It is a pleasure to welcome the London Piano Quartet to NYS.  For Michael and Jessie Ann it is a return since they also are part of the Piatti Quartet. However this is a particular pleasure since the LPQ have only recently given the world premier of our very own John Hawkins’ new work Blake Visions at the Conway Hall.  You can hear John talking about the occasion here     

It received a rave review by Paul Conway in the April 2025 Music Opinion:  “...Blake Visions seemed to sum up all the best qualities of John Hawkins’ music, with its engaging narratives, colourful, clear textures, inventive, yet always idiomatic, instrumental writing and capacity to evoke layers of meaning within a single phrase or gesture. Yet there was always a liberating feeling in this inspired, insightful piano quartet of striking out in a new direction, as if the composer had approached the four instruments’ interplay and the ever-shifting relationships between the diverse musical materials afresh and without preconception.”   

Come hear for yourself!     

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