Overview
The dual roles occupied by the many composer-performers to appear on Wigmore Hall’s stage over the course of its history have led to some of our most legendary concerts – and some altogether more forgotten. Ravel, Poulenc, Britten, Skryabin – and of course the subjects of next season’s composer focusses, Coleridge-Taylor and Busoni – among many others all came to the Hall to play their own works; but what did it mean to be a composer-performer over the course of the 20th Century, and what about those who are no longer household names? Join us and our Archivist, Emily Woolf, on a journey through the varied stories, compositions and performances of those both beloved and overlooked.