Classical concerts in North London

26 May 2013
11am Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	As part of the Keys and Coffee Concert Series Duo Teresa Carreno perform
27 May 2013
2.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 7633 9313 £9, concessions £7.50	The Aspidistra Drawing Room Orchestra A concert of cheeky tunes, memorable melodies and songs with or without words. Aspidistra, praised for its lively and authentic interpretation of Palm-Court Music, has regularly been played by Brian Kay on BBC Radio 3. This music, popular by name but classical by nature, is a perfect introduction to classical music for youngsters and a refreshing change for veterans.
29 May 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	The Jacquin Trio present three concerts showcasing the best of contemporary music
30 May 2013
8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site £9.50 (concessions £8)	A Tribute to Michael Garrick Nette Robinson, vocals The Lyric Ensemble: Tony Woods, saxes Matt Ridley, double bass Kate Williams, piano Jazz in the House The Lyric Ensemble was the late Michael Garrick’s final creation, setting poems by Yeats and Shakespeare to music, as well as writing words to the compositions of the great Bill Evans. Claire Martin has described Nette Robinson as 'a great vocalist I have just discovered'. She is a talented arranger who runs her own Little Big Band to play the music of legends like Basie and Gillington. Tony Woods is one of our most brilliant saxophonists, whose ‘project’ band has delighted our audiences on several occasions in the past, so expect the unexpected, and remember the music of one of the most important post-war UK musicians.
2 June 2013
11am Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	The award-winning Amadeus Piano Duo, Fami Choi Castro and Sharon Barnea
5 June 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Ivana is delighted to return to The Forge following her sold-out Janacek Festival in 2011
6 June 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Valentina Díaz-Frénot explores her musical roots with a performance of French and Latin American works Paraguayan-Argentine pianist Valentina Díaz-Frénot explores her musical roots with a performance of French and Latin American works, including rarely-heard repertoire from her native Paraguay, combining technical brilliance with a Latin accent.
8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site £9.50 (concessions £8)	Speake/Outram/Williams Martin Speake, alto sax Mike Outram, guitar Jeff Williams, drums Jazz in the House You could not get anything more democratic than the name of this band with its strong hint of three-way conversation. Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music at the Royal Academy of Music, Martin Speake has recorded a bewildering variety of albums from Middle Eastern music to one devoted to themes associated with Charlie Parker. Outram has been transformed from ‘the new guitarist on the block’ into one of the most in-demand musicians around. Williams is an American drummer based in both New York and London. He is a subtle swinger, blessed with razor-sharp imagination, and no need for bombast. This is one of the most creative trios you are likely to hear anywhere.
7 June 2013
8pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Kit Downes Quintet - piano-led Jazz At once both dark and detailed, colourful and chaotic, this Quintet is the new project from UK pianist and composer Kit Downes. It features the talents of Calum Gourlay (bass), James Maddren (drums), Lucy Railton (cello) and James Allsopp (bass clarinet). Musically placed between an abandoned pirate ship and an unmanned pet-shop (lopsided blues and speedy corners), the band have enjoyed many trips to Europe and beyond (such as Jazz Festivals in London, Trondheim, Tel Aviv and Bremen Jazzahead) and are set to release an album in 2012 (on the Basho label).
9 June 2013
11am Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	An exciting collaboration between Soprano, Sarah Dacey and Harpist, Fontane Liang
7pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: +44 (0)7802 498 342 £14, concessions £11	City Philharmonic Choir Summer Concert Phillida Bannister, contralto David Morris, tenor City Philharmonic Choir Nick Pope, piano Stephen Rhys, conductor Franz Schubert: 4 partsongs - An Die Sonne, D439 Lebenslust, D609 Schicksalslenker, D763 and Der Tanz, D826 Edward Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands, Op.27 Songs with a German flavour For tickets, send cheque and SAE by 31 May 2013 to David Morris, 7 Sitwell Close, Lawford, Manningtree, Essex, CO11 2SX
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Michael L Roberts launches the published music-book of his original Art-song cycle Elisabeth Toye, soprano Michael L Roberts, piano Michael L Roberts: The Avocatus Suite: Part 1 traditional: Suo Gan Influenced musically by the works of Strauss, Debussy and Berlioz, and lyrically by the writings of Neruda, Paz, Rilke, Gibran and Kerouac - multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer Michael L. Roberts launches the published music-book of his original Art-song cycle ‘The Avocatus Suite: Part 1’ - with a concert featuring soprano Elisabeth Toye.
12 June 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Mivos Quartet presents works by contemporary composers Mivos String Quartet: Olivia De Prato, violin Joshua Modney, violin Victor Lowrie, viola Mariel Roberts, cello Felipe Lara: Corde Vocale Mario Diaz de Leon: Moonblood Philip Glass: String Quartet No 3, 'Mishima' Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No 3 Britten's third quartet (completed 1975) showcases his brilliant skills as an orchestrator and refined lyrical sensibility. The composer's powerful harmonic structures, deliberately reinforced by the natural properties of the overtone series, create a soundworld of incredible depth and power. Likewise, the works by young American composers Felipe Lara and Mario Diaz de Leon draw upon acoustic phenomena to stretch the palette and expressive capabilities of the string quartet. Mivos also perform a classic of the American repertoire, Philip Glass’ String Quartet No 3, 'Mishima'.
15 June 2013
7.30pm St Mary's Church Harrow on the Hill Middlesex HA1 3HL United Kingdom Details: Web site	A concert of summer classics feat. internationally renowned musicians Colin Lawson & Karen Vaughan Top local string players join an outstanding line up of performers from London’s music institutions: clarinettist Colin Lawson, Director of the Royal College of Music; Karen Vaughan, Principal Harp of the London Symphony Orchestra and Head of Harp at the Royal Academy of Music; and Christopher Willis, conductor at Royal Opera. The musicians will perform a varied programme of delightful music perfect for a summer’s evening. Following Bach’s famous Brandenburg Concerto No 3, Colin Lawson showcases his period clarinet in Stamitz’s Clarinet Concerto and Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio. Harpist Karen Vaughan joins the orchestra for Elgar’s beautiful Sospiri, and the superb South African pianist Hanja Bantock performs enjoyable music by the Spanish composer Granados. We conclude with Britten’s charming and nostalgic Simple Symphony – our tribute to the composer in his centenary year.
16 June 2013
11am Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Music for Violin and Piano Simon Hewitt Jones, violin Daniel Swain, piano Simon and Daniel take you on an exciting journey through some of the best violin music of the last 3 centuries, featuring music from the time of J.S Bach right through to the charming arrangements of Fritz Kreisler and favourite violin pieces of today.
11.30am Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £7, concessions £5, schoolchildren £1	Trio Ischl Max Welford, clarinet Rebecca Herman, cello Peter Foggitt, piano Beethoven: Clarinet Trio Op 11 Brahms: Clarinet Trio Op 114 Family-Friendly Series Between them Max, Rebecca and Peter have performed at the Royal Opera House, New York’s Lincoln Theatre and the Royal Albert Hall. Rebecca has worked as Principal of the Royal Academy of Music’s Manson Ensemble and also principal cellist for the 2012 London Sinfonietta Academy. Peter is the Chorus Master at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen. In addition to winning three of the Junior Royal Academy’s music prizes, Max was awarded places on the London Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta Academy.
19 June 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	“The Ice Maiden” is trio42’s new programme, telling the story of the gruesome fairytale emy van Kesteren, harp Merel Vercammen, violin Christiaan van der Weij, saxophone 'The Ice Maiden' is trio42’s new programme, telling the story of the gruesome fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, used by Stravinsky in his ballet The Fairy’s Kiss, in which love and death fight each other in a beautiful, frigid winter. The programme includes one of Debussy's most beautiful chamber music works, Russian expressiveness from Swan Lake, a brand-new composition by Argentinian composer Carlos Micháns. 'Although I do not usually write programmatic music, audiences often say they find my music quite visual. In The Frozen Lake this was definitely my intention', the composer says. The composition has exciting titles for the different movements such as Reflections, Skating Ghost, The Lake Melts ...
20 June 2013
8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site £12 (concessions £10.50)	Norma Winstone Norma Winstone, vocals Nikki Iles, piano Julian Siegel, saxes and clarinets Jazz in the House Norma Winstone commands a special place in the UK jazz spectrum. Ask almost any other jazz musicians which singer they admire the most and they will invariably reply Norma Winstone. She is known throughout Europe for her work in concert halls and broadcasting studios and on festival stages. Her quiet authority, interpretation of a lyric, and sheer beauty of vocal sound mark her out as someone truly special - as are her fellow musicians on this major occasion for Lauderdale House. Get your tickets quickly!
21 June 2013
7.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: E-mail +44 (0)7786 038 761 £20, concessions £15	L’Elisir D’Amore by Gaetano Donizetti Members of Villa InCanto The emotion of an entire opera in little over an hour. From Verona, Italy, Opera Villa InCanto bring their alternative to staged operas to Lauderdale House. This is a powerful but intimate show by an excellent cast of singers who have sung across Europe.
23 June 2013
11am Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Caminetto Voices Keys and Coffee Concert Series A programme of vocal music to enjoy with your Sunday coffee, including Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes for vocal quartet, and songs and arias by Mozart and Wolf.
26 June 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Violinist Mandhira de Saram is joined by pianist and wine connoisseur James Sherlock Concert Bites
27 June 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	International prize-winning pianist Anthony Hewitt performs evocative Russian piano music
8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site £9.50 (concessions £8)	Renato D’Aiello Quartet Renato D’Aiello, vocals Bruno Montrone, piano Nicola Muresu, double bass Ed Richardson, drums Jazz in the House Italian tenor saxophonist Renato D’Aiello is blessed with one of the most gorgeous saxophone sounds in jazz, and we are hard pushed to think of a better ballad player anywhere. On the other hand, inspired by players as disparate as Parker and Coltrane, he is capable of burning the paint off the woodwork. His fellow Italians are in the UK for a short tour and we are indeed fortunate to catch them for our season.
30 June 2013
11.30am Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £7, concessions £5, schoolchildren £1	Antonio Novais, cello, and Maya Soltan, piano Antonio Novais, cello Maya Soltan, piano Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata Britten: Cello Sonata Family-Friendly Series Portuguese cellist António Novais has been playing with the European Union Youth Orchestra since 1997, with whom he performed in many prestigious concert halls across Europe and Asia and was awarded the Sir Robert Bellinger Award. He is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music.
3pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Left-hand virtuoso pianist Stefan Warzycki performs seminal works for left-hand piano
2 July 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Radar VII - Spotlight Romania Mercury Quartet: Vlad Maistorovici, violin/viola Corentin Chassard, cello Antoine Francoise, piano/saxes Harry Cameron-Penny, clarinets Niculescu: Echos II (first UK performance) Diana Rotaru: new commission Oliver Weeks: new commission Julian Anderson: Bearded Lady Dan Dediu: Concert Gotic (first UK performance) After a very successful first year of the RADAR series, the Mercury Quartet returns to present new commissions alongside the great masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. This season, each concert will represent the music form the quartet members' own origins: England, Romania, France and Switzerland.
3 July 2013
7.30pm St Pancras Old Church Pancras Road London NW1 1UL United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)844 8700 887 £12 (£10 concessions)	In Peascod Time Passamezzo: Eleanor Cramer, soprano, viols Arngeir Hauksson, lute, guitar, bass Alison Kinder, viols, recorders Tamsin Lewis, Renaissance violin, viols, alto Jack Merivale, actor, baritone 16th and 17th century music, words and song for Summer and the Harvest: Ballads, Lutesongs, Consort Music, Madrigals and Readings Includes music by Bennet, Campion, Cavendish, East, Greene, Pilkington, Purcell, Robinson and Wilbye. Words from Breton, Herrick, Nashe and Shakespeare. Tickets from 0844 8700 887, www.ticketsource.co.uk/passamezzo or at the door
4 July 2013
8.30pm Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site £9.50 (concessions £8)	Art Themen: New Directions Art Themen, saxes John Donaldson, piano Arnie Somogyi, double bass Winston Clifford, drums Jazz in the House Tenor and soprano saxophonist Art Themen has been a towering presence on the UK scene for many years as well as holding down his day job as an orthopaedic surgeon. Art has featured in a range of different groups, from big band to quartet, including many of Stan Tracey’s groups and various Alexis Korner Blues Bands, and at one point could be found working with Jack Bruce as well as being part of the freer, more open spaces of Graham Collier’s music. Since retiring from medicine, Art is keener than ever to explore new music: hence this new collaboration with highly-gifted composer and pianist John Donaldson.
6 July 2013
7.30pm Harrow School Speech Room High St Harrow on the Hill HA1 3HP United Kingdom Details: Web site	The world-famous London Welsh Male Voice Choir perform a glorious programme of choral classics
7 July 2013
11.30am Lauderdale House Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill London N6 5HG United Kingdom Details: Web site +44 (0)20 8348 8716 £7, concessions £5, schoolchildren £1	Antara Thomas Hancox, flute Rachel Wick, harp Mozart: Andante in C, K315 Alwyn: Naiades Jongen: Danse Lente Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango Andy Scott: And Everything is Still Family-Friendly Series These Royal Academy of Music postgraduates have performed around the country, with performances ranging from recitals in major concert venues to performances at stately homes and the royal palaces. Last year they played as orchestral principals for a large-scale project directed by the conductor-composer John Adams, with concerts at the BBC Proms and at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center.
13 July 2013
7.30pm Harrow School Speech Room High St Harrow on the Hill HA1 3HP United Kingdom Details: Web site	Be transported back to the golden age of swing music at St Luke’s Proms Swingin’ Big Band Special
16 July 2013
7.30pm Forge Venue 3-7 Delancey Street London NW1 7NL United Kingdom Details: Web site	Riot Ensemble + East Coast Contemporary Ensemble To include: John Aylward: Aura Helen Grime: Seven Pierrot Miniatures This concert brings together some of the most exciting young performances of contemporary music from the United States (ECCE Ensemble) and England (The Riot Ensemble) presenting two world premieres alongside works by John Aylward (USA) and Helen Grime (UK). This concert will also feature the English premiere of the 2013 Etchings Prize-winning work, and will be conducted by The Riot Ensemble's Artistic Director Aaron Holloway-Nahum.

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