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HATTORI FOUNDATION 2019-20 EARLY EVENING CONCERTS

Tickets are now available for the 2019-20 Early Evening Concert Series sponsored by The HATTORI FOUNDATION FOR MUSIC AND THE ARTS.  Now in its 12th year, the series again features an exciting line-up of current award-winners and its illustrious alumni of recipients from the Foundation's 27 year history of supporting exceptional musical talent. 

​Guests are invited to enjoy a pre-concert drink included in the ticket price, and then join the Trustees and performers in the Club's bar after each recital for complimentary refreshments.
'1901 Arts Club has cornered this corner of London, the balance so right, you can’t afford not to check it out. The Hattori Foundation tickets at £15 are worth every penny with or without the complimentary drink.  Guests unlike me who did not have to ‘rush’ also enjoyed post-concert refreshments. No better start to anyone’s weekend.'   What's on London.
Details of the work of the Hattori Foundation can be found on their website.

2019-20 early evening concert series

ARISA ONODA piano
JONATHAN RADFORD saxophone
ASHLEY FRIPP piano
Note: date changed since series announced
CALLUM SMART violin
RICHARD UTTLEY piano
ARIEL LANYI ​piano
MARMEN QUARTET
Note: date changed since series announced
MARGARITA BALANAS cello
KE MA piano
How can one go beyond a "superlative"? Alexander Ullman's piano recital at the intimate 1901 Arts Club, Waterloo was a tour de force which cries out for a word which might fit the bill.  The ambience of the venue was warm and extremely welcoming and a complimentary drink awaited each patron upon arrival.  I almost felt I had been personally invited to share in the evening.

However, to the recital itself ... Alexander Ullman's programme comprised four composers from Bach to Stravinsky via Schumann and Tchaikovsky: two Germans and two Russians, played chronologically, but it was almost as if Ullman was wanting to share with us a discernible progression in musical style and aesthetic.  He began with a classical Toccata by Bach followed by the vibrant Romantic masquerade portrayed in (a young) Schumann's "Papillons" (new to me, but to be listened to again).  He then shifted seamlessly to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite (arranged by Mikhail Pletnev) which amply filled the salon and left this listener rapt in the final Andante maestoso.  How much more emotional pull is possible?, I asked myself.  The three transcriptions from The Firebird by Stravinsky (arranged by Guido Agosti) settled the issue.  Fine, this may have been the icing on my cake but the virtuoso tempi and expansive sound which Ullman generated were a sheer delight and a suitable apotheosis to a wonderful recital for which I am sadly limited to the word "superlative".  I for one cannot wait for his next engagement.

Steve S.
Hattori Foundation Rush Hour Recital 2016-17
This was an enchanting and artistically diverse concert involving a young cellist, Jamal Aliyev, who is unquestionably a talent to reckon with ... in the most delightful venue, the 1901 [Arts] Club, which is housed within a bewitching Victorian brownstone. The entire evening delivered not only first class entertainment in the most inviting environment but a complimentary drink and programme and a host from the Hattori Foundation who was - it must be said - charm personified. An excellent event all round. It is exactly this kind of thing which makes London such a special place to live and work in. One felt privileged just to be present.

Bruce W.
Hattori Foundation Rush Hour Recital 2016-17
Past seasons:
2018-19:
​Timothy Ridout viola with Jams Coleman piano
Matilda Lloyd trumpet with Leo Nicholson piano
Andrei Iliushkin piano
Daniel Shao flute with Joseph Havlat piano
Andrey Lebedev guitar
Barbican Quartet

2017-18:
Rose Hsien violin with Ivan Moshchuk piano
Oliver Wass harp
Kabantu ensemble
Cristian Sandrin piano
Alexandra Lomeiko violin with Antonina Suhanova piano
Kaleidoscope saxophone quartet

2016-17:
Jamal Aliyev cello with Maria Tarasewicz piano
Sean Shibe guitar
​Anthony Brown saxophone with Leo Nicholson piano
Tomos Xerri harp with Claire Wickes flute
Alexander Ullman piano
Daniel Lebhardt piano with Benjamin Baker ​violin

2015-16:
Kaleidoscope saxophone quartet
Samson Tsoy piano
Iosif Purits accordion with Cecilia Bignall cello
Trio Isimsiz piano trio
Tomos Xerri harp
Ji Liu piano

2014-15:
Richard Harwood cello with Leon Bosch double bass
Daniel de Borah piano
Joseph Shiner clarinet with Frederick Brown piano
Piatti Quartet
Rose Hsien violin with Tom Blach piano
Mei Yi Foo piano

2013-14:
Ksenija Sidorova accordion (party),
Piers Lane piano, Joji Hattori violin with Gordon Back piano (Trustee Gala)
Matthew Trusler violin with Gordon Back piano (see Review here)
Sasha Grynyuk piano (see Review here)
Michael Petrov cello with Anthony Hewitt piano
Maxim Rysanov viola with Irina Shkurindina piano
2012-13:
Jennifer Pike violin with Tom Poster piano (see Review)
Anna Hashimoto clarinet with Daniel King Smith piano
David Cohen cello with Sasha Grynyuk piano
Charles Owen piano
Ksenija Sidorova accordion with Thomas Gould violin (see Review)
Catherine Beynon harp with Emily Beynon flute

​2011-12:
Guy Johnston cello (see Review) with Melvyn Tan piano
Slava Sidorenko piano
Sacconi Quartet
Alexandra Dariescu piano
Lawrence Power viola with Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
Julian Bliss clarinet with Robert Bottriell piano

​2010-11:
Chloë Hanslip violin with Gordon Back piano
Krzysztof Chorzelski viola with Katya Apekisheva piano
Badke Quartet
Libor Novacek piano
Sitkovetsky Trio
Benjamin Grosvenor piano

2009-10:
Alexei Grynyuk piano
Stanislav Hvartchilkov guitar
Ksenija Sidorova accordion
Jamie Walton cello with Daniel Grimwood piano
Matthew Trusler violin

2008-09:
Yevgeny Sudbin piano
Belcea Quartet
Sasha Grynyuk piano
Amy Dickson saxophone with Martin Cousin piano
Jack Liebeck violin with Katya Apekisheva piano
Pei-Jee Ng cello and Pei-Sian Ng cello
Chad Hoopes violin