Highlights January to June 2021 include…
Monday 11 January, 7.30pm - live-streamed by Wigmore Hall (available for 28 days after)
Wigmore Hall, London
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Matthew Hunt (clarinet), Elena Urioste (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), Tom Poster (piano)
Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time
Sunday 7 February, 11.15am - live-streamed and available after
Oxford Coffee Concerts - Holywell Music Room, Oxford
With Elena Urioste (violin)
Kreisler Miniatures, William Grant Still Mother and Child, Strauss Violin Sonata
Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 February
Recording sessions for Orchid Classics - Yehudi Menuhin School, Surrey
The Jukebox Album - due for release in September 2021!
Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 March
Recording sessions for Chandos Records - Potton Hall, Suffolk
Friday 19 March, 7pm - live-streamed and available after
Classical Vauxhall
With Elena Urioste (violin)
Beach Romance, Britten Suite for violin and piano, Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in C minor, Cheryl Frances-Hoad Bloom, Gershwin (arr. Poster and Heifetz) Songs, Florence Price Elfentanz
Monday 29 March, 1pm - live-streamed by Wigmore Hall and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (available for 30 days after)
Wigmore Hall, London
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Elena Urioste (violin), Rosalind Ventris (viola), Colin Carr (cello), Tom Poster (piano)
Mélanie Bonis Soir - Matin, Lili Boulanger D’un soir triste, Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2
Tuesday 30 March to Friday 2 April - broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (available for 30 days after)
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts - recorded at Maida Vale
With Heath Quartet
30 March, 1pm - Dvorak Piano Quintet
2 April, 1pm - Mozart Adagio in B minor for solo piano, Elgar Piano Quintet
3 April, 1pm - Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1
Tuesday 6 April, 7.30pm - broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (available for 30 days after)
Radio 3 in Concert - recorded at Glasgow City Halls
Tom Poster and Elena Urioste play/direct/conduct the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel, Finzi Eclogue, Clarice Assad Dreamscapes, Mendelssohn Double Concerto
Sunday 9 May - to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a later date
Studio recording - Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
With BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Cyril Scott Early One Morning
Monday 10 May, 1pm - live-streamed by Wigmore Hall and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (available for 30 days after)
Wigmore Hall, London
With Timothy Ridout (viola)
Brahms Viola Sonata No. 1, Kurt Schwertsik Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, Brahms Viola Sonata No. 2
Friday 28 May
Album release: Kaleidoscope’s American Quintets on Chandos Records out today!
Sunday 23 May, 11.30am
Wigmore Hall, London
With Heath Quartet
Elgar Piano Quintet
Saturday 29 May, 11am - live-streamed by Wigmore Hall (available after)
Wigmore Hall, London - Family Concert: Fresh Awakenings
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Elena Urioste (violin), Melissa White (violin), Rosalind Ventris (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Joseph Conyers (double bass), Tom Poster (piano) - with Aga Serugo-Lugo (presenter)
An interactive concert featuring music from solo to sextet, by Bach, Bartók, Ravel, Price, Mendelssohn and others
Monday 31 May, 7.30pm - live-streamed by Wigmore Hall (available for 90 days after)
Wigmore Hall, London
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Mary Bevan (soprano), Elena Urioste (violin), Melissa White (violin), Rosalind Ventris (viola), Stephen Upshaw (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Joseph Conyers (double bass), Tom Poster (piano)
Florence Price Piano Quintet, Fauré La bonne chanson, Mendelssohn Piano Sextet
Friday 18 June, 3pm and 7pm
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Suffolk
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Karim Sulayman (tenor), Elena Urioste (violin), Savitri Grier (violin), Rosalind Ventris (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Tom Poster (piano)
Bridge Phantasy Piano Quartet, Vaughan Williams How Cold the Wind Doth Blow, Hahn (arr. Poster) Four Songs, Beach Piano Quintet
Thursday 24 to Sunday 27 June
Penarth Chamber Music Festival
And some recordings still available from last year…
Kaleidoscope plays George Walker Lyric for Strings, Beach Romance and Elgar Piano Quintet for Oxford Coffee Concerts at the Holywell Room, recorded in November 2020: WATCH HERE
Kaleidoscope plays Dvorak Piano Quartet No. 2 and Coleridge-Taylor Nonet at Wigmore Hall, recorded in August 2020 - WATCH HERE
Rachmaninov Sonata for cello and piano with Guy Johnston at 22 Mansfield Street, recorded in July 2020: WATCH HERE
Beethoven Archduke Trio with Magnus Johnston and Marie Bitlloch at Imperial College, recorded in December 2020: WATCH HERE
Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott play Tom’s arrangement of Over the Rainbow: WATCH HERE
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