Industry Insights

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Industry Insights is a free series of interactive webinars from London Mozart Players, created to help young people explore different career paths in music and arts administration. Hosted by Rebecca Toal (the co-host of popular podcast ‘Things Musicians Don’t Talk About’), the series brings together 5 arts professionals who will talk though their own career journeys, share their tips and tricks for forging your own career path and answer any questions you may have.
Who is it for?
These sessions are for anybody interested in a career in the music or wider arts industries. The sessions are suitable for anyone leaving school or college or looking for their first career. We’ve created these sessions to be suitable to watch in class.
How much does it cost?
Nothing! Our Industry Insights sessions are completely free.
When are they?
We are holding live webinars on Monday 24 June with various sessions between 9.30am to 3.30pm. Join us on the day to have your questions answered in real time.
How do I sign up?
Fill in the simple sign-up form on this page: http://londonmozartplayers.com/industry-insights-free…/
I can’t make it on the day – is there a way to still see the sessions?
We can send you a recording of the sessions if you’re not able to make it to the live ones. Please use our sign-up form and tick the required box.

Spotlight On… 2-concert package

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This 2-concert package gives you access to both the Jess Gillam concert and the Leia Zhu concert. Please note our ‘Spotlight On…’ videos are only available for 30 days from date of initial broadcast. Once you have purchased your package, click the link below to watch the film.

Spotlight On … Jess: No longer available
WATCH – Spotlight On … Leia: available from Tuesday 19 October at 10am

A note on ticket prices:

The 2-concert package is only available while the Jess concert is online (ie until 11:59 BST Wednesday 13 October). You only need 1 ticket per concert per household and can pay the Standard £15 package price to access each concert. If you would like to pay a higher amount that equates to your usual ‘live concert hall’ price, and by doing so kindly support the LMP, then choose the £30 ‘Supporter’ or £45 ‘Premium Supporter’ packages. You can also add a donation (which will attract gift aid) during the payment process. Please choose your ticket price in the dropdown menu above before you click the ‘Buy & Watch’ button.

Spotlight On… 3 concert package

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The 3-concert package is no longer available.

Please note our ‘Spotlight On…’ videos are only available for 30 days from date of initial broadcast. Once you have purchased your package, click the link below to watch the film.

WATCH – Spotlight On … Isata: No longer available
WATCH – Spotlight On … Jess: available from Wednesday 15 September at 10am
WATCH – Spotlight On … Leia: available from Tuesday 19 October at 10am

A note on ticket prices:

The 3-concert package is only available while the Isata concert is online (ie until 11:59 BST Saturday 7 August). You only need 1 ticket per concert per household and can pay the Standard £25 package price to access each concert. If you would like to pay a higher amount that equates to your usual ‘live concert hall’ price, and by doing so kindly support the LMP, then choose the £50 ‘Supporter’ or £75 ‘Premium Supporter’ packages. You can also add a donation (which will attract gift aid) during the payment process. Please choose your ticket price in the dropdown menu above before you click the ‘Buy & Watch’ button.

Spotlight On… 4-concert package

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The 4-concert package is no longer available. The best value way to watch our Spotlight On… concerts is with our three concert package.

Please note our ‘Spotlight On…’ videos are only available for 30 days from date of initial broadcast. Once you have purchased your package, click the link below to watch the film.

WATCH – Spotlight On … Sheku: No longer available
WATCH – Spotlight On … Isata: No longer available
WATCH – Spotlight On … Jess: available from Wednesday 15 September at 10am
WATCH – Spotlight On … Leia: available from Friday 15 October at 10am

A note on ticket prices:

The 4-concert package (4 concerts for the price of 3) is only available while the Sheku concert is online (ie until 11:59 BST Saturday 24 July). You only need 1 ticket per concert per household and can pay the Standard £30 package price to access each concert. If you would like to pay a higher amount that equates to your usual ‘live concert hall’ price, and by doing so kindly support the LMP, then choose the £60 ‘Supporter’ or £90 ‘Premium Supporter’ packages. You can also add a donation (which will attract gift aid) during the payment process.

ONLINE CONCERT: Piano Explored – Mozart & Moscheles

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Mozart Piano Concerto No.6 in B-flat major, K.238
Moscheles Piano Concerto 1 in F major, Op.45

London Mozart Players
Howard Shelley Piano

Directing from the piano, Howard Shelley introduces a two-concerto concert that pairs a Mozart masterpiece with an unknown gem. Mozart’s beautifully expressive Piano Concerto No. 6, written when the composer was only 20, shows young Mozart at his finest and hints at the expressive intensity to come. Lively writing at the outset is followed by a refined and expressive slow movement reminiscent of the Andante of concerto no.21, before a finale packed with terpsichorean themes brings the concerto to an exuberant end. In the hands of the LMP and Howard Shelley, Mozart’s charming melodies will dance between the pillars of St John’s Smith Square’s stunning baroque interior. Moscheles may be a new name for many, but Mozart lovers will find much to admire in his 1819 piano concerto, which is packed with Mozartean grace and lyrical melody. Howard Shelley, an acclaimed exponent of repertoire which bridges the Classical and Romantic periods, will bring stylistic elegance and nimbleness to this delightful work, bringing the season to a lively end.

‘Shelley’s performances combine spirit and finesse’ Classic FM

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ONLINE CONCERT: Piano Explored – Hummel

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Hummel Piano Concerto No.4 in E, Op.110

London Mozart Players
Howard Shelley piano

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was one of the most talented pianist/composers of his day, and a musical ‘bridge’ between the Classical and Romantic eras. Hummel’s works are full of joie-de-vivre, their harmonic and lyrical variety showcasing his prodigious, virtuosic talent. If you are unfamiliar with Hummel, then the E major piano concerto is the perfect starting point, and Howard Shelley, a champion of this much-underrated composer, will bring all his consummate musicianship to the piece’s playful piano passagework. Take an hour with the London Mozart Players and Howard Shelley to judge Hummel’s genius for yourself, you will be convinced.

‘Howard Shelley proves a supremely eloquent advocate of the composer, with his refined, shapely phrasing, crystalline textures’ BBC Music Magazine

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ONLINE CONCERT: Piano Explored – Mozart

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Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467

London Mozart Players
Howard Shelley piano

In March 2021, our Piano Explored concert was dedicated to a real favourite of the classical repertoire. Mozart composed his twenty-first piano concerto in a hugely busy period of his life but the music is perfectly poised, and the concerto has the majesty and immensity of his greatest symphonies. The beautifully expressive slow movement, which in the 1960s experienced a burst of fame as the theme for art house film ‘Elvira Madigan’, verges on the operatic, with a quiet melody moving over a pulsating accompaniment. This concert also includes Howard Shelley’s enlightening insights into the piece, delivered before the LMP and the impeccably stylish Shelley perform this technically demanding and hugely popular masterpiece.

‘He is an artist of electric vitality and cultured exuberance’ Fanfare, USA

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ONLINE CONCERT: Piano Explored – Saint-Saëns & Mendelssohn

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Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.22
Mendelssohn Capriccio Brillant in B minor, Op.22

London Mozart Players
Simon Blendis leader
Howard Shelley piano

The spring 2021 season of Piano Explored opened with Saint-Saëns much-admired second piano concerto – a tour de force for any pianist. By turns tempestuous, flighty and lyrical, this concerto breaks convention by having each succeeding movement faster than the last in a structured accelerando, ending with an exhilarating conclusion. Berlioz described Saint-Saëns as ‘an absolutely shattering master pianist’, and in Howard Shelley we have our own master at work. In this lunchtime concert, Saint-Saëns is paired with Mendelssohn’s a charming one-movement Capriccio Brillant, which reveals the best in sophisticated pianistic art. The gentle melancholy of the Andante and the contrasting dizzying arpeggios, chromatic runs and octave leaps of the Allegro will allow Howard Shelley to demonstrate his virtuosic skills and profound musicality. Howard’s entertaining and informative introduction will be followed by a performance of both works by the LMP with Howard directing from the piano.

‘[An] aristocratic command of the glittering keyboard pyrotechnics.’ Daily Telegraph

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