There seems to be a great deal going on this June so, just in case you have any blank pages in your diaries, here are a few ways in which you could fill them!
Tuesday 11th June 6.30pm – Leighton House, Holland Park
Violinist Madeleine Mitchell, with cellist Kirsten Jenson and pianist Julian Milford, will be playing Tailleferre, Delius and Dvorak in the wonderfully over-the-top setting of Frederick, Lord Leighton’s Victorian House in Holland Park. A tour of the house is included in the ticket price.
Thursday 13th June 7.30pm – Bristol
The Ligeti Quartet, Lotte Betts Dean and James Stirling – launch concert for the recordings of settings of Thomas Hardy poems. (See the Salon Music concert in July last year.)
St George’s Bristol – you can book tickets here – and Arthur says he will look forward to seeing you in the bar afterwards!
14th June – 7th July – Highgate
Longitude – A Clockmaker’s Obsession – A new musical about the simple clockmaker who lost almost everything in his quest to discover the secret of Longitude. Upstairs at the Gatehouse.
Sunday 16th June – 6pm at King’s Place
Declan Hickey, who gave us such a delightful evening of guitar music on May 16th will be playing with violinist Eliza Nagle as part of King’s Place’s Guitar in London on June 16th. Also on the programme, Catalan guitarist, Josep Manzano. Book here.
Monday 17th June – 6.45pm Goethe Institute
A last chance to see Sheila Hayman‘s excellent film about Fanny Mendelssohn (her great, great, great grandmother) – Fanny – The Other Mendelssohn. The film will be followed by a panel discussion about what it means to be a woman composer with Sheila, composer and pianist Electra Perivolaris, Lydia Rilling, the first female director of the Donaueschingen Music Days and historian and writer Leah Broad, whose 2023 award-winning book Quartet portrays the lives of four British women composers born between 1856 and 1922.
Those of you who came to our Fanny Mendelssohn concert last summer will remember Sheila talking about the film then.
Go here for more details and to book – ONLY £5 for the film, the discussion and a reception afterwards.
Tuesday June 25th – Lunchtime at Hampstead Lane
Aisha Palmer, a harp student with the Philharmonia’s MMSF Instrumental Fellowship Programme, will be giving a lunchtime recital. For the programme and to book, go here. £15 to include a glass of wine.
For happenings in July, at Hampstead Lane and elsewhere – see our Upcoming Events page.
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