

Thu 26 Sep 2019

French Song Exchange Showcase

Thu 26 Sep 2019

Roberta Mameli (soprano) / Sonia Prina (contralto) / Luigi De Donato (bass) / Ensemble laBarocca / Ruben Jais (conductor)

Fri 27 Sep 2019

Schumann Song Series: Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Mon 30 Sep 2019

Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Steven Isserlis (cello) / Olli Mustonen (piano)

Thu 3 Oct 2019

Independent Opera Scholars’ Recital 2019

Fri 4 Oct 2019

Christian Gerhaher (baritone) / Gerold Huber (piano)

Wed 8 Jan 2020

Sat 5 Oct 2019

Christiane Karg (soprano) / Sabine Meyer (clarinet) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Wed 15 Jan 2020

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)

Thu 16 Jan 2020

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)

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Fri 17 Jan 2020

Sat 13 Jun 2020

Iestyn Davies Residency

Wed 22 Jan 2020 Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac

Sun 14 Jun 2020

Cyrille Dubois (tenor) / Tristan Raës (piano)

Fri 24 Jan 2020

Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Mon 29 Jun 2020 Roderick Williams (baritone) / Christopher Glynn (piano)

Sun 26 Jan 2020

Royal Academy of Music Song Circle

Christian Gerhaher (baritone)

Tue 7 Jul 2020

Schubert Song Cycles: Mark Padmore (tenor) / Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Wed 29 Jan 2020 Christiane Karg (soprano) / Louis Lortie (piano)

Fri 10 Jul 2020

Christiane Karg (soprano)

Fri 31 Jan 2020

Mauro Peter (tenor)

Wed 15 Jul 2020

Ilker Arcayürek (tenor)

Sun 2 Feb 2020

Elsa Dreisig (soprano) / Jonathan Ware (piano)

Sat 18 Jul 2020

Wed 5 Feb 2020

Max Raabe (singer) / Christoph Israel (piano)

Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: Mahler Day Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano) / Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Tue 18 Feb 2020

Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano)

Sat 18 Jul 2020

Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: Mahler Day

Sun 1 Mar 2020

Anna Huntley (mezzo-soprano) / Graham Johnson (piano)

Sat 18 Jul 2020

Fri 6 Mar 2020

Nelly Miricioiu (soprano)

Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: Mahler Day Julius Drake (piano)

Sun 8 Mar 2020

Stéphane Degout (baritone)

Sat 18 Jul 2020

Fri 13 Mar 2020

Martin Mitterrutzner (tenor) / Gerold Huber (piano)

Thu 19 Mar 2020

Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)

Oxford Lieder at Wigmore Hall: Mahler Day Birgid Steinberger (soprano) / Stephan Loges (bass-baritone) / Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Mon 20 Jul 2020

Ailish Tynan (soprano) / Iain Burnside (piano)

Sun 22 Mar 2020 Iestyn Davies Residency Sun 29 Mar 2020

Johannes Kammler (baritone) / Roger Vignoles (piano)

Sat 4 Apr 2020

Tim Mead (countertenor) / Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien

Sun 5 Apr 2020

Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano)

Tue 7 Apr 2020

Gerald Finley (baritone)

Thu 16 Apr 2020

Schubert Song Cycles: Mark Padmore (tenor) / Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Wed 22 Apr 2020 Britten Series: Allan Clayton (tenor) / James Baillieu (piano) Sun 26 Apr 2020

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano)

Tue 28 Apr 2020

Franco Fagioli (countertenor) / Il Pomo d’Oro

Thu 30 Apr 2020

Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Natalia Katyukova (piano)

Sun 3 May 2020

Ronan Collett (baritone) / Nicholas Rimmer (piano)

Sun 3 May 2020

Milan Siljanov (bass-baritone) / Nino Chokhonelidze (piano)

Thu 7 May 2020

Graham Johnson Songmakers’ Almanac

Sun 10 May 2020

Matthias Goerne (baritone) / Jan Lisiecki (piano)

Thu 21 May 2020

Britten Series: Iestyn Davies (countertenor) / Allan Clayton (tenor) / James Newby (baritone) / Alec Frank-Gemmill (horn) / Olivia Jageurs (harp) / James Baillieu (piano)

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Sunday Morning Concerts Sun 15 Sep 2019 Sun 22 Sep 2019 Sun 29 Sep 2019 Sun 6 Oct 2019 Sun 13 Oct 2019 Sun 20 Oct 2019 Sun 27 Oct 2019 Sun 3 Nov 2019 Sun 10 Nov 2019 Sun 17 Nov 2019 Sun 24 Nov 2019 Sun 1 Dec 2019 Sun 8 Dec 2019 Sun 15 Dec 2019 Sun 22 Dec 2019 Sun 29 Dec 2019 Sun 5 Jan 2020

Beethoven Weekend: Škampa Quartet / Jakub Fišer (viola) Kuss Quartet Beethoven Piano Trios: Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Dudok Quartet Endymion Castalian String Quartet / Isabel Charisius (viola) / Ursula Smith (cello) WHISQC Winner’s Concert: Esmé Quartet Lucas Jussen (piano) / Arthur Jussen (piano) Isang Enders (cello) / Sunwook Kim (piano) Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy Rachel Podger Residency Beatrice Rana (piano) Quatuor Van Kuijk Eggner Trio Modigliani Quartet Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) & friends Phoenix Piano Trio wigmore-hall.org.uk

Sun 12 Jan 2020 Sun 19 Jan 2020 Sun 26 Jan 2020 Sun 2 Feb 2020 Sun 9 Feb 2020 Sun 16 Feb 2020 Sun 23 Feb 2020 Sun 1 Mar 2020 Sun 8 Mar 2020 Sun 15 Mar 2020 Sun 22 Mar 2020 Sun 29 Mar 2020 Sun 5 Apr 2020 Sun 12 Apr 2020 Sun 19 Apr 2020 Sun 26 Apr 2020 Sun 3 May 2020 Sun 10 May 2020 Sun 24 May 2020 Sun 31 May 2020 Sun 7 Jun 2020 Sun 14 Jun 2020 Sun 21 Jun 2020 Sun 28 Jun 2020 Sun 5 Jul 2020 Sun 12 Jul 2020 Sun 19 Jul 2020 Sun 26 Jul 2020

Rachel Podger Residency Edgar Meyer (double bass) Beethoven Piano Trios: Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Chiaroscuro Quartet Heath Quartet Andreas Brantelid (cello) Meccore String Quartet Caroline Goulding (violin) Nash Ensemble: ‘Around Schubert’ Series Armida Quartet Cuarteto Casals Trio Dali Samson Tsoy (piano) / Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) Zemlinsky Quartet Sacconi Quartet Elias String Quartet Beethoven Piano Trios: Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch Rachel Podger Residency Jupiter String Quartet Roman Rabinovich Haydn Day Kopelman Quartet Andrew Brownell (piano) / Benjamin Frith (piano) Danish String Quartet Jack Liebeck (violin) Wihan Quartet Vadim Gluzman (violin) Aquinas Piano Trio Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)

Early Music & Baroque Series Mon 16 Sep 2019 Thu 19 Sep 2019 Thu 26 Sep 2019

Sat 28 Sep 2019

Iestyn Davies 40th Birthday Concert: Iestyn Davies (countertenor) / The English Concert Classical Opera/The Mozartists Roberta Mameli (soprano) / Sonia Prina (contralto) / Luigi De Donato (bass) / Ensemble laBarocca / Ruben Jais (conductor) Rachel Podger Residency

Wed 2 Oct 2019

Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works

Tue 8 Oct 2019

Arcangelo

Wed 16 Oct 2019

The King’s Consort

Fri 1 Nov 2019

Anna Stéphany (mezzo-soprano) / Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord) / Le Concert d’Astrée

Wed 27 Nov 2019

Orfeo 55 / Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor, contralto)

Thu 28 Nov 2019

The English Concert

Sun 1 Dec 2019

Tenebrae

Fri 13 Dec 2019

L’Arpeggiata

Sat 14 Dec 2019

Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor) / Il Pomo d’Oro

Sun 15 Dec 2019

Fretwork: Musick’s Monument

Tue 17 Dec 2019

Les Talens Lyriques

Mon 30 Dec 2019

Ensemble Marsyas Residency

Tue 31 Dec 2019

Florilegium

Thu 9 Jan 2020

Classical Opera/The Mozartists

Thu 23 Jan 2020

La Nuova Musica

Tue 28 Jan 2020

Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord) / Le Concert d’Astrée

Thu 6 Feb 2020

Concentus Musicus Wien

Fri 21 Feb 2020

The Sixteen

Tue 25 Feb 2020

The English Concert

Sat 29 Feb 2020

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / Isabelle Faust (violin) / Bernhard Forck (violin) / Xenia Löffler (oboe)

Wed 4 Mar 2020

Florilegium

Tue 10 Mar 2020

London Handel Orchestra

Thu 12 Mar 2020

The King’s Consort

Wed 18 Mar 2020

Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works

Fri 27 Mar 2020

L’Arpeggiata

Mon 30 Mar 2020 Ensemble Marsyas Residency Sat 4 Apr 2020

Tim Mead (countertenor) / Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien

Sat 11 Apr 2020

Fretwork / Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano) / Peter Harvey (bass) / Silas Wollston (harpsichord)

Tue 14 Apr 2020

Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord, organ) / Le Concert d’Astrée

Sat 18 Apr 2020

Rachel Podger Residency

Tue 21 Apr 2020

Roberta Invernizzi (soprano) / Claudia Combs (violin) / Rosella Croce (violin) / Alberto Guerrero (cello) / Rodney Prada (viola da gamba) / Craig Marchitelli (archlute & baroque guitar/lute) / Franco Pavan (lute & theorbo) / Flora Papadopoulos (harp)

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Tue 28 Apr 2020

Franco Fagioli (countertenor) / Il Pomo d’Oro

Fri 8 May 2020

Les Talens Lyriques / Julian Prégardien (tenor)

Tue 12 May 2020

La Serenissima

Thu 14 May 2020

Vox Luminis

Fri 15 May 2020

Collegium Vocale Gent

Sun 17 May 2020

Solomon’s Knot

Tue 26 May 2020

Ensemble Marsyas Residency

Thu 28 May 2020

L’Arpeggiata

Wed 3 Jun 2020

The English Concert

Tue 9 Jun 2020

The Sixteen

Thu 11 Jun 2020

Mahan Esfahani: Bach Harpsichord Works

Tue 23 Jun 2020

Jordi Savall (viola da gamba) & friends

Sat 27 Jun 2020

The King’s Consort 40th Anniversary Concert

Wed 1 Jul 2020

Ensemble Marsyas Residency

Mon 6 Jul 2020

Rachel Podger Residency

Wed 8 Jul 2020

La Nuova Musica

Sat 11 Jul 2020

Arcangelo / Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)

Tue 14 Jul 2020

Classical Opera/The Mozartists

Fri 17 Jul 2020

Fretwork: Musick’s Monument

Sat 25 Jul 2020

Iestyn Davies Residency

Mon 2 Dec 2019

Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) / Samson Tsoy (piano) / Colin Currie (percussion) / Sam Walton (percussion)

Mon 9 Dec 2019

Nelson Freire (piano)

Mon 16 Dec 2019

Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano) / Eduard Kutrowatz (piano)

Mon 6 Jan 2020

Louise Alder (soprano) / Joseph Middleton (piano)

Mon 13 Jan 2020

Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)

Mon 20 Jan 2020 Jerusalem Quartet Mon 27 Jan 2020 Jennifer Pike (violin) / Martin Roscoe (piano) Mon 3 Feb 2020

Katharina Konradi (soprano)

Mon 10 Feb 2020

Lucie Horsch (recorder) / Thomas Dunford (lute)

Mon 17 Feb 2020

Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) / Annika Treutler (piano)

Mon 24 Feb 2020 Meta4 (string quartet) Mon 2 Mar 2020

Lise Berthaud (viola) / David Saudubray (piano)

Mon 9 Mar 2020

Ruby Hughes (soprano) / Natalie Clein (cello) / Julius Drake (piano)

Mon 16 Mar 2020

Alessandro Fisher (tenor) / Ashok Gupta (piano)

Mon 23 Mar 2020 Brentano String Quartet Mon 30 Mar 2020 Anastasia Kobekina (cello) / Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula (piano) Mon 6 Apr 2020

Concertgebouw Winds

Mon 13 Apr 2020

Escher String Quartet

Mon 20 Apr 2020 ATOS Trio

BBC Lunchtime Concerts Mon 16 Sep 2019

Benjamin Appl (baritone) / Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Mon 23 Sep 2019

Marlis Petersen (soprano) / Camillo Radicke (piano)

Mon 30 Sep 2019

Boris Giltburg (piano)

Mon 7 Oct 2019

Jess Gillam (saxophone) / Zeynep Özsuca (piano)

Mon 14 Oct 2019

Borodin Quartet / Barry Douglas (piano)

Mon 21 Oct 2019

Lawrence Power (viola) / Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

Mon 28 Oct 2019

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) / Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

Mon 4 Nov 2019

The Cardinall’s Musick

Mon 11 Nov 2019

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Mon 18 Nov 2019

James Newby (baritone) / Simon Lepper (piano)

Mon 25 Nov 2019

Marian Consort

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Mon 27 Apr 2020 Emily Beynon (flute) / Andrew West (piano) Mon 4 May 2020

Christian Lindberg (trombone) / Roland Pöntinen (piano)

Mon 11 May 2020

Stuart Skelton (tenor) / Richard Peirson (piano)

Mon 18 May 2020 Aris Quartet Mon 25 May 2020 Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba) Mon 1 Jun 2020

Daniel Hope (violin) / Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)

Mon 8 Jun 2020

Veronika Eberle (violin) / Dénes Várjon (piano)

Mon 15 Jun 2020

Elisabeth Brauss (piano)

Mon 22 Jun 2020 Giuliano Carmignola (baroque violin) / Riccardo Doni (harpsichord) Mon 29 Jun 2020 Vision String Quartet Mon 6 Jul 2020

Václava Krejčí Housková (mezzo-soprano) / Nicky Spence (tenor) / Julius Drake (piano) / 3 female singers from Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Mon 13 Jul 2020

Britten Series: Allan Clayton (tenor)

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Contemporary Music Series

Autumn Learning Events

Mon 30 Sep 2019

Wed 18 Sep 2019

For Crying Out Loud!

Fri 20 Sep 2019

Chamber Tots

Sat 5 Oct 2019

Inside the Score: Pierrot Lunaire

Thu 10 Oct 2019

Chamber Tots

Sat 12 Oct 2019

Family Concert

Thu 17 Oct 2019

Chamber Tots

Fri 18 Oct 2019

Schools Concert

Thu 24 Oct 2019

Relaxed Concert

Fri 25 Oct 2019

Musical Portraits

Wed 30 Oct 2019

Chamber Tots

Thu 31 Oct 2019

Bechstein Sessions

Fri 8 Nov 2019

Chamber Tots

Wed 20 Nov 2019

Chamber Tots

Thu 21 Nov 2019

For Crying Out Loud!

Fri 22 Nov 2019

Thomas Quasthoff Masterclass

Sun 24 Nov 2019

Thomas Quasthoff Talk

Fri 29 Nov 2019

Music for the Moment

Sat 30 Nov 2019

Chamber Tots

Sat 30 Nov 2019

Family Concert

Fri 6 Dec 2019

Thomas Hampson Masterclass

Sat 7 Dec 2019

Come & Sing

Wed 11 Dec 2019

Bechstein Sessions

Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Steven Isserlis (cello) / Olli Mustonen (piano) Jess Gillam (saxophone) / Zeynep Özsuca (piano) Mon 7 Oct 2019 Mon 14 Oct 2019 Elias String Quartet Huw Watkins (piano) / Colin Currie (percussion) Thu 31 Oct 2019 Pavel Haas Quartet Sat 2 Nov 2019 Mon 11 Nov 2019 Joanna MacGregor (piano) Christian Tetzlaff (violin) / Lars Vogt (piano) Tue 12 Nov 2019 Sun 17 Nov 2019 Young Soloists of the Kronberg Academy Mon 18 Nov 2019 Danny Driver (piano) Wed 11 Dec 2019 Kevin Volans 70th birthday: Melvyn Tan (piano) / Signum Quartet / Calefax Mon 16 Dec 2019 Martin Fröst (clarinet) / Roland Pöntinen (piano) Sun 22 Dec 2019 Claron McFadden (soprano) / Alexander Melnikov (piano) Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) / Malcolm Martineau (piano) Fri 24 Jan 2020 Sat 25 Jan 2020 Miloš Karadaglić (guitar) Kuss Quartet Tue 4 Feb 2020 Sun 23 Feb 2020 Cédric Tiberghien: Beethoven Variations Mon 9 Mar 2020 Ruby Hughes (soprano) / Natalie Clein (cello) / Julius Drake (piano) Sat 14 Mar 2020 Doric String Quartet Tue 24 Mar 2020 Nash Inventions: Mark-Anthony Turnage 60th Birthday Concert Artemis Quartet Sat 2 May 2020 Fri 22 May 2020 Kirill Gerstein (piano) Wed 24 Jun 2020 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Fri 26 Jun 2020 Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) / Huw Watkins (piano)

Jazz Series Sun 22 Sep 2019

Vijay Iyer Residency

Tue 19 Nov 2019

EFG London Jazz Festival

Fri 10 Jan 2020

Vijay Iyer Residency

Thu 26 Mar 2020

Dianne Reeves (singer)

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