Wight Proms Wednesdays: James Longford (Piano)

Join Ryde-resident James Longford - Steinway Artist and award-winning Pianist, for an intimate lunchtime recital in the stunning setting of Northwood House's Ballroom. You can join us for lunch directly after the concert, served in the Drawing Room. Select from our three options when buying tickets.

Buy all 8 concerts in this series for the price of 7, by clicking here.

If you would like to join us for lunch afterwards, please pre-order by the end of the Monday, two days before the concert.

Welcome to Wight Proms Wednesdays! We would like to bring you a bit of the Wight Proms throughout the year and not just in August, and so we launched this lunchtime concert series. Taking place at 12:30 on Wednesdays and each lasting 40 minutes, they are the ideal addition to your lunch break.

BIOGRAPHY

“A very special, very beautiful sound...” Jury, International Schubert Competition

“Exquisitely detailed playing...” Birmingham Post

Happy playing in a variety of genres, James Longford’s sensitive and scintillating musicality has endeared him to audiences all over the world – in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, BBC Proms, Barbican, St.David’s Hall, Aix-en-Provence and Anghiari Festivals, and Bregenzer Festspiele. He works with ENO, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, LSO, BBC SO, BBC Singers, Britten Sinfonia and the Heritage Orchestra, was a founder member of the groundbreaking orchestra Southbank Sinfonia, and has inspired the next generation of young composers in workshops with the Galos Piano Trio, whose latest recording of Clara Schumann and her contemporaries is out now.

Recent highlights include Music Director for Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights tour, playing to over 3000 audience members in eighteen venues, from the Cairngorms to Orkney and Skye; returning to Cunard’s flagship Queen Mary 2 as a featured classical artist; and piano soloist in Britten’s Young Apollo with Southbank Sinfonia.

Here on the Island James is a passionate educator and works with many local choirs, music festivals and education projects.

James won the Tagore Gold Medal at the Royal College of Music, and was organ scholar at St.Martin-in-the-Fields. A Junior Fellowship at the RCM followed, and residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, and at the Britten-Pears School. He became a Steinway Artist in 2014.

For more information visit www.linktr.ee/jameslongford