To celebrate International Women’s Day and Mothers’ Day, Dr. Leah Broad - author of Quartet: How Four Women changed the Musical World - joins three award-winning musicians to guide us through an illuminating programme of works by trail-blazing female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Discover and celebrate the lives and works of these inspirational women who forged new paths to shape the future of classical music.

~ Dr. Leah Broad (presenter), Robin Green (piano), Sijie Chen (violin) & Leo Popplewell (‘cello) ~

Join us in the Portrait Gallery of the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury, with its fine Georgian interior. Tickets include free after-hours entry to the museum from one hour prior to the concert. The Foundling Museum tells the story of the UK’s first children’s charity, and houses the UK’s oldest public art gallery

Tickets: £38/28/10 in advance. Vermeer Season Pass available

Duration: approx. 1 hr 45 mins (including a short interval)

Programme

Ethel Smyth - Piano Trio in d minor, I. Allegro non troppo

Clara Schumann - Piano Trio op.17 in g minor, III. Andante

Rebecca Clarke - Violin Sonata, I. Allegro comodo

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Rebecca Clarke - I'll Bid my Heart be Still (cello & piano)

Avril Coleridge-Taylor - Who Knows? (cello & piano)

Doreen Carwithen - Violin Sonata, III. Moderato

Mel Bonis - Soir, op.76 (piano trio)

Ethel Smyth - Piano Trio in d minor, IV. Allegro vivace