St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EB.
Clare Hammond makes a welcome return to Hay Music in this special Hay Festival recital.
Tickets: £18. Please see below for booking details.
Booking in person: at the Hay Festival Box Office. During the run up to the Festival, the Box Office is located in The Drill Hall, 25 Lion Street, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5AD. Normal Box Office opening hours are 9.30am–5.00pm, Monday to Friday. From Wednesday, 22 May the Box Office moves to the Festival Site on Brecon Road, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5PJ. Tickets booked in person are exempt from the £3.50 booking fee.
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Programme
Clara Schumann: Three Romances Op. 21
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight’
Samy Moussa: Al’assaut des jardins
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata in D major, K. 311
Cécile Chaminade: ‘Impromptu’ Étude de Concert, Op. 35 No. 5 and Étude Romantique, Op. 132
Acclaimed as a “pianist of extraordinary gifts” (Gramophone) and “immense power” (The Times), Clare Hammond is recognised for the virtuosity and authority of her performances. In 2016, she won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 'Young Artist Award' in recognition of outstanding achievement. Recent concerto highlights include Grace Williams’ Sinfonia Concertante with Jac van Steen and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grieg Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rachmaninoff, Moussa and Carwithen with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, the world premiere of a new concerto by Piers Hellawell with the Ulster Orchestra, Panufnik with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. On the recital stage she has played recently at the Aldeburgh Festival, Wigmore Hall, Lammermuir Festival, Festival Baroque de Pontoise in France, Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice (broadcast on RAI 3), Husum Festival in Germany, and in Denmark and Norway with Henning Kraggerud. She also gave sold out performances of Ghosts and Whispers for piano and film with composer John Woolrich and animators the Quay Brothers at Fundación Juan March and to the Barbican, and continues her collaboration with actor and writer Tama Matheson.
Clare has recorded six discs for BIS, most recently releasing an album of Etudes by visionary French composer Hélène de Montgeroult in November 2022, launched in a special concert at London’s National Gallery and featured extensively on BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week and Essential Classics. The disc was selected as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone. Reviewers noted the historical importance of the etudes and the ideal match with Hammond’s virtuosic and lyrical abilities. She previously recorded a disc of disc of 20th- and 21st-century variations which received extensive critical approval, and a disc of Etudes by Unsuk Chin, Nicolai Kapustin, Sergei Lyapunov and Karol Szymanowski which won her an Opus d'Or from Opus HD Magazine and 5 diapasons from Diapason.
Contemporary music is at the core of Clare’s work and she has given over 50 world premieres. She has performed to over 13,900 schoolchildren since 2017, and runs an ongoing series of recitals at prisons.