Upcoming and Past Events
Piano Recital: Matthew Fletcher
Featuring Schumann’s Fantasie in C
Tickets available here
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
The Hampstead Collective presents Purcell's dramatic masterpiece
Agrippina's Betrayal
Rebecca Hardwick (soprano) Jacob Garside (cello, viola da gamba) and the Players of the Hampstead Collective present 'Agrippina’s Betrayal'; a programme centred round Handel’s Cantata of 1707 “Agrippina a condotta a morire”
Agrippina's Betrayal - Worcestershire Early Music
Rebecca Hardwick (soprano) Jacob Garside (cello, viola da gamba) and the Players of the Hampstead Collective present 'Agrippina’s Betrayal'; a programme centred round Handel’s Cantata of 1707 “Agrippina a condotta a morire”
Mendelssohn: String Octet
Written by a sixteen-year-old Felix Mendelssohn in 1825, the String Octet in E flat major is one of the highlights of all 19th-century music.
KURTÁG 100: Kafka Fragments
A concert performance of Hungarian legend György Kurtág’s visceral work for soprano and violin in the composer’s centenary year
Rebecca Hardwick - soprano
Tamsin Waley-Cohen - violin
The BIG Hampstead Messiah
A community performance of Handel’s Messiah
Aidan Coburn (conductor)
The Hampstead Collective
The Players of the Hampstead Collective
Belsize Baroque
Colla Voce Singers
Hampstead Community Choir
Community Chorus
Songs for Ariel: Purcell Reimagined
Music for tenor and countertenor by Purcell, Britten and Tippett
Ruairi Bowen (tenor)
Matthew Farrell (countertenor)
Geoffrey Webber and Gavin Roberts (keyboards)
Hampstead in Song: the Music of Nikolai Medtner
Christine Buras (soprano)
Jessica Gillingwater (mezzo-soprano)
Thomas Ang (piano)
A Stranger With Thee: Anthems of Orlando Gibbons
Music for voices and viols 400 years after the composer’s death.
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Rossini’s final masterpiece, this ‘Little Solemn Mass’ was written 30 years after his last opera and described by the composer as ‘the last of the sins of old age.’
Christine Buras (soprano)
Rebecca Hardwick (soprano)
Catherine Backhouse (mezzo-soprano)
Jess Dandy (contralto)
Aidan Coburn (tenor)
James Robinson (tenor)
Malachy Frame (baritone)
Hugo Herman-Wilson (baritone)
Satoshi Kubo (piano)
Edward Dean (harmonium)
Geoffrey Webber (conductor)
Harmonische Raffinesse: A German Homage to the Italian Baroque
Rebecca Hardwick (soprano)
Malachy Frame (baritone)
The Players of the Hampstead Collective
In This Earthly Paradise: Monteverdi and Purcell
Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Christine Buras (soprano), Malachy Frame (baritone), the Players of the Hampstead Collective
Schubert: The Trout Quinet
Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A Major D. 667, alongside Auf dem Strom D. 943 and selected Lieder
The Players of the Hampstead Collective, Steven Devine (fortepiano), Christine Buras (soprano)
This concert is supported by a grant from the Continuo Foundation
Henri Duparc: Songs and Letters
The complete songs of Henri Duparc, with selected readings from the composers letters
Christine Buras (soprano), Malachy Frame (baritone), Chad Vindin (piano), David Gardner (reader)
Songs of Peace: Brahms and Stanford
Sacred songs and quartets by Johannes Brahms and Charles Villiers Stanford
Geoffrey Webber (director/organ)
In the Sky
‘In the Sky I am Walking’ by Stockhausen
A staged presentation of Stockhausen’s charming tone-row song cycle of American Indian folk songs, ‘In the Sky’.
Rebecca Hardwick (soprano)
George Chambers (tenor)
Summer Opera Gala
A selection of our favourite arias and duets by Verdi, Strauss, Puccini, Mozart and more!
Rebecca Harwick (soprano)
Catherine Backhouse (mezzo-soprano)
Aidan Coburn (tenor)
Matthew Fletcher (piano)
Western wind, when wilt thou blow?
Missa 'Westron wynde' by John Taverner
Tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter by Thomas Tallis
Singers: Rebecca Hardwick, Amy Lyddon, James Robinson, Jimmy Holliday
Organ/Director: Geoffrey Webber
Ode for St Cecilia's Day
Handel ‘Ode for St Cecilia’s Day’ plus other works by Handel with The Players of The Hampstead Collective and Colla Voce Singers conducted by Aidan Coburn
Soloists: Christine Buras (soprano) and Ruairi Bowen (tenor)
Mahler and Strauss Songs with Chamber Orchestra
Mahler ‘Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen’ sung by Catherine Backhouse
Strauss ‘Four Last Songs’ sung by Christine Buras
Dieterich Buxtehude, ‘the Glory of Lübeck’: Vocal Concertos (including Jesu meine Freude) and Instrumental Sonatas
Sopranos: Rebecca Hardwick and Christine Buras
Bass: Hugo Herman-Wilson
Violin: Simone Pirri and Henry Tong
Viola da gamba: Jacob Garside
Organ/Director: Geoffrey Webber
Sacred and Profane: Songs for voices and piano by Benjamin Britten
Choral song cycle ‘Sacred and Profane’ interspersed with solo songs
Singers: Christine Buras, Jessica Gillingwater, Jess Dandy, Ruairi Bowen, Malachy Frame
Piano: Dylan Perez
Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach
Christmas Oratorio (Parts 1, 3, 5 and 6) by J.S. Bach
with The Players of The Hampstead Collective
directed by Geoffrey Webber
Tickets: £20
Songs of the Elizabethans with Viol Consort
Singers Christine Buras and Malachy Frame present a programme with 5 part viol consort from the reign of Elizabeth I. England lost two of its most influential composers, William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes, 400 years ago - this concert will present some of their works, at the conclusion of this anniversary year.
Tickets: £15
Schubert's Winterreise
Winterreise (Winter Journey) depicts the emotions of a lovelorn wanderer against a bleak, wintry landscape. Arguably his greatest song cycle, Winterreise is the epitome of Romantic melancholia, written by a composer aware of his fatal illness but at the height of his creative powers.
Baritone: Malachy Frame | Piano: Freddie Brown
Tickets: £15
Bluebeard's Castle by Bartók
The action takes place in the hall of Duke Bluebeard’s castle, his new wife Judith opens the hall’s seven doors one by one, each revealing its own horror.
Bartók’s only opera is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In only one act he creates an extraordinary atmosphere with astonishing theatrical power. Some say this bloodthirsty psychodrama invites us to explore the hidden recesses of our own imaginations...
The opera will be sung in English with no interval and wine served beforehand.
Bluebeard: Edwin Kaye | Judith: Catherine Backhouse | Piano: Thomas Ang | Organ: Joshua Ryan
Tickets: £15
In Flames: Bach and Handel Solo Cantatas
We present 3 baroque cantatas for solo voice and instruments:
Bach: Ich habe genug [I have Content] BWV 82
Bach: Wiederstehe doch der Sünde [Just Resist Sin] BWV 54
Handel: Tra le fiamme (Il consiglio) [In Flames (Counsel)] HWV 170
Baritone: Malachy Frame
Mezzo-soprano: Jessica Gilingwater
Soprano: Hilary Cronin
Gamba/Cello: Jacob Garside
Organ: Geoffrey Webber