Chamber Music Festival: Finale
- 7pm
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- Category:
- Chamber Music Festival
- Event type:
- Booking required | In-person
- Admission:
- £10 (£5 concessions) Multi-buy offer available
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
Stamitz Wind Quartet in E-flat major, Op 8 No 2
Fauré Piano Quintet in D minor, Op 89
Stravinsky Pastorale
Rachmaninov Piano Trio No 1 in G minor ‘Trio élégiaque’
Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet, Op 11
For the finale of Guildhall School’s 2025 Chamber Music Festival, Guildhall School performers and professors present a rich programme of music by Russian composers Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, plus works by Stamitz and Fauré.
This evening of exquisite chamber music blends passion, elegance and drama. Experience the lively energy of Stamitz's Wind Quartet in E-flat major, the rich, sweeping beauty of Fauré's Piano Quintet in D minor, and the delicate charm of Stravinsky's Pastorale. Rachmaninov’s deeply poignant Piano Trio No. 1 and Shostakovich's powerful Two Pieces for String Octet will bring the 2025 Chamber Music Festival to a thrilling close.
Guildhall professors Joy Farrall (clarinet), Sam Armstrong (piano), Simon Blendis (violin), Fraser MacAulay (cor anglais), Tim Lowe (cello) and Levon Chilingirian (violin) perform in collaboration with Guildhall instrumentalists.
Programme
Stamitz Wind Quartet in E-flat major, Op 8 No 2
Daisy Lihoreau oboe
Joy Farrall* clarinet
Aiden Campbell bassoon
Henry Ward horn
Fauré Piano Quintet in D minor, Op 89
Sam Armstrong* piano
Simon Blendis* violin
Briona Mannion violin
Jake Montgomery-Smith viola
Nathanael Horton cello
Stravinsky Pastorale
Esme Lewis violin
Lidia Moscoso oboe
Fraser MacAulay* cor anglais
Joy Farrall* clarinet
Miriam Alperovich bassoon
Rachmaninov Piano Trio No 1 in G minor ‘Trio élégiaque’
Salome Jordania piano
Victoria Lewis violin
Tim Lowe* cello
Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet, Op 11
Levon Chilingirian*, Elena Toledo, Laia Frances Pont, Aleksandra Lenkiewicz violins
Sirma Baramova, Gavin Marnoch viola
James Conway, Nia Williams cello
*denotes Guildhall professor
Q&A with Matthew Jones, Head of Chamber Music
"The excitement every year is seeing what happens in the process between the professors and the students during the Milton Court concerts ... It’s wonderful to hear the fruits of that intensive burst of labour".
Before this year's festival begins, we caught up with Matthew Jones, Head of Chamber Music and Professor of Viola at Guildhall School, to find out more about what we can expect from this weekend of inspiring performances.
Chamber Music Festival brochure
Download a PDF brochure showing details of all the exciting events taking place in this year's festival
Multi-buy offer
This concert is included in our multi-buy offer for Chamber Music Festival ticketed events.
Book 2 concerts for a 10% discount
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Other concerts in this offer:
Chamber Music Festival: Collaboration Concert
Chamber Music Festival: Sunday Afternoon Concert
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
