The Piatti Quartet have for many years been favourites at Conway Hall. Long-standing musical partners of our Director of Music, Simon Callaghan, they have recently joined to form the Piatti Ensemble. With piano quartets at the centre of their creative work, they will present a masterpiece by Johannes Brahms.

Bridge’s Phantasy Piano Quartet was described by his teacher, Benjamin Britten, as “sonorous yet lucid, with clear, clean lines, grateful to listen to and to play.” Composer-pianist William Busch, whose rarely-heard Piano Quartet completes the programme, was a pupil of John Ireland and the resident accompanist at Conway Hall in the first part of the twentieth century.

“Velvet gloved pianism of ravishing sensitivity.”
- The Strad

Michael Trainor (violin)
Zahra Benyounes (viola)
Jessie Ann Richardson (cello)
Simon Callaghan (piano)

Programme:

Bridge | Phantasie for Piano Quartet in F♯ minor H.94
Williams Busch | Piano Quartet in G minor
Brahms | Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor Op.25

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About Conway Hall Sunday Concerts

Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains.