Royal Irish Academy of Music
On their third visit to Hatchlands, students from the Royal Irish Academy of Music present a varied programme of keyboard and chamber music spanning four centuries.
Tickets available
£25.00
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Concerts
Overview
Instruments in the collection are used in concerts throughout the year.
Concerts are held in the original Music Room of the house, design by Sir Reginald Blomfield 1903.
During the mid-summer break in the concert programmer, August, the Music Room is displayed as a Composer Museum.
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12:00 pm
12:00 pm
Ashley Solomon and Stephen Devine
Ashley Solomon and Steven Devine explore works for flute and keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach and four of his sons including the eldest and youngest members of his family. The programme includes solos and sonatas by JS Bach, JC Bach, JCF Bach. CPE Bach and WF Bach.
12:00 pm
Royal College of Music
A programme of Italian baroque solos, sonatas and concertos from the 17th and 18th centuries by students from the Historical Performance Faculty at the Royal College of Music.
Tickets available
£25.00
12:00 pm
Guildhall Cantata Ensemble
Students from the Vocal and Historical Departments of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama join forces in a programme of chamber cantatas and instrumental music from the late-17th and early-18th centuries, performing alongside the acclaimed keyboard player, James Johnstone.
Tickets available
£25.00
7:00 pm
Alim Beisembayev
An evening in which winner of the 2021 Leeds piano competition, Alim Beisembayev, will perform Chopin’s cycle of 24 Preludes, Op 28, on Chopin’s own Pleyel pianoforte.
Tickets available
£75.00
12:00 pm
Danilo Mascetti
Danilo Mascetti makes his debut at the Cobbe Collection, performing Beethoven's majestic Diabelli Variations Op. 120 on the 1823 Viennese Fortepiano by Nannette Streicher.
Tickets available
£25.00
10:00 am
Alec Cobbe – Picture Tour
A tour of highlights of the Old Masters and portrait collection at Hatchlands.
Tickets available
£30.00
12:00 pm
The Academy Baroque Soloists – Royal Academy of Music
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair’s Sérénades offer a vivid snapshot of the musical life at the French court, capturing the festive atmosphere of royal balls through three distinct suites. With its elegant mix of recorders, oboes, and strings, this programme features his charming airs tendres and airs champêtres, evoking the grandeur and elegance of courtly occasions.
Tickets available
£25.00
10:00 am
Alec Cobbe – Music Tour
A tour of the Cobbe Collection of composer keyboard instruments, including pianos owned or played by Mozart, JC Bach, Haydn and Chopin, and other gems from 300 years of musical history.
Tickets available
£30.00
12:00 pm
Apolline Khou and Yoel Rubin
Apolline Khou and Yoel Rubin invite you to join them for a concert of contemplative and heartwarming pieces for cello and piano. The programme includes songs, transcriptions and sonatas by Bach, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák and Rachmaninov.
Tickets available
£25.00
12:00 pm
Craig Sheppard
Craig Sheppard inaugurates the new acquisition of the Steinway Model ‘O’ owned by the Speyer family with a programme of French music.
Tickets available
£25.00
12:00 pm
Andrew Brownell
Andrew Brownell turns the spotlight on music of the late-18th century which was popular in its day but has fallen out of the repertoire. A sonata by Clementi, the so-called "father of the pianoforte"; Dussek's The Sufferings of the Queen of France; and a sonata by Schroeter, a protégé of JC Bach and early advocate of the piano, round out a programme focussed on English classicism.
Tickets available
£25.00
10:00 am
Alec Cobbe – Music Tour
A tour of the Cobbe Collection of composer keyboard instruments, including pianos owned or played by Mozart, JC Bach, Haydn and Chopin, and other gems from 300 years of musical history.
Tickets available
£30.00
10:00 am
Alec Cobbe – Museum Tour
Alec Cobbe will give a tour of the rare Cobbe Museum or Cabinet of Curiosities. Begun in the 1730s, it was known in the 18th century as the ‘Ark’ as was the Ashmolean Tradescant collection. It contains objects from all of the continents of the world excepting Antarctica, and some Giant Irish deer fossil antlers perhaps between 10,000 and 50,000 years old.
Tickets available
£30.00
12:00 pm
Jacqueline Ross and Artem Belogurov
Beethoven Reimagined – the Violin Sonatas, seeks to explore alternative ways of interpreting these works by delving into historical performance practices and applying these insights to enliven realisations with dramatic impact and variety.
Tickets available
£25.00
12:00 pm
Naruhiko Kawaguchi
Pianist Naruhiko Kawaguchi will have his first concert in the Cobbe Collection with works by Chopin and his contemporaries. Naruhiko is the prize winner of the 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw and the International Competition Musica Antiqua Brugge, and this will be his first appearance in England as a pianist.
Tickets available
£25.00
12:00 pm
Max Mostovetski
The young, multi-award-winning pianist Max Mostovetski from Leipzig (Germany) recounts the legendary meeting of Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky which took place in his hometown in 1888 and performs masterpieces by these composers. Playing on a Russian Becker piano of 1886-7 and building on Tchaikovsky´s music, the program also features works by other great Russian composers of that era.
Tickets available
£25.00
12:00 pm
Pablo Devigo
Pablo Devigo explores the Bach family's deep connection to the clavichord, an instrument they cherished for its nuanced expressivity and intimate charm.
Tickets available
£25.00
12:00 pm
Evgenia Startseva
Born in Kazakhstan and now based in London, pianist Evgenia Startseva will be presenting the jewels of Rameau’s clavier music as well as romantic oeuvres by Medtner and Schumann on the Russian Grand Piano by Jakob Becker c.1886-7.
Tickets available
£25.00
12:00 pm
David Owen Norris
A Christmas Concert on Jane Austen's 250th birthday with champagne and mince pies. Jane Austen’s deep interest in music will be explored by David Owen Norris delving into the riches of her own music books, and performing on the ‘Jane Austen’ pianoforte by Christopher Ganer of c. 1792.
Tickets available
£50.00
Booking information
Online booking is available but if you prefer to book tickets by post please download our booking form, complete and send with SAE and a cheque
Lunchtime recitals
Last approximately one hour.
Evening concerts
Last approximately two hours with one interval
during which juice and wine are served.
Notices
Wheelchair access available. Please advise in advance.
Please note that tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded.
Tickets to recitals and concerts do not include free admittance to the house.
We reserve the right to refuse admission and change the programme and/or instrument without notice.
It may not always be possible to admit latecomers to the Music Room.
Stiletto heels should not be worn.