Programme

Beethoven Violin Sonata G major Op.30 no.3

Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor

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Clara Schumann’s Three Romances 

Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor

Jennifer Pike - violin

“Pike delves into the substance of the music to project its distinctive traits of emotional expression” - The Telegraph

Pike has taken the musical world by storm with her unique artistry and compelling insight into music from the Baroque to the present day. In demand as soloist and recitalist all over the world, she is known as an artist of exceptional integrity and depth, whilst her ability to “hold an audience spellbound” (The Strad) and “luminous beauty of tone” (The Observer) have established her as one of the most exciting artists performing today.

Jennifer first gained international recognition in 2002, when aged 12, she became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the youngest major prize-winner in the Menuhin International Violin Competition. Aged 15 she made acclaimed debuts at the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall, and her many subsequent Proms appearances include being a ‘featured artist’ in 2009. She was invited to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2008–10), won the inaugural International London Music Masters Award and became the only classical artist ever to win the South Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Award.

Performing extensively as soloist with major orchestras worldwide, her highlights include concertos with all BBC orchestras, Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Hallé, Brussels Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Tampere Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, Czech National Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Singapore Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestras. She has appeared as a guest director with the BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and London Mozart Players. She made her Carnegie Hall debut playing Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, recorded for Naxos.

Jams Coleman

“Coleman’s playing is outstanding, with thrilling variety, exquisite touch and imagination at the piano" - Natasha Loges, BBC Music Magazine

From Anglesey, North Wales, Jâms Coleman is a pianist who performs as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist. He becomes Artistic Director of the Fishguard Festival of Music in Pembrokeshire from 2027; founded in 1969, it is one of Wales's flagship festivals of music and the arts. His first festival, running for ten days in July 2027, opens with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and soprano Natalya Romaniw at St Davids Cathedral.

He appears regularly at leading festivals and venues across the UK and internationally, among them the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Lammermuir and Ryedale Festivals, BBC Proms, the Edinburgh Fringe, Leeds Lieder, the Oxford International Song Festival, Kings Place, LSO St Luke's, the Cello Biënnale and Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Wigmore Hall.

In 2026/27 highlights include recitals with Johan Dalene, Edgar Francis, James Gilchrist, Fenella Humphreys, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Peter Moore, Jennifer Pike, Colin Scobie, Sir Bryn Terfel and Maria Wloszczowska, and with the Marmen Quartet, alongside a piano trio tour of Sweden with Camerata Nordica. At Wigmore Hall he joins oboist Armand Djikoloum in October 2026 and returns in November with cellist Laura van der Heijden to launch their third album, Lumière. An album of Bridge and Britten with Maria Wloszczowska, Hélène Clément and Steffan Morris follows on Champs Hill Records in 2027.