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27 February 2027Time 7:30pm.
Tickets £20, students half-price. |
Concert Programme
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre
Tonia Ko: New Work written for Fenella and Jâms
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No.1 in G major Op.78 'Regensonate'
Interval
Rebecca Clarke: Midsummer Moon
Cameron Biles Liddel: Nature's Song written for Fenella and Jâms
Beethoven: Spring Sonata No.5 Op.24
Tonia Ko: New Work written for Fenella and Jâms
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No.1 in G major Op.78 'Regensonate'
Interval
Rebecca Clarke: Midsummer Moon
Cameron Biles Liddel: Nature's Song written for Fenella and Jâms
Beethoven: Spring Sonata No.5 Op.24
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Fenella Humphreys - reviews
“...Humphreys's utter absorption and delight shines forth at every turn...... strong-toned, easy fluidity and immaculate technique...”— Charlotte Gardner - Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine
...performances combining passionate élan with dizzying virtuosity & ripe Romantic expression.
Hugh Canning - The Times (Performance with Martin Roscoe at Oxford Lieder Festival)
… Humphreys, Seal and the BBC Philharmonic have its [Violin Concerto] linguistic number. Humphreys brings her endlessly unfurling violin lines taut, silvery weightlessness. The recording beautifully captures her duets with woodwind, and a tremendous dynamic range…”
Charlotte Gardner – The Strad Magazine (Adrian Sutton Concerto, Chandos)
Fenella Humphreys
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Fenella Humphreys, winner of the 2025 and 2023 BBC Music Magazine Premiere Recording Award, has attracted critical admiration and audience acclaim with the grace and intensity of her remarkable performances.
Throughout the 2025/26 season, Fenella is be resident at Wigmore Hall as part of a three-concert series where she is exploring a variety of solo and chamber violin repertoire. With her playing described in the press as “alluring”, “unforgettable” and “a wonder”, Fenella is one of the UK’s most established and versatile violinists, having also won the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Award. She enjoys a busy career combining chamber music with solo work, performing in the most prestigious venues around the world and is frequently broadcast on the BBC, Classic FM, Scala Radio and international radio stations. Fenella performs widely as a soloist. Her album of Sibelius’ solo works with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and George Vass has been featured in BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library, Gramophone Magazine’s Guide to the Concerto, and was Album of the Week on Scala Radio. BBC Music Magazine has written of the recording: “it takes an unusually fine artist to be able to bridge the two extremes. Fenella Humphreys’s playing is a genuine revelation in the way it brings out the music’s dark and introspective qualities, with no shortage of technical panache meanwhile.” |
Jâms Colman
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From Anglesey, North Wales, Jâms Coleman is a pianist who enjoys performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and vocal accompanist. He regularly performs at prestigious festivals and venues in the UK and internationally and recent highlights include recitals at the Aldeburgh Festival, BBC Proms, Champs Hill, Cello Biënnale (Amsterdam), Cheltenham Festival, Kings Place, Leeds Lieder Festival, LSO St Luke’s, Ortús Chamber Music Festival (Cork), Oxford International Song Festival, Petworth Festival, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, The Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), and Wigmore Hall.
Jâms has a duo partnership with cellist Laura van der Heijden. Described as 'intriguing and beguiling' by The Guardian and as 'gently alluring, enigmatic and romantic' by Gramophone, their second album – ‘Path to the Moon’ - reached two million streams worldwide in the first week. They’re looking forward to releasing their third album together in late 2026. “Coleman’s playing is outstanding, with thrilling variety…exquisite touch…and imagination at the piano” - Natasha Loges, BBC Music Magazine |
