Piatti Quartet with Simon Callaghan & Peter Cigleris + Pre-Concert Talk

"*...pianist Simon Callaghan picks you up at the start of each movement and maintains an expressive, flexible continuity to the end…\[he\] plays with a gorgeous tone, whether slow and legato or en pointe with rapid triplets*." - **Fanfare, US**

A world premiere from Joseph Cabon opens this richly English first half, framed by Howells at his most rhapsodic and elegiac. **Peter Cigleris**, a clarinettist with a growing reputation for his work uncovering British rarities, joins our Artistic Director **Simon Callaghan** for the soaring Clarinet Sonata, before the **Piatti Quartet** turn to Tchaikovsky's youthful, melody-laden First Quartet to close a concert that pairs discovery with deep romantic warmth.

**PROGRAMME:**

**Joseph Cabon** | Wide Ruins (world premiere)

**Howells** | Rhapsodic Quintet Op.31

**Howells** | Clarinet Sonata

**Tchaikovsky** | Quartet No.1 in D Op.11

**PIATTI QUARTET, SIMON CALLAGHAN & PETER CIGLERIS:**

Peter Cigleris • *clarinet*

Simon Callaghan • *piano*

Michael Trainor • *violin*

Emily Holland • *violin*

Miguel Sobrinho • *viola*

Jessie Ann Richardson • *cello*

Presented by Conway Hall.

This is an all ages event. Under 16's must be accompanied by an adult.