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!
Saturday 5 June, 11am and 3pm
Bergen International Festival I - Lysøen
With Elena Urioste (violin)
Mark Simpson An Essay of Love, Clara Schumann Three Romances, Messiaen Theme and Variations, Donald Grant Bha là eile ann (There was a different day), Grieg Violin Sonata No. 2, Ole Bull Sæterjentens Søndag
Sunday 6 June, 11am and 3pm
Bergen International Festival II - Lysøen
With Elena Urioste (violin)
Britten Suite for violin and piano, Missy Mazzoli Dissolve O My Heart, Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in C minor, Bunita Marcus Julia, Paul Schoenfeld Four Souvenirs, Ole Bull Sæterjentens Søndag
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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