Highgate West Hill
London N6 6AP
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival brings together distinguished chamber musicians from around the world for an annual celebration of chamber music. In the intimate setting of St Anne’s Highgate, a stone’s throw from Hampstead Heath, HICMF presents varied programmes with masterworks of the repertoire set alongside lesser-known works, delivered with fresh, energised performances by world-class musicians performing alongside each another in combinations not heard anywhere else.
‘Passion and sheer panache’ – The Strad ‘Serious performers [and] concerts of genuine world class’ – Camden New Journal ‘Top soloists blend to perfection’ – ArtsDesk
Concert 2 – Tor Mordôn
Nicholas Daniel OBE – oboe, Elena Urioste – violin, Benjamin Roskams – viola, Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE & Ashok Klouda – cello, Irina Botan & Isata Kanneh-Mason – piano
The internationally acclaimed duo Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason take centre stage for the world premiere of Tor Mordôn (Sea mount of light) by the HICMF Co-director Natalie Klouda. Inspired by the siblings’ Antiguan/Welsh heritage, the piece follows quartets by JC Bach and Britten, led by the ‘unfailingly superb’ (Gramophone) Elena Urioste and featuring the world-renowned oboist Nicholas Daniel.
JC Bach Quartet for oboe & strings in Bb W.B60
Britten Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings Op.2
Mendelssohn Cello Sonata No.1 in Bb
N. Klouda ‘Tor Mordôn’ (2024) for cello & piano world premiere
Schumann Piano Quartet Op.47 in Eb