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2016/17 SEASON PREVIEW AND APPEAL The Trust would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals and organisations for their generous support throughout the THANK YOU 2015/16 Season. HONORARY PATRONS David and Frances Waters* Kate Dugdale A bequest from the late John Lunn Aubrey Adams David Evan Williams In memory of Robert Easton David Lyons* André and Rosalie Hoffmann Douglas and Janette Eden Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Simon Majaro mbe and Pamela Majaro mbe Sir Ralph Kohn frs and Lady Kohn CORPORATE SUPPORTERS Mr Martin R Edwards Mr and Mrs Paul Morgan Capital Group The Eldering/Goecke Family Mayfield Valley Arts Trust Annette Ellis* Michael and Lynne McGowan* (corporate matched giving) L SEASON PATRONS Clifford Chance LLP The Elton Family George Meyer Dr C A Endersby and Prof D Cowan Alison and Antony Milford L Aubrey Adams* Complete Coffee Ltd L American Friends of Wigmore Hall Duncan Lawrie Private Banking The Ernest Cook Trust Milton Damerel Trust Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne‡ Martin Randall Travel Ltd Caroline Erskine The Monument Trust Karl Otto Bonnier* Rosenblatt Solicitors Felicity Fairbairn L Amyas and Louise Morse* Henry and Suzanne Davis Rothschild Mrs Susan Feakin Mr and Mrs M J Munz-Jones Peter and Sonia Field L A C and F A Myer Dunard Fund† L The Hargreaves and Ball Trust BACK OF HOUSE Deborah Finkler and Allan Murray-Jones Valerie O’Connor Pauline and Ian Howat REFURBISHMENT SUMMER 2015 Neil and Deborah Franks* The Nicholas Boas Charitable Trust The Monument Trust Arts Council John and Amy Ford P Parkinson Valerie O’Connor The Foyle Foundation S E Franklin Charitable Trust No. 3 L The Fund Hamish Parker The J Paul Getty Jnr Charitable Trust Friends of Wigmore Hall Dr Clive Potter* David Rockwell and Zsombor Csoma† Rose and Dudley Leigh Jonathan Gaisman* Oliver and Helen Prenn Ian Rosenblatt Sir Siegmund Warburg’s The Garrick Charitable Trust L Nick and Claire Prettejohn* John Gilhooly* The Rayne Foundation L Victoria and Simon Robey* Voluntary Settlement L Cita and Irwin Stelzer* The Garfield Weston Foundation John and Lauren Goldsmith* Stuart and Bianca Roden William and Alex de Winton* The Wolfson Foundation Nicholas and Judith Goodison* Charles Rose* and several anonymous donors and several anonymous donors Peter Goodwin Jackie Rosenfeld obe, Honrcm* Charles Green The Rubinstein Circle L CIRCLE DONORS AND SPONSORS Alexis Gregory Foundation The Sampimon Trust Tony and Marion Allen* The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust L and the Vendome Prize Julia Schottlander* Karl Otto Bonnier* Mr Eric Abraham* Barbara and Michael Gwinnell Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen* Judy Davies and Kingsley Manning* Neville and Nicola Abraham Mr and Mrs Rex Harbour* Sir Martin and Lady Smith*† Margery Gray Elaine Adair Peter Hardy Elijah Spies The Hargreaves and Ball Trust The Andor Charitable Trust L The Headley Trust L Nigel and Johanna Stapleton* Malcolm Herring* The Peter Stebbings Memorial Charity L Pauline and Ian Howat David and Jacqueline Ansell* L Lord and Lady Lloyd Bernard and Ann Apter Nicholas Hodgson The Stewarts Law Foundation The Marchus Trust‡ Arts Council England André and Rosalie Hoffmann‡ Derek Sugden Jo and Barry Slavin David and Margaret Beaton Peter and Carol Honey* Anne and Paul Swain* The Tertis Foundation Alan Bell-Berry Gay Huey Evans* Alisa and Joshua Swidler* Marina Vaizey Mr Nicholas J Bez Graham and Amanda Hutton* Katja and Nicolai Tangen* Kathleen Verelst* Mrs Arline Blass Hyde Park Place Estate Charity L The Tertis Foundation Tony Wingate David and Mary Bowerman* Simone Hyman* Allen L Thomas and Jane Simpson* and several anonymous donors Sir John and Lady Boyd The Idlewild Trust Robin Vousden* Alan Bradley* Peter and Nikki Jeffcote Andrew and Hilary Walker* VOICES AT WIGMORE: Wolf-Reiner Braun and John Sinclair John Lyon’s Charity L Professor Janet Walker cd and THE SCHUBERT SONG PROJECT Nicolas and Hilary Marc Jourdren* Professor Doug Jones ao* In memory of Donald Kahn Dame Fanny Waterman* Tony and Marion Allen* Browne-Wilkinson L Anthony Austin Clive Butler Su and Neil Kaplan* The Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation Jerome Karet* Philip and Emeline Winston* Geoffrey Barnett A bequest from the late Peter Cain L Karl Otto Bonnier* CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust L David and Louise Kaye* Youth Music Nicola Coldstream Charities Advisory Trust L Sir Ralph Kohn frs and Lady Kohn* and several anonymous donors Pauline Del Mar City Bridge Trust L The Kohn Foundation Christian Kwek and David Hodges* * Rubinstein Circle members J L Drewitt Colin Clark L Benjamin Hargreaves Edwin C Cohen Maryly La Follette* Learning Programme supporters Edith Randall John Crisp* Gabor Lacko † Early Music and Baroque Louise Scheuer Peter Crisp and Jeremy Crouch* Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss L Series supporters Gill and Keith Stella* Celia and Andrew Curran The Leverhulme Trust L ‡ Contemporary Music Series supporters John and Ann Tusa Anthony Davis* Tim Llewellyn Gerry Wakelin* The Dorset Foundation – in memory The Loveday Charitable Trust L Susan Ward of Harry M Weinrebe Simon and Sophie Ludlam*

02 SEASON PREVIEW 2015/16 WELCOME

Wigmore Hall’s artistic programme for the This year we must raise £1.7 million in 2016/17 Season, outlined in this preview private donations to give you the great brochure, reflects our abiding commitment to experiences you expect from Wigmore Hall. the creative, the imaginative, the exhilarating, Our programme comprises everything the extraordinary. Those attributes flow naturally from concerts given by today’s outstanding from musicians of the highest calibre. This is performers to ground-breaking special projects, why we are so determined to share our work artist residencies, new commissions and with audiences worldwide, helped by our strong unique events. relationship with BBC Radio 3 and the launch With your help we can continue to attract of our own streamed concerts online from 2016. the world’s greatest artists, offer a platform The Hall’s acclaimed Learning programme, for the most compelling emerging talent and which attracts 23,000 visits a year, and our reach audiences beyond the Hall, through subsidised ticket scheme for under 35s are our community programmes and online. vital platforms as we reach out to existing and We thank you for playing such a decisive new audiences. part in our development and we ask you to It is thanks to you – our loyal supporters contribute whatever you can to the Hall’s

© FRANCES MARSHALL and generous donors – that we can deliver the 2016/17 Annual Appeal. breadth and depth of the Hall’s programme. Your support is essential. Without it we simply could not do what we do.

John Gilhooly OBE, HonFRAM, HonFGS, HonRCM Director of Wigmore Hall

The Wigmore Hall Trust Registered Charity No. 1024838

SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 1 A REVIEW

Programme pioneers Audience building The impact of your donations Wigmore Hall promotes more Demand for Wigmore Hall’s work 2015/16 SEASON Thanks to your donations concerts today than ever before, continues to grow with 12,000 our programming can be bolder AT A GLANCE creating unique special projects people visiting Wigmore Hall for the and more exciting than ever and developing season-long first time in 2014/15. The Hall’s attendances before. With an impressive series in collaboration with audience widened again from 200,000 at Wigmore Hall number of premières and remarkable artists. March last year following the commissions performed next + artists introduction of a bold subsidised performing • The Hall is leading the way season, Wigmore Hall is 2,000 ticket scheme funded for the in protecting the song recital, regarded around the world concerts 2015/16 Season by a legacy gift, presenting the largest song as a leading force in the new 488 at Wigmore Hall which offers 10,000 £5 seats for and chamber music series music scene – a fact of which own evening concerts to people under in the world. we can all be proud. 384 promotions the age of 35. The response to this • We have invested in our scheme has been overwhelming As we promote more of our chamber music recitals Early Music and Baroque Series, and we hope to expand the own concerts at the Hall, we 212 and confirmed our position scheme in time. We have also are able to ensure top quality days with more as the leading international restructured our ticket pricing for music spanning all the genres 123 than one concert commissioner of the Wigmore Series, setting the of repertoire. Our investment external contemporary music. bottom price for every evening in young artists is particularly 104 promotions performance at £15 or lower. rewarding throughout the • We continue to invest in young individuals giving season, allowing our audiences and emerging talent. 90 to specific projects The Wigmore Hall Endowment the first chance to hear Promoting so many of our own exceptional musicians as they Income from the Hall’s growing 84 vocal recitals concerts is vital for us to maintain grow and develop. Endowment Fund (launched in our place among the world’s 2013) helped to support two major piano recitals leading venues for chamber 62 projects which conclude in music and song. Investment in the early & baroque 2015/16: : future of Wigmore Hall 51 series concerts A Retrospective and The Mozart contemporary Odyssey, revelatory composer-led Over the past two years we 47 music concerts series scheduled across have invested £2.1 million in ‘Over the past two seasons. In addition the Fund the Hall’s infrastructure. A major Wigmore Hall co-commissions two years we have is also supporting our ambitious refurbishment project, completed 25 Schubert: The Complete Songs last summer, delivered up-to-date invested £2.1 million project in 2015/16 and 2016/17. and comfortable facilities backstage, 25 world premières in the Hall’s new seating in the auditorium and essential digital facilities to connect 19 UK premières infrastructure’ with a much wider audience. We launched our new website and online 7 premières priority booking system in February 2015. We can begin streaming live 1 European première concerts online from 2016.

2 SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 Avi Avital and Mahan Esfahani –––––––––––––––– ‘these two players have learned to breathe and move as one.’ A REVIEW IVAN HEWETT, THE TELEGRAPH, 27 MAY 2015

Mahan Esfahani will be performing on 21 December 2016 and 5 June 2017. Avi Avital will be performing on 23 June 2017 (10.00pm) © SIMON JAY PRICE © SIMON JAY

SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 3 4 SEASON PREVIEW2016/17 ‘these were not minutely rehearsed concert-hall ‘these werenotminutelyrehearsedconcert-hall interpretations butthesoundoftwomusicians connecting, playingforthemselves.’ and Stephen Kovacevich andMartha ERICA JEAL, GUARDIAN 3 NOVEMBER 2015 ––––––––––––––––

© SIMON JAY PRICE HOW YOU CAN HELP THE 2016/17 ANNUAL APPEAL Your support is our • £5,200 would cover the resources which will support foundation and our future YOUR DONATIONS average cost to stage a concert their concert-going experience The costs of running Wigmore Hall Your donations make all the promoted by Wigmore Hall. and their connection with and of realising our bold vision for difference and thanks to you we chamber music and song. • 50 donations of £1,000 would its future, including our plans to were able to make sure that the help subsidise the cost of • With our expanding Early Music broadcast, are high. 2015/16 Season was properly offering 10,000 tickets at £5 and Baroque Series, £350 Our audiences appreciate great funded. It is your generosity every season for under 35s and would cover the costs for an moments of music here night after that helps transform Wigmore the cost of free concert tickets international baroque ensemble night, and we want as many people Hall’s programme and extend for young people still at school. to have a day’s rehearsal in as possible to experience the its audience reach, and so we London, including venue hire, musical riches that the Hall has to turn to you for support of the • £500 would allow us to film and instrument hire and tuning. offer. Our Learning programmes 2016/17 Season. record a concert or a workshop. are developed on the principle that This will help us to reach existing • Our need tuning every people who might not otherwise and new audiences, including day: £100 would pay for a access the Hall or any musical schools, with essential online pre-concert piano tune. activity should have that opportunity. Our digital ambitions will allow us to broadcast and carry much more information on our concerts and Income in summary Learning events online. Corporate sponsorship Other income Public funding We need to raise £1.7 million in and membership Annual private donations to balance the 2% 7% membership 3% contributions shortfall projected for next season. Other Annual Friends and corporate Private 31% Ticket and donations fundraising membership dues will cover income Annual programme 31% approximately 34% of that total, sales All 12% Private Fund leaving just over £1.1 million to income donations 3% 60% Learning raise from additional donations, grants Circles of Giving sponsorships and grants. 16% We depend on your support to Concert 13% meet our costs and ensure that sponsorships Gift Aid Wigmore Hall remains a place 15% 7% of artistic creativity, excellence and adventure. Please support our 2016/17 Annual Appeal in any way you can. You can join one of our Circles of Giving (see page 9), or support our Annual Fund with a general donation of any amount you choose. Thank you. © SIMON JAY PRICE © SIMON JAY

SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 5 CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH MUSIC

Wigmore Hall Learning inspires Learning at the Hall Supporting people in and transforms. We are committed Regular programmes at the challenging circumstances to providing creative music-making Hall include: Our Community Programme activity for people of all ages – supports some of the most helping them connect with music • Schools concerts supporting vulnerable people in society by and each other. Our programmes the music curriculum across exploring and developing their take place here at the Hall and in the key stages

© BENJAMIN EALOVEGA creative voices through music the local community, in partnership • Family workshops and concerts making, including: with music hubs as well as health throughout the year and social care organisations so • Children and young people THE LEARNING that we can deliver activity to those • Study days, pre-concert talks, in hospital who would most benefit. and masterclasses. • Children and young people with PROGRAMME We have forged strong Autistic Spectrum Disorders Last season partnerships with music hubs Building long-term in partnership with the there were: and service providers, and aim partnerships with schools National Portrait Gallery and to create long-lasting relationships Our long-standing Schools and Turtle Key Arts 489 events with schools, community settings Early Years Programme is now in and the individuals and families • Adults at the Cardinal Hume visits to the its first year of Partner Schools, programme who participate in Learning Centre who are homeless or at 23,000 an initiative in which four projects. risk of homelessness We worked with: under-resourced primary schools schools, early years • The Learning programme costs across London are supported to • People living with dementia and settings and home around £350,000 a year lead music making themselves their carers: our flagship educated groups and ultimately develop a long-term programme Music for Life aims 88 • A typical eight-week project music strategy in collaboration to enhance participants’ social teachers, care staff in a school, hospital or care with their local music hub and and emotional well-being as well 700 and support staff home setting can cost from Wigmore Hall Learning. as the care they receive. care homes, £4,000 and up to £10,000 hospitals and centres for • Three full-day workshops Wigmore Hall Learning’s 14 homeless people can cost around £1,000. exceptional work needs continued investment. Your support can ensure that the programme Top: a schools continues to deliver the highest concert, in quality activity and reach the partnership with broadest spectrum of people. London Music Masters To find out more about how you can support the Learning Programme, please contact Claire Goddard, Philanthropy Manager, by emailing [email protected] or calling 020 7258 8220.

6 SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 ‘[Chamber Tots] had a profound effect on many children. CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH MUSIC Obviously their musical development… but more than that – it really helped their social development.’ HEAD TEACHER © BENJAMIN EALOVEGA

SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 7 Florian Boesch –––––––––––––––– ‘Boesch doesn’t just sing this music, he inhabits it to the hilt.’ MICHAEL CHURCH, INDEPENDENT

Florian Boesch will be performing on 6 April 2017. © SIMON JAY PRICE © SIMON JAY

8 SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 CIRCLES OF GIVING

Dunedin Consort Quatuor Ebène Anna Lucia Richter Christoph Prégardien © DAVID BARBOUR © DAVID © JULIEN MIGNOT © JESSY LEE © HANS MORREN SEASON CHAMBER MUSIC VOICES AT WIGMORE 2016/17 PATRONS 2016/17 CIRCLE 2016/17 SCHUBERT: THE COMPLETE SONGS suggested suggested suggested £10,000 annual donation £5,000 annual donation £2,000 annual donation The exceptional commitment of Just as chamber music is at the The 2015/16 Season has seen the has ever hosted. Your contribution Wigmore Hall’s Season Patrons heart of what we do at Wigmore launch of a Schubert festival of will be celebrated at three major ensures the continuation of the Hall, the members of the Chamber song, with his complete Lieder concerts in this series, at which visionary and diverse programming Music Circle belong to our core being performed at the Hall over Voices members enjoy two for which the Hall is internationally group of supporters. Collectively, two seasons by both internationally complimentary tickets and a renowned, and enables us to engage they ensure that the Hall’s acclaimed artists and emerging private interval reception. Voices at the world’s leading performers. world-leading status in chamber talent, made possible by a group Wigmore members are credited in As the Hall’s highest level music continues; that audiences of dedicated followers of song: all series brochures and donor donors, Season Patrons enjoy a can experience the world’s greatest Voices at Wigmore. listings, and benefit from personal close connection with the Director ensembles; and that the future of With a donation of £2,000 you assistance with ticket bookings and receive personal invitations to chamber music is secure through can join this syndicate and become from our Development staff. exclusive events. Their contribution nurturing the next generation involved with one of the most is acknowledged in all Wigmore of talent. ambitious artistic projects the Hall Series brochures and donor The Circle members come listings, and our Development staff together at four concerts during the is dedicated to ensuring that our season at which their engagement Season Patrons enjoy their special is especially recognised. Here they relationship with the Hall. enjoy two complimentary tickets, The support of the Season private receptions, and Patrons is marked at a series of opportunities for introduction to concerts representing the breadth the artists. Chamber Music Circle All concerts supported by our Circles of Giving and quality of the entire season. members are credited in all are listed on page 14. At each of these a private reception Wigmore Series brochures and is held for the Season Patrons who donor listings, invited by the For further information on how you can join a Circle of Giving, please each receive four complimentary Director to special events, and the contact Marie-Hélène Osterweil, Director of Development, by emailing tickets and are credited in the Development staff ensures they [email protected] or calling 020 7258 8220. concert programmes. can fully benefit from their close relationship with the Hall. Thank you for your support.

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SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

SARAH CONNOLLY Sarah Connolly Helen Grime Francesco Piemontesi © AMY BARTON © BENJAMIN EALOVEGA One of Britain’s most distinguished © PETER WARREN singers, at the height of her powers, opens Wigmore Hall’s IGOR LEVIT: BEETHOVEN HELEN GRIME: FRANCESCO PIEMONTESI: 2016/17 Season in company with PIANO SONATA CYCLE COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE MOZART PIANO SONATAS . Following his revelatory Known for her distinctive creative Francesco Piemontesi, hailed Perspectives series this season, voice, Helen Grime becomes by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as SCHUBERT: Igor Levit returns for eight concerts Wigmore Hall’s first female a ‘stellar Mozartean’, continues THE COMPLETE SONGS comprising his first Beethoven Composer in Residence this his complete survey of Mozart’s Wigmore Hall’s critically piano sonata cycle in London. season. A major focus day in piano sonatas. acclaimed series continues with October showcases Grime’s some 20 concerts, including THOMAS ADÈS DAY Concerto and other key EARLY MUSIC AND BAROQUE Schwanengesang with Few contemporary composers chamber works, and her HIGHLIGHTS and Lars Vogt, have proved as consistently will be The list of performers in 2016/17 with inventive as Thomas Adès. performed in March. includes Les Arts Florissants, and Gary Matthewman, and Wigmore Hall celebrates his The Sixteen, Freiburg Baroque Die schöne Müllerin with eloquently expressive work with a SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF: , , Henk Neven and Imogen Cooper. day-long programme of chamber EVENING MASTERCLASSES the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin music, including the string quartets Wigmore Hall’s Learning and Vox Luminis. Italy’s award- TAKÁCS QUARTET: BEETHOVEN Arcadiana and The Four Quarters. programme enters the evening winning madrigal ensemble CYCLE concert mainstream with three La Venexiana makes its debut and Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists : ARTIST FOCUS masterclass sessions led by we also celebrate ’s turn their collective experience Period-instrument ensemble Sir András Schiff. A hand-picked 70th birthday. to Beethoven’s string quartets in Arcangelo and its dynamic artistic group of outstanding young a landmark series of six concerts. director Jonathan Cohen, musicians will explore a selection CONTEMPORARY MUSIC described as a ‘brilliant group of of works, receiving practical advice HIGHLIGHTS ALISON BALSOM sound-makers’, present four and essential wisdom from one of Wigmore Hall reinforces its Whether performing as soloist concerts certain to rank among the the world’s greatest . commitment to new work in or speaking on behalf of music highlights of Wigmore Hall’s Early 2016/17 with major concerts education, Alison Balsom Music and Baroque Series. BACH ODYSSEY from the JACK Quartet, the invariably moves and inspires begins a survey , Birmingham her audience. The virtuoso SERIES of ’s Contemporary Music Group and trumpeter takes her turn in the One of the world’s finest violinists, complete keyboard works, while Ensemble intercontemporain. Wigmore Hall spotlight with a regular at Wigmore Hall, is the Mahan Esfahani four concerts. focus of a three-concert series. launches his own Bach series with the .

10 SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 ‘she brings a fiery originality to everything she plays.’ MICHAEL CHURCH, INDEPENDENT 29 OCTOBER 2015

PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Armed with searching curiosity, profound feeling and visionary imagination, Patricia Kopatchinskaja belongs among the leading musicians of her generation. She performs at the Hall on 27 March, 26 April and 7 May 2017. © MARCO BORGGREVE

SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 11 MON 14 NOV Ian Bostridge tenor SUPPORT A CONCERT Sir piano Many of the concerts Elizabeth Kenny theorbo listed here are available Adam Walker for private support or sponsorship. For further FRI 18 NOV Adrianne Pieczonka soprano information please Brian Zeger piano contact the Development Ian Bostridge SUN 20 NOV Elizabeth Watts Matthew Rose Office on 020 7258 8220. © LENA KERN © MARCO BORGGREVE © SIM CANETTY-CLARKE Luca Pisaroni -baritone THU 24 NOV SONG RECITAL Schubert Song Series: THU 2 FEB WED 26 APR 1.30PM MON 19 JUN Stuart Jackson tenor Schubert Song Series: Ferrier Award 2017 Andrè Schuen baritone SERIES Marcus Farnsworth baritone Elizabeth Watts soprano Semi-Final Daniel Heide piano piano Malcolm Martineau piano James Baillieu FRI 28 APR 6.00PM THU 22 JUN FRI 9 SEP MON 5 DEC WED 15 FEB Ferrier Award 2017 Final Matthew Polenzani tenor Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano soprano Schubert Song Series: Anne Schwanewilms SUN 30 APR 3.00PM SUN 2 JUL Malcolm Martineau piano Malcolm Martineau piano Matthew Rose bass Milan Siljanov bass-baritone Schubert Song Series: Gary Matthewman piano SAT 10 SEP THU 8 DEC Nino Chokhonelidze piano Markus Schäfer tenor soprano FRI 17 FEB piano Schubert Song Series: MON 1 MAY Ilkka Paananen piano Stephan Loges bass-baritone Schubert Song Series: Maximilian Schmitt tenor SUN 9 JUL Graham Johnson piano Mauro Peter tenor TUE 13 SEP Gerold Huber piano Schubert Song Series: Schubert Song Series: SAT 17 DEC SUN 19 FEB 3.00PM Ian Bostridge tenor SAT 6 MAY Mark Padmore tenor René Pape bass Louise Alder soprano Graham Johnson piano Karita Mattila soprano James Baillieu piano Camillo Radicke piano Gary Matthewman piano Ville Matvejeff piano WED 12 JUL TUE 20 SEP TUE 3 JAN FRI 24 FEB Garifullina soprano WED 10 MAY James Gilchrist tenor John Chest baritone baritone Schubert Song Series: THU 13 JUL Anna Tilbrook piano Marcelo Amaral piano SUN 26 FEB 3.00PM Ian Bostridge tenor A Shakespeare Songbook: SAT 1 OCT SUN 8 JAN 3.00PM Nicholas Phan tenor Lars Vogt piano Sophie Bevan soprano Barbara Hannigan soprano tenor Allan Clayton tenor Timothy Fallon SUN 12 MAR 3.00PM SAT 13 MAY Ammiel Bushakevitz piano piano Ilker Arcayürek tenor Schubert Song Series: WED 12 OCT WED 18 JAN Simon Lepper piano Violeta Urmana mezzo-soprano SAT 15 JUL baritone Christian Gerhaher baritone Schubert Song Series: SUN 12 MAR SUN 14 MAY 3.00PM Gerold Huber piano Georg Nigl baritone Gerold Huber piano Ekaterina Semenchuk Simon Bode tenor Andreas Staier THU 20 OCT mezzo-soprano Igor Levit piano WED 19 JUL Schubert Song Series: SUN 22 JAN 3.00PM piano Schubert Song Series: SUN 21 MAY 3.00PM Christoph Prégardien tenor Elisabeth Kulman TUE 14 MAR Christoph Pohl baritone Christoph Schnackertz piano Richard Lewis Song Circle mezzo-soprano Schubert Song Series: Marcelo Amaral piano SUN 23 OCT FRI 27 JAN Christoph Prégardien tenor SAT 22 JUL SUN 28 MAY Jamie Barton mezzo-soprano mezzo-soprano piano Andrei Bondarenko baritone James Baillieu piano Christina Landshamer soprano SUN 29 JAN 3.00PM MON 20 MAR Gerold Huber piano WED 26 JUL FRI 28 OCT Tim Mead countertenor David Daniels countertenor soprano The Prince Consort THU 8 JUN piano SUN 29 JAN THU 6 APR Schubert Song Series: DATE TO BE CONFIRMED Stéphane Degout baritone mezzo-soprano Anna Lucia Richter soprano Schubert Song Series: SAT 5 NOV Cédric Tiberghien piano Ensemble Prisma Wien Michael Gees piano Robert Holl baritone Schubert Song Series: Sir András Schiff piano Dorothea Röschmann soprano SAT 8 APR SUN 11 JUN Malcolm Martineau piano Toby Spence tenor Schubert Song Series: Julian Milford piano baritone TUE 8 NOV 1.00PM & 7.30PM Samling Showcase: TUE 11 APR SAT 17 JUN 20th Anniversary Schubert Song Series: Schubert Song Series: Henk Neven baritone Florian Boesch baritone THU 10 NOV Imogen Cooper piano Iestyn Davies countertenor Thomas Dunford lute

12 SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 WED 2 NOV 40th Anniversary Season Kalichstein/Laredo/ Robinson Trio FRI 4 NOV Beethoven/Shostakovich Cycle: SUN 6 NOV Angela Hewitt Sir András Schiff Igor Levit Takács Quartet Beethoven/Shostakovich © NADIA F. ROMANINI © NADIA F. © FELIX BROEDE © MAIWOLF PHOTOGRAPHY © PETER SMITH Cycle: Borodin Quartet LONDON TUE 29 NOV THU 30 MAR CHAMBER FRI 11 NOV Sir András Schiff piano piano Music in the Round weekend: Marc-André Hamelin piano Ensemble 360 PIANOFORTE SAT 3 DEC MUSIC SEASON Richard Goode piano WED 5 APR SAT 12 NOV SERIES Alexander Melnikov piano FRI 16 SEP Music in the Round weekend: TUE 6 DEC Ensemble 360 Beethoven Cycle: WED 19 APR Daniel Hope SUN 11 SEP Igor Levit piano Yevgeny Sudbin piano Paul Neubauer viola SUN 13 NOV Denis Kozhukhin piano 40th Anniversary Series WED 7 DEC SUN 23 APR piano THU 15 SEP Andreas Staier fortepiano Andreas Haefligerpiano Yulianna Avdeeva piano SUN 18 SEP SAT 19 NOV THU 15 DEC TUE 2 MAY SAT 17 SEP Les Vents Français Nash Ensemble Mozart Cycle: Sir András Schiff piano wind quintet piano Francesco Piemontesi piano WED 23 NOV THU 4 MAY SUN 25 SEP FRI 23 SEP Truls Mørk cello FRI 20 JAN Mozart Cycle: The Bach Odyssey: The Endellion String Quartet Håvard Gimse piano The Bach Odyssey: Francesco Piemontesi piano Angela Hewitt piano Angela Hewitt piano SAT 24 SEP FRI 25 NOV FRI 12 MAY 7.00PM WED 28 SEP Aurora Orchestra Ensemble Modern THU 26 JAN Joanna MacGregor piano Beethoven Cycle: Elisabeth Leonskaja piano FRI 30 SEP SAT 26 NOV Igor Levit piano SAT 20 MAY Busch Project: Arditti Quartet MON 30 JAN Llyˆr Williams piano violin MON 3 OCT Renaud Capuçon Beethoven Cycle: SAT 10 DEC piano WED 24 MAY Other artists Igor Levit piano Nash Ensemble Nikolai Lugansky piano to be announced SUN 9 OCT Christianne Stotijn FRI 10 FEB Beethoven Cycle: SUN 4 JUN THU 6 OCT mezzo-soprano Nikolai Demidenko piano Igor Levit piano Christian Ihle Hadland piano IMS Prussia Cove SUN 11 DEC THU 16 FEB TUE 11 OCT SAT 10 JUN FRI 7 OCT Llyˆr Williams piano Llyˆr Williams piano The Bach Odyssey: TUE 13 DEC TUE 21 FEB Angela Hewitt piano Harriet Krijgh cello THU 13 OCT St. Lawrence String Quartet Sir András Schiff piano Melvyn Tan piano TUE 13 JUN SAT 8 OCT WED 14 DEC 1.00PM SUN 26 FEB Beethoven Cycle: Janine Jansen Residency: WED 19 OCT Beethoven Cycle: Igor Levit piano Janine Jansen violin Leon McCawley piano Igor Levit piano Alexander Gavrylyuk piano TUE 20 DEC TUE 27 JUN TUE 25 OCT Alison Balsom Residency: THU 2 MAR Inon Barnatan piano SAT 15 OCT Sunwook Kim piano Balsom Ensemble piano Helen Grime Day TUE 4 JUL SAT 29 OCT TUE 27 DEC SAT 4 MAR Håvard Gimse piano SAT 22 OCT piano Sitkovetsky Trio Paul Lewis piano Nash Ensemble THU 27 JUL THU 3 NOV WED 28 DEC SAT 11 MAR Cédric Tiberghien piano THU 27 OCT Alexei Volodin piano Doric String Quartet Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Thomas Zehetmair violin viola MON 7 NOV Ruth Killius FRI 30 DEC FRI 17 MAR Beethoven Cycle: Beethoven Cycle: MON 31 OCT Gringolts Quartet Igor Levit piano Igor Levit piano Alison Balsom Residency: SAT 7 JAN trumpet WED 9 NOV Alison Balsom WED 22 MAR Christian Zacharias piano Tom Poster piano piano SUN 8 JAN THU 17 NOV Cuarteto Casals Imogen Cooper piano

SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 13 CONCERTS SUPPORTED BY CIRCLES OF GIVING

SEASON CHAMBER VOICES AT PATRONS MUSIC CIRCLE WIGMORE 2016/17 2016/17 2016/17 WED 12 OCT TUE 29 NOV TUE 13 SEP Christian Gerhaher baritone Sir András Schiff piano Schubert Song Series: Gerold Huber piano Mark Padmore tenor THU 9 FEB James Baillieu piano TUE 22 NOV Jörg Widmann clarinet Dunedin Consort piano TUE 14 MAR Schubert Song Series: MON 16 JAN WED 26 APR Les Arts Florissants Patricia Kopatchinskaja Christoph Prégardien tenor Residency: Julius Drake piano MON 27 MAR Patricia Kopatchinskaja Patricia THU 8 JUN Residency: Kopatchinskaja violin Schubert Song Series: Patricia cello Anna Lucia Richter soprano Michael Gees piano Kopatchinskaja violin SUN 18 JUN Polina Leschenko piano Quatuor Ebène WED 17 MAY Takács Quartet TUE 13 JUNE Igor Levit piano

Janine Jansen ––––––––––––––––

For further information on how you ‘Janine Jansen is a player can support these concerts, please see page 9, or contact Marie-Hélène Osterweil, that you follow Janine Jansen will be Director of Development, by emailing performing at the Hall on [email protected] wherever she leads.’ 8 October 2016, 8 February or calling 020 7258 8220. THE TIMES, FEBRUARY 2012 2017 and 2 June 2017. © MARCO BORGGREVE

14 SEASON PREVIEW 2015/162016/17 SAT 18 FEB THU 13 APR WED 31 MAY Scottish Ensemble Sergey Khachatryan violin Alina Ibragimova violin Alina Ibragimova violin Lusine Khachatryan piano THU 1 JUN SUN 19 FEB SAT 15 APR Beethoven/Shostakovich Isabelle Faust violin cello Cycle: Alexander Melnikov piano Dénes Várjon piano Borodin Quartet THU 23 FEB TUE 18 APR FRI 2 JUN Daniel Hope violin Janine Jansen Residency: Maria João Pires piano Basel Chamber Orchestra Janine Jansen violin Borodin Quartet Other artists Jack Liebeck

© ANDY STAPLES SAT 25 FEB 11.00AM WED 19 APR 1.00PM Xenakis Day: Britten Sinfonia to be announced JACK Quartet SAT 3 JUN CHAMBER MUSIC SEASON SAT 22 APR Beethoven/Shostakovich (CONTINUED) WED 1 MAR Soloists of the Cycle: SUNDAY Carducci String Quartet London Philharmonic Borodin Quartet MON 9 JAN Orchestra MORNING FRI 3 MAR Danish String Quartet TUE 6 JUN Birmingham Contemporary WED 26 APR Razumovsky COFFEE SAT 14 JAN Music Group Patricia Kopatchinskaja Ensemble Vienna Piano Trio piano Residency: CONCERTS conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin WED 14 JUN SUN 15 JAN Sol Gabetta cello Arditti Quartet IMS Prussia Cove TUE 7 MAR SUN 11 SEP Eliot Fisk guitar Celebration Concert Alisa Weilerstein cello SAT 29 APR Danish String Quartet Inon Barnatan piano THU 15 JUN THU 19 JAN SUN 18 SEP Nicolas Altstaedt cello Julia Fischer violin WED 8 MAR SUN 30 APR Nick van Bloss piano The Endellion String Hagen Quartet Alexander Lonquich piano SAT 21 JAN SUN 25 SEP Quartet FRI 16 JUN FRI 5 MAY 7.00PM Jack Liebeck violin Nash Ensemble Jasper String Quartet Lucy Crowe soprano FRI 10 MAR Chamber Music Society Amandine Savary piano conductor SUN 18 JUN Martyn Brabbins Pacifica Quartet of SUN 2 OCT Johannes Moser cello Quatuor Ebène MON 23 JAN SUN 7 MAY Quatuor Van Kuijk cello WED 15 MAR 1:00PM TUE 20 JUN Philip Higham Patricia Kopatchinskaja SUN 9 OCT Alasdair Beatson piano Britten Sinfonia Residency: Ensemble intercontemporain Scottish Ensemble Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin WED 25 JAN THU 16 MAR MON 26 JUN Anthony Romaniuk SUN 16 OCT violin , piano Vienna Piano Trio Dover Quartet Cory Smythe piano Mark Padmore tenor THU 26 – SAT 28 JAN MON 8 MAY SUN 23 OCT ECMA Showcase 2017 TUE 21 MAR Sainsbury Royal Academy WED 28 JUN Nash Ensemble Nash Ensemble Edgar Moreau cello TUE 31 JAN Soloists Pierre-Yves Hodique piano SUN 30 OCT Gould Piano Trio SAT 25 MAR 11.00AM Clio Gould director Carducci String Quartet Thomas Adès Day SAT 1 JUL WED 8 FEB 1.00PM THU 11 MAY Doric String Quartet SUN 6 NOV Britten Sinfonia MON 27 MAR Elias String Quartet Endymion Patricia Kopatchinskaja THU 6 JUL WED 8 FEB SUN 14 MAY Residency: Andreas Ottensamer clarinet SUN 13 NOV Janine Jansen Residency: Beethoven Cycle: Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Music in the Round Janine Jansen violin Takács Quartet MON 10 JUL Polina Leschenko piano weekend: Other artists Gould Piano Trio THU 18 MAY Ensemble 360 to be announced FRI 31 MAR Alison Balsom Residency: SUN 16 JUL Haydn & Dvorˇák Trios: SUN 20 NOV THU 9 FEB Alison Balsom trumpet Quatuor Mosaïques Eggner Trio Maximilian Hornung cello Jörg Widmann clarinet Trevor Pinnock harpsichord MON 24 JUL Mitsuko Uchida piano SUN 2 APR Thomas Dunford lute SUN 27 NOV Steven Isserlis cello Nikolaj Znaider violin guest singers Tai Murray violin SAT 11 FEB violin piano Nash Ensemble SUN 21 MAY SUN 4 DEC TUE 25 JUL TUE 4 APR Atrium Quartet SUN 12 FEB Steven Isserlis cello Milosˇ Karadaglic´ guitar Belcea Quartet TUE 23 MAY Joshua Bell violin FRI 7 APR The Endellion String Quartet TUE 14 FEB Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Razumovsky Ensemble FRI 26 MAY 7.00PM Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Chemirani Brothers zarb © MARCO BORGGREVE

SEASON PREVIEW 2015/16 15 MON 16 JAN Les Arts Florissants Paul Agnew director TUE 17 JAN Classical SAT 28 JAN Karina Gauvin soprano La Loge Olympique Arcadia Quartet Arcangelo Freiburg TUE 7 FEB

© AFINA JAMBOR © ADAM SWANN © MARCO BORGGREVE © DECCA / ULI WEBER guest director, violin SUNDAY MORNING SUN 23 APR TUE 15 NOV COFFEE CONCERTS Ivana Gavric´ piano EARLY MUSIC Le Concert d’Astrée MON 20 FEB The Sixteen (CONTINUED) SUN 30 APR AND BAROQUE Emmanuelle Haïm conductor Caroline Goulding violin TUE 28 FEB SUN 11 DEC TUE 22 NOV Theatre of the Ayre Adrian Brendel cello SERIES Dunedin Consort SUN 7 MAY Elizabeth Kenny director SUN 18 DEC Saleem Ashkar piano MON 28 NOV THU 9 MAR Cassard/Grimal/ MON 12 SEP La Nuova Musica SUN 14 MAY The Brabant Ensemble The Tallis Scholars Gastinel Trio Jakob Koranyi cello David Bates director Stephen Rice director THU 23 MAR SUN 8 JAN SUN 21 MAY THU 1 DEC The King’s Consort Novus String Quartet Armida Quartet WED 14 SEP countertenor The English Concert La Loge Olympique WED 29 MAR SUN 15 JAN SUN 28 MAY MON 19 SEP Julien Chauvin violin, director Early Opera Company Nikita Boriso-Glebsky violin Schumann Quartet Classical Opera SUN 4 DEC SAT 1 APR SUN 22 JAN SUN 4 JUN Collegium Vocale Gent EXAUDI Elias String Quartet Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch THU 22 SEP piano trio Freiburg Baroque Orchestra WED 14 DEC SUN 9 APR SUN 29 JAN Kristian Bezuidenhout director, Arcangelo Les Talens Lyriques Amaryllis Quartet SUN 11 JUN fortepiano Natalia Prischepenko violin FRI 16 DEC MON 10 APR SUN 5 FEB THU 29 SEP Trevor Pinnock Ensemble Plus Ultra Nash Ensemble SUN 18 JUN Max Emanuel Cencic 70th Birthday Concert Michelangelo String Quartet countertenor WED 12 APR SUN 12 FEB Il Pomo d’Oro MON 19 DEC Le Concert Spirituel Trio con Brio Copenhagen SUN 25 JUN The King’s Consort Maxim Emelyanychev MON 17 APR Vienna Piano Trio conductor SUN 19 FEB WED 21 DEC London Handel Lara Melda piano SUN 2 JUL Mahan Esfahani harpsichord Orchestra Doric String Quartet SUN 2 OCT SUN 26 FEB Nathalie Stutzmann contralto THU 22 DEC THU 20 APR Quatuor Voce SUN 9 JUL Orfeo 55 Vox Luminis Thomas Dunford lute Navarra String Quartet SUN 5 MAR WED 5 OCT FRI 23 DEC TUE 16 MAY Arcadia Quartet SUN 16 JUL Anna Bonitatibus mezzo-soprano Akademie für Alte Classical Opera Quatuor Zaïde Collegium 1704 SUN 12 MAR Musik Berlin Ian Page conductor Kristian Bezuidenhout Simone Lamsma violin SUN 23 JUL FRI 14 OCT THU 29 DEC Chloë Hanslip violin The Cardinall’s fortepiano SUN 19 MAR Roberta Invernizzi soprano Danny Driver piano Musick Meccore Quartet Sonia Prina contralto WED 7 JUN SUN 30 JUL FRI 21 OCT Ensemble Claudiana The English Concert SUN 26 MAR Gemma Rosefieldcello Le Poème Harmonique piano SAT 31 DEC 7.00PM WED 21 JUN Tamar Beraia Tim Horton piano MON 24 OCT The English Concert The King’s Consort SUN 2 APR Phantasm Dante Quartet WED 11 JAN SAT 24 JUN WED 26 OCT La Venexiana Cecilia Bartoli SUN 9 APR Florilegium mezzo-soprano Colin Carr cello FRI 13 JAN Philippe Jaroussky SUN 30 OCT Arcangelo countertenor SUN 16 APR Kristian Bezuidenhout conductor, Ensemble Artaserse Castalian Quartet harpsichord harpsichord Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

16 SEASON PREVIEW 2015/16 SUN 25 JUN MON 14 NOV MON 24 APR SAT 25 FEB Telemann Javier Perianes piano Louis Lortie piano WORLD MUSIC Xenakis Day: 250th Anniversary Concert Quartet Quiroga JACK Quartet MON 1 MAY Florilegium FRI 2 DEC MON 21 NOV countertenor The Other Classical Musics FRI 3 MAR THU 29 JUN Garrick Ohlsson piano Other artists Helen Grime Composer Akademie für Alte Musik to be announced FRI 7 APR in Residence: MON 28 NOV Berlin Jean-Guihen Queyras cello Birmingham Contemporary Ilker Arcayürek tenor MON 8 MAY Isabelle Faust violin Sokratis Sinopoulos lyra Music Group Simon Lepper piano Véronique Gens soprano Chemirani Brothers zarb Huw Watkins piano FRI 30 JUN The Sixteen MON 5 DEC MON 15 MAY Oliver Knussen conductor Boris Giltburg piano Tasmin Little violin FRI 10 MAR TUE 18 JUL John Lenehan piano The Cardinall’s Musick MON 12 DEC Pacifica Quartet flute MON 22 MAY Johannes Moser cello FRI 21 JUL 7:00PM Phantasm Arcangelo MON 19 DEC SAT 25 MAR Miklós Perényi cello MON 29 MAY Thomas Adès Day: Zemlinsky Quartet Birmingham Contemporary MON 9 JAN Music Group Richard Egarr harpsichord MON 5 JUN Other artists Mahan Esfahani harpsichord MON 16 JAN to be announced Beatrice Rana piano MON 19 JUN Arditti Quartet THU 11 MAY Carducci String Quartet © ASTRID KARGER MON 23 JAN Elias String Quartet baritone MON 26 JUN WED 14 JUN piano Clara Mouriz mezzo-soprano CONTEMPORARY Arditti Quartet MON 30 JAN MON 3 JUL Eliot Fisk guitar Peter Moore trombone Maurice Steger recorder Doric String Quartet TUE 20 SEP FRI 16 JUN tenor © DORIC STRING QUARTET MON 6 FEB MON 10 JUL James Gilchrist Jasper String Quartet Isabelle Faust violin Hanno Müller-Brachmann Anna Tilbrook piano TUE 20 JUN Andreas Staier fortepiano bass baritone SAT 24 SEP Ensemble intercontemporain BBC MON 13 FEB Aurora Orchestra LUNCHTIME Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano SAT 1 OCT James Baillieu piano Barbara Hannigan soprano BOOKING TICKETS CONCERTS MON 20 FEB Calder Quartet Priority Booking for Wigmore Quatuor Van Kuijk SAT 15 OCT Series concerts from MON 12 SEP MON 27 FEB Helen Grime Composer Mark Padmore tenor David Greilsammer piano in Residence: September to December, Morgan Szymanski guitar Birmingham Contemporary and for concerts in the MON 6 MAR Music Group MON 19 SEP Carolyn Sampson soprano Contemporary Music Series, Håkan Hardenberger trumpet Mark van de Wiel clarinet Matthew Wadsworth lute Vijay Iyer opens on 5 May 2016, Roland Pöntinen piano Huw Watkins piano MON 13 MAR IYER © VIJAY Other artists for concerts from January MON 26 SEP Kungsbacka Piano Trio to be announced to March opens on Doric String Quartet 13 October 2016, and for MON 20 MAR JAZZ FRI 28 OCT MON 3 OCT Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet The Prince Consort concerts from April to July Steven Isserlis cello Nino Gvetadze piano Stephen Hough piano opens on 12 January 2017. Olli Mustonen piano FRI 9 DEC MON 27 MAR Christian McBride FRI 25 NOV MON 10 OCT Gallicantus Jazz Series: Ensemble Modern Details of artists and dates are Nicholas Angelich piano Christian McBride MON 3 APR SAT 26 NOV correct at time of printing MON 17 OCT Apollon Musagète Quartet FRI 6 JAN Arditti Quartet but may be subject to change. violin Vijay Iyer Jazz Series: SUN 11 DEC MON 10 APR Vijay Iyer piano MON 24 OCT Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Belcea Quartet Nelson Goerner piano Other artists MON 17 APR to be announced WED 25 JAN MON 31 OCT Alessio Bax piano Signum Quartet Kelemen Quartet THU 20 JUL Vijay Iyer Jazz Series: THU 9 FEB MON 7 NOV Vijay Iyer piano Jörg Widmann clarinet Marie-Elisabeth Hecker cello Other artists Mitsuko Uchida piano Martin Helmchen piano to be announced

SEASON PREVIEW 2015/16 17 Trevor Pinnock –––––––––––––––– ‘Pinnock had that ease that comes from long experience, which allowed him to be flamboyant at times’ IVAN HEWETT, DAILY TELEGRAPH

Trevor Pinnock will be celebrating his 70th birthday with a concert on 16 December 2016, and performing with Alison Balsom (left) at the Hall

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SEASON PREVIEW 2016/17 21 ‘Wigmore Hall is a reliable locus of sublimity.’ PAUL DRIVER, SUNDAY TIMES 10 MAY 2015

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