GUILDHALL SCHOOL
Thursday 17 September 2026
6pm
Milton Court Concert Hall
Keyboard at Six
Programme
Joseph Haydn
Sonata in G minor, Hob XVI: 44
I. Moderato
II. Allegretto
Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Maria Matveeva | piano
Johann Sebastian Bach
‘Toccata’ from Partita No 6 in E minor
Franz Liszt
Réminiscences de Norma
Milen Earath | piano
Forthcoming Events
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra & Chorus with Eivind Aadland
24 & 25 September
Milton Court Concert Hall
Join more than 200 Guildhall School musicians for their first concert of the academic year and experience music at its most joyous with works by Gustav Mahler, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and a new fanfare by Diego Jiménez.
Keyboard at Eight
7 October 2026
Milton Court Concert Hall
Outstanding Guildhall keyboard players perform a diverse programme as part of our ‘at Eight’ series. Final repertoire will be announced shortly.
Electronics at Eight: Music for Magnetic Resonator Piano
13 October 2026
Milton Court Concert Hall
Discover the Magnetic Resonator Piano (MRP), a remarkable electronically augmented acoustic instrument that produces shimmering bowed sonorities using 88 electromagnets.
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