Following JW3’s inaugural sell out classical music season, JW3 is thrilled to now announce an exciting second season, The Classical Music Series 2024-2025, to run from Thursday 5 September 2024 through to Wednesday 12 March 2025.

JW3 continues to make its mark as the new home to world class classical music concerts, with a gripping season of stellar international artists performing over six concerts including: the impeccable Doric String Quartet, tenor Ian Bostridge; and a sparkling array of international musicians: Alasdair Beatson, Mishka Rushdie Momen, Connie Shih, Irène Duval, Asbjørn Nørgaard, David Waterman, Garfield Jackson and Anthony Marwood to perform some of the greatest piano quartets, with works by Fauré, Dvořák, Mozart, Schumann and Brahms – a cornucopia of immortal music.

The season opens this Autumn, on Thursday 5 September 2024, with one of Britain’s most treasured musicians, the multi award winning pianist Steven Osborne OBE, in a programme that includes some twenty very short pieces by Robert Schumann and Claude Debussy capturing the vivid world of childhood; through to the dramatic and emotional Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in A major, written when the young composer discovered he was terminally ill.

Thursday 10 October 2024: international tenor Ian Bostridge and Mishka Rushdie Momen, renowned as one of the most thoughtful and sensitive of British pianists, will perform Schwanengesang, the miraculously beautiful set of songs by Franz Schubert, written at the end of his life. They are divided into two groups, with the poems by Rellstab and Heine, encapsulating Schubert‘s most confessional music. Between these two groups, they will perform six rapturously melodious songs by Gabriel Fauré.

Tuesday 5 November 2024: is the first of the three piano quartet concerts. This concert will feature Anthony Marwood (violin), Garfield Jackson (viola), David Waterman (cello) and Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano); who will be performing Antonin Dvořák’s delightful Sonatina in G major; Johannes Brahms‘s C minor Piano Quartet (arguably one of the greatest masterworks of the genre); and Gabriel Fauré‘s Piano Quartet no.2 in G minor with its truly overwhelming energy.

Into 2025, The Classical Music Series bursts into the New Year on Thursday 23 January 2025 with the hugely exciting Doric String Quartet. Their current recording project with Chandos is in celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven to be released in 2026/27 (the 200th anniversary of the composer’s death); so JW3 is delighted that The Doric String Quartet will be performing a sneak preview of their lyrical and intimate interpretation of Beethoven‘s String Quartet in A minor, op.132. They will also perform Joseph Haydn‘s richly inventive String Quartet and Benjamin Britten‘s short and brilliant Three Divertimenti – a March, a Waltz and a wild Burlesque.

Sunday 2 February 2025, in the second piano quartet concert which brings together: Sini Simonen (the inspiring first violin of the Castalian Quartet), Alasdair Beatson (the superb pianist of the Nash Ensemble) and Garfield Jackson (viola), David Waterman (cello) who team up once again after their 42 years in the world-renowned Endellion Quartet. Together, they will play Franz Schubert‘s early work, the touching and graceful Sonatina in D major; followed by Robert Schumann‘s D minor trio which ranges from the turbulent, anguished and introspective to the outgoing and joyful. The concert will finish with Antonin Dvořák‘s second Piano Quartet, which is always a favourite amongst players and audience alike.

In the final concert of JW3’s The Classical Music Series 2024-2025 season, on Wednesday 12 March 2025, the piano quartet is a gathering of brilliant international soloists: Irène Duval (violin), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola), David Waterman (cello) and Connie Shih (piano). The concert will include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s E minor masterpiece for piano and violin; Gabriel Fauré’s first youthful and imaginative piano quartet. The programme finishes with Johannes Brahms’s first piano quartet and its vigorous and thrilling Finale in the Zingarese (Gypsy) style.

Evenings of pure music to enjoy over six concerts at JW3, performed in its inclusive, friendly and intimate 220 seat Concert Hall, with its excellent acoustics and state of the art facilities.

William Galinsky, JW3’s Director of Programming says “This second season of classical music at JW3 brings together some of the finest and most talented musicians in their field. In our boutique hall you can sit closer to the action than anywhere else. Making classical at JW3 a must-see event on the vibrant London music scene.

JW3’s The Classical Music Series, is curated by the music artist and cellist David Waterman. The season is kindly supported by the Dorset Foundation in memory of Harry M Weinrebe.

Book your tickets now for JW3’s The Classical Music Series 2024-2025 – a classical season not to be missed.