Contemporary Music Series
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Wigmore Hall stands as a major supporter of contemporary chamber music and song, as commissioner of new works and champion of living composers. The Hall is determined to bring fresh creative energy to the repertoire, not least through its extensive commissioning programme and promotion of world, UK and London premières.
'Our commissioning scheme is already the most extensive in Europe for chamber music. We plan to present up to 20 commissions per season from 2013 and make Wigmore Hall one of the world's foremost centres for contemporary chamber music.'
Wigmore Hall Director, John Gilhooly
We are very grateful to all those who have generously supported the Contemporary Music Series, including Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne, The Marchus Trust, and André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation.
Steven Isserlis cello; Olli Mustonen piano
Sunday 29 October 2017 11:30AMProkofiev, Mustonen and Kabalevsky
James Gilchrist tenor; Anna Tilbrook piano
Thursday 2 November 2017 7:30PMVaughan Williams, Jonathan Dove and Schumann
Alisa Weilerstein cello; Inon Barnatan piano
Saturday 4 November 2017 7:30PMBrahms, Stravinsky and Steven Mackey
Cédric Tiberghien piano
Sunday 5 November 2017 7:30PMProkofiev, Philippe Hersant and Musorgsky
Kirill Gerstein piano
Saturday 11 November 2017 7:30PMJS Bach, Debussy, Chopin, Adès and Schumann
Takács Quartet
Sunday 12 November 2017 7:30PMMozart, Vine and Brahms
Britten Sinfonia; Nik Bärtsch piano
Friday 17 November 2017 1:00PMBritten Sinfonia at Lunch
Imogen Cooper piano; Andrey Lebedev lute; Patrick Terry countertenor
Saturday 2 December 2017 7:30PMBeethoven, Haydn, Dowland and Adès
Heath Quartet
Sunday 10 December 2017 11:30AMHaydn, Widmann and Mendelssohn
Cuarteto Casals
Tuesday 12 December 2017 7:30PMBeethoven and Giovanni Sollima
Joyce DiDonato mezzo-soprano; Brentano String Quartet
Monday 18 December 2017 7:30PMStrauss, Lekeu, Debussy and Heggie
Miklós Perényi cello
Tuesday 2 January 2018 7:30PMReger, Bach, Ligeti, Kurtág and Britten
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Jörg Widmann; Tabea Zimmermann; Dénes Várjon
Thursday 4 January 2018 7:30PMSchumann, Widmann and Mozart
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Fatma Said soprano; James Vaughan piano
Monday 15 January 2018 1:00PMSchumann, Mendelssohn, Poulenc and Mohie El Din
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Quatuor Diotima
Thursday 18 January 2018 7:30PMSzymanowski, Rebecca Saunders and Schubert
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Britten Sinfonia
Wednesday 24 January 2018 1:00PMBritten Sinfonia at Lunch
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Hagen Quartet; Jörg Widmann clarinet
Tuesday 30 January 2018 7:30PMWebern, Jörg Widmann and Mozart
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Henning Kraggerud; Natalie Clein; Christian Ihle Hadland
Tuesday 6 February 2018 7:30PMClarke, Brahms, Henning Kraggerud and Dvořák
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Ruby Hughes soprano; Joseph Middleton piano
Thursday 15 February 2018 7:30PMSongs for New Life and Love
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin; Polina Leschenko piano
Friday 16 February 2018 7:30PMDebussy, Poulenc, Mozart, Kurtág and Enescu
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Steven Isserlis cello; Alexander Melnikov piano
Wednesday 21 February 2018 7:30PMShostakovich, Pletnev, Kissin and Rachmaninov
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Ailish Tynan; Anna Huntley; Ilker Arcayürek; Stephan Loges; Graham Johnson
Friday 23 February 2018 7:30PMAll the World's a Stage
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Louis Lortie piano
Tuesday 27 February 2018 7:30PMSchubert, Adès and Chopin
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Arditti Quartet; Jake Arditti countertenor
Sunday 11 March 2018 7:30PMSalvatore Sciarrino, Mark Andre and Philippe Hurel
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Calidore String Quartet
Monday 12 March 2018 1:00PMMozart, Caroline Shaw and Shostakovich
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Heath Quartet; Nils Mönkemeyer viola
Wednesday 14 March 2018 7:30PMHaydn, Jörg Widmann and Bruckner
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Imogen Cooper piano
Saturday 17 March 2018 7:30PMBeethoven, Haydn, Julian Anderson and Liszt
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Ensemble intercontemporain
Monday 19 March 2018 7:30PMSir Harrison Birtwistle, Carter, Heinz Holliger, Cage and Blaise Ubaldini
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Danny Driver piano
Monday 26 March 2018 1:00PMMessiaen, Kaija Saariaho, Ligeti and Schumann
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