Ticket includes a free glass of wine in the interval.
Programme:
Martinů Etudes and Polkas (selection)
Smetana 3 Polkas de Salon Op.7
Chaminade Nocturne in B Op.165
Ravel Sonatine
Interval
Chopin Mazurka in A minor Op.17 No.4
Chopin Sonata No.3 in B minor Op.58
WILLIAM HOWARD is one of Britain’s leading pianists, enjoying a career that has taken him to over 40 different countries. As soloist and chamber musician William has performed regularly at major venues and festivals in the UK and can be heard frequently on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. He has made over forty CD recordings and premiered several dozen new works by leading composers from the UK and abroad. In 1983 he founded the Schubert Ensemble, with which he performed for the full 35 years of the Ensemble’s existence.
As soloist and chamber musician he can be heard on over 40 CDs, released by Chandos, Hyperion, ASV, NMC, Collins Classics, Black Box, Champs Hill, Nimbus, Delphian and Orchid Classics. His recording of Fibich’s Moods, Impressions and Souvenirs won a Diapason D’Or award in France and his 2011 recording of Pavel Zemek Novák’s extraordinary 75-minute cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues, described by David Matthews as “one of the finest piano works of our time”, received a double five-star review in the BBC Music Magazine. Three recent recordings for Orchid Classics (Sixteen Romantic Love Songs, Sixteen Contemporary Love Songs and an album of piano works by Howard Skempton), have been hugely successful on streaming platforms and have enjoyed much critical acclaim. His most recent recording, an album of Nocturnes by 17 different composers, was released by Orchid Classics in 2024.
www.williamhoward.co.uk
