Concerts 2022/23

Saturday, 17 September 2022
8pm, doors open 7.30pm
Echéa Quartet
The young Echéa Quartet have been collecting a string of prestigious awards, including the Royal Over-Seas League Chamber Music Competition 2021 and the Royal Philharmonic Prize for outstanding young string quartet 2019. They will perform Schubert, Mendelssohn and Beethoven quartets for us tonight.

Saturday, 15 October 2022
8pm, doors open 7.30pm
'Shostakovich: Life, Letters and Friendship'
Celebrity Concert: Carducci Quartet with Stephen Johnson, narrator
'Shostakovich: Life, Letters and Friendship: a portrait through words and music', created and performed by the Carducci Quartet - one of the UK’s leading string quartets and interpreters of the composer’s work. Readings from his letters, interspersed with excerpts from his quartets, will throw a fascinating light on his life and turbulent times. This performance will be unmissable!

Saturday, 26 November 2022
8pm, doors open 7.30pm
Royal Academy of Music
Young musicians from the Royal Academy of Music will perform works including “Souvenir de Florence”, a string sextet composed by Tchaikovsky in the summer of 1890. The full programme for this recital will be released in the early autumn.

Saturday, 21 January 2023
8pm, doors open 7.30pm
Northern Chords
Northern Chords, founded and led by acclaimed cellist and international conductor Jonathan Bloxham, will perform piano quartets by Mozart, Mahler and Brahms.

Saturday, 4 February 2023
8pm, doors open 7.30pm
Celebrity Concert: Eric Lu, piano
A return visit to OCMS by this winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition, who now has a growing international reputation as a concert pianist. Hailed as 'a new magician of the keyboard', Eric will play for us four sonatas by Mozart, Schubert and Chopin.

Saturday, 25 March 2023
8pm, doors open 7.30pm
Patrons' Concert: Mithras Piano Trio
BBC New Generation artists and multi-award winners, the Mithras Piano Trio make a welcome return to Claygate to play Beethoven, Bridge and Dvořák’s “Dumky” Trio.