San Francisco Classical Voice hit the mark when it defined Jean Rondeau as a ‘player of deep personality’, free to reveal ‘his profound musical intelligence and sensitivity’. He concludes his Wigmore Hall Residency with one last immersion in the music of Louis Couperin, who climbed to the top rank of musicians in Paris before his early death in 1661 thanks not least to the dazzling diversity of his suites for harpsichord.

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Jean Rondeau harpsichord

Wigmore Hall

“The hottest artist on the classical music planet” (The New York Times). Superstar pianist Lang Lang performs a one-night-only recital at Jones Hall, featuring works by Chopin, Schumann, and more.

Lang Lang in Recital

Jones Hall

Jean Rondeau’s art flows instinctively from his boundless imagination, a place where a moment’s silence can prove as meaningful as a mighty flourish of virtuosity. The French harpsichordist, aptly described by the Washington Post as ‘one of the most natural performers one is likely to hear on a classical music stage these days’, begins his Wigmore Hall Residency with an excursion into the keyboard suites of Louis Couperin on the eve of the French Baroque composer’s 400th anniversary year.

Jean Rondeau, Harpsichord

Lamento

Cortot Room

Ton Koopman Harpsichord Recital

Takasaki City Theatre

Ton Koopman Harpsichord & Organ Recital

Sumida Triphony Hall

Elizabeth Vaughan

Hamel Music Center

A graduate student and a soloist student from the Jutland Conservatory of Music play a mixed repertoire for their instrument.

Piano night

Royal Academy of Music Aarhus

For the ninth year of PIVOT, guest curator Gabriel Kahane and friends dig deep into music that asks enduring and enlightening questions about our ever-changing world and seeks the uplift of answers rooted in shared experience. Gabriel Kahane is a musician and storyteller whose work exists at the intersection of art and social practice, and “his music is suffused with idiosyncratic, enriched tonal harmony…he is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day” (The New Yorker). “We’re living in a golden age of string quartets…It’s hard to disagree when you hear the vibrant young players in New York’s Attacca Quartet” (NPR). Grammy-winning vocal band Roomful of Teeth can seemingly make anything cool, “From death metal to throat singing to alpine yodeling, the experimental group is changing what it means to harmonize” (The New Yorker).

Gabriel Kahane | Attacca Quartet Roomful of Teeth

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Early music ensemble Artifex Consort – Malachai Komanoff Bandy, Eva Lymenstull, and Eric Tinkerhess, bass violas da gamba – is joined by Ian Pritchard, harpsichord.

Artifex Consort in concert

Pomona College

A glance at Fretwork’s copious discography reveals the scope of its musical interests and appetite for exploring the glories of the viol consort repertoire. It is joined by a cast of close colleagues and friends to celebrate its 40th anniversary at Wigmore Hall with a programme that reaches back to the consort music of Dowland, John Jenkins and William Lawes and forward to works by Sir George Benjamin and Silas Wollston. ‘Fretwork is the finest viol consort on the planet’, wrote the London Evening Standard, a view endorsed by sage critics worldwide.

Fretwork; Sir George Benjamin conductor; Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano; Iestyn Davies countertenor; Ian Bostridge tenor; Silas Wollston organ

Harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and lutenist Thomas Dunford are long-time collaborators, bringing a shared musical language to this repertoire, combining clarity with expressive freedom and finely detailed ornamentation.

Louis Couperin

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 1, 2026

Fretwork; Sir George Benjamin conductor; Susan Bickley mezzo-soprano; Iestyn Davies countertenor; Ian Bostridge tenor; Silas Wollston organ · Wigmore Hall

Oct 25, 2026

Jean Rondeau, Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford · Southbank Centre

Past events

Jul 21, 2026

Jean Rondeau harpsichord · Wigmore Hall

Apr 1, 2026

Lang Lang in Recital · Houston Symphony

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