Recommended for Key Stage 2
This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

Join presenter Jessie Maryon Davies and the dynamic Bloomsbury Quartet as they explore music by female composers in this interactive concert for 7-11-year-olds and their parents and carers. Discover stories of pioneering women through their inspirational music for string quartets featuring music by Henriette Bosmans, Caroline Shaw, Elizabeth Maconchy and Hildegard von Bingen.

This concert experience has been created especially for Wigmore Hall Learning as a spin-off from Bloomsbury Quartet’s ReCentred: Elizabeth Maconchy show.

Adults free
Child £5

Programme

Rosy Wertheim (1888-1949)

• String Quartet

  • I. Allegro con moto

Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)

• String Quartet No. 1

  • II. Scherzo. Allegro molto

Caroline Shaw (b.1982)

• Entr’acte

Jessie Montgomery (b.1981)

• Voodoo Dolls

Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952)

• String Quartet

  • II. Lento

Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983)

• String Quartet

  • I. Modéré

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

• O virtus Sapientie

Elizabeth Maconchy

• String Quartet No. 1

  • IV. Presto