Highlights May to November 2021 include…
Friday 28 May
Kaleidoscope’s debut disc, American Quintets, released on Chandos Records!
Monday 31 May, 7.30pm - live-streamed by Wigmore Hall (available until late August)
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
Monday 19 July, 2pm - broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (available for 30 days after)
BBC Radio 3 Afternoon Concert - recorded at Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff
With BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
Cyril Scott Early One Morning
Sunday 25 July, 3pm - live-streamed online (available after)
St John’s Smith Square, London
With Southbank Sinfonia, Simon Over (conductor)
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Friday 30 July, 8pm - live-streamed online
MusicFest Aberystwyth
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Karim Sulayman (tenor), Elena Urioste (violin), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Tom Poster (piano)
Handel Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle, Schubert Songs, Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio, Vaughan Williams How Cold the Wind Doth Blow, Hahn (arr. Poster) Four Songs
CHAMBER MUSIC BY THE SEA - Maryland, USA
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Tuesday 3 August, 7pm EDT / midnight BST - live-streamed online
Programme includes Florence Price Piano Quintet and Tom Poster’s arrangements of Bartók and Spirituals
Thursday 5 August, 7pm EDT / midnight BST - live-streamed online
Programme includes Mendelssohn Piano Sextet and Tom Poster’s arrangements of Jerome Kern
Saturday 7 August, 7pm EDT / midnight BST - live-streamed online
Programme includes Amy Beach Piano Quintet and Tom Poster’s arrangements of songs by Hahn and Blitzstein
Monday 23 August - broadcast on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4: How to Play
Tom gives a performer’s perspective on Schubert’s Trout Quintet
Thursday 26 August, 1pm - rebroadcast by Wigmore Hall (available for 30 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
LAMMERMUIR FESTIVAL
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Armand Djikoloum (oboe), Mark Simpson (clarinet), Amy Harman (bassoon), Ben Goldscheider (horn), Magnus Johnston (violin), Tom Poster (piano)
Thursday 16 September, 2.30pm - Dunbar Parish Church
Tailleferre Sonate champêtre, Poulenc Sonata for clarinet and bassoon, Glinka Trio pathétique, Mark Simpson Echoes and Embers, Beethoven Quintet for Piano and Winds
Friday 17 September, 11am - Holy Trinity Church, Haddington
Tribute to Dennis Brain: Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds, Huw Watkins Lament, Brahms Horn Trio
Saturday 18 September, 7.30pm
Royal Albert Hall, London
With Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Neville Creed (conductor)
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’
Thursday 23 September, 5.30pm
Downing Place URC, Cambridge
With Ben Goldscheider (horn)
Beethoven Horn Sonata, Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Jane Vignery Horn Sonata, and works by John Wilson, Clara Schumann, Poulenc and Gershwin
Friday 24 September
Tom and Elena’s Jukebox Album released on Orchid Records - pre-order at https://orchid-music.lnk.to/jukeboxalbum
Friday 24 September, 1pm
LSO St Luke’s, London
With Ben Goldscheider (horn)
Beethoven Horn Sonata, Mark Simpson New Work (world premiere), Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Jane Vignery Horn Sonata
HATFIELD HOUSE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Marble Hall, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire
Wednesday 29 September, 7.30pm - with Magnus Johnston (violin), Brett Dean (viola), Guy Johnston (cello)
Schumann Piano Trio No. 2, Joseph Phibbs Cello Sonata (world premiere), Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1
Friday 1 October, 7.30pm - with Orsino Ensemble
Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano, Caplet Quintet for Piano and Winds
Sunday 3 October, 12pm - with Magnus Johnston (violin), Brett Dean (viola), Guy Johnston (cello), tbc (double bass)
Schubert Trout Quintet
Thursday 30 September, 7.30pm
Malvern Concert Club - Forum Theatre, Malvern
Aronowitz Piano Trio
Schubert Notturno, Schumann Piano Trio No. 2, Schubert Piano Trio No. 1
Friday 22 October, 7.30pm
Wendover Music - St Mary’s Church, Wendover
With Timothy Ridout (viola)
Programme includes the two Brahms Sonatas for viola and piano
Friday 29 October to Monday 1 November
Recording sessions for Chandos Records - Potton Hall, Suffolk
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Sunday 7 November. 3pm
Oxford Chamber Music Society - Holywell Room, Oxford
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Elena Urioste (violin), Rosalind Ventris (viola), Juan-Miguel Hernandez (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Xavier Foley (double bass), Tom Poster (piano)
Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Quartet, Felix Mendelssohn Piano Sextet, Schubert Trout Quintet
Monday 8 to Tuesday 9 November
Recording sessions for Chandos Records - Potton Hall, Suffolk
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Friday 12 November, 7.30pm
Halifax Philharmonic Club - Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective: Adam Walker (flute), Elena Urioste (violin), Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin), Rosalind Ventris (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Tom Poster (piano)
Mozart Flute Quartet No. 1, Amy Beach Romance, Duruflé Prélude, récitatif et variations, Bartók Suite paysanne hongroise, Coleridge-Taylor Piano Quintet
Thursday 18 November, 7.30pm
Milton Court Concert Hall, London
With Alison Balsom (trumpet), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman (conductor)
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (in a new arrangement by Simon Wright for trumpet, piano and orchestra)
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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