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29 November 2025Time 7:30pm.
Tickets £20, students half-price. |
Concert Programme
Mél Bonis: Selection from Femmes de légende, ‘Phoebe’, ‘Desdémonda’ and ‘Mélisande’ (1898, 9’)
Germaine Tailleferre: Partita (1957, 9’)
Maurice Ravel: Miroirs (1905, 25’)
Interval
Claude Debussy: Images, Book 1 (1905, 16’)
Co-created by participants at HMP Oakwood with Michael Betteridge: Internal Victories (5’)
Cécile Chaminade: Autrefois, Op. 87 (1897) and Au pays devasté, Op. 155 (1919) (10’)
Maurice Ravel - Sonatine (1905, 10’)
Germaine Tailleferre: Partita (1957, 9’)
Maurice Ravel: Miroirs (1905, 25’)
Interval
Claude Debussy: Images, Book 1 (1905, 16’)
Co-created by participants at HMP Oakwood with Michael Betteridge: Internal Victories (5’)
Cécile Chaminade: Autrefois, Op. 87 (1897) and Au pays devasté, Op. 155 (1919) (10’)
Maurice Ravel - Sonatine (1905, 10’)
CONCERT SPONSOR: Whitstable Hearing
Clare Hammond
Acclaimed as a “pianist of extraordinary gifts” (Gramophone) and “immense power” (The Times), Clare Hammond is recognised for the virtuosity and authority of her performances. She won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award in 2016.
Last year saw her debuts at the BBC Proms, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Salle Bourgie in Montreal, and return visits to the Wigmore Hall, London’s National Gallery, and Raritäten der Klaviermusik in Husum. Clare recorded a disc of concertos by Britten, Tippett and Walton with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and George Vass, performed Rachmaninov with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Tom Fetherstonhaugh, and Hesketh with the Ulster Orchestra and Anna Rakitina. She gave the second ever performance of the recently revived Fantasia by Andrzej Panufnik, more than sixty years after its premiere, with the Filharmonia Poznańska and Łukasz Borowicz. In 2025, Clare makes her debut at the Royal Albert Hall, performing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Christopher Warren-Green, and premieres a new concerto by Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Emilia Hoving.
Last year saw her debuts at the BBC Proms, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Salle Bourgie in Montreal, and return visits to the Wigmore Hall, London’s National Gallery, and Raritäten der Klaviermusik in Husum. Clare recorded a disc of concertos by Britten, Tippett and Walton with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and George Vass, performed Rachmaninov with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Tom Fetherstonhaugh, and Hesketh with the Ulster Orchestra and Anna Rakitina. She gave the second ever performance of the recently revived Fantasia by Andrzej Panufnik, more than sixty years after its premiere, with the Filharmonia Poznańska and Łukasz Borowicz. In 2025, Clare makes her debut at the Royal Albert Hall, performing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Christopher Warren-Green, and premieres a new concerto by Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Emilia Hoving.
Clare Hammond - Reviews
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"Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata sounded newly minted... approached with gently commanding poise and improvisatory freshness." — Paul Conway, Musical Opinion "what the British pianist Clare Hammond has to say and play... fundamentally shakes our image of the early nineteenth century." — Jan Brachmann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "falls under Hammond's fingers with a thoughtful beauty" — Geoff Brown, The Times |
Clare Hammond
Hélène de Montgeroult - Etudes Nos. 62, 67, 104, 110, 111 |
Montgeroult - Etudes, filmed at the Wigmore Hall |
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