A diverse international group of excellent soloists, supported by the British Young Classical Artists Trust, makes you sit up and take notice: wind instruments and strings complement each other beautifully in Schubert's wonderful octet - and build a bridge to the present.

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YCAT-Collective (Young Classical Artists Trust)

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Flexible in format and strikingly diverse in repertoire, the Orsino Ensemble comprises some of Britain’s finest wind players. ‘This is all-star playing of the highest level’, noted the Guardian in a review of its 2021 debut album. Its latest Wigmore Hall recital includes Nielsen’s delightful Wind Quintet and the UK première of Mark Simpson’s The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, inspired by five of John Koenig’s neologisms for different types of emotion.

Orsino Ensemble

Wigmore Hall

Louise Farrenc’s Nonet raised its composer to celebrity status, propelled by the ovations with which the four-movement work was received at its première in 1850. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, described by Strings Magazine as being like ‘A big, glorious house party with a long and fabulous guest list’, brings the French composer’s sonorous score to life alongside Mozart’s Quintet in E flat, with its beguiling blend of instrumental sonorities and dazzling array of themes.

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Alex Ho’s distinctive musical voice, like that of Gustav Mahler, is open to a great diversity of influences and ideas. Ho’s art offers a bridge between East and West, narrowing the gap that all too often divides by speaking to universal concerns and shared human experiences. His latest chamber composition, created for Wigmore Hall’s Composer Focus Day, is prefaced by the all-encompassing song cycle, Das Lied von der Erde, performed in Mahler’s version for two solo voices and piano.

Amy Harman

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 26, 2026

Orsino Ensemble · Wigmore Hall

Nov 8, 2026

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective · Wigmore Hall

Nov 21, 2026

Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano; Shengzhi Ren tenor; Tom Poster piano; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective · Wigmore Hall

Past events

Feb 10, 2025

YCAT-Collective (Young Classical Artists Trust) · Kölner Philharmonie

Future and recently performed repertoire

Bassoon in Octet by Schubert

Kölner Philharmonie

Bassoon in Das Lied von der Erde by Mahler

Wigmore Hall

Bassoon in Quintet for Piano and Winds by Mozart

Wigmore Hall

Bassoon in Nonet in F Minor by Coleridge-Taylor

Kölner Philharmonie

Bassoon in Wind Quintet by Nielsen

Wigmore Hall

Bassoon in Nonet by Farrenc

Wigmore Hall

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