Programmes

Katherine and Sam Haywood have being performing together since 1993, after meeting to play Brahms at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Having both graduated from the Academy with distinctions and several awards, they continue years later to perform extensively throughout the UK together, presenting their imaginative programmes that combine both solo and duo repertoire for both instruments.

Together they have broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM and made a CD recording of the Brahms Sonatas and Beethoven Clarinet Trio. Their great enthusiasm for authentic performance practice has led them to collect instruments from all different periods and they use them in their recitals, broadcasts and lectures, including a programme for the BBC entitled “Women in Music in the 19th Century”.

They have commissioned many duo works and a even double concerto from some of Britain’s leading composers which they have premiered in major venues and festivals and on international radio. They are also very much in demand for their entertaining and informative school workshops and informal concerts in the wider community.

Programme suggestions

Clarinet and Piano in Reflection

This programme looks at some of the later works for clarinet and piano by composers reflecting on long and fruitful musical lives and reflections also on other genres of music in classical composers works.

Brahms Clarinet Sonata in Eb Opus 120 No.2
Stravinsky 3 pieces for solo Clarinet
Piano work

***interval***

Thea Musgrave Threnody
Piano work
Schumann Fantasie Pieces Opus 73

‘Angels and Devils’ explores this eclectic group of works for clarinet and piano from the baroque times to the pop music of today.

Drinks served throughout

Tartini Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Debussy Premiere Rhapsodie
Piano pieces
2 Wild Klezmer Tunes
Tin Roof Blues
Devils Pyramid Song
Sympathy for the Devil by the Rollings Stones
Piano pieces
Gerswhin Three Preludes