Mozart in London. Our summer evening event.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family spent over a year in London (April 1764 – 1765) as part of their European grand tour. They were primarily based in Belgravia, with 180 Ebury Street (then called Five Fields Row) being their main residence. During their time in London, Mozart composed his first two symphonies and performed at various locations, including the Royal Court and Hickford's Great Rooms.
Our lecturer will be performing on the piano.
This is our annual summer evening event. There will be a cheese supper, and light refreshments as well.
Tickets will be on sale at tje May and June lectures, and prices and further booking arrangements will be posted here nearer the time.
There will be a booking form below.
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Dr Graham Griffiths
Lecturer, conductor, pianist, composer. Music Research Fellow (City, University of London). DPhil., Musicology (Christ Church, Oxford, 2008), PGCE (Cambridge), BMusHons (Edinburgh).
Musical Director Grupo Novo Horizonte de Sao Paulo (featured on BBCR3); lectures, concerts, and recordings (UK, Denmark, Brazil, Russia); Guest of The British Council; University lecturing (UK) at Bath, Bristol, Canterbury (Christchurch), City (London), Oxford.
Author: Stravinsky’s Piano: Genesis of a Musical Language (Cambridge, 2013/2015; ‘Kaschperowa, Leokadiya’ in Instrumentalistinnen-Lexikon-online (Bremen: Sophie Drinker Institut, 2018):- Stravinsky in Context (CUP, 2021): - Leokadiya Kashperova: Biography, ‘Memoirs’ & ‘Recollections of Anton Rubinstein’ (CUP, 2023)
Editor: Stravinsky in Context (Cambridge, 2020); Contributor to The Stravinsky Encyclopedia (Cambridge, forthcoming); Strawinsky Abécédaire (ed. Marie Strawinsky) (Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 2018).
Recordings: Latin American Sacred Music of the 18th and 19th centuries; Brazilian contemporary music; the piano music of L.A.Kashperova.
Composer, film: Voyage of the Vikings: Hurricane! Hurry! (dir. Camille Bontemps: Edwards Films, 2018).
Guest appearances - BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week (December 2022: BBCSounds ‘Kashperova Composer of the Week’) and at ‘St Petersburg International Conservatoires Festival’ performing lost works by Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940) re-discovered by Griffiths. This research featured in the BBCRadio3/AHRC celebration Five Forgotten Female Composers on International Women’s Day (8 March 2018). Griffiths’s work has been featured by public service broadcasters in several countries.
I can offer live lectures and/or hybrid lectures and am perfectly willing for these to be streamed simultaneously on YouTube to members only. Then deleted afterwards.
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