World-leading artists for Portsmouth

The new season of Portsmouth Chamber Music series kicks off on 25 September with the incomparable pianist Paul Lewis.

Lewis has a busy international career, appearing in concert halls around the globe. He is renowned for his performances of the Viennese masters, and we will be treated to favourite works by Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms.

Then on the 30 October, we welcome back the Van Kuijk Quartet which so captivated the Portsmouth audience last season. First prize winners of the Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition in 2015 they will perform string quartets by Mendelssohn, Janáček and Ravel.

Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen has been touring the great UK and European concert halls last year as part of the ECHO Rising Stars series. Her partnership with star accompanist James Baillieu sees a programme of Schubert and Prokofiev sonatas sandwiched between works by C.P.E. Bach in their 27 November concert.

Welcome the new year with the series’ resident Ensemble 360 on 29 January, with a programme featuring the beautifully romantic piano quintet by Korngold, Janacek’s Concertino and Mozart’s quintet for piano and winds.

The Gould Piano Trio has been playing together for 25 years and will perform with clarinettist Robert Plane for their concert on 19 March in a programme that includes Messiaen’s superb Quartet for the End of Time.

The rising stars that are the Marmen Quartet will perform classics by Mozart and Beethoven as well as Phillip Glass’s 1985 Mishima Quartet, which depicts the six different stages of the famous Japanese writer’s life.

The chamber music series has been sponsored by the University of Portsmouth since its launch here 13 years ago with various partners including the Portsmouth Cathedral, New Theatre Royal, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Portsmouth Guildhall, its current home.

Director of Music at the University of Portsmouth, Colin Jagger, said “We are delighted to continue our contribution to the city’s cultural life and excited to present a great line-up of internationally renowned artists”

Visit www.portsmouthguildhall.org.uk for further details.

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